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Author : Deborah Werksman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book I Killed June Cleaver written by Deborah Werksman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cary O’Dell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786493291
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book June Cleaver Was a Feminist! written by Cary O’Dell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long dismissed as ciphers, sycophants and "Stepford Wives," women characters of primetime television during the 1950s through the 1980s are overdue for this careful reassessment. From smart, savvy wives and resilient mothers (including the much-maligned June Cleaver and Donna Reed) to talented working women (long before the debut of "Mary Tyler Moore") to crimebusters and even criminals, American women on television emerge as a diverse, empowered, individualistic, and capable lot, highly worthy of emulation and appreciation.
Author : Deborah Werksman
Publisher : Sourcebooks Hysteria
ISBN 13 : 9781887166478
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (664 download)
Download or read book I Killed June Cleaver written by Deborah Werksman and published by Sourcebooks Hysteria. This book was released on 1999 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's moms know that you don't have to be perfect to be a perfectly wonderful parent. In 30 honest essays, loving-but-frazzled women air their dirty laundry and show just why it's important to balance sanity with raising kids.
Author : Jan Bardsley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 147253381X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan written by Jan Bardsley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan offers a fresh perspective on gender politics by focusing on the Japanese housewife of the 1950s as a controversial representation of democracy, leisure, and domesticity. Examining the shifting personae of the housewife, especially in the appealing texts of women's magazines, reveals the diverse possibilities of postwar democracy as they were embedded in media directed toward Japanese women. Each chapter explores the contours of a single controversy, including debate over the royal wedding in 1959, the victory of Japan's first Miss Universe, and the unruly desires of postwar women. Jan Bardsley also takes a comparative look at the ways in which the Japanese housewife is measured against equally stereotyped notions of the modern housewife in the United States, asking how both function as narratives of Japan-U.S. relations and gender/class containment during the early Cold War.
Author : Susan Burgess
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147981976X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book LGBT Inclusion in American Life written by Susan Burgess and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling explanation of the American public’s acceptance of LGBT freedoms through the lens of pop culture How did gay people go from being characterized as dangerous perverts to military heroes and respectable parents? How did the interests of the LGBT movement and the state converge to transform mainstream political and legal norms in these areas? Using civil rights narratives, pop culture, and critical theory, LGBT Inclusion in American Life tells the story of how exclusion was transformed into inclusion in US politics and society, as pop culture changed mainstream Americans thinking about “non-gay” issues, namely privacy, sex and gender norms, and family. Susan Burgess explores films such as Casablanca, various James Bond movies, and Julie and Julia, and television shows such as thirtysomething and The Americans, as well as the Broadway sensation Hamilton, as sources of growing popular support for LGBT rights. By drawing on popular culture as a rich source of public understanding, Burgess explains how the greater public came to accept and even support the three central pillars of LGBT freedoms in the post–World War II era: to have consensual adult sex without fear of criminal penalty, to serve openly in the military, and to marry legally. LGBT Inclusion in American Life argues that pop culture can help us to imagine unknown futures that lead beyond what we currently desire from contemporary politics, and in return asks now that the mainstream public has come to accept LGBT freedoms, where might the popular imagination be headed in the future?
Author : Justin Gifford
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613739141
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Revolution or Death written by Justin Gifford and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illuminating study of a complex, memorable historical figure." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review A remarkable biography that examines the notorious Black revolutionary meticulously within the context of his changing times Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Eldridge Cleaver built a base of power and influence that struck fear deep in the heart of White America. It was therefore shocking to many left-wing radicals when Cleaver turned his back on Black revolution, the Nation of Islam, and communism in 1975. How can we make sense of Cleaver's precipitous decline from a position as one of America's most vibrant Black writers and activists? And how do his contradictory identities as criminal, party leader, international diplomat, Christian conservative, and Republican politician reveal that he was more than just a traitor to the advancement of civil rights? Author Justin Gifford obtained exclusive access to declassified files from the French police, the American embassy, and the FBI, as well as Kathleen Cleaver's archive, to answer these questions about a man far more compelling and complex than anyone has given him credit for. In a country defined by its extreme political positions on the right and left, Cleaver embodied both ideologies in pursuit of his conflicting ideals.
Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813591759
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom written by Tison Pugh and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage, and as a foundation for family building. The book examines how queerness, at first latent, became a vibrant yet continually conflicted part of the family-sitcom tradition. Taking into account elements such as the casting of child actors, the use of and experimentation with plot traditions, the contradictory interpretive valences of comedy, and the subtle subversions of moral standards by writers and directors, Pugh points out how innocence and sexuality conflict on television. As older sitcoms often sit on a pedestal of nostalgia as representative of the Golden Age of the American Family, television history reveals a deeper, queerer vision of family bonds.
