Leslie Crawford Hurley is Assistant Professor of English at Bronx Community College, The City University of New York.
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: A Critical Overview
1
(16)
Feminist Representation and Dramatic Realism
1
(6)
Varying Feminisms/Diverse Approaches
7
(10)
1 Feminism and The Gestation Drive in Plays by Pam Gems
17
(22)
Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi
17
(11)
Loving Women
28
(11)
2 The Family Play and Beth Henley's Pageants
39
(16)
Characterization and the Family-Play Tradition
39
(16)
The Miss Firecracker Contest
41
(6)
The Debutante Ball
47
(8)
3 Language, Myth, and Essentialism: Joan Schenkar's The Lodger
55
(10)
An Essentialist Fantasy: History (Re)Invented
55
(10)
The Adversary
58
(1)
Time and Language: Irrelevancies
59
(3)
The Rules of Revenge
62
(3)
4 The Lesbian in Realism
65
(18)
Ousting the Rebel
66
(9)
The Lesbian Society in Plays of Realism
75
(8)
5 Performance Art
83
(16)
Holly Hughes's World Without End
84
(9)
Peggy Shaw's You're Just Like My Father
93
(6)
Afterword
99
(4)
Notes
103
(4)
Bibliography
107
(6)
Index
113
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