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Mannequin Girl: A Novel

Author : Ellen Litman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242749
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Mannequin Girl: A Novel written by Ellen Litman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt and deftly told coming-of-age story, Mannequin Girl captures the bleakness of Soviet Russia and the hopeful turmoil of adolescence. "A perfect little figure," he says. "Our mannequin girl." She knows who mannequin girls are. They are in her grandmother's Working Woman magazines, modeling flouncy dresses and berets. "Bend," he tells her, and she does, so pliant, so obedient." Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political radicalism. Kat sees herself as their heir and ally. But when she's diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes and she finds herself at a different institution—a school-sanatorium for children with spinal ailments. Confined to a brace, surrounded by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks on a quest to prove that she can be as exceptional as her parents: a beauty, an intellect, and free spirit despite her physical limitations, her Jewishness, and her suspicion that her beloved parents are in fact flawed. Can a girl with a crooked spine really be a mannequin girl, her parents’ pride and her doctors’ and teachers’ glory? Or will she prove to be something far more ordinary—and, thereby, more her own? An unforgettable heroine, Kat will have to find the courage to face the world and break free not only of her metal brace but of all the constraints that bind her.

Mannequin Girl

Author : Ellen Litman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393069281
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Mannequin Girl written by Ellen Litman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, Jewish intellectuals who teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political radicalism. When Kat is diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes and she finds herself at a different institution-- a school-sanatorium for children with spinal ailments. Confined to a brace, surrounded by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks on a quest to prove that she can be as exceptional as her parents despite her physical limitations, her Jewishness, and her suspicion that her beloved parents are in fact flawed.

Soviet-Born

Author : Karolina Krasuska
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978832788
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Soviet-Born written by Karolina Krasuska and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-identified writers, two of whom—American Gary Shteyngart and Canadian David Bezmozgis—were Soviet-born. This publicity came after nearly a decade of English-language literary output by Soviet-born writers of all genders in North America. Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction traces the impact of these now numerous authors—among others, David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Ellen Litman, Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and Lara Vapnyar—on major coordinates of the Jewish American imaginary. Entering an immigrant, Soviet-born standpoint creates an alternative and sometimes complementary pattern of how the Eastern and Central European past and present resonate with American Jewishness. The novels, short stories, and graphic novels considered here often stage strikingly fresh variations on key older themes, including cultural geography, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, communism, gender and sexuality, genealogy, and finally, migration. Soviet-Born demonstrates how these diasporic writers, with their critical stance toward identity categories, open up the field of what is canonically Jewish American to broader contemporary debates. This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.

The New Japanese Woman

Author : Barbara Sato
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330448
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The New Japanese Woman written by Barbara Sato and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA study of the "modern" woman in Japan before World War II./div

Mannequin and Wife

Author : Jen Fawkes
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807174149
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Mannequin and Wife written by Jen Fawkes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Phillip H. McMath Award for prose. In Mannequin and Wife, the debut story collection from Jen Fawkes, sharp and imaginative tales trip seamlessly across borderlands, navigating comedy and tragedy, psychological and magical realism, the mundane and the marvelous. Readers of these adventurous fictions will encounter a flock of stenographers, the strongest woman alive, a taxidermist with anger issues, an Elephant Girl, a fairy on her lunch break, and a married couple who live with a department store mannequin. Elsewhere, an American actor impersonates a code-breaking Britisher during World War II. A mother awaiting her son’s return discovers his personal ad soliciting the services of a cannibal (and fears the worst). A criminal mastermind’s protégé plots the destruction of Mount Rushmore from within an extinct volcano. A man buys a drive-in theater and transforms it into a carnival sideshow. And an attorney puzzles over how to leave someone his deceased client’s heart. Fawkes’s award-winning stories examine the vagaries of human relationships—mother and child, husband and wife, mentor and protégé—to tease out the startling complications that arise from our entanglements with those we loathe and those we love.

The East Asian Modern Girl

Author : Sumei Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900447062X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The East Asian Modern Girl written by Sumei Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East Asian Modern Girl reports the long-neglected experiences of modern women in East Asia during the interwar period. The edited volume includes original studies on the modern girl in Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, Japan, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, which reveal differentiated forms of colonial modernity, influences of global media and the struggles of women at the time. The advent of the East Asian modern girl is particularly meaningful for it signifies a separation from traditional Confucian influences and progression toward global media and capitalism, which involves high political and economic tension between the East and West. This book presents geo-historical investigations on the multi-force triggered phenomenon and how it eventually contributed to greater post-war transformations.