Author : Joan Boswell
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459723651
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book The Ladies Killing Circle Anthology 4-Book Bundle written by Joan Boswell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook bundle present all four of the Ladies Killing Circle's wicked collections of twisted and witty crime fiction.
Author : Penelope Fritzer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786480647
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Merry Wives and Others written by Penelope Fritzer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twentieth century. For many years, domestic humor was written primarily by females; significant contributions from male writers began as times and family structures changed. It remains timeless because of its basis on the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, houses and inhabitants, pets and their owners, chores and their doers, and neighbors. This work is a historical and literary survey of humorists who wrote about home. It begins with a chapter on the social context of and attitudes toward traditional domestic roles and housewives. The following chapters, beginning with the 1920s and continuing through today, cover the different time periods and the foremost American domestic humorists, and the humor written by surrogate parents, grown children about their childhood families, husbands, and Canadian and English writers. Also covered are the differences among various writers toward traditional domestic roles--some, like Erma Bombeck and Judith Viorst, embraced them, while others, like Caryl Kristenson and Marilyn Kentz, resisted them. Common themes, such as the isolation and competitiveness of housework, home as an idealized metaphysical goal and ongoing physical challenge, and the urban, suburban, and rural life, are also explored.
Author : Kay Allenbaugh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743223675
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Chocolate for a Woman's Dreams written by Kay Allenbaugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-04-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is anything sweeter or more precious than a treasured dream? In Chocolate for a Woman's Dreams, 77 all-new, real-life tales celebrate the power of dreams to shape our lives at any age, whether we are exploring new possibilities, achieving long-sought goals, or making long-held wishes come true. Here are stories of women who overcome adversity to start anew, and women who gracefully take on the inevitable changes that each stage of life brings. Whether the goal is enhancing their personal lives with friends and families, improving their professional lives by pursuing new challenges, or learning to see the joy in all things, the women here show that anything is possible when we listen to our hearts and follow our dreams. With its irresistible subject and its abundance of cheer, humor, and encouragement, Chocolate for a Woman's Dreams is sure to be on the top of your wish list.
Author : Judith Marks-White
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345507665
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Bachelor Degree written by Judith Marks-White and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Underneath it all–designer clothes and moxie aside–my mother was more than any daughter should ever have to handle.” - from Bachelor Degree Strolling the city sidewalks of Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side are a bevy of well-dressed, attractive, and notably eligible single men, but can Samantha Krasner snag one before the competition does? Finding Mr. Right would certainly help keep her mother at bay. After all, the only thing separating their two apartments is Central Park. Not big enough. A successful gallery diva who must answer to a boss from hell, thirty-eight-year-old Samantha nonetheless finally feels as if she’s leading her own life. But the ever-hovering, smothering Madeleine Krasner-Wolfe, a twice-divorced and filthy rich force of nature, always seems to have advice for her daughter about everything from fashion and beauty regimens to men. When Samantha signs up the new rising star of the art world, Blake Hamilton, Madeleine immediately sees him as a prospective son-in-law. Hoping to help her daughter land a husband before it’s too late, Madeleine launches a flirt campaign that both infuriates and enthralls Samantha– compelling her to finally take action. From the toniest penthouses of Park Avenue to the trendiest SoHo lofts, Samantha is on a mission–if only her mother would get out of the way. Praise for Judith Marks-White’s Seducing Harry: “Judith Marks-White writes with lashings of humor and a healthy dose of cynicism laced with sweetness.” –Jane Green, author of Second Chance “The literary equivalent of a bon bon . . . the perfect book to wedge between all those weighty Booker Prize-winning reads piled up by the bedside.” –Elle.com “[Marks-White] has a sharp eye for absurdity and excess.” –The Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Kay Allenbaugh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743237031
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Chocolate for a Teen's Dreams written by Kay Allenbaugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-06-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of real-life stories written by teenage girls and women relating their dreams concerning such things as love, friendship, and recognition of their talents, and how they make dreams and wishes come true.
Author : Kay Allenbaugh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743233859
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Chocolate for a Teen's Spirit written by Kay Allenbaugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet and Spirited Heartwarming, haunting, and often hilarious, the delicious stories in Chocolate for a Teen's Spirit touch on the things all young women face as they move into adulthood and search for spiritual grounding during times both tame and turbulent. Written by teens themselves as well as by women with good memories for those years gone by, these true-life tales range from lighthearted vignettes to poignant confessions. The Chocolate storytellers share their own moving experiences -- about setting a goal and reaching it, about being the victim of a cruel trick and rising above it, about finding love in unexpected places, and about finding the Divine in all things. Chocolate for a Teen's Spirit will help you discover all the facets of a spirit-filled life -- ways to nurture your faith in yourself, to use your creative gifts, to find love through friends, parents, partners, and teachers, and to experience pure joy.
