Anthologies with Work by Other Authors
The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2024
An anthology of monologues for women edited by Debbie Lamedman and published by Smith & Kraus.
Includes a monologue from Lace Curtain Irish
Thirty Scenes for Young Women, Ages 15 - 30
An anthology of scenes edited by Irene Ziegler, Smith & Kraus. Publication pending.
Includes a scene from Planchette.
Frozen Women, Flowing Voices Anthology
An anthology of monologues excerpted from plays and playwrights produced by Venus Theatre, edited by Deb Randall. Publication pending.
Includes excerpt from The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman.
Monologues by LGBTQIA+ Writers for LGBTQIA+ Actors
some scripts presents Monologues by LGBTQIA+ Writers for LGBTQIA+ Actors, an anthology building on our work as a literary magazine since the first issue was published in 2019. Queer and trans actors deserve a place to seek monologues by scriptwriters that reflect their own lived experiences. Queer and trans scriptwriters deserve to have their pieces published, read, and practiced for the masterpieces they are. Dive in for unique monologues of LGBTQIA+ characters from LGBTQIA+ writers.
Includes an excerpt from The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman.
The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2023
A collection of monologues for women, published by Smith & Kraus. Edited by Debbie Lamedman.
Includes two monologues from Gage plays: Miss Le Gallienne Announces the New Season and In McClintock's Corn.
Wildsam Field Guides: Maine Coast (Wildsam Road Trips)
Wildsam Field Guides: Maine Coast leads travelers into the Dawn Land with guidance from trusted local adventurers, craftspeople and writers.This handsome volume features a dedicated section on Maine's extraordinary boatbuilding tradition, while also covering Acadia National Park, famed artists, legendary shipwrecks, Portland's booming culinary scene, Indigenous history and much more.
Includes an entry on the "Lesbian History Trail of Mount Desert Island," which is a website I built with Tina Gianoulis during the pandemic.
WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters
A collection of monologues for nonbinary and trans folx... monologues written for someone who cannot easily check a box regarding their gender identity, published by Smith & Kraus. Edited by Debbie Lamedman.
Includes a monologue from Calamity Jane Sends a Message To Her Daughter.
Best Women's Monologues, 2022 Anthology
A collection of monologues for women, published by Smith & Kraus. Edited by Debbie Lamedman.
Includes a monologue from Easter Sunday.
Best Women's Monologues, 2021 Anthology
A collection of monologues for women, published by Smith & Kraus. Edited by Debbie Lamedman.
Includes a monologue from Lighting Martha.
The Best Women's Monologues From New Plays 2020
A collection of monologues for women, published by Applause Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield.
Edited by Larry Harbison
Includes a monologue from Female Nude Seated.
At the Intersection of Disability and Drama
A Critical Anthology of New Plays
Edited by John Sefel
Published by McFarland & Company
A collection of English-language plays that explore the realities of being both a performing artist and a person who identifies as—or is seen by others as—disabled.
Included in the collection is Gage's play, The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman.
Queerly Loving Anthology
Edited by B. Benson
A collection of short stories that celebrate queer love in all its forms.
Planchette: A One-Act Play
Performing Gender and Violence in Contemporary Transnational Contexts
Edited by Maria Anita Stefanelli
"To Put My Life Back into the Main Text": Re-Dressing History in The Second Coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage
Interview with Carolyn Gage
Excerpt from The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays by Carolyn Gage
By Sabrina Vellucci
Published by LED Edizioni Universitarie, Milan, Italy.
"To Put My Life Back into the Main Text": Re-Dressing History in The Second Coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage
Interview with Carolyn Gage
Excerpt from The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays by Carolyn Gage
By Sabrina Vellucci
Published by LED Edizioni Universitarie, Milan, Italy.
Writing Menopause
An anthology of women's writings on menopause, edited by Elaine Morin and Jane Cawthorne.
Includes a reprint of Gage's essay "Ugly Duckling Syndrome."
Includes a reprint of Gage's essay "Ugly Duckling Syndrome."
The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2017
Edited by Lawrence Harbison
200-page compendium of monologues for women. Published by Smith & Kraus
It includes a monologue from Gage's one-act Planchette.
