Kathleen McCallister

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Here’s to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theatre

Another delightful gathering of the voices of women of Broadway. An excellent choice for musical theater and women-in-the-performing-arts library collections and fans.

Pageboy: A Memoir

Page’s fame as both actor and an LGBTQIA+ figure already makes this volume of interest to numerous library communities, but institutions should also consider adding it to collections as important insight at a time when transgender narratives are increasingly sought after.
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Drag: A British History

A strong selection for collections focusing on LGBTQIA+ communities, drag history, and performing arts.
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Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans

An intelligent and vital look at women in rock audiences. All Springsteen fans will likely enjoy this, but it also deserves serious consideration from general readers interested in studies of popular music, gender, and fandom.

We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

An excellent examination of the current state of on-screen trans representation and its real-life effects. Anderson also offers some insight into the ways gender, sexuality, and race are handled in different media.
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Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

By turns emotional and measured, this is a valuable meditation on some of the era’s most urgent cultural questions.
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Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship

The range, both in chronology and subject, of this collection should provide much food for thought to dedicated scholars of auteur cinema and its intersections with queer filmmaking and criticism.
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Drinking Games: A Memoir

A good choice for those seeking personal narratives of experiences of alcoholism in the 21st century; readers who appreciate stand-alone chapters instead of a more linear narrative will likely find it especially effective.
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The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 1652–2022

While the authors have done significant research in some areas, the book’s shortcomings result in the need for a library to have significant, additional material on hand to provide other perspectives and more solid facts.
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