Author : Judith Marks-White
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 030749067X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Seducing Harry written by Judith Marks-White and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coco Plotnick Hollander Harding, a columnist for Connecticut’s Seaport Gazette, relishes two things in life: food and sex. While the first can be satisfied with a delectable foie gras, her cravings for the latter leave her with hunger pangs of a different sort–particularly since her WASPy husband is not exactly a gourmand in the bedroom. While covering a Chaîne des Rôtisseurs vegetarian banquet for the Gazette, Coco finds her appetite whetted by a very charming (and very married) plastic surgeon, Harry Troutman. The two foodies quickly commence a feast of hot infidelity, but anonymous letters sent to Coco’s husband and Harry’s sleek, self-indulgent wife, Eclaire, hint at the torrid affair . . . and provide the crucial ingredients in a recipe for disaster. Will the lovers receive their just desserts? In this lip-smacking debut novel, Judith Marks-White whips up a five-course meal of saucy wit, steamy sex, and tantalizing scandal that will fill your plate and please your palate. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Michael B. Kassel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Mass Culture, History and Memory and the Image of the American Family written by Michael B. Kassel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Devery S. Anderson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496802853
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Emmett Till written by Devery S. Anderson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first, and as of 2018, only comprehensive account of the 1955 murder, the trial, and the 2004-2007 FBI investigation into the case and Mississippi grand jury decision. By all accounts, it is the definitive account of the case. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. Anderson utilizes documents that had never been available to previous researchers, such as the trial transcript, long-hidden depositions by key players in the case, and interviews given by Carolyn Bryant to the FBI in 2004 (her first in fifty years), as well as other recently revealed FBI documents. Anderson also interviewed family members of the accused killers, most of whom agreed to talk for the first time, as well as several journalists who covered the murder trial in 1955. Till's murder and the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement. Like no other event in modern history, the death of Emmett Till provoked people all over the United States to seek social change. Anderson's exhaustively researched book was also the basis for the ABC miniseries Women of the Movement, which was written/executive-produced by Marissa Jo Cerar; directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, Tina Mabry, Julie Dash, and Kasi Lemmons; and executive-produced by Jay-Z, Jay Brown, Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith, Will Smith, James Lassiter, Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, Michael Lohmann, Rosanna Grace, Alex Foster, John Powers Middleton, and David Clark. For over six decades the Till story has continued to haunt the South as the lingering injustice of Till's murder and the aftermath altered many lives. Fifty years after the murder, renewed interest in the case led the Justice Department to open an investigation into identifying and possibly prosecuting accomplices of the two men originally tried. Between 2004 and 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted the first real probe into the killing and turned up important information that had been lost for decades. Anderson covers the events that led up to this probe in great detail, as well as the investigation itself. This book will stand as the definitive work on Emmett Till for years to come. Incorporating much new information, the book demonstrates how the Emmett Till murder exemplifies the Jim Crow South at its nadir. The author accessed a wealth of new evidence. Anderson made a dozen trips to Mississippi and Chicago over a ten-year period to conduct research and interview witnesses and reporters who covered the trial. In Emmett Till, Anderson corrects the historical record and presents this critical saga in its entirety.
Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199325146
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Let the People See written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of a country store, while visiting family in Mississippi. Three days later, his mangled body was recovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a cotton-gin fan. Till's killers, Bryant's husband and his half-brother, were eventually acquitted on technicalities by an all-white jury despite overwhelming evidence. It seemed another case of Southern justice. Then details of what had happened to Till became public, which they did in part because Emmett's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted that his casket remain open during his funeral. The world saw the horror, and Till's story gripped the country and sparked outrage. Black journalists drove down to Mississippi and risked their lives interviewing townsfolk, encouraging witnesses, spiriting those in danger out of the region, and above all keeping the news cycle turning. It continues to turn. In 2005, fifty years after the murder, the FBI reopened the case. New papers and testimony have come to light, and several participants, including Till's mother, have published autobiographies. Using this new evidence and a broadened historical context, Elliott J. Gorn delves more fully than anyone has into how and why the story of Emmett Till still resonates, and always will. Till's murder marked a turning point, Gorn shows, and yet also reveals how old patterns of thought and behavior endure, and why we must look hard at them.
