Red Light

Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts

By: Anna Camilleri (Editor)

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Paperback | 4 April 2006

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The female as represented in history and popular culture has been a timeless yet culturally unstable image, construed and contested by men and women alike. Red Light is an anthology of essays and visual materials that identifies and deconstructs female icons, past and present, and re-imagines them for the twenty-first century.

For Anna, the red light is a beacon, a warning signal that declares the incendiary power of women; the icons found in this book are red lights as well: Wonder Woman, Amelia Earhart, the Virgin Mary, Jayne Mansfield, Florence Nightingale, Aileen Wuornos, Belle Starr, Foxy Brown, the Avon Lady, and many more. Further, the categories these icons fall into—superheroes, saints, and sluts—are reconfigured and redeemed by their portrayers.

Alternately fiery, sexy, angry, and eloquent, the works in this book cast these powerful, conflicted women in the (red) light of a new day.

Contributors include: Sandra Alland, Sharon Bridgforth, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Daphne Gottlieb, Collin Kelley, Billie Mandel, Lenelle Moise, Sara Seinberg, and Zoe Whittall.

Anna Camilleri is a Toronto-based writer and performer. She co-edited the anthology Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity, a Lambda Award nominee, as well as co-authored Boys Like Her as a member of the Taste This collective. In 2004, she published her memoir, I Am a Red Dress.

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"Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts", like all of Camilleri's books, is a brave and bold and in-your-face, a brazen mix of passionate intelligence and striking sexuality with the power to stir one's inner rebel. ?"Herizons"--Joy Parks "Herizons "

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Literature, Poetry & Plays Anthologies (non-poetry)Gay & Lesbian Studies Lesbian Studies Cultural Studies Popular Culture

Jezebel to Joplin : female icons re-imagined, an introduction	p. 9
The new beautiful	p. 15
Fuck you, I'm Wonder Woman	p. 22
Grandma the Indian princess and other settler fairy tales	p. 24
Sugar zero	p. 28
Mary was ...	p. 32
At the bar : girls' night out	p. 36
Janis Joplin would have loved you	p. 37
My sister Caddy	p. 38
Avatar in pink : thirteen manifestations of Jayne Mansfield	p. 43
She pouts like Scarlett O'Hara	p. 48
Red light	p. 56
Everything she asks of me	p. 64
Dona Julia	p. 66
Violent collections, anxious supplements	p. 68
Victory girl	p. 76
The Siren's story	p. 82
Yellow rose of Texas	p. 83
Darla's goodbye	p. 84
The adventures of menstrual man	p. 90
Out of the frying pan	p. 93
In the beginning, there was algoma	p. 94
Algoma looks at the stars	p. 95
How to become a rodeo queen	p. 96
I see now that brown owl was a lesbian	p. 98
The madwoman	p. 99
Percy, 1980	p. 110
The Avon lady	p. 119
Betty	p. 121
57 saviours, or palms up	p. 122
Barbie double-dates	p. 124
I speak you into being	p. 126
The rapture	p. 127
Judith	p. 128
Lipstick boys	p. 130
My mother, Belle Starr	p. 133
Barbie's father has a nightmare	p. 138
Wonder girls of justice	p. 139
Pilot light	p. 150
Zeera Kapoor : recollections of a Hindi filmi actress	p. 152
Why I want to be Pam Grier	p. 154
Annah, get your gun	p. 155
Afua #1	p. 156
Beyond dis/credit : Divine Brown	p. 156
Brick house	p. 157
Nothing sacred	p. 160
How to be a saint	p. 168
Bitter Mary	p. 173
Lilith	p. 176
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