Books
Understudies
Theatre and sexual politics in Britain, from 1968. (First edition, Methuen, 1981. Revised, expanded and updated. Routledge, 1986)
‘It certainly packs a punch…both readable and informative.’
– Sarah Dunant, Spare Rib, 1981
‘This admirably researched book…’
– The Stage, 1981
‘A deft interweaving of social context and theatre practice…’
– Colin Chambers, Morning Star, 1981
‘The whole aspect of sexuality in the theatre has, at last, been given an airing by Michelene Wandor in a direct and provocative investigation into sexual politics in the British theatre, particularly during the 1970s. She examines feminism and homosexuality, placing their treatment in a social, historical and political context. She writes as much for those who are unfamiliar with or hostile to sexual politics, as for those already aware…Michelene Wandor has made a radical analysis without appearing aesthetically raw or politically simple.’
– Plays and Players, 1981
‘Of interest to anyone who goes to the theatre.’
– Nigella Lawson, The Sunday Times, 1986
‘Wandor’s research is a marathon achievement.’
– The Stage, 1986
‘Here is a book that grapples, with energy, ingenuity and terrific intellectual rigour, with a bewildering forest of issues around theatre, gender and politics. I found it illuminating, insightful, perceptive.’
– Women’s Review, 1986
‘Sexual politics and theatre – a dynamic duo…instructive, pioneering, courageously controversial.’
– Plays and Players, 1987
Look Back in Gender
The family and sexuality in post-war British drama. (Methuen, 1987)
‘Clearly written…this book should be on the reading list of all drama courses.’
– Plays & Players, 1987
‘A splendid attempt at questioning some of the things we most easily take for granted in contemporary theatre.’
– Speech and Drama, 1987
PostWar British Drama: Looking Back in Gender
Revised, updated and expanded version of Look Back in Gender. (Routledge, 2001)
Drama Today
Post-war British Drama 1970-l990. (British Council, 1993)
The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing Reconceived. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
‘…the book will be the definitive text about the history of Creative Writing teaching and its development in the UK for some time to come.’
– English Subject Centre Newsletter
‘In the context of this fast-developing field of work, this highly readable book is set to become a timely, definitive and authoritative text.’
– Professor Philip Martin, Vice-Chancellor of de Montfort University
‘…a thorough and detailed history of the multiple ways in which creative writing developed as a university discipline…’
– College English
The Art of Writing Drama (Methuen 2008)
‘The broad scope of this book makes it a valuable resource, not only within drama departments and Performance Studies, but in all areas where imaginative writing is studied and taught.’
– Writing in Education, Summer, 2009
Critical-Creative Writing: Two Sides of the Same Coin. A Foundation Reader (Troubador, 2021)
‘The texts included are germane to the subject’
– Writing in Education
As editor
The Body Politic
First anthology of British Women’s Liberation writings. (Stage One, 1972)
On Gender and Writing
Essays by male and female contributors. (Pandora Press, 1983)
‘A volume remarkable for its intelligence and verve.’
– London Review of Books, 1984
Once a Feminist
Interviews on the founding of the Women’s Liberation Movement. (Virago, 1990)
Essays
The Great Divide
Contributor to Open University coursebook on the sexual division of labour in the home and in art. (Open University, 1976)
Precious Bane
By Mary Webb. Introduction to new edition. (Virago, 1978)
Why Children?
ed. Stephanie Dowrick. Anthology on motherhood. (The Women’s Press, 1990)
Dreams and Deconstructions
ed Sandy Craig. Essay on feminism and theatre. (Amber Lane Press, 1980)
British Alternative Theatre Directory.
Foreword. (John Offord, 1982)
Walking on the Water
eds. Sara Maitland and Jo Garcia. Essay on spirituality. (Virago, 1983)
A Challenge to Theory, ed. Moira Monteith. Essay on roots and language. (Harvester Press, 1986)
Scholarly Articles
‘Feminism and Theatre now’ in Continuities and Discontinuities in Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. Eds. Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002)
‘Salamone Rossi: Jewish Composer from Mantua’: Article on composer. (Jewish Renaissance, 2002)
‘A Creative Writing Manifesto’ in Creative Writing: A Good Practice Guide by Siobhan Holland, Report Series no 6. (English Subject Centre, February, 2003)
‘Salamone Rossi, Judaism and the Musical Canon’ : (European Judaism Spring, 2003)
‘At the Edges of the Centre: or Close Encounters of a Jewish Kind: or the “D” Word’ in Jewish Women’s Writing of the 1990s and Beyond in Great Britain and the United States. Eds. Ulrike Behlau and Berhard Reitz. (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004)
‘Drama Queen: Preparing to Write the Text Dramatic’ in Teaching Creative Writing. ed. Graeme Harper. (Continuum, 2006)
‘The Creative Writing Workshop’ in Creative Writing Pedagogy: UK and USA Perspectives. Ed. Heather Beck. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
‘Will the Hebrew turn Christian: Jewishness, Identity and Cultural Appropriation’ in Figures of Heresy, eds. Andrew Dix and Jonathan Taylor. (Sussex Academic Press, 2006)
‘Reader, Who Wrote You? An Autocritical Exercise upon ‘Jane Eyre’ in A Breath of Fresh Eyre, eds. Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann. (Rodopi, 2007)
‘Calling Time’ in Story: the Heart of the Matter, ed. Maggie Butt. (Greenwich Exchange, 2007)
‘Drama in Daphne du Maurier: Spirit and Letter’ in The Daphne du Maurier Companion, ed. Helen Taylor. (Virago, 2007)