Obsessions of a Showwoman

List of Figures



Foreword

Dominic Johnson



Introduction: Marisa Carnesky - Sorceress, Radical School Mistress, Showwoman

Eirini Kartsaki







Finding Marisa Carnesky



1. A Showwoman of a Certain Rage: Marisa Carnesky's Bleeding Spectacular

Josephine Machon



2. Ballad of the Bloody Pearl

Daniel Oliver



3. Spectacle, Patriarchy, and Ghost Trains

Paloma Faith and Marisa Carnesky



4. Finding Marisa Carnesky

Liz Aggiss







The Cosmos of Showwomen



5. Marisa Carnesky, Showwoman

Roberta Mock



6. Earth as Genderqueer Showwoman

Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stevens, and Marisa Carnesky



7. Conquering the World with Hoops

Marawa



8. The Making of a Future Showwoman

Empress Stah







Conjuring the Weird



9. Weird Women

Eirini Kartsaki



10. Their Phantasmagorical Appearances

Tai Shani, Geneva Foster Gluck, and Marisa Carnesky



11. Penny Slot Somnambulist

Rachel Zerihan



12. Shape Changing: The Metamorphosis of a Showwoman

Vanessa Toulmin







Magic Blood, Mysterious Blades, and Women Who Show



13. Incredible Bleeding Women I

Rhyannon Styles, Livia Kojo Alour, Veronica Thompson, and Marisa Carnesky



14. Showwomen Who Risk It All

Lucifire, Lalla Morte, Miss Behave, and Marisa Carnesky



15. Incredible Bleeding Women II

Nao Nagai, H Plewis, and Marisa Carnesky



16. Her Spectacular Entrances

Marisa Carnesky







Radical Bodies of Work



17. From the Finishing School of Marisa Carnesky: Lessons in Doing It Together

Phoebe Patey-Ferguson



18. Finding Power in Pathos

Alex Lyons



19. The Coven

Amy Ridler



20. The Department of Feminist Conversations in Dialogue with Marisa Carnesky's Live Archive

Mary Paterson and Maddy Costa for the Department of Feminist Conversations







Afterword: The Showwoman's Carriage

Gilia Palladini



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cabaret; burlesque; showwoman; performance; theatre; ecofeminism; feminism; menstrual activism; Jewishness; Jewish identity; live art; extremities; radical empathy; visceral aesthetics; feminist allyship; the occult