{"product_id":"acts-of-gaiety-sara-warner-9780472118533","title":"Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eActs of Gaiety\u003c\/i\u003e explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious struggles for revolutionary change. The book explores antics such as camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside more familiar forms of \"legitimate theater.\" Against queer theory's long-suffering romance with mourning and melancholia and a national agenda that urges homosexuals to renounce pleasure if they want to be taken seriously by mainstream society, \u003ci\u003eActs of Gaiety\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to reanimate notions of \"gaiety\" as a political value for LGBT activism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book mines the archives of lesbian-feminist activism of the 1960s-70s, highlighting the outrageous gaiety that lay at the center of the social and theatrical performances of the era and uncovering original documents long thought to be lost. Juxtaposing historical figures such as Valerie Solanas and Jill Johnston with more recent performers and activists (including Hothead Paisan, Bitch \u0026amp; Animal, and the Five Lesbian Brothers), Warner shows how reclaiming this largely discarded and disavowed past elucidates possibilities for being and belonging. \u003ci\u003eActs of Gaiety\u003c\/i\u003e explores the mutually informing histories of gayness as politics and as \u003ci\u003ejoie de vivre\u003c\/i\u003e, along with the centrality of liveliness to queer performance and protest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Warner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472118536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472118533\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 10\/26\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2013","brand":"Sara Warner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086707142911,"sku":"9780472118533","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c255da25-8d34-458c-8946-7830f0ef6366.jpg?v=1769096111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/acts-of-gaiety-sara-warner-9780472118533","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}