105 Five-Minute Plays for Study and Performance
Edited by John Capecci and Irene Ziegler
465-page compendium of very short plays. Published by Smith & Kraus.
It includes Gage's short play The Clarity of Pizza.
465-page compendium of very short plays. Published by Smith & Kraus.
It includes Gage's short play The Clarity of Pizza.
Yo, Sis!
Trailblazers Talk to Their Sisters About Being Online
Edited by MaryAnn Shank.
"Here is the premise of the book. I asked each woman to imagine that her sister sat down next to her and said, 'I want to start an online business.' And what follows is her reply. Each reply is as unique as the woman who wrote it."
Book includes an interview with Gage about her online publishing business, and how she won a national literary award with a self-published anthology that had been rejected by thirteen publishers.
"Here is the premise of the book. I asked each woman to imagine that her sister sat down next to her and said, 'I want to start an online business.' And what follows is her reply. Each reply is as unique as the woman who wrote it."
Book includes an interview with Gage about her online publishing business, and how she won a national literary award with a self-published anthology that had been rejected by thirteen publishers.
Be Wilder: A Word Portland Anthology
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Be Wilder is edited by Danielle LeBlanc and Emily Jane Young, founders of Word Portland, a monthly reading series held in Portland, Maine. This is a collection of writings by authors who have participated in Word Portland. It includes Gage's play, Planchette.
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A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers
A Gateless Garden features quotations from the published works of Maine women writers, dating from 1800 to 2014, collected and edited by Dr. Liza Bakewell, and paired with contemporary black and white photographs by Maine photographer Kerry Michaels. This exhibition explores the world from a woman’s point of view in words and images from a state of mind that is Maine.
Queer and Celtic: On the Irish LGBT Experience
What does it mean to be gay and Gaelic in today’s world? Twelve writers from both sides of the Big Pond—both Irish and of Irish descent—aim to find out through a mix of fiction, poetry, play excerpts, and memoir. Love, politics, family, and Catholicism are the powerful forces at play here, all tendered with the unmistakable and complex feelings one associates with their home country. Their words sing of pain and pride, and always with an ear for storytelling. You will not forget their voices long after the neighborhood pub has closed.
Writers include Trisha Collopy, Micheál Ó Conghaile, Arthur Durkee, Carolyn Gage, Ed Madden, Jeff Mann, Hilary McCollum, Brian Merriman, Robin A. NíChatháin, Isaac Swords, and Jack Veasey.
It includes Gage's play The Countess and the Lesbians.
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The Book of EstroGenius 2011
This is a compilation of the works presented at the 10th annual EstroGenius Festival in 2010, produced by Manhattan Theatre Source. It includes Gage's play Lace Curtain Irish.
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In Her Words
25 Interviews with Kick-Ass Women in Arts and Entertainment
A collection of interviews with twenty-five contemporary women artists, by journalist and activist N. E. Francis.
"In Her Words contains my top 25 favorite interviews with outstanding women artists of today, including interviews with singer/songwriter Linda Perry, feminist playwright Carolyn Gage, film maker Katherine Brooks, artist/poet Dr. Marie Cartier and authors Linda Andersson and Sara Marx, and music group Sugarbeach, among many others. Each interview and woman chosen for In Her Words has either inspired me, challenged me or flat-out changed my life's trajectory. I believe that their stories will do the same for you."-- N.E. Francis.
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Edited by N.E. Francis
ISBN-13: 978-1467916998
"In Her Words contains my top 25 favorite interviews with outstanding women artists of today, including interviews with singer/songwriter Linda Perry, feminist playwright Carolyn Gage, film maker Katherine Brooks, artist/poet Dr. Marie Cartier and authors Linda Andersson and Sara Marx, and music group Sugarbeach, among many others. Each interview and woman chosen for In Her Words has either inspired me, challenged me or flat-out changed my life's trajectory. I believe that their stories will do the same for you."-- N.E. Francis.
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Edited by N.E. Francis
ISBN-13: 978-1467916998
Woman's Work
Short Stories
Woman's Work is a wonderful literary celebration. The writing is razor sharp and the storytelling compelling. In this provocative and entertaining collection, that promises surprises around every corner, 40 eclectic women writers, pull us into their ever-changing universe of shapeshifters, fairies, drag queens, and fat Southern girls. This is an adventure not to be missed.
