Each of Jill Dolan's three academic locations -- theatre and performance studies, lesbian/gay/queer studies (LGQ studies), and women's studies -- is both interdisciplinary and fraught with divisions between theory and practice. As teacher, administrator, author, and performer, Dolan places her professional labor in relation to issues of community, pedagogy, public culture, administration, university missions, and citizenship. She works from the assumption that the production and dissemination of knowledge can be forms of activism, extending conversations on radical politics in the academy by other writers, such as Cary Nelson, Michael Berube, Gerald Graff, and Richard Ohmann. The five interconnected essays in Geographies of Learning map the divisions and dissensions that stall the production of progressive knowledge in theatre and performance studies, LGQ studies, and women's studies, while at the same time exploring some of the theoretical and pedagogical tools these fields have to offer one another.

Product Description: Staging Femininities focuses on the work of performance artists Rose English, Bobby Baker and Annie Sprinkle in order to explicate and examine some of the most influential thinking on the politics of identity. This is one of the first books in this field to examine the productive differences as well as the useful connections between British and North American female performance traditions, between feminist theories of performance practices and, most significantly, between theatrical performance and performativity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Explores current controversies and significant concerns in feminist theater and performance

Product Description: Challenges established notions of the director's craft and disrupts conventional interpretations of "the canon" (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this concise and comprehensive study of feminist theatre in and the U.S., the author discusses the work of writers such as Pam Gems, Michelene Wandor, Caryl Churchill, Megan Terry and Ntozake Shange. She illustrates the connection between woman's theatre and social change in the 1960s and shows how women dramatists have been committed to collective, experimental and political theatre, at the same time as they have found commerical success...read more