1997
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4.38
Average Rating
225
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This is a daily meditation book, fully indexed, written with a light touch, but a deep politic. Finally, a daily reader for those of us in search of radical healing. HOT ROLE Sor Juana de la Cruz, Chrystos, Sappho, Saadawi. . . and a host of unsung heroines! COOL How to lay in for a seige, turn the tables, seize the offensive! SUSPENSEFUL Donaldina Cameron's daring rescue of prostituted Asian girls, Fannie Lou Hamer's courageous resistance to police brutality, Lillian Hellman's defiant stand at the McCarthy hearings!
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Author
Carolyn Gage
Author · 5 books
Carolyn Gage is a lesbian feminist playwright, performer, director, and activist. The author of nine books on lesbian theatre and sixty-five plays, musicals, and one-woman shows, she specializes in non-traditional roles for women, especially those reclaiming famous lesbians whose stories have been distorted or erased from history. In 2011, her play Stigmata won the Maine Literary Award in Drama from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Also in 2011, her play The Ladies' Room was named national finalist for the prestigious Heideman Award, given to the winner of the National 10-Minute Play Contest of the Actors' Theatre of Louisville. Her collection of plays The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays won the 2008 Lambda Literary Award in Drama, the top LGBT book award in the US. In 2009, she was named one of the "Ten Most Intriguing People in Maine" by Portland Magazine, and was awarded a three-month residency at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. In 2010, she was named one of the "Most Influential People in Portland" by the Portland Phoenix. Gage tours internationally in her award-winning, one-woman play, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, offering performances, workshops, and lectures on lesbian theatre.