Mannequin House

Author : R. N. Morris
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780103875
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Mannequin House written by R. N. Morris and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1914. Called out to investigate the murder of a fashion model employed by the House of Blackley, a prestigious Kensington department store, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn of Scotland Yard’s Special Crimes Department is thrown into the bizarre: the chief murder suspect is a monkey. He may be sceptical, but how will Quinn ever get to the truth when faced with the maelstrom of seething jealousy, resentment, forbidden desires and thwarted passion that is the Mannequin House?

Ms. and the Material Girls

Author : Catherine Gourley
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822568063
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Ms. and the Material Girls written by Catherine Gourley and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1970s through the 1990s and how they brought about major changes for women.

Modern Girls on the Go

Author : Alisa Freedman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804785546
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Modern Girls on the Go written by Alisa Freedman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the last century. Here we encounter Japanese women inhabiting the most modern of spaces, in newly created professions, moving upward and outward, claiming the public life as their own: shop girls, elevator girls, dance hall dancers, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, international beauty queens, overseas teachers, corporate soccer players, and even female members of the Self-Defense Forces. Directly linking gender, mobility, and labor in 20th and 21st century Japan, this collection brings to life the ways in which these modern girls—historically and contemporaneously—have influenced social roles, patterns of daily life, and Japan's global image. It is an ideal guidebook for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

Seeing the American Woman, 1880-1920

Author : Katherine H. Adams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786489030
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Seeing the American Woman, 1880-1920 written by Katherine H. Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture developed in the United States as a result of the completion of the Pacific Railroad. Women, especially young and beautiful ones, found new lives shaped by their participation in that visual culture. This rapidly evolving age left behind the "cult of domesticity" that reigned in the nineteenth century to give rise to new "types" of women based on a single feature--a type of hair, skin, dress, or prop--including the Gibson Girl, the sob sister, the stunt girl, the hoochy-coochy dancer, and the bearded lady. Exploring both high and low culture, from the circus and film to newspapers and magazines, this work examines depictions of women at the dawn of "mass media," depictions that would remain influential throughout the twentieth century.

The Millennial Adolescent

Author : Nan Bahr
Publisher : ACER Press
ISBN 13 : 1429477695
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book The Millennial Adolescent written by Nan Bahr and published by ACER Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers play a pivotal role in the lives of adolescents. They are charged with the responsibility to educate young people to live as active, informed and engaged members of society. The Millennial Adolescent

The Complete Works of E. Phillips Oppenheim: 109 Novels & 200+ Short Stories (Illustrated Edition)

Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of E. Phillips Oppenheim: 109 Novels & 200+ Short Stories (Illustrated Edition) written by E. Phillips Oppenheim and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 18179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Complete Works of E. Phillips Oppenheim: 109 Novels & 200+ Short Stories (Illustrated Edition)', readers are immersed in the thrilling world of espionage, mystery, and adventure through Oppenheim's diverse collection of novels and short stories. Oppenheim's literary style seamlessly blends suspenseful plotlines with vivid character development, making each story a captivating and engaging read. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Europe, Oppenheim's works provide a glimpse into the social and political climate of the time. E. Phillips Oppenheim, a prolific British author, was known for his contributions to the spy and detective fiction genres. His own experiences working for British intelligence during World War I undoubtedly influenced his writing, adding an air of authenticity to his espionage tales. Oppenheim's attention to detail and intricate plotting showcase his expertise in crafting gripping narratives that keep readers on the edge of their seats. I highly recommend 'The Complete Works of E. Phillips Oppenheim' to readers who enjoy riveting mysteries, intricate plots, and compelling characters. Oppenheim's collection offers a diverse range of stories that will appeal to fans of classic espionage fiction and anyone looking for an entertaining and immersive read.

