Introduction [excerpt] The notion that Wendy Wassertstein's Pulitzer-winning play The Heidi Chronicles represented the failure of the first wave of feminism from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the crumbling of the second-wave of feminism, is a contentious topic that deserves continual scholarly discourse. The time-line of the play, 1965-1989, and its episodic structure, affords an accurate replication of the numerous transitions women endured, and the political...