Sara Warner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3981397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Warner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Warner |
| SIGNATURE | WARNER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sara Warner is Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She received the 2013 ATHE Outstanding Book Award and an Honorable Mention for the ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure (University of Michigan Press, 2012). |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0813-4348 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
Hide and Go Seek
In contrast to celebratory chronicles that sanitize queer history, Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto casts bad girls as the central protagonists in the drama of social change. Archiving the adolescent urges and puerile political yearnings of degenerate dykes, it shows revolution to be a dirty girl’s game
Acts of Gaiety
Acts of Gaiety 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 melanch…
Suzan-Lori Parks's Drama of Disinterment
This essay offers a transnational exploration of Suzan-Lori Parks's dis(re)memberment of Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman, a Khoisan woman from South Africa who was displayed in Europe in the 1800s under the appellation "The Hottentot Venus." Juxtaposing two simultaneous events-post-apartheid south Africa's efforts to repatriate baartman's remains, and the volatile American reception of Parks's play Venus -reveals the ways in which Parks's aesthetic, de…
Down to the Waterline
Journal Article Down to the Waterline: Boundaries, Nature, and the Law in Florida Get access Warner Sara. Down to the Waterline: Boundaries, Nature, and the Law in Florida. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xiv, 266 pp. $44.95. J. B. Ruhl J. B. Ruhl Florida State University College of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 102…
Wives of High Pasture
Research Article| January 01 2006 Wives of High Pasture: Worth Tuttle Hedden and Her Novel of the Oneida Community P. V. LeForge; P. V. LeForge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sara Warner Sara Warner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (2): 347–364. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718829 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation P. V. LeForge, Sar…
The Medea Project
PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST Rhodessa Jones began conducting drama workshops with incarcerated women in the late 1980s. Inspired by the success of her one-woman show based on the lives of four inmates in her class, Big Butt Girls-Hard Headed Women, Jones decided to cre ate an ensemble with the inmates at San Francisco County jail. She used as a model Jean Trounstine's theater workshop inside Framingham, Massa chusetts, Prison for Women.…
Do You Know What Bitch is Backwards?''
Acts of Gaiety
Acts of Gaiety 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 melanch…
Suzan-Lori Parks's Drama of Disinterment
This essay offers a transnational exploration of Suzan-Lori Parks's dis(re)memberment of Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman, a Khoisan woman from South Africa who was displayed in Europe in the 1800s under the appellation "The Hottentot Venus." Juxtaposing two simultaneous events-post-apartheid south Africa's efforts to repatriate baartman's remains, and the volatile American reception of Parks's play Venus -reveals the ways in which Parks's aesthetic, de…
Do You Know What Bitch is Backwards?''
The Medea Project
PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST Rhodessa Jones began conducting drama workshops with incarcerated women in the late 1980s. Inspired by the success of her one-woman show based on the lives of four inmates in her class, Big Butt Girls-Hard Headed Women, Jones decided to cre ate an ensemble with the inmates at San Francisco County jail. She used as a model Jean Trounstine's theater workshop inside Framingham, Massa chusetts, Prison for Women.…
Down to the Waterline
Journal Article Down to the Waterline: Boundaries, Nature, and the Law in Florida Get access Warner Sara. Down to the Waterline: Boundaries, Nature, and the Law in Florida. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xiv, 266 pp. $44.95. J. B. Ruhl J. B. Ruhl Florida State University College of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 102…
Wives of High Pasture
Research Article| January 01 2006 Wives of High Pasture: Worth Tuttle Hedden and Her Novel of the Oneida Community P. V. LeForge; P. V. LeForge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sara Warner Sara Warner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (2): 347–364. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718829 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation P. V. LeForge, Sar…
Suzan-Lori Parks's Drama of Disinterment
This essay offers a transnational exploration of Suzan-Lori Parks's dis(re)memberment of Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman, a Khoisan woman from South Africa who was displayed in Europe in the 1800s under the appellation "The Hottentot Venus." Juxtaposing two simultaneous events-post-apartheid south Africa's efforts to repatriate baartman's remains, and the volatile American reception of Parks's play Venus -reveals the ways in which Parks's aesthetic, de…
Acts of Gaiety
Acts of Gaiety 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 melanch…
Hide and Go Seek
In contrast to celebratory chronicles that sanitize queer history, Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto casts bad girls as the central protagonists in the drama of social change. Archiving the adolescent urges and puerile political yearnings of degenerate dykes, it shows revolution to be a dirty girl’s game
Introduction
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