List of Illustrations

Introductions

Representing the `Real'

Nina Rapi

Living Performance

Maya Chowdhry

PART ONE: THE MONSTROUS FEMININE: LESBIAN AESTHETICS IN PROCESS

Another Con-Text

Barbra Egervary

Vanishing in Your Face: Embodiment and Representation in Lesbian Dance Performance

Petra Kuppers

Shall We Dance? Identification Through Linguistic Tropes and Performance

Anita Naoko-Pilgrim

PART TWO: THE LESBIAN BODY IN PERFORMANCE

Performing the Lesbian Body--The New Wave

Julia Brosnan

Get Your Feminism Off My Floppy: Seedy ROMs and Technical Tales

Jools Gilson-Ellis

Fleshing It Out

Leslie Hill

PART THREE: FROM MARGIN TO CENTER: SUBVERSION OR ASSIMILATION?

Drama Queens: Ruling with a Rod of Irony

Joelle Taylor

From Stage to Screen and Back: Tash Fairbanks' Nocturne Shedding Some Light on Lesbian Representation, and the Performance of Lesbian Desire

Jan Goulden

The Laugh That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Maria Esposito

Fo(u)r Women: The Art of Collaboration

Adeola Agbebiyi

It's Queer Up North: Production Values: Sarah-Jane Interviews Tanja Farman

Sarah-Jane

PART FOUR: WRITING THE SELF IN PERFORMANCE: FEMMES AND BUTCHES, DRAG QUEENS AND KINGS, VAMPIRES AND CLOWNS

Performing Butch/Femme Theory

Lois Weaver

Coming Out at Night--Performing as the Lesbian Vampire Rosie Lugosi

Rosie Garland

Presentation of Self as Performance: The Birth of Queenie aka Valerie Mason-John

Savitri Hensman

Angela de Castro: Clown in a Cold Country

Louise Carolin

Feminine and Masculine Personnas in Performance: Sade Huron: A Drag Queen with a Dick

Michelle Atherton

Drag Kings and Subjects

Diane Torr

Jane Czyzselska

Index