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Author | : Sherrie A. Inness |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1512807176 |
Tough girls are everywhere these days. Whether it is Ripley battling a swarm of monsters in the Aliens trilogy or Captain Janeway piloting the starship Voyager through space in the continuing Star Trek saga, women strong in both body and mind have become increasingly popular in the films, television series, advertisements, and comic books of recent decades. In Tough Girls, Sherrie A. Inness explores the changing representations of women in all forms of popular media and what those representations suggest about shifting social mores. She begins her examination of tough women in American popular culture with three popular television shows of the 1960s and '70s—The Avengers, Charlie's Angels, and The Bionic Woman—and continues through such contemporary pieces as a recent ad for Calvin Klein jeans and current television series such as The X-files and Xena: Warrior Princess. Although all these portrayals show women who can take care of themselves in ways that have historically been seen as uniquely male, they also variously undercut women's toughness. She argues that even some of the strongest depictions of women have perpetuated women's subordinate status, using toughness in complicated ways to break or bend gender stereotypes while simultaneously affirming them. Also of interest— Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture Lori Landay
Author | : Osmund James |
Publisher | : Lmh Pub |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2001-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789768184085 |
TOUGH GIRLS DON'T DANCE is a raw, gutsy story tracing a young country girl's life from the innocence of a chilhood through her rude sexual awakening and finally to the realisation of the power of love. Explicitly graphic in detail, this book explores all aspects of human sexuality through Carlene, who in spite of what life throws at her, manages to pull herself up by her own efforts, though perhaps not always doing so nobly. About the Author Osmund James lives in rural Jamaica. Physically disabled, he keeps his mental powers alert by voracious reading and prolific writing. His short stories have been appearing in The Sunday gleaner since 1988.
Author | : Carolyn Wood |
Publisher | : White Pine Press (NY) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-09-25 |
Genre | : Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780997782806 |
After several failed swim lessons, young Carolyn Wood conquers her fears and dives into unknown waters. By 1958 she sets a goal to make the 1960 Olympic team and begins the arduous road to Rome. Losses, pain, fear, and fatigue accompany the rambunctious athlete as she finds her way through athletic training, school, and social-gender expectations.
Author | : Kate T. Parker |
Publisher | : Workman Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1523500182 |
Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls being 100% themselves. Real beauty isn’t about being a certain size, acting a certain way, wearing the right clothes, or having your hair done (or even brushed). Real beauty is about being your authentic self and owning it. Kate T. Parker is a professional photographer who finds the real beauty in girls, capturing it for all the world to see in candid and arresting images. A celebration, a catalog of spirit in words and smiles, an affirmation of the fact that it’s what’s inside you that counts, Strong Is the New Pretty conveys a powerful message for every girl, for every mother and father of a girl, for every coach and mentor and teacher, for everyone in the village that it takes to raise a strong and self-confident person.
Author | : Cece Meng |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0618824154 |
Three independent chicks who dare to be different are reprimanded by the other barnyard residents for not being quiet and docile, until the smart, fearless trio takes on a runaway tractor.
Author | : Lori Selke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-11 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 9781892723123 |
Tough Girls are not your typical girls next door. They're bad girls, brats, sluts and bitches, dykes from the wrong part of town, the other side of the tracks. The girls you weren't supposed to hang out with in school. Girls in prison, girls with knives, daddies and girls, strippers, punks, and truckers. Tough Girls like it rough. This collection of erotic tales, featuring authors such as Laura Antoniou, Marilyn Jaye Lewis, and Fetish Diva Midori, edited by Lori Selke, takes a walk on the wild side of lesbian sex.
Author | : Paula Ruth Gilbert |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2006-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0773577106 |
In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender. Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are striking out at an external other or harming themselves through acts of self-destruction and depression. Gilbert examines the degree to which women are imitating men in the outward direction of their anger and hostility and suggests that such "tough" women may be mocking men in their "macho" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways in which Quebec female authors are "feminizing" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American culture. Gilbert bridges methodological gaps and integrates history, sociology, literary theory, feminist theory, and other disciplinary approaches to provide a framework for the discussion of important ethical and aesthetic questions.
Author | : Lindsay Hunter |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374533865 |
Traces the chaotic breakdown of a friendship that shapes and unravels the identities of two rebellious girls in the wake of a stalker's predations.
Author | : Jill Zimmerman Rutledge |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003-09-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780071423267 |
Offers advice on dealing with common, stress-producing issues for teenage girls, including body image, parents' divorce, and cliques.
Author | : Andrea Elliott |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0812986962 |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths.”—Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Library Journal In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City’s homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter “to protect those who I love.” When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself? A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott’s Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl. Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize • Finalist for the Bernstein Award and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award