Edited by Michelle Sewell
Published by Girlchild Press
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Click here to see a Youtube clip about Gage's short story, "The Furies."
Edited by Michelle Sewell
Published by Girlchild Press
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Click here to see a Youtube clip about Gage's short story, "The Furies."
In the Spirit of We'Moon
Celebrating 30 Years
In the Spirit of We’Moon artfully celebrates three decades of We’Moon rolled into one rich tapestry of word and image. This long-awaited collection includes stories of We’Moon’s colorful evolution by editor and founder, Musawa, and other staff members; work from artists like Melissa Harris, Betty LaDuke, Robyn Waters, Hrana Janto; and writings from luminaries such as Alice Walker, Starhawk, Rose Flint, and Vicki Noble—among hundreds of other beloved contributors. Hear the spirited voices of women making waves that have changed our world! Open up this book to any page for inspiration in your daily life, and you won’t want to put it down!!
Read Gage's poem, "The Smart Teacher."
Edited by the We'Moon Collective
Published by We'Moon
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Read Gage's poem, "The Smart Teacher."
Edited by the We'Moon Collective
Published by We'Moon
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Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment
A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone
By Leticia Nieto with Margot F. Boyer, Liz Goodwin, Garth R. Johnson & Laurel Collier Smith
Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment, by Leticia Nieto Psy.D., and co-authors, brings a long-awaited breakthrough to the fields of liberation and cultural studies. Nieto offers a powerful analysis of the psychological dynamics of oppression and privilege, and shows readers how to develop the skills that can promote social justice for themselves and those around them.
Read Gage's essay "Orbits."
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Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment, by Leticia Nieto Psy.D., and co-authors, brings a long-awaited breakthrough to the fields of liberation and cultural studies. Nieto offers a powerful analysis of the psychological dynamics of oppression and privilege, and shows readers how to develop the skills that can promote social justice for themselves and those around them.
Read Gage's essay "Orbits."
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Live Through This
On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award.
Edited by Sabrina Chapadiev
Published by Seven Stories Press
"A stunning book. I found myself dreaming conversations with some of the writers—engaging in the conversation they begin here." —Dorothy Allison
"This intimate book gives you all the tools for self-emergence."
—Janeane Garofalo
"Playwright Carolyn Gage offers a beautiful essay describing her childhood “sacred ritual” of enacting elaborate dramas with dolls. Live performance of her later plays—rooted in that same impulse—became communally as well as personally cathartic."-- Go Magazine.
A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eating disorders, and addiction. Here, some of our most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers, playwrights, and burlesque performers traverse the pains and passions that can both motivate and destroy women artists, and mark a path for survival. Taken together, these artful reflections offer an honest and hopeful journey through a woman's silent rage, through the power inherent in struggles with destruction, and the ensuing possibilities of transforming that burning force into the external release of art.
With contributions by Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Cristy C. Road, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Stephens, Carolyn Gage, Eileen Myles, Fly, Diane DiMassa, Bonfire Madigan Shive, Inga Muscio, Kate Bornstein, Toni Blackman, Nicole Blackman, Silas Howard, Daphne Gottleib, and Stephanie Howell.
Read Gage's memoir "Rewriting the Script."
Read the review in Go Magazine.
Read the review on the Icarus Project Website.
Read the review on Left Turn blog.
Read the review on Neovox: The International Student Magazine.
Edited by Sabrina Chapadiev
Published by Seven Stories Press
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Edited by Sabrina Chapadiev
Published by Seven Stories Press
"A stunning book. I found myself dreaming conversations with some of the writers—engaging in the conversation they begin here." —Dorothy Allison
"This intimate book gives you all the tools for self-emergence."
—Janeane Garofalo
"Playwright Carolyn Gage offers a beautiful essay describing her childhood “sacred ritual” of enacting elaborate dramas with dolls. Live performance of her later plays—rooted in that same impulse—became communally as well as personally cathartic."-- Go Magazine.
A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eating disorders, and addiction. Here, some of our most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers, playwrights, and burlesque performers traverse the pains and passions that can both motivate and destroy women artists, and mark a path for survival. Taken together, these artful reflections offer an honest and hopeful journey through a woman's silent rage, through the power inherent in struggles with destruction, and the ensuing possibilities of transforming that burning force into the external release of art.
