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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Bristol, UK ; Chicago :
Intellect Books,
2015.
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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 Café) ; 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.