The only way home is through the show : performance work of Lois Weaver /

Lois Weaver is one of the world's leading figures in feminist and lesbian performance, a true pioneer in the growing field. This book offers the first book-length assessment of her career and work, tracing its history, aesthetics, principles, inspirations, innovations and more. Contributors inc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harvie, Jen (Editor), Weaver, Lois (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect Books, 2015.
Series:Intellect live.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Peggy Shaw
  • Introduction: welcome home / Jen Harvie
  • How do you start? Red pajamas ; Pink tornado (from Faith and dancing) / Lois Weaver
  • Places to start / Jen Harvie
  • Lois Weaver: the college years / Charles L. Hayes
  • Jen Harvie interviews Lois Weaver / Jen Harvie and Lois Weaver
  • Lois Weaver interviews Muriel Miguel / Lois Weaver and Muriel Miguel
  • Virginia started over (from Faith and dancing) / Lois Weaver
  • What does it mean to be femme? Virginia was the East (from Faith and dancing) ; Subject and object (from Faith and Dancing) ; Jesus wept (from Faith and dancing) / Lois Weaver
  • Citizen femme / Jen Harvie
  • A femme on her own / Peggy Phelan
  • A woman disguised as a woman: Lois Weaver's fem(me)inist performances / Lisa Duggan
  • For Lois: femme glorious / Joan Nestle
  • Lois Weaver has great hair / Moe Angelos
  • A view from the bottom / Sue-Ellen Case
  • A view from the top / Lois Weaver
  • Femme cha-cha (from Lust and comfort) / Lois Weaver
  • Oh, for the love of work! Lois, love, and work / Jen Harvie
  • Looking back from behind ; Fire in my pocket (from Split britches) / Deb Margolin
  • Weaver's web / Stacy Makishi
  • On Lois, for Lois, because of Lois / Jill Dolan
  • The permanence of a performance / Jess Dobkin
  • A queer family tree / The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein
  • Lois / Elin Diamond
  • On the road / Helen Paris
  • Staying on the road / Leslie Hill
  • Floods (from Miss America) ; You never told me (from Miss America) / Lois Weaver
  • How do you make things work? The good guide for creating a non cooperative; or, how to organise a collective that will last for more than 30 years / Lois Weaver
  • Imagine it, make it, change it / Jen Harvie
  • Incandescence: the early years at WOW / Cynthia Carr
  • WOW: an uncooperative cooperative / Holly Hughes
  • Lois Weaver makes the world a less scary place / Rosana Cade
  • Taking a seat at the table / Deirdre Heddon
  • Long table protocol / Lois Weaver
  • Entertaining discussion: The Long table and Porch sitting / Geraldine Harris
  • How to behave at a Porch sitting / Lois Weaver
  • Lois Weaver and the ethics and etiquette of the Long table / Diana Taylor
  • Collaboration / Lois Keidan
  • Kinship / Lois Weaver
  • Why Tammy? Why not? Tammy interviews Lois ; 'I got into the wrong car in Memphis', 'Demented forsythia, a love song', and 'How do you sing a broken song' / Lois Weaver
  • Tammy WhyNot: stage/life superhero / Jen Harvie
  • What Tammy taught me... about surviving as a poor girl in the academy / Kim Solga
  • Making fun and making time: pedagogic principles / Erin Hurley
  • Cupcake velocity: the subversive expertise of Lois Weaver and Tammy WhyNot / Johanna Linsley
  • 'Stay gone' / Lois Weaver
  • What would you hang on the line? String of lights (adapted from Salad of the Bad CafĂ©) ; Diary of a domestic terrorist / Lois Weaver
  • Hidden treasures / Jen Harvie
  • Lois performs in Aotearoa New Zealand / Catherine Silverstone
  • 'Everything's breakable' - or what I learned from Lois Weaver / Benjamin Gillespie
  • Talking about When the tide is out / Lois Weaver and Stacy Makishi
  • Lois's hidden treasures: What Tammy needs to know about prison / Caoimhe McAvinchey
  • Meeting Lois Weaver / Anne Tallentire
  • Dear Carmen / Paul Heritage
  • Laundry (from Faith and dancing) / Lois Weaver
  • Afterwords. 33 ways to start ; Still counting / Lois Weaver
  • Postcards
  • Lois Weaver timeline / Jen Harvie with Lois Weaver.