Jill Dolan is Annan Professor in English and Professor of Theatre at Princeton University, USA, where she is also Director of its programme in Gender and Sexuality Studies. 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.

The Feminist Spectator is certainly a reader-friendly text … The Feminist Spectator will make an engaging addition to any feminist classroom or scholarly bookshelf. Reminding us of feminist hope–both in theory and practice–this book is a call to action, as well as a touchstone, for twenty-first-century feminist teachers and learners.

• IntroductionPART I: ADVOCACY1. Dynasty Handbag2. The Kids are All Right3. Dog and Pony Show4. The Hurt Locker5. Circumstance6. Scandal7. Young Adult8. Girls and Tiny FurniturePART II: ACTIVISM 9. Mamma Mia!10. Nurse Jackie11. For Colored Girls12. The Black Swan13. The Social Network14. The Hunger Games15. BravePART III: ARGUMENT 16. The Merchant of Venice17. The Normal Heart18. Children's Hour19. Homeland20. Porgy and Bess21. Wit22. Death of a Salesman23. Clybourne Park24. TomboyPART IV: ARTISTRY25. Friday Night Lights26. Come Back, Little Sheba27. Hair28. Let Me Down Easy29. Bridesmaids30. Lost Lounge31. Once32. Jomama Jones33. Midsummer Night's Dream34. Your Sister's SisterPART V: HOW TO BE A FEMINIST CRITIC/SPECTATOR Suggestions for Further ReadingAppendixIndex.

Jill Dolan is Annan Professor in English and Professor of Theatre at Princeton University, USA, where she is also Director of its programme in Gender and Sexuality Studies. 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.

The Feminist Spectator is certainly a reader-friendly text … The Feminist Spectator will make an engaging addition to any feminist classroom or scholarly bookshelf. Reminding us of feminist hope–both in theory and practice–this book is a call to action, as well as a touchstone, for twenty-first-century feminist teachers and learners.

• IntroductionPART I: ADVOCACY1. Dynasty Handbag2. The Kids are All Right3. Dog and Pony Show4. The Hurt Locker5. Circumstance6. Scandal7. Young Adult8. Girls and Tiny FurniturePART II: ACTIVISM 9. Mamma Mia!10. Nurse Jackie11. For Colored Girls12. The Black Swan13. The Social Network14. The Hunger Games15. BravePART III: ARGUMENT 16. The Merchant of Venice17. The Normal Heart18. Children's Hour19. Homeland20. Porgy and Bess21. Wit22. Death of a Salesman23. Clybourne Park24. TomboyPART IV: ARTISTRY25. Friday Night Lights26. Come Back, Little Sheba27. Hair28. Let Me Down Easy29. Bridesmaids30. Lost Lounge31. Once32. Jomama Jones33. Midsummer Night's Dream34. Your Sister's SisterPART V: HOW TO BE A FEMINIST CRITIC/SPECTATOR Suggestions for Further ReadingAppendixIndex.

Jill Dolan is Annan Professor in English and Professor of Theatre at Princeton University, USA, where she is also Director of its programme in Gender and Sexuality Studies. 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.

The Feminist Spectator is certainly a reader-friendly text … The Feminist Spectator will make an engaging addition to any feminist classroom or scholarly bookshelf. Reminding us of feminist hope–both in theory and practice–this book is a call to action, as well as a touchstone, for twenty-first-century feminist teachers and learners.

• IntroductionPART I: ADVOCACY1. Dynasty Handbag2. The Kids are All Right3. Dog and Pony Show4. The Hurt Locker5. Circumstance6. Scandal7. Young Adult8. Girls and Tiny FurniturePART II: ACTIVISM 9. Mamma Mia!10. Nurse Jackie11. For Colored Girls12. The Black Swan13. The Social Network14. The Hunger Games15. BravePART III: ARGUMENT 16. The Merchant of Venice17. The Normal Heart18. Children's Hour19. Homeland20. Porgy and Bess21. Wit22. Death of a Salesman23. Clybourne Park24. TomboyPART IV: ARTISTRY25. Friday Night Lights26. Come Back, Little Sheba27. Hair28. Let Me Down Easy29. Bridesmaids30. Lost Lounge31. Once32. Jomama Jones33. Midsummer Night's Dream34. Your Sister's SisterPART V: HOW TO BE A FEMINIST CRITIC/SPECTATOR Suggestions for Further ReadingAppendixIndex.