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Gay, Black, Crippled, Fat

Author : Adarro Minton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598003864
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Gay, Black, Crippled, Fat written by Adarro Minton and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review, 29 May 2006 by Corinne Richter This collection of short stories is initially deceiving in determining the talent and ability of the author. At first blush I started out with a disappointedOy: not another one. I get tired reading novels by unknowns trying to imitate styles. But I was wrong. The anthology launches with Mr. Minton describing various relationships in what I can only describe as the real or imagined happenings in the hood; complete with the vernacular, thoughts, and inexperience of our youth. That is not a criticism; merely a limiting factor in the facility to adequately portray content. He is, however, poignant in relaying not so fictional emotions. The author has offered us an insight into a broad and fertile mind. Some of his stories are very well written, lead the reader where they need to be, and generally won 't make them suffer for picking up the book. I believe Adarro Minton to be in the process of emerging, as does a beautiful butterfly, from a cocoon. To be fair, most of the less favorable remarks regarding the manuscript are as a result of poor feedback from proofreaders and inadequate editing. Some narratives are off-hand thoughts that are frustratingly short; forcing me up from my comfortable chair to check the printer for lost pages. I wanted to scream out:more! Tell me more! Within stories, it was interesting to note, one could find exquisite attention to detail of the background: but little development of the protagonists. It was often as though the author simply tired of what he was writing, and moved on. However, his depth and range of style brought me to the conclusion that others may find the Minton method of spin to be inspiring and given to planting seeds for further contemplation. One story seeks to portray the confusion of an elderly Jamaican immigrant; floating between reality and her childhood on the island. Great tale, delivered with all the chaos and confusion experienced by the subjects. It took a slice of life we all know exists; but whose existence and complications we frequently deny. The basic commonality of all threads is the weaving of gay relationships. It is presented not as anything out of the ordinary, sordid, or shameful: merely a sector of life that is slightly out of the mainstream. It 's comfortable in its presentation and both gay and straight readers can appreciate the foundation messages.. I believe Adarro Minton, once settling into a style he is comfortable with, will be a writer worthy of accolades and great success. Anyone who chooses to skip this collection is doing themselves a great disservice. The book is intense, broad based and just plain different. It is a lasting experience.

Carnal Appetites

Author : Elspeth Probyn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134595530
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Carnal Appetites written by Elspeth Probyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Carnal Appetites, Elspeth Probyn charts the explosion of interest in food - from the cults that spring up around celebrity chefs, to our love/hate relationship with fast food, our fetishization of food and sex, and the impact of our modes of consumption on our identities. 'You are what you eat' the saying goes, but is the tenet truer than ever? As the range of food options proliferates in the West, our food choices become inextricably linked with our lives and lifestyles. Probyn also tackles issues that trouble society, asking questions about the nature of appetite, desire, greed and pleasure, and shedding light on subjects including: fast food, vegetarianism, food sex, cannibalism, forced feeding, and fat politics.

The Future Is Fat

Author : Jen Rinaldi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000434087
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Future Is Fat written by Jen Rinaldi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all. In this line of thinking, a fat life is framed as failure, and a fast track towards death itself. Meanwhile, the histories of modern fat existence, communities, activists, and artists have been essentially unknown, written out of origins and existence. Most medical and cultural evaluations of fat have rendered the fat body more and more visible, and yet the lived experiences of fat people are continually erased. At a moment when scholars from various disciplines are contending with the question of who has a future, this book explores the relationship between fat experience and the social construction of time. The works in this volume draw from fields as diverse as social geography, women and gender studies, critical race theory, disability studies, cultural studies, visual art and craft, social work, communication studies, and queer theory, generating renewed understandings of the relationship between fatness and temporality. The Future Is Fat reimagines understandings of time to allow for new expressions of fat experience. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society.

Big and Small

Author : Lynne Vallone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300228864
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Big and Small written by Lynne Vallone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought Author, scholar, and editor Lynne Vallone has an international reputation in the field of child studies. In this analytical tour-de-force, she explores bodily size difference--particularly unusual bodies, big and small--as an overlooked yet crucial marker that informs human identity and culture. Exploring miniaturism, giganticism, obesity, and the lived experiences of actual big and small people, Vallone boldly addresses the uncomfortable implications of using physical measures to judge normalcy, goodness, gender identity, and beauty. This wide-ranging work surveys the lives and contexts of both real and imagined persons with extraordinary bodies from the seventeenth century to the present day through close examinations of art, literature, folklore, and cultural practices, as well as scientific and pseudo-scientific discourses. Generously illustrated and written in a lively and accessible style, Vallone's provocative study encourages readers to look with care at extraordinary bodies and the cultures that created, depicted, loved, and dominated them.

