The Editors: Laura Lengel began researching women and performance as a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia. She is Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies, Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Her books include Culture and Technology in the New Europe, Computer Mediated Communication, and Intercultural Communication and Creative Practice: Music, Dance, and Women’s Cultural Identity.John T. Warren is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Studies, Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He has recently published essays in journals such as Communication Education, Qualitative Inquiry, and Text and Performance Quarterly. His first book, Performing Purity: Whiteness, Pedagogy, and the Reconstitution of Power, was published by Peter Lang Publishing in 2003.

«Laura Lengel and John T. Warren have looked into the future and seen where the next significant social transformative movements will come from… No other work brings together the important issues surrounding women’s creative practices across diverse performance media in such wide geographical and cultural settings. ‘Casting Gender’ is a unique, groundbreaking volume exploring women’s creativity, subjectivity, and national and cultural identity during a century of rapid social transformation.» (From the Foreword by Dawn Chatty, Dulverton Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)

• Contents: Dawn Chatty: Foreword – Laura Lengel/John T. Warren: Introduction: Casting Gender – E.J. Westlake: Theoretical Foundations and Intercultural Performance: (Re)Writing Nations on the Margins – Mimi Gisolfi D’Aponte: Native Women Playwrights: Cultural Historians, Revolutionary Healers – Denise A. Menchaca: Fragments of Memory: Shadowboxing the Hyphen in Border Territory – Jewel Seehaus-Fisher: Maximum Intensity: Intercultural Performances of Doing Time – Susan Hawthorne: Australia’s Performing Older Women’s Circus – Leesha Marie Thrower: A Cultural Performance of «Good» and «Bad»: A Black «Hair-Story» – Alison M. Phipps: Breaking Frames and Burning Witches: From Local German Women to Intercultural Theatre – Elizabeth Whitney: When White Girls Act Black: Reconsidering Performances of Otherness – Helen Iball: Taking Ownership of ‘Her indoors’: Performativity as a Theatrical Dis-location of the British ‘Housewife’ – Amy K. Kilgard: Directing Performances of Border Crossing: An Allegory of Turnst(y)les – Marina Griznic: Feminism and Performances in the Territory of ex-Yugoslavia – John T. Warren/Laura Lengel: Casting into the Future.