With contributions by Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Cristy C. Road, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Stephens, Carolyn Gage, Eileen Myles, Fly, Diane DiMassa, Bonfire Madigan Shive, Inga Muscio, Kate Bornstein, Toni Blackman, Nicole Blackman, Silas Howard, Daphne Gottleib, and Stephanie Howell.
Read Gage's memoir "Rewriting the Script."
Read the review in Go Magazine.
Read the review on the Icarus Project Website.
Read the review on Left Turn blog.
Read the review on Neovox: The International Student Magazine.
Edited by Sabrina Chapadiev
Published by Seven Stories Press
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The Butch Cook Book
"There were recipes that were complex and some were more simple. One cracked me up. It was Carolyn Gage’s recipe for Black Bean Dip. The first instruction is “Put it all in a blender and let ‘er rip.”--Femme Fairy Godmother.
Featured in the film The Kids Are All Right starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening!
Novice to gourmet, these chefs have shared their expertise with easy-to-follow, hands-on instructions in an entirely new blend of cooking and culture. Irresistible offerings include quick meals for a night on your own, luscious potluck recipes, holiday indulgences, sweet treats, a special time for two — even goodies for your furry friends.
Scattered among the recipes are--
Butch musings and history
Cooking experiences, and kitchen hints
Quotes from butches--famous and infamous
With humor, insight, information, and great recipes, this cookbook is for everyone!
Check out Gage's "Butch Bean Dip!"
Edited by Lee Lynch, Sue Hardesty, and Nell Ward
Published by TRP Cookbooks
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Featured in the film The Kids Are All Right starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening!
Novice to gourmet, these chefs have shared their expertise with easy-to-follow, hands-on instructions in an entirely new blend of cooking and culture. Irresistible offerings include quick meals for a night on your own, luscious potluck recipes, holiday indulgences, sweet treats, a special time for two — even goodies for your furry friends.
Scattered among the recipes are--
Butch musings and history
Cooking experiences, and kitchen hints
Quotes from butches--famous and infamous
With humor, insight, information, and great recipes, this cookbook is for everyone!
Check out Gage's "Butch Bean Dip!"
Edited by Lee Lynch, Sue Hardesty, and Nell Ward
Published by TRP Cookbooks
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Those They Left Behind
Interviews, Stories, Essays and Poems by Survivors of Suicide
In this collection of interviews with survivors of suicide, individuals talk candidly and intimately about how their lives have been impacted by the suicide of a family member or close friend. Over 50 individuals were willing to share their personal tragedies as a way of helping others who face a similar loss as well as educating the public about the issues survivors of suicide face. Their willingness to share their stories is a testament to their endurance and strength in the face of adversity.
Read Gage's essay, "Keening in Bangor."
Edited by Karen Mueller Bryson
Published by Lulu.com
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Read Gage's essay, "Keening in Bangor."
Edited by Karen Mueller Bryson
Published by Lulu.com
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Secret Spaces of Childhood
If you ever constructed a fort out of boxes, chairs, and blankets, or lost yourself in the pages of a favorite book, you'll recognize in this collection of essays, poems, and stories the urge we had as children to hide out, build worlds within our worlds, and create spaces as real and potent as any outside the limitless sphere of our younger, inner lives.
Secret Spaces of Childhood's adult reflections capture the daydream-like quality of our childhood visions and fantasy worlds, a time when imagination had yet to be banished from reality. To reconstruct that special landscape, Elizabeth Goodenough gathers an impressive body of writers, poets, and thinkers who render exquisitely the gardens and wildernesses -- tender and terrible -- of childhood's heart.
Read Gage's memoir, "My Life Among the Dolls."
Edited by Elizabeth Goodenough
Published by University of Michigan Press
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Secret Spaces of Childhood's adult reflections capture the daydream-like quality of our childhood visions and fantasy worlds, a time when imagination had yet to be banished from reality. To reconstruct that special landscape, Elizabeth Goodenough gathers an impressive body of writers, poets, and thinkers who render exquisitely the gardens and wildernesses -- tender and terrible -- of childhood's heart.
Read Gage's memoir, "My Life Among the Dolls."
