Queer Mythologies
The Original Stageplays of Pam Gems
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
200 pages
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6-3/4 x 9
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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Beginnings
Betty’s Wonderful Christmas
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Beginnings
Betty’s Wonderful Christmas
After Birthday
My Warren
The Treat
Ladybird, Ladybird
Ladybird, Ladybird
Up in Sweden
2. White women’s mythologies
The Historical women
Identity Politics: Queen Christina
The Binary Machine and the Liberation of Woman:
Arthur and Guinevere
Theatre as polemic: La Pasionaria
Icons and Whores
The Tragedy of Camille
The Legend of Edith Piaf
Woman as Controlling Subject: Blue Angel
Aspects of Woman: Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi
2. White women’s mythologies
The Historical women
Identity Politics: Queen Christina
The Binary Machine and the Liberation of Woman:
Arthur and Guinevere
Theatre as polemic: La Pasionaria
Icons and Whores
The Tragedy of Camille
The Legend of Edith Piaf
Woman as Controlling Subject: Blue Angel
Aspects of Woman: Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi
The Split Gestus of Woman: Loving Women
3. Masculinities in crisis: Of straight and gay men
The Dialectics of Desire: Aunt Mary
Freudian Counter-discourse: Franz into April
Masculinity in Crisis: Stanley
Masculinity as Myth: Garibaldi
4. Creating a space for the racialized Other
Being and Non-Being: Ebba
A Discourse of Gender, Power and the Other: Go West
Young Woman and Deborah’s Daughter
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
3. Masculinities in crisis: Of straight and gay men
The Dialectics of Desire: Aunt Mary
Freudian Counter-discourse: Franz into April
Masculinity in Crisis: Stanley
Masculinity as Myth: Garibaldi
4. Creating a space for the racialized Other
Being and Non-Being: Ebba
A Discourse of Gender, Power and the Other: Go West
Young Woman and Deborah’s Daughter
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
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