Lady Lazarus: Confronting Lydia Lunch

questing beast presents: Lady Lazarus: Confronting Lydia Lunch by Maren Hancunt

Lydia Lunch, whilst stretching her persona in multiple directions, is best described by one word: CONFRONTATIONALIST.

Lady Lazarus is the first in-depth analysis of Lunch’s impact on feminism, the implications of her art for feminism, and the implications of feminism for Lunch’s art.

Maren Hancunt provides an overview of Lunch’s career, zooming in on the dynamic issues of anger, pornography, male-identified feminism, sexuality, third wave feminism, Riot Grrrl & punk rock, feminist performance art, racism, abuse, healing and creativity... What emerges is an analysis of the power and potential embodied by the concepts and realities of Contradiction and Confrontation.

Written over an eighteen-month period with continued support and input from Lydia Lunch, Lady Lazarus includes two extensive interviews with the subject. This book also serves to illustrate the tensions between subject and author - objectivity and idolatry.

Drawing on the words of bell hooks, Andrea Juno, and other ‘Angry Women’, Hancunt positions Lunch among her contemporaries in an effort to contribute to the ancient, ongoing, and evolving entity some people call feminism. Lady Lazarus clearly presents theory in down-to-earth terms, grounding each discussion firmly in the real.

Lady Lazarus: Confronting Lydia Lunch, A5 softback, ISBN 1 898848 15 7

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