Joan is back! The explosive, underground classic The Second Coming of Joan of Arc is back in print at last! For two decades, Carolyn Gages 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 ...
Read More
Joan is back! The explosive, underground classic The Second Coming of Joan of Arc is back in print at last! For two decades, Carolyn Gages 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.
Read Less
Add this copy of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays to cart. $12.49, good condition, Sold by Kozy Books Inc rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from De Kalb, MO, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Lulu. com.
Add this copy of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays to cart. $15.00, like new condition, Sold by Always Superior Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Carolyn Gage.
Add this copy of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays to cart. $31.89, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Lulu. com.
Each play (some of them very short) gives voice to an unknown, or wrongly construed, woman in history. Well researched, thought provoking; worth reading. But of course no play really comes to life just in being read.
![The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays [Paperback] Gage, Carolyn](https://www1.alibris-static.com/isbn/9781105941672_t.gif)
