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Women in Theater -- United States
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is women in American theater.

Six Superlative Sources

· Chinoy, Helen Krich, and Linda Walsh Jenkins, eds. WOMEN IN AMERICAN THEATRE. Rev. ed. Theatre Communications Group, 1987.

· Robinson, Alice M., Vera Mowry Roberts, and Milly S. Barranger, eds. NOTABLE WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. Greenwood Press, 1989.

· Davidson, Cathy N., and Linda Wagner-Martin, eds. THE OXFORD COMPANION TO WOMEN'S WRITING IN THE UNITED STATES. Oxford University Press, 1995.

· Scanlon, Jennifer, ed. SIGNIFICANT AMERICAN FEMINISTS: A BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCEBOOK. Greenwood Press, 1999.

· Wilmeth, Don B., and Tice L. Miller, eds. THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE AMERICAN THEATRE. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

· Bigsby, Christopher. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Other Excellent Sources

· Schlueter, June, ed. MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA: THE FEMALE CANON. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.

· Murphy, Brenda, ed. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AMERICAN WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

· Evans, Mair, ed. BLACK WOMEN WRITERS, 1950-1980: A CRITICAL EVALUATION. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984.

· Showalter, Elaine, ed. THE NEW FEMINIST CRITICISM. Pantheon, 1985.

· Martin, Carol, ed. A SOURCEBOOK OF FEMINIST THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE. Routledge, 1996.

· Dolan, Jill. PRESENCE AND DESIRE: ESSAYS ON GENDER, SEXUALITY, PERFORMANCE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN AND GENDER. University of Michigan Press, 1993.

· Brown, Janet. TAKING CENTER STAGE: FEMINISM IN CONTEMPORARY U.S. DRAMA. Scarecrow Press, 1991.

· Hart, Lynda, ed. MAKING A SPECTACLE: FEMINIST ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S THEATRE. University of Michigan Press, 1989.

· Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, ed. WORDS OF FIRE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMINIST THOUGHT. New Press, 1995.

· Case, Sue-Ellen, ed. PERFORMING FEMINISMS: FEMINIST CRITICAL THEORY AND THEATRE. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

· Chafe, William H. THE PARADOX OF CHANGE: AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Oxford University Press, 1991.

· Greene, Alexis, ed. WOMEN WHO WRITE PLAYS: INTERVIEWS WITH AMERICAN DRAMATISTS. Smith and Kraus, 2001.

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