Wandor, Michelene (1940–)

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Wandor, Michelene (1940–)

British poet, playwright and short-story writer. Born 1940 in London, England.

Educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, and active in feminist movement from 1960s; worked with feminist theater groups, including Gay Sweatshop, Women's Theatre Group, and Monstrous Regiment; work concerned with interaction between feminism, socialism, and gay liberation; writings include The Day After Yesterday (1972), Spilt Milk (1972), The Body Politic (1972), Penthesilea (1977), Sexual Politics in Theatre (1980), Upbeat: Poems and Stories (1982), Me and My Mother (1985), The Wandering Jew (with Sara Maitland, 1987), Once a Feminist: Stories of a Generation (1991), and Gardens of Eden Revisited (1999).