<P>"With classic butch finesse---that handsome combination of vulnerability and toughness---Peggy Shaw pieces together the challenges of growing up butch in the 1950s. Shaw is an engaging performer and inspired writer."<BR>---<I>Gay Community News</I></P> <p>Obie-award-winning performer and writer Peggy Shaw has been playing her gender-bending performances on Off Broadway, regional, and international stages for three decades. Co-founder of the renowned troupe Split Britches, Shaw has gone on to create memorable solo performances that mix achingly honest introspection with campy humor, reflecting on everything from her Irish-American working-class roots to her aging butch body.</p> <p>This collection of Shaw's solo performance scripts evokes a 54-year-old grandmother who looks like a 35-year-old man (in her classic <I>Menopausal Gentleman</I>); a mother's ambivalent ministrations to a daughter she treated like a son (in the raw <I>You're Just Like My Father</I>); Shaw's love for her biracial grandson, for whom she models masculinity (in the musically punctuated <I>To My Chagrin</I>); and a mapping of her body's long, bittersweet history (in the lyrical <I>Must: The Inside Story</I>, a collaboration with the UK's Clod Ensemble). The book also includes a selection of Shaw's other classic monologues and an extensive introduction by Jill Dolan, Professor of English and Theater and Dance at Princeton University and the blogger behind <I>The Feminist Spectator</I> website.</P> <p>A volume in the series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance<BR>Cover photos by Eva Weiss (top) and Robin Holland/robinholland.com (bottom).</P>