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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872862852 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100352860 02 0872862852 03 9780872862852 15 9780872862852 BC 1 B01 Scholder, Amy Amy Scholder 01 eng 220 00 220 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Art, Music, Cinema & Drama 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Women 01 <P>While Aileen Wournos, the alleged female serial killer who insists she killed in self-defense, sits on death row, Hollywood filmmakers appropriate her story. Meanwhile, in our perverse justice system the sexual assaults and murders of forty-five women in San Diego are discounted by police and given file code name NHI, No Humans Involved, because the victims are perceived as marginal: sex workers, informants, homeless or working class women.<br /> <br /> The women in <em>Critical Condition</em> challenge abuse and invisibility with powerful literary and visual art. They put a spin on issues of women and violence by focusing on women won fight back, sometimes killing their abusers; women who control their own sexualities and challenge conventional ideas of sex; women who assert images of themselves in a cultural landscape where none appear; women who reframe personal histories that were meant to shame them into oblivion.<br /> <br /> <em>Critical Condition</em> includes Carla Kirkwoods autobiographical performance monologue about a girl, sexually abused by the men in her family, who becomes a feminist activist in the 70s, and an artist in the 90s. In impassioned poetry, Wanda Coleman takes a look at the embattled lives of African-Americans, particularly in Los Angeles. Sapphires searing poems about race and self-realization expos the fallacy of the nuclear family and the vicious cycle of domestic violence. The Theory Girls performance script, If You Were like the Heroine in a Country and Western song, is both detailed expose and black comedy framing the relationship between Aileen Wuornos and Arlene Pralle (the born-again Christian who became enamored of Wuornos after her conviction) within the context to Hollywoods fascination for women with guns.<br /> <br /> Here, too, are panel discussions, taken from a conference at The Lab and San Francisco Camerawork, that focus on self-revelation and art, women who kill, and the question of race and gender in the media. There are over twenty-five pages of visual art, including the Womens Work billboard campaign promoting public awareness of domestic violence, wit work by Barbara Kruger and Carrie Mae Weems.<br /> <br /> <em>Critical Condition</em> shows women on the edge of violence, defending themselves, asserting public images that resist conventional ideas of powerlessness and victimization, and combating the dominant paradigm with irreverence and fierce commitment.</p> 02 While Aileen Wournos, the alleged “female serial killer” who insists she killed in self-defense, sits on death row, Hollywood filmmakers appropriate her story. Meanwhile, in our perverse justice system the sexual assaults and murders of forty-five... 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100352860/images/87286100352860L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100352860/images/87286100352860S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100352860 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19931101 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19931101 01 02 10.95 USD