Self-Published Book Review of the Week: The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays

joanofarc_coverThe Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays
by Carolyn Gage

 

“As Carolyn Gage is one of the best lesbian playwrights in America, the book is an intellectual banquet… the reader will get the education of a lifetime.”– Lambda Book Report, Los Angeles

 

 

 The explosive, underground classic The Second Coming of Joan of Arc is back in print at last! For two decades, Carolyn Gage’s revolutionary play about a cross-dressing, teenaged, runaway lesbian Joan of Arc has been rousing women to resistance—inspiring them to walk out of patriarchal institutions and fight for a feminist vision.

This new collection includes six other powerful Gage plays:

The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman

The greatest actress of the 19th century, a lesbian butch, makes a riotous last stand.

Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter

A lesbian butch stakes her claim to a place in men’s history the only way she can.

Cookin with Typhoid Mary

History’s most notorious typhoid carrier tells her side of the story.

The Parmachene Belle

The Maine hunting guide who loved Annie Oakley offers a lesson on fly fishing.

Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist

Radical activism meets one-day-at-a-time therapism in a fight-to-the-death.

Artemisia and Hildegard

Two of the most powerful women artists in history square off on a volatile panel about strategies for survival.

For more information or to order this book, visit the author’s webpage.

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