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Contents for the book

Prologue - Reading Maps

I - Silencing women
Ugly bitches. Open mouths.
Mae West. The Village People.
Inflatable sex dolls. Opera divas.

II - Synching lips
Drag performance. The musical genre.
Charlene. The male sex.
Singing. Miming. Becoming song.

III - Drinking Fire
Beer. Urine. More beer.
Alcoholic spirits. Torch singers.
The penis. The Australian accent.

IV - Staging Reality
Media advertising. Cinema.
David Bowie. Racial assimilation.
Gloria Gaynor. AIDS.

V - Doing Landscape
Indigenous land. Didgeridoos.
2000 Sydney Olympics. Bulldozing. Death.
Snowy Mountains Scheme. Mother Earth.

VI - Being Gay
Sydney Mardi Gras. Hollywood drag.
Al Pacino. Sandra Bernhard. Steve Tyler.
CHIC. Sister Sledge. Family.

VII - Making Monsters
Body radicalism. Frankensteinian process.
Isadora Duncan. The smell of women.
Asian bitches. Aussie families.

VIII - Sounding ABBA
Eurovision Song Contest. Alien abduction.
Punk. Wog disco.
Record production. Robots. Kylie.

Epilogue - Burning Maps

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