Author: Kelly Oliver
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231161085
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The image of a heavily pregnant woman, once considered ugly and indecent, is now common to Hollywood film. No longer is pregnancy a repulsive of shameful condition, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female protagonist. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family.
Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down
Author: Kelly Oliver
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231161085
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The image of a heavily pregnant woman, once considered ugly and indecent, is now common to Hollywood film. No longer is pregnancy a repulsive of shameful condition, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female protagonist. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231161085
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The image of a heavily pregnant woman, once considered ugly and indecent, is now common to Hollywood film. No longer is pregnancy a repulsive of shameful condition, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female protagonist. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family.
Come Near Me
Author: Kasey Michaels
Publisher: Kasey Michaels
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Kasey Michaels comes an engaging Regency romance. Pleased to meet you … Immediate attraction. Instant love. Strangers one moment, lovers the next. Possible, or only a romantic dream? Adam Dagenham, Marquis of Daventry, can barely believe his good fortune when he meets, woos, and hastily weds the beautiful and irresistible Sherry Victor. But can such a hasty union last when outside forces plant seeds of mistrust in a groom’s head? How does a woman prove herself innocent when she doesn’t know how or why she’s been branded as guilty? Yes, the devil can be in the details, even in love and marriage… and as Adam and Sherry find out, the only way to beat this particular devil is by learning that trust and love go hand-in-hand. Are they up to the battle? … hope you guess my name.
Publisher: Kasey Michaels
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Kasey Michaels comes an engaging Regency romance. Pleased to meet you … Immediate attraction. Instant love. Strangers one moment, lovers the next. Possible, or only a romantic dream? Adam Dagenham, Marquis of Daventry, can barely believe his good fortune when he meets, woos, and hastily weds the beautiful and irresistible Sherry Victor. But can such a hasty union last when outside forces plant seeds of mistrust in a groom’s head? How does a woman prove herself innocent when she doesn’t know how or why she’s been branded as guilty? Yes, the devil can be in the details, even in love and marriage… and as Adam and Sherry find out, the only way to beat this particular devil is by learning that trust and love go hand-in-hand. Are they up to the battle? … hope you guess my name.
American Taboo
Author: Lauren Rosewarne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies. Flatulence ... male nudity ... abortion ... masturbation: these are just a few of the taboo topics in the United States. What do culturally enforced silences about certain subjects say about our societyand our latent fears? This work provides a broad yet detailed overview of popular culture's most avoided topics to explain why they remain off-limits and examines how they are presented in contemporary mediaor, in many cases, delicately explored using euphemism and innuendo. The author offers fascinating, in-depth analysis of the meaning behind these portrayals of a variety of both mundane and provocative taboos, and identifies how new television programs, films, and advertising campaigns intentionally violate longstanding cultural taboos to gain an edge in the marketplace.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies. Flatulence ... male nudity ... abortion ... masturbation: these are just a few of the taboo topics in the United States. What do culturally enforced silences about certain subjects say about our societyand our latent fears? This work provides a broad yet detailed overview of popular culture's most avoided topics to explain why they remain off-limits and examines how they are presented in contemporary mediaor, in many cases, delicately explored using euphemism and innuendo. The author offers fascinating, in-depth analysis of the meaning behind these portrayals of a variety of both mundane and provocative taboos, and identifies how new television programs, films, and advertising campaigns intentionally violate longstanding cultural taboos to gain an edge in the marketplace.
The Mini Jokiest Knock-Knock Book
Author: Brian Boone
Publisher: Castle Point Books
ISBN: 1250270383
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Knock-Knock. Who's there? Aida. Aida who? Aida lot of sweets, and now I have a tummy ache. The successful Jokiest Joking Joke Book series just got shrunk! Find the cleverest, most hysterical, most laugh-out-loud knock-knock jokes in The Mini Jokiest Knock-Knock Book! All of the best jokes and goofy illustrations from the full-size book are packed into a fun, pocket-sized edition. Featuring hundreds of witty knock-knock jokes for kids, along with clever black-and-white illustrations, it’s perfect for hours of fun and games. Mini in size, but giant in fun!
Publisher: Castle Point Books
ISBN: 1250270383
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Knock-Knock. Who's there? Aida. Aida who? Aida lot of sweets, and now I have a tummy ache. The successful Jokiest Joking Joke Book series just got shrunk! Find the cleverest, most hysterical, most laugh-out-loud knock-knock jokes in The Mini Jokiest Knock-Knock Book! All of the best jokes and goofy illustrations from the full-size book are packed into a fun, pocket-sized edition. Featuring hundreds of witty knock-knock jokes for kids, along with clever black-and-white illustrations, it’s perfect for hours of fun and games. Mini in size, but giant in fun!
