Author: Eric Filler Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781515225317 Category : Languages : en Pages : 52
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It's two geeky stories of gender swapping! It's the revenge of the nerds in "Rivalry Game" when star quarterback Johnny Morrell wakes up in the body of a nerdy girl. Can he find a way to change back before the big game? In "Cosplay" a slacker finds a ring in a box of cereal that turns him into a superhero. There's just one hitch: it's a female superhero!
Author: Heather Cabot Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250112265 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 273
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This book "isn't about the famous tech trailblazers you already know, like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Instead, veteran journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens introduce readers to the ... female entrepreneurs and technologists fighting at the grassroots level for an ownership stake in the revolution that's changing the way we live, work and connect to each other"--Amazon.com.
Author: Suzanne Scott Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479838608 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 302
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Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities When Ghostbusters returned to the screen in 2016, some male fans of the original film boycotted the all-female adaptation of the cult classic, turning to Twitter to express their disapproval and making it clear that they considered the film’s “real” fans to be white, straight men. While extreme, these responses are far from unusual, with similar uproars around the female protagonists of the new Star Wars films to full-fledged geek culture wars and harassment campaigns, as exemplified by the #GamerGate controversy that began in 2014. Over the past decade, fan and geek culture has moved from the margins to the mainstream as fans have become tastemakers and promotional partners, with fan art transformed into official merchandise and fan fiction launching new franchises. But this shift has left some people behind. Suzanne Scott points to the ways in which the “men’s rights” movement and antifeminist pushback against “social justice warriors” connect to new mainstream fandom, where female casting in geek-nostalgia reboots is vilified and historically feminized forms of fan engagement—like cosplay and fan fiction—are treated as less worthy than male-dominant expressions of fandom like collection, possession, and cataloguing. While this gender bias harkens back to the origins of fandom itself, Fake Geek Girls contends that the current view of women in fandom as either inauthentic masqueraders or unwelcome interlopers has been tacitly endorsed by Hollywood franchises and the viewer demographics they selectively champion. It offers a view into the inner workings of how digital fan culture converges with old media and its biases in new and novel ways.
Author: Holly Smale Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062333623 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 231
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You can make a geek a model, but you can't make her chic. More hilarity and high fashion await in the second book in the internationally bestselling Geek Girl series, perfect for fans of Morgan Matson and Julie Buxbaum! Harriet Manners is a model—but she feels even less popular and more awkward than she did when she was just a geek. So a summer modeling job in Japan sounds like the perfect vacation, even if she has to bring along her crazy grandma Bunty, and even if she might run into Nick, her gorgeous supermodel ex-boyfriend. No one is going to ruin Harriet's fabulous Tokyo adventure—unless she accidentally ruins it herself.
Author: Eric Filler Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781515244271 Category : Languages : en Pages : 92
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Two dark gender swap stories! In "Graveyard Girls," an old punk rock record turns a heartbroken boy into a Goth girl who hits the road to find the singer who might hold the power to change him back. And in "The Merger" a sleazy businessman thinks he's going to put one over on the owner of a Goth club only for her to change him into her newest employee!
Author: Eric Filler Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781515243946 Category : Languages : en Pages : 134
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It's back to school with these two gender swapping tales. In "Of Two Minds," a racist named Oliver finds himself in the body of Renee, the Korean girl he murdered. When he's sent to Swearingen Academy for Young Ladies, he finds Renee might not be dead after all. In "All Girls School," Daniel is a teacher at Danner School for Girls until thanks to a girl with reality altering powers named Clarissa he finds himself suddenly a student named Danielle. Now he enters a whole new world.
Author: Eric Filler Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781515244035 Category : Languages : en Pages : 124
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Two sexy tales of gender swapping! In "Sirens" a modern day Jack the Ripper abducts the wrong prostitute and finds himself recruited to become a siren, luring men to their deaths. And in "Couples Therapy" a psychologist's radical treatment turns an old married couple into female strippers. Can their marriage survive the test?
Author: Christopher Hitchens Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448155355 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 27
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As the Duke and Duchess of Sussex bring renewed focus to the monarchy, now is the perfect time to re-examine Christopher Hitchens’s powerful polemic. In this scathing essay, Christopher Hitchens looks at the relationship of the press and the public to the royal family, unpacking the tautology and contradictory arguments that prop it up. In his inimitable style, Hitchens argues that our desire not to profane or disturb the monarchy is a failure of reason and a confusion of reality. Fealty to the magic of monarchy stops us looking objectively at our own history and hinders open-minded criticism of our present. It is time we outgrew it. With the recent birth of royal baby Archie, during a time of austerity and national inequality, Hitchens’s 10,000-word critique is even more relevant today than when it was first published in 1990. 'Christopher is one of the most terrifying rhetoricians that the world has yet seen' Martin Amis
Author: Eric Filler
Author: Holly Smale
Author: Holly Smale
Author: Heather Cabot
Author: Suzanne Scott
Author: Holly Smale
Author: Eric Filler
Author: Eric Filler
Author: Eric Filler
Author: Christopher Hitchens