Theatre and Sexuality

JILL DOLAN is Professor of English and Theatre at Princeton University, USA, where she is also Director of its programme in the study of women and gender. She is the author of Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre and The Feminist Spectator as Critic, among other books. She writes The Feminist Spectator blog at www.feministspectator.blogspot.com.

'[a] brilliant series...these mini paperbacks each give an insightful, focused overview of a key topic...start collecting now.' - Whatsonstage.com 'Jill Dolan's marvelous book demonstrates how central questions of sexuality have been for the modern theatre, explaining the major arguments and debates with great clarity and force.' - David Savran, Distinguished Professor of Theatre, The City University of New York, USA 'An urgently needed exploration of the deliciously queered formations of desire, gender and love that are conjured abundantly in theatre. SLEEP WITH THIS BOOK!' - Tim Miller, performer and author of Boy Blows and 1001 Beds '...Palgrave Macmillan's excellent new outward-looking, eclectic Theatre& ... series.These short books, written by leading theatre academics, do much to reintroduce some of the brightest names in theatre academia to the general reader. Plus, the matrix of references to bigger books soon builds quite a comprehensive catch-up reading list for those of us who graduated more than a decade ago and are interested in where contemporary thinking is at...' - Guardian Theatre Blog, September 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2009/sep/10/theatre-critics-academics-artists

• Foreword: Tim MillerGay and Lesbian Lives in the 20th CenturyStreet Activism in the 1980s and 1990sTheorizing How to See Sexuality in PerformanceQueering the TheatrePlays and Productions: On and Off BroadwayLesbians Off Broadway: Jane ChambersEarly LGBTQ VenuesHolly Hughes at WOWSplit BritchesLesbian Brothers Move into the MainstreamGay Male Collectives, Spaces, and Solo PerformersSolo Performance and LBGTQ Personal NarrativeQueering Gender PerformanceLGBTQ Plays in the MainstreamIdentity Differences and Access to ProductionCamp Stylings and Drag PerformanceBelle Reprieve: LGBTQ Theory into PracticeFurther Reading.