Who Does That Bitch Think She Is

Author : Craig Seligman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781541702189

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Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? by Craig Seligman Pdf

A vivid new history of drag told through the life of the pioneering queen Doris Fish In the 1970s, queer people were openly despised, and drag queens scared the public. Yet this was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV but for a society that is more tolerant and accepting of LGBTQ+ people. How did we get from there to here? In Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Craig Seligman looks at Doris’ life to provide some answers. After moving to San Francisco in the mid-’70s, Doris became the driving force behind years of sidesplitting drag shows that were loved as much as you can love throwaway trash—which is what everybody thought they were. No one, Doris included, perceived them as political theater, when in fact they were accomplishing satire’s deepest dream: not just to rail against society, but to change it. From the rise of drag shows to the obsession with camp to the conservative backlash and the onset of AIDS, Seligman adds needed color and insight to this era in LGBTQ+ history, revealing the origins and evolution of drag.

Author : Craig Seligman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0733650058

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Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? by Craig Seligman Pdf

An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Australian-born Doris FishIn the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV but for a society that welcomes and even celebrates queer people. How did we get from there to here? In Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Craig Seligman looks at Doris's short but overstuffed life as a way to provide some answers.There were effectively three Dorises -- the quiet visual artist, the glorious drag queen, and the hunky male prostitute who supported the other two. He started performing in Sydney in 1972 as a member of Sylvia and the Synthetics, a psycho troupe that represented the first anarchic flowering of queer creative energy in the post-Stonewall era. After moving to San Francisco in the mid-70s, he became the driving force behind years of sidesplitting drag shows that were loved as much as you can love throwaway trash -- which is what everybody thought they were. No one, Doris included, perceived them as political theater, when in fact they were accomplishing satire's deepest dream: not just to rail against society, but to change it.Seligman recounts this dynamic period in queer history -- from Stonewall to AIDS -- giving insight into how our ideas about gender have broadened to make drag the phenomenon we know it as today. In a book filled with interviews and letters about a life that ricocheted between hilarity and tragedy, he revisits the places and people Doris knew in order to shed light on the multi-hued era that his remarkable life encapsulated.

Author : Craig Seligman
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781582433127

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Sontag and Kael by Craig Seligman Pdf

A witty and stylish assessment of the work of two icons of cultural criticism: Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael. Though outwardly they had some things in common--they were both Westerners who came east, both schooled in philosophy, both secular Jews and both single mothers--they were polar opposites in temperament and approach. Seligman approaches both women through their widely discussed work. Kael practiced a kind of verbal jazz--exuberant, excessive, intimate, emotional and funny. Sontag is formal and rather icy. From the beginning it's clear where Seligman's sympathies lie: Sontag is a critic he reveres; but Kael is a critic he loves. But for all his reservations about Sontag, he considers both writers magnificent and his exploration of their differences results in this luminously written landmark of criticism.

Author : Jen Agg
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385686884

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I Hear She's a Real Bitch by Jen Agg Pdf

A sharp and candid memoir from a star in the restaurant world, and an up-and-coming literary voice. Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg, the woman behind the popular The Black Hoof, Cocktail Bar, Rhum Corner, and Agrikol restaurants, is known for her frank, crystal-sharp and often hilarious observations and ideas on the restaurant industry and the world around her. I Hear She's a Real Bitch, her first book, is caustic yet intimate, and wryly observant; an unforgettable glimpse into the life of one of the most interesting, smart, trail-blazing voices of this moment.

Author : Rachel Yoder
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735281561

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Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY AV CLUB, VULTURE, ESQUIRE AND LITERARY HUB One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else... In this blazingly smart and voracious debut, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms. As the mother's symptoms intensify, and her temptation to give into her new dog impulses peak, she struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret. Seeking a cure at the library, she discovers the mysterious academic tome which becomes her bible, "A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography," and meets a group of mommies involved in a multi-level-marketing scheme who may also be more than what they seem. An outrageously original novel of ideas about art, power and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale, Nightbitch will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should. You should howl as much as you want.

