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Explores the politics of gender in motion. From drag ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the club mothers of modern dance, this book delves into four decades of drag dances on American stages, tracing the ways in which bodies can be imagined otherwise.

»Was wir wollten? Fürs Erste das, was der anderen Hälfte der Bevölkerung allein durch ihre Geburt zugestanden wor­den war.« In ihrem für den Booker­-Preis nominierten Roman beleuch­tet Selby Wynn Schwartz ein zu Unrecht vergessenes Kapitel feministischer Geschichte: Von der italienischen Frauen­rechtlerin Lina Poletti über Colette und Sarah Bernard bis zur großen Virginia Woolf verknüpft sie Schicksale his­torischer Persönlichkeiten zwischen I...

The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho, " so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen, in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes, and in 1923, Virginia W...

It''s 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her - and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name, and her life, alongside it. 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch, her paintbrushes are bald and clotted... But she is sure she can sell a painting - and is fervent in her belief that t...

The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho, " so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen, in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes, and in 1923, Virginia W...

Told in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, After Sappho is Selby Wynn Schwartzs joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th century as they battle for control over their lives for liberation and for justice.

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Drawing on evidence produced by original manuscript research, performance history, and poetic analysis, this book offers a comparative, inter-vernacular perspective to the century of critical scholarship on Cecco Angiolieri's comic sonnets by examining the poems' interplay of gender and genre in relation to Old Occitan forms of lyric and prose. This book addresses questions of poetic mobility among the Romance vernacular languages by tracing ...