{"product_id":"a-menopausal-gentleman-peggy-shaw-9780472034147","title":"A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With classic butch finesse---that handsome combination of vulnerability and toughness---Peggy Shaw pieces together the challenges of growing up butch in the 1950s. Shaw is an engaging performer and inspired writer.\"\u003cbr\u003e---\u003ci\u003eGay Community News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObie-award-winning performer and writer Peggy Shaw has been playing her gender-bending performances on Off Broadway, regional, and international stages for three decades. Co-founder of the renowned troupe Split Britches, Shaw has gone on to create memorable solo performances that mix achingly honest introspection with campy humor, reflecting on everything from her Irish-American working-class roots to her aging butch body. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of Shaw's solo performance scripts evokes a 54-year-old grandmother who looks like a 35-year-old man (in her classic \u003ci\u003eMenopausal Gentleman\u003c\/i\u003e); a mother's ambivalent ministrations to a daughter she treated like a son (in the raw \u003ci\u003eYou're Just Like My Father\u003c\/i\u003e); Shaw's love for her biracial grandson, for whom she models masculinity (in the musically punctuated \u003ci\u003eTo My Chagrin\u003c\/i\u003e); and a mapping of her body's long, bittersweet history (in the lyrical \u003ci\u003eMust: The Inside Story\u003c\/i\u003e, a collaboration with the UK's Clod Ensemble). The book also includes a selection of Shaw's other classic monologues and an extensive introduction by Jill Dolan, Professor of English and Theater and Dance at Princeton University and the blogger behind \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e website.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA volume in the series Triangulations: Lesbian\/Gay\/Queer Theater\/Drama\/Performance\u003cbr\u003eCover photos by Eva Weiss (top) and Robin Holland\/robinholland.com (bottom).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peggy Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472034146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472034147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Peggy Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919894872319,"sku":"9780472034147","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a713d09c-c401-4753-944f-f8f9d2b12807.jpg?v=1680812498","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-menopausal-gentleman-peggy-shaw-9780472034147","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}