Author: Brigitta Olsen Publisher: Brigitta Olsen ISBN: 0984211705 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 203
Book Description
Man goes first in danger because he is stronger. Woman goes first in pleasure because Nature endowed her with a radically unique and powerful sexual capacity. Daphne⿿s Dance explores true tales in the evolution of woman's sexual awareness. With irony and insight, occasional outrage and lots of wisdom, fourteen women speak candidly, weaving stories from 602 collective years of sexual activity. This fascinating research unravels their journeys, from good girl myth to sexual revolution, from sexual capacity to authentic sexual fulfillment. These women challenge the prevailing good girl myth, clarifying for their daughters, granddaughters and lovers their transformative path from patriarchy to sexual awareness.
Author: Quiara Alegría Hudes Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN: 0822236109 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 65
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In a tucked away corner of North Philly, six regulars gather at a neighborhood watering hole. Over twenty years, they turn their collective memories into a vivacious mythology. The tales they’d rather forget, however, keep sneaking up and tapping them on the shoulder. At Daphne’s Dive, an aloe plant, a girl’s sneaker, a stiff drink, and mounds of trash become talismanic treasures to a group of outsiders trying to be “in” together.
Author: Marc Delrez Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004486275 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
This study of Janet Frame's fiction addresses with unusual directness the Utopian momentum that underpins her concern with fundamental social issues, traditionally highlighted in existing criticism of her work. The idea behind this book is that Frame's critique of society, while it is offered for its own sake on one level, should not lead us to neglect the author's more speculative interest in an alternative conception of the human person. Her engagement in a species of experimental portraiture proves elusive, though, owing to an indirectness of approach that usually takes the form of thematic circumscription, rather than explicit representation. For example, the figure of the mute child, recurrent in her work, may well testify to a concern with the plight of the mentally ill; but on another level it also points to an envelope of intractable experience which it is the artist’s task to penetrate and explain. Such aspiration is inseparable from the search for a new medium of expression, felt to be necessary if one is to meet the challenge of apprehending the scope of pioneering knowledge. This close reading of the novels reveals that the alternative dimension of experience to be found in Frame’s novels is characterized by an intact capacity for remembering, or for imaginatively re-creating, eclipsed aspects of the present. Frame's view of Utopia thus turns out to be manifold: it is existential and ontological, linguistic and epistemological, but also historical and political. An unravelling of these intertwined strains then serves to clarify the complex question of Frame's post-colonial sensibility, which cannot be said to rely on a sense of rigid identity, whether national or otherwise.
Author: Anthea Courtenay Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1803132140 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
Too nice for her own good, and haunted by a painful childhood, Miranda is looking for her life’s purpose, and for romantic love. It’s London in the 1970s and New Age activities are flourishing. As she throws herself into self-development workshops, Miranda is befriended by clairvoyant healer Cassie, who predicts a happy future. But when she joins a creative writing class run by the promiscuous and manipulative Jocasta, Miranda is drawn into a love affair with Julian, a talented but hypersensitive poet. Any brief happiness is shattered when he betrays her when she needs him most. This is just the start of a dance between Miranda, Julian, and Jocasta that Miranda struggles to understand. Why are two intelligent women so drawn to this difficult and self-centered man? How will her part in this trio help her to meet her destiny? With Cassie’s help, and a little assistance from the supernatural, Miranda’s journey of self-discovery reveals unexpected answers and leads to her finding her own purpose and power.
Author: Bit Wilson Valentine Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1412001129 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 346
Book Description
A novel set in Reconstruction-era South Louisiana. It is a story of life on a sugar plantation and the struggle to rebuild the plantations and regain their fortunes. It is the story of one man's love for his land and a woman.
Author: Tami Charles Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1496563018 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 97
Book Description
Learning to dance before the winter ball is thirteen-year-old Annabelle's latest challenge, supplying ample material for her video blog, Daphne Doesn't--even more challenging is coping with the exposure of her secret identity (it turns out her friend John has known for weeks) by "cool" girl and sometime enemy Rachael, and finding a way to make what she has been hiding right with all her classmates.
Author: Sheenagh Pietrobruno Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739114681 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 258
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Salsa and Its Transnational Moves presents a critical analysis of salsa dancing in Quebec, Canada. Pulling from such varied fields as anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and popular music studies, Pietrobruno examines the local and transnational dimensions underlying the dissemination of salsa within a North American metropolis.
Author: Tami Charles Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 149656295X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 97
Book Description
Annabelle Louis, military brat and computer nerd, embarks on her second assignment in making friends in middle school trying out for the school play where, despite what she feels is her total lack of ability, she ends up as understudy for the lead female part, and with more fuel for her popular vlog, Daphne Doesn't--but Annabelle begins to realize that being popular in secret will not mean anything if she can not share her secret with her friends.
Author: Jennifer Atkins Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000904547 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 377
Book Description
This innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving in—and through—culture. By drawing on material relevant to students, Dance in US Popular Culture successfully introduces students to critical thinking around the most personal of terrain: our bodies and our identities. The book asks readers to think about: what embodied knowledge we carry with us and how we can understand history and society through that lens what stereotypes and accompanying expectations are embedded in performance, related to gender and/or race, for instance how such expectations are reinforced, negotiated, challenged, embraced, or rescripted by performers and audiences how readers articulate their own sense of complex identity within the constantly shifting landscape of popular culture, how this shapes an active sense of their everyday lives, and how this can act as a springboard towards dismantling systems of oppression Through readings, questions, movement analyses, and assignment prompts that take students from computer to nightclub and beyond, Dance in US Popular Culture readers develop their own cultural sense of dance and the moving body’s sociopolitical importance while also determining how dance is fundamentally applicable to their own identity. This is the ideal textbook for high school and undergraduate students of dance and dance studies in BA and BfA courses, as well as those studying popular culture from interdisciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, theater and performance studies. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license.
Author: Brigitta Olsen
Author: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Author: Marc Delrez
Author: Anthea Courtenay
Author: Bit Wilson Valentine
Author: Tami Charles
Author: Sheenagh Pietrobruno
Author: Tami Charles
Author: Jennifer Atkins
Author: Marguerite Merington