The Cambridge companion to modern British women playwrights / edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt

Includes bibliographical references and index

-- A century in view: from suffrage to the 1990s / Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt -- Women playwrights of the 1920s and 1930s / Maggie B. Gale -- New plays and women's voices in the 1950s / Susan Bennett -- Women playwrights and the challenge of feminism in the 1970s / Michelene Wandor -- The politics of location / Susan Bassnett -- Contemporary Welsh women playwrights / Anna-Marie Taylor -- Contemporary Scottish women playwrights / Adrienne Scullion -- Women playwrights in Northern Ireland / Mary Trotter -- Language and identity in Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays / Susan Carlson -- Pam Gems: body politics and biography / Elaine Aston -- Caryl Churchill and the politics of style / Janelle Reinelt -- Violence, abuse and gender relations in the plays of Sarah Daniels / Gabriele Griffin -- Small island people: Black British women playwrights / Meenakshi Ponnuswami -- Writing outside the mainstream / Claire MacDonald -- Lesbian performance in the transnational arena / Sue-Ellen Case