Edited by Elizabeth Goodenough
Published by University of Michigan Press
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At Play
An Anthology of Maine Drama
A collection of plays by Maine playwrights.
It includes Gage's play Ugly Ducklings.
Edited by Laura Emack
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It includes Gage's play Ugly Ducklings.
Edited by Laura Emack
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Lesbians on Disability
Winner, Lambda Literary Award
Informative, defiant, upbeat and occasionally humorous, these essays, interviews and poems unblinkingly tackle a wide range of illnesses and medical conditions: birth defects, genetic and autoimmune disorders, AIDS, chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome, mental illness, deafness and recovery from accidents and assault. Marginalized by their sexuality and their disability, the contributors (who include established writers like Patricia Nell Warren and Nicola Griffith as well as novices) explore the complications that arise at the intersection of these two identities. Faced with homophobia within the healing professions, lesbians are often reluctant to seek medical intervention. Families sometimes blame an illness on a woman's sexual lifestyle. In most jurisdictions, a lesbian has no legal right to make medical decisions for her ill or injured partner, as Karen Thompson's eight-and-a-half-year battle to gain guardianship of her lover, Sharon Kowalski, so poignantly points out. Some of the problems come from within the lesbian community as well. "I am not the strong, athletic, independent woman our subculture says we are all supposed to be," declares one essayist. Some contributors, such as Vicky D'aoust, who is deaf, do not consider their conditions disabilities while others champion in-your-face activist groups like "Not Dead Yet." Many feminists who have long fought for sexual and reproductive freedom may bridle at the anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia agenda of many contributors. Clearly, lesbians have no unifying political position, but they inhabit every imaginable type of body. -- Publishers Weekly.
Read Gage's memoir, "Hidden Disability: A Coming Out Story."
Edited by Victoria A. Brownworth
Published by Seal Press
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Informative, defiant, upbeat and occasionally humorous, these essays, interviews and poems unblinkingly tackle a wide range of illnesses and medical conditions: birth defects, genetic and autoimmune disorders, AIDS, chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome, mental illness, deafness and recovery from accidents and assault. Marginalized by their sexuality and their disability, the contributors (who include established writers like Patricia Nell Warren and Nicola Griffith as well as novices) explore the complications that arise at the intersection of these two identities. Faced with homophobia within the healing professions, lesbians are often reluctant to seek medical intervention. Families sometimes blame an illness on a woman's sexual lifestyle. In most jurisdictions, a lesbian has no legal right to make medical decisions for her ill or injured partner, as Karen Thompson's eight-and-a-half-year battle to gain guardianship of her lover, Sharon Kowalski, so poignantly points out. Some of the problems come from within the lesbian community as well. "I am not the strong, athletic, independent woman our subculture says we are all supposed to be," declares one essayist. Some contributors, such as Vicky D'aoust, who is deaf, do not consider their conditions disabilities while others champion in-your-face activist groups like "Not Dead Yet." Many feminists who have long fought for sexual and reproductive freedom may bridle at the anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia agenda of many contributors. Clearly, lesbians have no unifying political position, but they inhabit every imaginable type of body. -- Publishers Weekly.
Read Gage's memoir, "Hidden Disability: A Coming Out Story."
Edited by Victoria A. Brownworth
Published by Seal Press
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Lambda Award Winner
The Best Women's Stage Monologues
A diverse collection of monologues, including a monologue from Gage's Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women.
More Monologues for Women by Women
A diverse collection of monologues edited by Tori Haring-Smith.
Read Gage's monologue from Babe: An Olympian Musical.
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Read Gage's monologue from Babe: An Olympian Musical.
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Even More Monologues For Women By Women
A diverse collection of monologues edited by Tori Haring-Smith
Read Gage's monologue from The Parmachene Belle.
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Read Gage's monologue from The Parmachene Belle.
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The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures
Edited by Bonnie Zimmerman and George Haggerty, Garland Publishing, Inc.
Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this Encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavours. While gays and lesbians have shared many aspects of life, their histories and cultures developed in profoundly different ways. To reflect this crucial fact, the Encyclopedia has been prepared in two separate volumes assuring that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered.
Written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new researchers this is intended as a reference for students and scholars in all areas of study, as well as the general public.
Gage was asked to contribute to the section on "Joan of Arc."
Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this Encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavours. While gays and lesbians have shared many aspects of life, their histories and cultures developed in profoundly different ways. To reflect this crucial fact, the Encyclopedia has been prepared in two separate volumes assuring that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered.
Written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new researchers this is intended as a reference for students and scholars in all areas of study, as well as the general public.
Gage was asked to contribute to the section on "Joan of Arc."
Love Shook My Heart
New Lesbian Love Stories
The 25 stories in Love Shook My Heart are love stories in the broadest sense, from unclouded girl-meets-girl romances to fantasies in faraway kingdoms--even a wintry story based on the Grimms' fairy tale "Frau Trude." Some of these pieces will seem familiar to readers. The coming-out narrative, for instance--that exclusively gay genre--is well represented, including the requisite lesbian back rub. And there are lots of ex-lovers in the book--another fixture on the lesbian landscape--some running away, others returning, full of endearments.
Read Gage's enchanting fairy tale, "Becca and the Woman Prince."
Edited by Irene Zahava
Published by Alyson Books
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Read Gage's enchanting fairy tale, "Becca and the Woman Prince."
Edited by Irene Zahava
Published by Alyson Books
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Off the Rag
Lesbians Writing on Menopause
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award.
As the baby boomers hit 50, more and more books speak to an issue formerly mentioned in whispers: menopause. Editors Lynch and Woods add to such tomes an anthology that is the result of Lynch's inability to find information on menopause that addressed her concerns as a lesbian. In it, nationally known writers including Sarah Dreher, Karla Jay, and Valerie Taylor take up various aspects of this life change, offering their thoughts on the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and on hot flashes, sexual desire, and freedom from menstruation. Particularly interesting are Joan Nestle's piece on sex after 50, Connie Panzarino's discussion of menopause's interaction with her disability (spinal muscular atrophy), and Shelly Roberts' wittily self-deprecating account of her surprise at her own change of life ("When you live in the tropics, . . . dripping is not an unusual avocation, so it is hard, exactly, to pinpoint the actual onset of symptoms" )-- Booklist
Read Gage's essay "The Ugly Duckling Syndrome."
Edited by Lee Lynch and Akia Woods
Published by New Victoria Press
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As the baby boomers hit 50, more and more books speak to an issue formerly mentioned in whispers: menopause. Editors Lynch and Woods add to such tomes an anthology that is the result of Lynch's inability to find information on menopause that addressed her concerns as a lesbian. In it, nationally known writers including Sarah Dreher, Karla Jay, and Valerie Taylor take up various aspects of this life change, offering their thoughts on the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and on hot flashes, sexual desire, and freedom from menstruation. Particularly interesting are Joan Nestle's piece on sex after 50, Connie Panzarino's discussion of menopause's interaction with her disability (spinal muscular atrophy), and Shelly Roberts' wittily self-deprecating account of her surprise at her own change of life ("When you live in the tropics, . . . dripping is not an unusual avocation, so it is hard, exactly, to pinpoint the actual onset of symptoms" )-- Booklist
Read Gage's essay "The Ugly Duckling Syndrome."
Edited by Lee Lynch and Akia Woods
Published by New Victoria Press
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Amazon All Stars
Thirteen Lesbian Plays
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
A collection of major lesbian plays from controversial cultural perspectives. Each play is accompanied by a scholarly essay by a feminist author examining both the play and the playwright. The book includes plays by Jane Chambers, Susan Miller, Paula Vogel, Joan Lipkin and Carolyn Gage.
It includes Gage and Carney's lesbian musical, The Amazon All-Stars.
Edited by Rosemary Keefe Curb
Published by Applause Books
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Under Thirty
Plays for a New Generation
“Playwright-editors Lane and Shengold have assembled five full-length plays, 11 shorter plays, and excerpts from four plays, all written for actors under 30… Jessica Goldberg’s Refuge, Jenny Lyn Bader’s None of the Above, and Carolyn Gage’s Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist are all standouts… fresh and gripping…” --Library Journal.
