Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Marie Clements, Lara Foot-Newton, Maria Irene Fornes, Sarah Kane, Lisa Kron, Young Jean Lee, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Caridad Svich, and Judith Thompson, but it also foregrounds important plays by many emerging writers. Divided into three sections-Histories, Conflicts, and Genres-the book explores such topics as the feminist history play, solo performance, transcultural dramaturgies, the identity play, the gendered terrain of war, and eco-drama, and encompasses work from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Oceania, South Africa, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. With contributions from leading international scholars and an introductory overview of the concerns and challenges facing women playwrights in this new century, Contemporary Women Playwrights explores the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices and examining crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.

A record of the First International Women Playwrights Conference, edited to bring out the highlights of discussions. With index, bibliographies of playwrights, and appendix.

The life and work of a sculptor who pushed both aesthetic and social boundaries at the turn of the twentieth century is explored in this in-depth study. Working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Louisville-born sculptor Enid Yandell developed a distinctly physical and masculine style that challenged the gender norms of artistic practice. An award-winning sculptor with numerous commissions, she was also an activist for women's suffrage and other political movements. This study examines Yandell's evolution from a young, Southern dilettante into an internationally acclaimed artist and public figure. Yandell found early success as one of a select group of female sculptors at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. She was then commissioned to create a twenty-five foot figure of Pallas Athena for Nashville's Centennial Exposition in 1897. Yandell's command of classical subject matter was matched by her abilities with large-scale, figurative works such as the Daniel Boone statue in Cherokee Park, Louisville. Part of the art worlds of New York and Paris, Yandell associated with luminary sculptors like Frederick MacMonnies and Auguste Rodin. She became one of the first female members of the National Sculpture Society in 1898. This authoritative study explores the many ways in which Yandell was a pioneer.

This is the first anthology in a four-volume set of dramatic monologues exploring the Mother/Daughter experience. Each volume reflects a different stage of a woman's life: Babes and Beginnings includes female characters from pre-teens to late twenties. This anthology features the work of playwrights Bara Swain, Barbara Lindsay, Cassandra Lewis, Chris Shaw Swanson, Christy A. Brothers, Elaine Romero, Elizabeth Whitney, Isabella Russell-Ides, James Venhaus, Jo J. Adamson, Kaite O'Reilly, Karen Jeynes, Kevin Six, Kimberly Del Busto, Maggie Gallant, Margaret Bail, Mark Harvey Levine, Martha Patterson, Mary O'Malley, Meg Haley, Michele Raper Rittenhouse, Monica Bauer, Nina Solomita, Patricia Montley, Rachel Rubin Ladutke, Robin Rice Lichtig, Sera Weber-Striplin, Steven Bergman, SuzAnne C. Cole, Thomas M. Kelly, and Virginia (Ginger) Fleishans. Foreword by Dr. Gretchen Elizabeth Smith.

This is the third anthology in a four-volume set of dramatic monologues exploring the Mother/Daughter experience. Each volume reflects a different stage of a woman's life: "Mid-Life Catharsis" shows the complexity of arrivals and departures during one's 40s, 50s and early 60s. This anthology features the work of playwrights Ann C. Hall, Barbara H. Macchia, Chris Van Strander, Christine Emmert, Ed Friedman, Janet Torreano Pound, Jennie Webb, Kathleen Warnock, Kerri Kochanski, Kit Wainer, Linda Evans, Lisa Stephenson, Marisa Smith, Martha Patterson, Maryjane Cruise, Maureen Brady Johnson, Michele Merens, Molly Best Tinsley, Monica Bauer, Rachel Barnett, Rachel Rubin Ladutke, Robin Rice Lichtig, Sandra de Helen, Sandra Gail Teichmann-Hillesheim, Selden Smith, Sera Weber-Striplin, Shareen Knight, Shirley King and Steven Schutzman. Foreword by Jill Dolan.

This is the fourth anthology in a four-volume set of dramatic monologues exploring the Mother/Daughter experience. Each volume reflects a different stage of a woman's life: "Urgent Maturity" reveals the anger, wisdom and transformation of later life. This anthology features the work of playwrights Agnes Szmidel, Barbara H. Macchia, Barrie Cole, Carol Samson, Cass Erickson, Cassie Rush, Claire Braz-Valentine, Ed Friedman, Faye Sholiton, Giovanni Affinito, Jan Watts, Jere Pfister, Karen Jeynes, Karen Kinch , Katherine H. Burkman, Laura Shamas, Lia Romeo, Ludmilla Bollow, Marj O'Neill-Butler, Martha Patterson, Mary Millner McCullough, Monica Raymond, Nancy Gall-Clayton, Nina Solomita, Paddy Gillard-Bentley, Patricia Milton, Patricia Montley, Roberta D'Alois, Sandra Dempsey, Sandra Ostrander, and Terri L. Atkins Febuary. Foreword by Margaret McSeveney.