Author : Ophelia Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798664526387

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Thinking About Her by Ophelia Alexander Pdf

Clare is seventeen, a popular straight-A student, and has her daily life completely determined by her controlling mother. Outwardly it appears she has everything figured out, but silently she feels lost in someone else's life. Her only escape is behind the lens of her camera. Hilda is forced to move back to the US and is looking to escape a painful past relationship and start over. Her alternative look and rough exterior don't do her any favors as she struggles to be accepted by her peers and restart her athletic career. When the two girls meet for the first time, something clicks. New and conflicting emotions stir within Clare that force her to question who she is and what she wants out of life. Hilda, being suddenly thrust into the spotlight of Clare's popularity, fears that to fit in, she'll need to hide her feelings of affection, which has never been her strong suit. Will the two be able to navigate the uncharted waters of their passion, or will they drown in a sea of their own expectations?

Author : Martin Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015037443416

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Three Plays by Martin Lynch Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Wurtzel
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307829887

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Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel Pdf

From the author of the bestselling Prozac Nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written. In five brilliant extended essays, she links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Wurtzel gives voice to those women whose lives have been misunderstood, who have been dismissed for their beauty, their madness, their youth. Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning with Delilah, the first woman to supposedly bring a great man down (latter-day Delilahs include Yoko Ono, Pam Smart, Bess Myerson), Wurtzel finds many biblical counterparts to the men and women in today's headlines. She finds in the story of Amy Fisher the tragic plight of all Lolitas, our thirst for their brief and intense flame. She connects Hemingway's tragic suicide to those of Sylvia Plath, Edie Sedgwick, and Marilyn Monroe, women whose beauty was an end, ultimately, in itself. Wurtzel, writing about the wife/mistress dichotomy, explains how some women are anointed as wife material, while others are relegated to the role of mistress. She takes to task the double standard imposed on women, the cultural insistence on goodness and society's complete obsession with badness: what's a girl to do? Let's face it, if women were any real threat to male power, "Gennifer Flowers would be sitting behind the desk of the Oval Office," writes Wurtzel, "and Bill Clinton would be a lounge singer in the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock." Bitch tells a tale both celebratory and cautionary as Wurtzel catalogs some of the most infamous women in history, defending their outsize desires, describing their exquisite loneliness, championing their take-no-prisoners approach to life and to love. Whether writing about Courtney Love, Sally Hemings, Bathsheba, Kimba Wood, Sharon Stone, Princess Di--or waxing eloquent on the hideous success of The Rules, the evil that is The Bridges of Madison County, the twisted logic of You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again--Wurtzel is back with a bitchography that cuts to the core. In prose both blistering and brilliant, Bitch is a treatise on the nature of desperate sexual manipulation and a triumph of pussy power.

Author : Omar Cabezas
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Guerrillas
ISBN : IND:30000041098413

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Fire from the Mountain by Omar Cabezas Pdf

A current member of the Sandinista government recalls his personal experience as a guerrilla fighter.

Author : Marlo Donato Parmelee
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781467004480

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Awkward Bitch by Marlo Donato Parmelee Pdf

This fast paced book tells the comically raw and honest story of Mario, a vivacious fashionista, who transform into the fabulous "awkward hitch" right before the eyes of everyone she knows. Marlo moved from New York to London to make it in the music business, aided by the money made at her day job as a luxury retail manager. Her plans are bamoozled when she starts to lose her eyesight after only a month of living in her dream city! Through a series of roller coaster events taking her to Paris, Miami, London, and New York, she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the most common disabling neurogical disease affecting young adults today.

Author : Bambi Lake,Alvin Orloff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029447971

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The Unsinkable Bambi Lake by Bambi Lake,Alvin Orloff Pdf

Introduction by Exene Cervenka In the wake of hit movies TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERY THING, and PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT comes a personal account of one individual's evolution from innocent, suburban Johnny Purcell into fabulous, sophisticated Bambi Lake. From a fantasy filled childhood to San Francisco's queer salad days in the 70's absolutely nothing is off-topic in this sexy, revealing drama.

Author : Charlotte Siobhan Antonia O'Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3372198

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Madonna by Charlotte Siobhan Antonia O'Sullivan Pdf

Author : Mallory Curley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Boxing
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121954361

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Beatle Pete, Time Traveller by Mallory Curley Pdf

Author : Calvin Kentfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015030700549

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The Great Green by Calvin Kentfield Pdf

Author : Harold Coyle
Publisher : Pocket
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671885650

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The TEN THOUSAND by Harold Coyle Pdf

In four consecutive New York Times bestsellers, including Trial by Fire, Coyle has established himself as a master of international suspense. Now he delivers an epic story about a U.S. Army corps trapped by a nuclear-armed Germany. "An extraordinary, stunning peek at the new dark age".--Stephen Coonts.