Who Does That Bitch Think She Is

Author : Craig Seligman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : 52,7 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 : 43,6 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 : 40,5 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 : Martin Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015037443416

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Author : Martin Lynch
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015061320894

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Pictures of Tomorrow & Rinty by Martin Lynch Pdf

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Author : Omar Cabezas
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Guerrillas
ISBN : IND:30000041098413

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

Author : Bambi Lake,Alvin Orloff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029447971

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Author : Charlotte Siobhan Antonia O'Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : 50,8 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 : 50,9 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 : 52,6 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.

Author : Ed Gorman
Publisher : Pegasus Crime
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1933648805

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A Prisoner of Memory by Ed Gorman Pdf

"In the past decade, it's become obvious that crime and mystery fiction has become the most popular form of entertainment for literary, television, and movie audiences alike. From traditional mystery stories with devious doings and a plot full of clues to terse thrillers with edge-of-the-seat climaxes to the nail-biting tale of psychological suspense, no field of popular fiction can match contemporary crime writing in diversity, excitement, cunning, or satisfaction. In this stunning collection of the year's best offerings in the genre, armchair detectives, suspense addicts, and crime solvers alike can thrill to these new stories in the unique way only mystery fiction can provide."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Patricia Roenbeck
Publisher : Love Spell
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0505522039

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Golden Temptress by Patricia Roenbeck Pdf

Raised to lead his people, sworn to protect them from any danger, Aubin has dedicated his life to battling opponents of the Protectorate. But the moment his men take the mysterious woman from the enemy transport, he senses he will do anything to make the provocative stranger his own.

Author : Bernard Bragg,Eugene Bergman
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015040110952

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