For the vast generation of actors in their teens and twenties, as well as for teachers, directors, and producers, Under Thirty is an unparalleled source of diverse and challenging roles, created by some of today's finest writers. The twenty plays presented here in full or in part include insightful looks at the pressure-cooker caste system of American high schools as well as heartbreaking, edgy portrayals of twentysomethings adrift in the city. There are snappy romantic duets, large-cast ensembles, and everything in between, populated by richly dimensional, mold-breaking characters: misfit cheerleaders, nurturing drifters, rich petty thieves--even a rogue SAT tutor. The contributing playwrights span the range of contemporary talent, including award-winning dramatists such as Sam Shepard, Donald Margulies, Warren Leight, and Kenneth Lonergan, hilarious humorists such as David Ives and Douglas Carter Beane, and an impressive array of cutting-edge newer voices.
It includes Gage's Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist.
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Published by Vintage
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For the vast generation of actors in their teens and twenties, as well as for teachers, directors, and producers, Under Thirty is an unparalleled source of diverse and challenging roles, created by some of today's finest writers. The twenty plays presented here in full or in part include insightful looks at the pressure-cooker caste system of American high schools as well as heartbreaking, edgy portrayals of twentysomethings adrift in the city. There are snappy romantic duets, large-cast ensembles, and everything in between, populated by richly dimensional, mold-breaking characters: misfit cheerleaders, nurturing drifters, rich petty thieves--even a rogue SAT tutor. The contributing playwrights span the range of contemporary talent, including award-winning dramatists such as Sam Shepard, Donald Margulies, Warren Leight, and Kenneth Lonergan, hilarious humorists such as David Ives and Douglas Carter Beane, and an impressive array of cutting-edge newer voices.
It includes Gage's Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist.
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Published by Vintage
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Voices Made Flesh
Performing Women's Autobiography
"Voices Made Flesh does a better job of evoking the performed script than does any other collection of dramatic or performance art scripts I have seen."—Michael Bowman, Louisiana State University
Fourteen bold, dynamic, and daring women take the stage in this collection of women's lives and stories. Individually and collectively, these writers and performers speak the unspoken and perform the heretofore unperformed.
The first section includes scripts and essays about performances of the lives of Gertrude Stein, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mary Church Terrell, Charlotte Cushman, Anaïs Nin, Calamity Jane, and Mary Martin. The essays consider intriguing interpretive issues that arise when a woman performer represents another woman's life. In the second section, seven performers—Tami Spry, Jacqueline Taylor, Linda Park-Fuller, Joni Jones, Terri Galloway, Linda M. Montano, and Laila Farah—tell their own stories.
It includes Gage's The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman.
Edited by Lynn C. Miller, Jacqueline Taylor, and M. Heather Carver
Published by University of Wisconsin Press
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My Father's Daughter
Stories by Women
"Equally powerful Carolyn Gage's 'Letter to My Father' is a cool burst of rage that doesn't let its emotion get in the way of the lucid indictment of an abusive father. The narrator writes the letter to set down the rules by which she will agree to care for her elderly and ill father"--Sun-Sentinal, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
The filial bonds represented in these 27 short stories by contemporary women range from natural and intimate, as in the excerpts from Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, wherein a daughter happily tastes food from her father's plate, to artificial and unpleasant, as in the weekend spent by two blood-related strangers in Mariane Rogoff's ``Meeting My Father Halfway.'' Two of the best stories--Edna O'Brien's ``What a Sky'' and Joyce Carol Oates's ``Stroke''--examine in jarring detail the complexity of seemingly ``normal'' relationships. A lingering sense of loss and missed opportunities infuses the omnibus. Hospitals and funerals are the prevailing setting; in one story, ``People Should Not Die in June in South Texas,'' by Gloria E. Anzaldua, a father's death occasions a narrative that's more like a wail of grief. The tone throughout is one of compassion mixed with anger--only in one instance, Carolyn Gage's ``Letter to My Father,'' does it descend into unadulterated hatred--and though the stories can repeat themselves thematically, on the whole this anthology will have something to say to anyone who has ever been, or ever had, a daughter. -- Publishers Weekly
Read Gage's "Letter to My Father."
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Intricate Passions
A Collection of Erotic Short Fiction
Winner, Lambda Literary Award.
Tee Corinne has edited Lammy Award-winning collection of erotic fiction and sensual fantasy by women who reflect the diversity of the [lesbian] experience.
Read Gage's short story "Dearest Ann."
