Wandor, Michelene

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WANDOR, Michelene

WANDOR, Michelene. British, b. 1940. Genres: Novels, Novellas/Short stories, Plays/Screenplays, Poetry, Songs/Lyrics and libretti, Music, Sex, Theatre, Women's studies and issues, Writing/Journalism. Career: Time Out, London, poetry ed., 1971-82; University of Kent, Canterbury, resident writer, 1982-83; senior lecturer in creative writing. Publications: PLAYS: (with D. Brooke) Sink Songs, 1975; Care and Control (in Strike While the Iron Is Hot), 1980; Spilt Milk, and Mal de Mere (in Play Nine), 1981; Aurora Leigh (in Plays by Women 1), 1982; Five Plays, 1984; The Wandering Jew, 1987; Wanted, 1988. FICTION: (co-author) Tales and More Tales I Tell My Mother, 2 vols., 1978-87; Guests in the Body, 1986; (with S. Maitland) Arky Types, 1987. POETRY: Upbeat, 1982; (co-author) Touch Papers, 1982; Gardens of Eden, 1984; Collected Poems, 1990; Gardens of Eden Revisited, 1999. EDITOR: The Body Politic, 1972; (co) Cutlasses and Earrings, 1977; Strike While the Iron Is Hot, 1980; Plays by Women 1-4, 4 vols., 1982-85; On Gender and Writing, 1983. OTHER: (co-author) The Great Divide, 1976; Understudies: Theatre and Sexual Politics, 1981, rev. ed. as Carry On, Understudies, 1986; Look Back in Gender, 1987; Wandor on Women Writ- ers, 1989; Once a Feminist, 1990; Drama Today, 1993; Postwar British Drama: Looking Back in Gender, 2000. Address: 71 Belsize Ln, London NW3 5AU, England.