The Feminist Spectator in Action Feminist Criticism for the Stage and Screen

"This is a wonderful book, especially for the undergraduate classroom. It is great to see this fresh look at contemporary theatre and film, and Dolan's tone and prose throughout is engaging and lucid. Her skills as a critical spectator are much needed and her book both exemplifies these talents and instructs others explicitly to cultivate them." - Peggy Phelan, The Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts, and Professor in Drama and English, Stanford University, USA
"The first book-length treatise on feminist spectatorship to include both an anthology of reviews and a practical 'how-to' manual for students, would-be writers, and art enthusiasts, The Feminist Spectator in Action attends to an urgent, if chronic, issue in the cinematic and performing arts: the entrenched lack of gender parity." - Sara Warner, Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA