Professor of Polish and Russian at Northern Illinois University, Joanna Kot has written extensively on Polish and Russian modernist drama, including the monograph Distance Manipulation: The Russian Modernist Search for a New Drama. Her recent work focuses on 1930s Polish women playwrights as important predecessors to contemporary feminist drama.

"This is a daring and thought-provoking book for all theater lovers. Joann Kot's comprehensive study revives archival theater scripts and forgotten plays of Poland's inter-war "women's drama" in a way that energizes and delights. Reading her analysis makes us rethink the mechanisms of theater and the structures of domination at the same time. This ostensibly modest rediscovery, conducted in a bi-lingual format proposed by Kot, also reveals the rich suppressed heritage behind Polish women's voices today asserting clearly that the country's national stage history needs to be seen anew, in a brighter and fuller light."

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Women and Drama in Other Western Modernisms 2. Inter-War Poland 3. Who Were They? A Short Biographical Introduction 4. What Are They? Plot Summaries of the Plays 5. Theorizing the Subject: Seeing Through an Essentialist Lens 6. Theorizing the Subject: Possibilities of Change 7. The Subject Vis-à- Vis Cultural Myths 8. Dramatic Fissures 9. Inter-War Critical Reception Conclusion Bibliography Index

Professor of Polish and Russian at Northern Illinois University, Joanna Kot has written extensively on Polish and Russian modernist drama, including the monograph Distance Manipulation: The Russian Modernist Search for a New Drama. Her recent work focuses on 1930s Polish women playwrights as important predecessors to contemporary feminist drama.

"This is a daring and thought-provoking book for all theater lovers. Joann Kot's comprehensive study revives archival theater scripts and forgotten plays of Poland's inter-war "women's drama" in a way that energizes and delights. Reading her analysis makes us rethink the mechanisms of theater and the structures of domination at the same time. This ostensibly modest rediscovery, conducted in a bi-lingual format proposed by Kot, also reveals the rich suppressed heritage behind Polish women's voices today asserting clearly that the country's national stage history needs to be seen anew, in a brighter and fuller light."

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Women and Drama in Other Western Modernisms 2. Inter-War Poland 3. Who Were They? A Short Biographical Introduction 4. What Are They? Plot Summaries of the Plays 5. Theorizing the Subject: Seeing Through an Essentialist Lens 6. Theorizing the Subject: Possibilities of Change 7. The Subject Vis-à- Vis Cultural Myths 8. Dramatic Fissures 9. Inter-War Critical Reception Conclusion Bibliography Index