Science of Hitting
Author: Ted Williams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671621033
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Advice on how to improve your turn at bat and become the best hitter possible.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671621033
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Advice on how to improve your turn at bat and become the best hitter possible.
Acting charades for old and young
Lynching in America
Author: Christopher Waldrep
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814793991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
"Ranging from personal correspondence to courtroom transcripts to journalistic accounts, Christopher Waldrep has extensively mined an enormous quantity of documents about lynching, which he arranges chronologically with concise introductions. He reveals that lynching has been part of American history since the Revolution, but its victims, perpetrators, causes, and environments have changed over time. From the American Revolution to the expansion of the western frontier, Waldrep shows how communities defended lynching as a way to maintain law and order."--Publisher description.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814793991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
"Ranging from personal correspondence to courtroom transcripts to journalistic accounts, Christopher Waldrep has extensively mined an enormous quantity of documents about lynching, which he arranges chronologically with concise introductions. He reveals that lynching has been part of American history since the Revolution, but its victims, perpetrators, causes, and environments have changed over time. From the American Revolution to the expansion of the western frontier, Waldrep shows how communities defended lynching as a way to maintain law and order."--Publisher description.
Stop and Search
Author: Gabriel Gbadamosi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786827131
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A driver picks up a young man crossing Europe. Two police officers work a surveillance case. A passenger directs her taxi to the edge of a bridge. Three conversations grow increasingly uneasy. From award-winning writer Gabriel Gbadamosi comes a visceral and poetic new play, exploring a time of distrust where the lines blur between conversation and interrogation. Stop and Search explores our deep ambivalence about the ways we police each other.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786827131
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A driver picks up a young man crossing Europe. Two police officers work a surveillance case. A passenger directs her taxi to the edge of a bridge. Three conversations grow increasingly uneasy. From award-winning writer Gabriel Gbadamosi comes a visceral and poetic new play, exploring a time of distrust where the lines blur between conversation and interrogation. Stop and Search explores our deep ambivalence about the ways we police each other.
The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008
Author: Barbara Parisi
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557837509
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557837509
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
African Americans Confront Lynching
Author: Christopher Waldrep
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742552739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book examines African Americans' strategies for resisting white racial violence from the Civil War until the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 and up to the Clinton era. Christopher Waldrep's semi-biographical approach to the pioneers in the anti-lynching campaign portrays African Americans as active participants in the effort to end racial violence rather than as passive victims. In telling this more than 100-year-old story of violence and resistance, Waldrep describes how white Americans legitimized racial violence after the Civil War, and how black journalists campaigned against the violence by invoking the Constitution and the law as a source of rights. He shows how, toward the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, anti-lynching crusaders Ida B. Wells and Monroe Work adopted a more sociological approach, offering statistics and case studies to thwart white claims that a black propensity for crime justified racial violence. Waldrep describes how the NAACP, founded in 1909, represented an organized, even bureaucratic approach to the fight against lynching. Despite these efforts, racial violence continued after World War II, as racists changed tactics, using dynamite more than the rope or the gun. Waldrep concludes by showing how modern day hate crimes continue the lynching tradition, and how the courts and grass-roots groups have continued the tradition of resistance to racial violence. A rich selection of documents helps give the story a sense of immediacy. Sources include nineteenth-century eyewitness accounts of lynching, courtroom testimony of Ku Klux Klan victims, South Carolina senator Ben Tillman's 1907 defense of lynching, and the text of the first federal hate crimes law.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742552739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book examines African Americans' strategies for resisting white racial violence from the Civil War until the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 and up to the Clinton era. Christopher Waldrep's semi-biographical approach to the pioneers in the anti-lynching campaign portrays African Americans as active participants in the effort to end racial violence rather than as passive victims. In telling this more than 100-year-old story of violence and resistance, Waldrep describes how white Americans legitimized racial violence after the Civil War, and how black journalists campaigned against the violence by invoking the Constitution and the law as a source of rights. He shows how, toward the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, anti-lynching crusaders Ida B. Wells and Monroe Work adopted a more sociological approach, offering statistics and case studies to thwart white claims that a black propensity for crime justified racial violence. Waldrep describes how the NAACP, founded in 1909, represented an organized, even bureaucratic approach to the fight against lynching. Despite these efforts, racial violence continued after World War II, as racists changed tactics, using dynamite more than the rope or the gun. Waldrep concludes by showing how modern day hate crimes continue the lynching tradition, and how the courts and grass-roots groups have continued the tradition of resistance to racial violence. A rich selection of documents helps give the story a sense of immediacy. Sources include nineteenth-century eyewitness accounts of lynching, courtroom testimony of Ku Klux Klan victims, South Carolina senator Ben Tillman's 1907 defense of lynching, and the text of the first federal hate crimes law.