FEMALE TROUBLE: A Collection of Short Stories, by Antonya Nelson.
FEMALE TROUBLE Titillation still seems to be at the forefront of how female heroes are depicted.
It was "Female Trouble" by John Waters, starring Divine as Dawn Davenport.
It's a heady mix of women's issues, women's nightmares and all manner of "female trouble".
John Waters's "Female Trouble" (1974), starring the incomparable Divine as a rampaging teenage delinquent, belongs in a category by itself.
But the most striking and felicitous resonance comes from "Incognito," a story in her 2002 collection, "Female Trouble".
Lavery was artistic director of the Gay Sweatshop theatre company and founded feminist cabaret group Female Trouble.
It's part of what Waters has labeled his Trash Trilogy, which also includes Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977).
In his books, artworks and films, including "Pink Flamingos," "Female Trouble" and "Hairspray," Waters, 66, has been an unstoppable scourge of the sanctimonious and bludgeoner of the bigoted.
In recent years the major studios have taken all the components -- divorce, death, Mom, friendship, tough love, female trouble -- and thrown them into a Hollywood meat grinder.
He has stuck by his town with a vengeance, conceiving all of his films -- Female Trouble," "Hairspray," etc. -- for their Baltimore locations.