Mommysattva

Author : Jenna Hollenstein
Publisher : Lionheart Press, a division of the Open Heart Project
ISBN 13 : 1732277672
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Mommysattva written by Jenna Hollenstein and published by Lionheart Press, a division of the Open Heart Project. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mommysattva is a wise, funny, and refreshingly real guide to what happens when the ideals of mindfulness practice meet the chaos of everyday motherhood.” —Anne Cushman, author of The Mama Sutra: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Path of Motherhood In Mommysattva, writer, meditation teacher, nutrition therapist, and mom Jenna Hollenstein envisions motherhood as the most spontaneous, impossible, and hard-won path to wisdom and compassion. The book is not a guide to motherhood; it’s a collection of bite-sized essays examining motherhood as a spiritual journey that includes compassion and vast expansion of the heart. It explores many of the felt experiences of those who mother—from the intense metamorphosis of becoming a mother to the practice of motherhood as a teaching on what it means to be present to a mother’s innately activist role in bringing about positive change. And also irritation, resentment, endless snacks, and, sure, vomit. How to bring it all to the path without shame, virtue signaling, or setting up endless years of therapy for your kid? Hollenstein, in a deeply honest exploration of her own journey as a mother as well as her Buddhist practice, offers a view of motherhood that is deep, kind, and real. The essays shimmer with the message that every single thing we do as mothers is an opportunity to embrace the power, love, chaos, and possibility of this magnificent path.

Media Studies

Author : Philip Rayner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415236102
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Media Studies written by Philip Rayner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text introduces pre-university students step-by-step to the skills of reading and analysing media texts. It also explore a range of media institutions and technologies, ideologies, and codes of practice.

The Crippled Child

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Crippled Child written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stars, Studios, and the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation

Author : Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197663257
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Stars, Studios, and the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation written by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Show Boat (1936) to The Sound of Music (1965) and from Grease (1978) to Chicago (2002), many of the most beloved film musicals in Hollywood history originated as Broadway shows. And in the three years since the original publication of the chapters in this volume (as The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, 2019) the phenomenon has persisted, with new adaptations such as Cats, In the Heights, Tick, Tick...Boom!, Dear Evan Hansen, and Spielberg's remake of West Side Story. Yet in general, the number of screen adaptations of Broadway musicals and operettas is far greater than the number that have met with success, especially both critical and commercial success (i.e., good reviews and a profit at the box office). This is all the more surprising since Hollywood tended almost (if not quite) exclusively to buy the rights to musicals that had been successful on the stage as a means of guaranteeing a profitable outcome. After all, musicals that had already enjoyed long runs and nationwide productions on the stage ought to have a readymade audience. One might also think that because the authors had puzzled over the individual challenges posed by such properties in their stage incarnations, it ought to be easier to turn them into strong film musicals. But for every West Side Story there were several Finian's Rainbows, Man of La Manchas, and Carousels: movies that simply did not do justice to the 'enchanted evenings' these works provided in their stage incarnations"--

The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations

Author : Dominic McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019005154X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations written by Dominic McHugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around thirty years of development, as landmarks such as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, Singin' in the Rain, and Gigi showed the exciting possibilities of putting musicals on the silver screen. The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, starting with screen adaptations of operettas such as The Desert Song and Rio Rita, and looks at how the Hollywood studios in the 1930s exploited the publication of sheet music as part of their income. Numerous chapters examine specific screen adaptations in depth, including not only favorites such as Annie and Kiss Me, Kate but also some of the lesser-known titles like Li'l Abner and Roberta and problematic adaptations such as Carousel and Paint Your Wagon. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.

Who Needs Gay Bars?

Author : Greggor Mattson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503635872
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Who Needs Gay Bars? written by Greggor Mattson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some might be: maybe nobody. And yet... Jarred by the closing of his favorite local watering hole in Cleveland, Ohio, Greggor Mattson embarks on a journey across the country to paint a much more complex picture of the cultural significance of these spaces, inside "big four" gay cities, but also beyond them. No longer the only places for their patrons to socialize openly, Mattson finds in them instead a continuously evolving symbol; a physical place for feeling and challenging the beating pulse of sexual progress. From the historical archives of Seattle's Garden of Allah, to the outpost bars in Texas, Missouri or Florida that serve as community hubs for queer youth—these are places of celebration, where the next drag superstar from Alaska or Oklahoma may be discovered. They are also fraught grounds for confronting the racial and gender politics within and without the LGBTQ+ community. The question that frames this story is not asking whether these spaces are needed, but for whom, earnestly exploring the diversity of folks and purposes they serve today. Loosely informed by the Damron Guide, the so-called "Green Book" of gay travel, Mattson logged 10,000 miles on the road to all corners of the United States. His destinations are sometimes thriving, sometimes struggling, but all offering intimate views of the wide range of gay experience in America: POC, white, trans, cis; past, present, and future.