Edited by Tee Corinne.
Published by Banned Books.
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St. James Press Gay & Lesbian Almanac
"This important reference work is one of the first to devote equal attention to both gay men and lesbians. Its objective approach encourages in-depth study of gay and lesbian history, culture, and experience in 20th-century America.. The book's 23 sections include a chronology, an annotated list of organizations, significant historical documents important to the gay and lesbian movement, and in-depth discussions of gay and lesbian involvement in such fields as politics, film, music, science, sports, travel, leisure, and visual and performing arts. Each section includes biographical profiles of prominent people in each field and extensive bibliographies of books. articles, and Web sites. The even-handed approach to this subject makes this book an important purchase for all libraries."--American Libraries.
Read Gage's essay on "Lesbian Theatre."
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Read Gage's essay on "Lesbian Theatre."
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Lesbian Love Stories, vol. 2
Anthology of lesbian love stories by contemporary lesbian authors.
Read Gage's "How to Write a Convincing Seduction Scene."
Edited by Irene Zahava
Published by The Crossing Press
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Riding Desire
An Anthology of Erotic Writing
An anthology of lesbian short stories by lesbian authors.
Read Gage's "Confessions of a Lesbian Groupie."
Edited by Tee Corinne.
Published by Banned Books.
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Read Gage's "Confessions of a Lesbian Groupie."
Edited by Tee Corinne.
Published by Banned Books.
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Word of Mouth
Short-Short Stories by 90 Women Writers
A collection of very short fiction by ninety women writers.
Read Gage's "The Red Shoes."
Edited by Irene Zahava.
Published by The Crossing Press.
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Read Gage's "The Red Shoes."
Edited by Irene Zahava.
Published by The Crossing Press.
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Lesbian Culture
An Anthology
Winner, Lambda Literary Award.
This is a weighty, far-reaching anthology whose time has definitely come. It is divided into three parts: "Women Who Did Stand Alone," "We Are Not As They Say," and "New Ground." Lesbian "herstory," excerpts from such ground-breaking early works as Radclyffe Hall's Well of Loneliness, and recollections of the butch-femme relationships and politics of the 1950s are in the first part; photographs by JEB, cartoons by Alison ("Dykes to Watch Out For") Bechdel, and essays on class distinctions, prostitution, and lesbian sex are in the second part; and forthright poetry, writing on black lesbian filmmakers, more cartoons and photos, interviews with and articles by some of the makers of women's music (Kay Gardner, Sue Fink, etc.), and pieces on consumerism, lesbian conferences, and politically correct food are in the big third part. These contents, including writings by such luminaries as Audre Lorde, Elsa Gidlow, Lee Lynch, Pat Parker, and Valerie Miner, not only span many years of underground cultural development but also exemplify the new lesbian openness and pride. Collections strong in feminism, lesbian studies, or counterculture materials should consider this tapestry of many colors, sights, and sounds a must. --Booklist
It includes Gage's Louisa May Incest and "No Dobermans Allowed."
Edited by Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe
Published by Crossing Press
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This is a weighty, far-reaching anthology whose time has definitely come. It is divided into three parts: "Women Who Did Stand Alone," "We Are Not As They Say," and "New Ground." Lesbian "herstory," excerpts from such ground-breaking early works as Radclyffe Hall's Well of Loneliness, and recollections of the butch-femme relationships and politics of the 1950s are in the first part; photographs by JEB, cartoons by Alison ("Dykes to Watch Out For") Bechdel, and essays on class distinctions, prostitution, and lesbian sex are in the second part; and forthright poetry, writing on black lesbian filmmakers, more cartoons and photos, interviews with and articles by some of the makers of women's music (Kay Gardner, Sue Fink, etc.), and pieces on consumerism, lesbian conferences, and politically correct food are in the big third part. These contents, including writings by such luminaries as Audre Lorde, Elsa Gidlow, Lee Lynch, Pat Parker, and Valerie Miner, not only span many years of underground cultural development but also exemplify the new lesbian openness and pride. Collections strong in feminism, lesbian studies, or counterculture materials should consider this tapestry of many colors, sights, and sounds a must. --Booklist
It includes Gage's Louisa May Incest and "No Dobermans Allowed."
Edited by Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe
Published by Crossing Press
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