The Contemporary Reader

Author : Gary Goshgarian
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780321083425
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Reader written by Gary Goshgarian and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best-selling book now in it's Seventh Edition, The Contemporary Reader offers highly engaging readings about current cultural issues. This accessible, wide-ranging, and current essay collection is designed to stimulating and thought provoking.The Contemporary Reader has more contemporary selections than any other popular culture reader on the market. Over 90% of the readings have been written in the last five years. The text's ten tightly focused thematic chapters cover a range of writing on interesting issues familiar to students and relevant to our times. Readings are organized around a variety of provocative and engaging themes such as "Fashion and Flesh: The Images We Project"; "Gender Battles on the Big Screen" ; "Young and Criminal"; "Advertising: Wanting It, Selling It."; and these new focused themes: "Humans Inc.: Rethinking and Retailing Reproduction"; "It's a Wide Web World"; "Sports: Not Just a Game"; "Generation Gaps: Boomers, X-ers, and Y." These thematic chapters are tightly focused and offer a range of perspectives on issues. To expand on the well-regarded section on critical reading, a review of the writing process has been added to the introduction. This includes coverage of pre-writing, audience-awareness, developing a thesis, documenting sources, drafting, editing, revising, and proofreading.MARKET For those interested in gaining an understanding of important contemporary issues and the ability to discuss those issues critically.

Oppression and the Body

Author : Christine Caldwell
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623172020
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Oppression and the Body written by Christine Caldwell and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodies Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization. In a culture where bodies of people who are brown, black, female, transgender, disabled, fat, or queer are often shamed, sexualized, ignored, and oppressed, what does it mean to live in a marginalized body? Through theory, personal narrative, and artistic expression, this anthology explores how power, privilege, oppression, and attempted disembodiment play out on the bodies of disparaged individuals and what happens when the body’s expression is stereotyped and stunted. Bringing together a range of voices, this book offers strategies and practices for embodiment and activism and considers what it means to be an embodied ally to anyone experiencing bodily oppression.

Between Worlds

Author : Susan Bachmann
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780321055095
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Between Worlds written by Susan Bachmann and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than just a concise handbook and rhetoric guide, this thematically-organized collection of over 70 readings centered around the theme of "between-ness," discussing concepts such as being caught between generations, living with diverse cultures, dealing with gender conflicts, exploring multiple perceptions of self and others, and accepting or rejecting others' values. This guide to writing, reading and rhetoric features 36 new readings, covering timely topics, such as interpreting advertising, the influence of violence in the media, new family patterns, and living online. An introduction to reading actively begins the reading section, and questions and writing suggestions end of each reading. Writers' strategies and strengths so students can apply this information to their own work. This book also provides new detailed annotations and explanatory notes for the argument essay and for the research paper, and up-to-date electronic research coverage. For those interested in reading, critical thinking, rhetoric and writing." -- Publisher.

Hunger

Author : Roxane Gay
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062362607
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Hunger written by Roxane Gay and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.

Rosebloom

Author : Harvey Perr
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822209690
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Rosebloom written by Harvey Perr and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A neurotic, middle-aged woman, her crippled son, and his sexually seething young wife await the return of Rosebloom, the father of the family, who has been in prison for twenty-six years. As they wait, their hidden thoughts come alive in

Philosophical Moments

Author : Eric Collins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595179460
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Moments written by Eric Collins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical Moments is a book about life. It dives deep into the many levels of everyday living that most people take for granted. Whether it’s clarifying the misconception of the “Devil’s sign” actually being bowler’s cramp, or if it’s describing the horrors of “air surfing” which leaves millions of bugs dead on people’s windshields, this book examines and studies the smallest points of everyday living that most people just don’t think about. Eric Collins proves his theory that people should not take life too seriously by poking fun at anything and everything that defines life in America. It doesn’t matter if he is putting his distinctive and refreshing spin on bathroom etiquette, cheapskate rapists, or politically correct language, or if he’s writing advertisements for new products like Enemagic: the miracle weight-loss program. He proves that nothing is sacred, and anything can be made funny. Philosophical Moments will open your eyes and pour in the salty truth, and might even make you want to rethink your current disposition. It plays with your social conscience and your mind all at the same time. And after you’ve read this book one thing is abundantly certain: you will never think the same way again.

Political Correctness

Author : Geoffrey Hughes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444360299
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Political Correctness written by Geoffrey Hughes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Correctness “Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set. His book establishes beyond doubt that there is such a phenomenon, that it has become dominant in our culture, and that it represents a growing tendency to censor public debate and to prevent people from questioning orthodoxies which we all know to be false.” Roger Scruton, American Enterprise Institute “What a joy this book is! Hughes’ study traces, with unflagging zest, the modern history of PC. Sumptuous in data, in judgment precise, this is the latest and fullest of Hughes’ series on the social history of language.” Walter Nash, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham Political Correctness is now an everyday phrase and part of the modern mindset. Everyone thinks they know what it means, but its own meaning constantly shifts. Its surprising origins have led to it becoming integrated into contemporary culture in ways that are both idealistic and ridiculous. Originally grounded in respect for difference and sensitivity to suffering, it has often become a distraction and even a silencer of genuine issues, provoking satire and parody. In this carefully researched, thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Hughes examines the trajectory of political correctness and its impact on public life. Exploring the origins, progress, content, and style of PC, Hughes’ journey leads us through authors as diverse as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Swift; Philip Larkin, David Mamet, and J.M. Coetzee; from nursery rhymes to Spike Lee films. Focusing on the historical, semantic, and cultural aspects of political correctness, this outstanding and unique work will intrigue anyone interested in this ongoing debate.