The Complete Works

Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works written by E. Phillips Oppenheim and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 18359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes: NOVELS The Great Impersonation The Double Traitor The Battle Of Basinghall Street Murder At Monte Carlo The Yellow House The Black Box The Devil's Paw A Maker Of History The New Tenant Mr. Grex Of Monte Carlo A Monk Of Cruta The Cinema Murder A Modern Prometheus Exit A Dictator The Yellow Crayon The Wrath To Come The Grassleyes Mystery The Golden Beast The Dumb Gods Speak The Peer And The Woman To Win The Love He Sought False Evidence Master Of Sinister House Mr. Marx's Secret The Great Secret The Man Who Changed His Plea The Double Life Of Mr Alfred Burton The Amazing Judgment The Postmaster Of Market Deignton Mysterious Mr. Sabin A Millionaire Of Yesterday The World's Great Snare Enoch Strone The Great Awakening The Survivor The Traitors A Prince Of Sinners Anna The Adventuress The Master Mummer The Betrayal The Malefactor A Lost Leader . . . SHORT STORIES & COLLECTIONS Peter Ruff And The Double Four Michael's Evil Deeds The Tiger On The Mountains The Seven Conundrums False Gods The Money-Spider The Girl From Manchester The Road To Liberty One Luckless Hour One Shall Be Taken No Questions Asked The Actor's Romance A Prince Of Gamblers The Siren Of The Madrid And Still I Cheat The Gallows The Little Grey Lady The Restless Traveller The Café Régal, The Mistral And The Lady The Three Thieves General Besserley's Puzzle Box The Amazing Partnership The Human Chase Nicholas Goade, Detective . . . REMINISCENCES & MEMOIRS The Prince Of Storytellers Tells His Own Story ... E. Phillips Oppenheim, the Prince of Storytellers (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.

Mannequin

Author : Fannie Hurst
Publisher : MacMillan Company of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Mannequin written by Fannie Hurst and published by MacMillan Company of Canada. This book was released on 1926 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Tokyo 1867-1989

Author : Edward Seidensticker
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462901050
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book History of Tokyo 1867-1989 written by Edward Seidensticker and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it…if you are passionate about the history of 'the world's greatest city,' this book is something you must have in your collection." --JapanThis.com Edward Seidensticker's A History of Tokyo 1867-1989 tells the fascinating story of Tokyo's transformation from the Shogun's capital in an isolated Japan to the largest and the most modern city in the world. With the same scholarship and sparkling style that won him admiration as the foremost translator of great works of Japanese literature, Seidensticker offers the reader his brilliant vision of an entire society suddenly wrenched from an ancient feudal past into the modern world in a few short decades, and the enormous stresses and strains that this brought with it. Originally published as two volumes, Seidensticker's masterful work is now available in a handy, single paperback volume. Whether you're a history buff or Tokyo-bound traveler looking to learn more, this insightful book offers a fascinating look at how the Tokyo that we know came to be. This edition contains an introduction by Donald Richie, the acknowledged expert on Japanese culture who was a close personal friend of the author, and a preface by geographer Paul Waley that puts the book into perspective for modern readers.

Serial Girls

Author : Martine Delvaux
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771131861
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Serial Girls written by Martine Delvaux and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everywhere you look patriarchal society reduces women to a series of repeating symbols: serial girls. On TV and in film, on the internet and in magazines, pop culture and ancient architecture, serial girls are all around us, moving in perfect sync—as dolls, as dancers, as statues. From Tiller Girls to Barbie dolls, Playboy bunnies to Pussy Riot, Martine Delvaux produces a provocative analysis of the many gendered assumptions that underlie modern culture. Delvaux draws on the works of Barthes, Foucault, de Beauvoir, Woolf, and more to argue that serial girls are not just the ubiquitous symbols of patriarchal domination but also offer the possibility of liberation.

Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets

Author : Linda A. Kinnahan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351793470
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets written by Linda A. Kinnahan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets- Front Cover -- Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Loy among the photographers: poetry, perception, and the camera -- Portraits and photographers -- Julien Levy and the modern photograph -- Islands in the Air and the figure of the photographer -- Vision and poetry -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Surrealism and the female body: economies of violence -- Surrealist contexts and contextualized Surrealism -- Surrealist cameras -- Loy and the female body of Surrealism -- The Surrealist mannequin -- Hans Bellmer, bodies, and war -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Portraits of the poor: the Bowery poems and the rise of documentary photography -- The 1930s and the rise of documentary -- Urban documentary and the visual rhetoric of poverty -- Portraits of the poor -- "Hot Cross Bum" and the tabloids: Sequence as portrait -- Notes -- Chapter 4: From patriotism to atrocity: the war poems and photojournalism -- Patriotism and the poetics of the mural photo-exhibit -- The rise of photojournalism -- The female gaze and the gendered body -- Atrocity and the female body -- Photographing the bomb -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Gendering the camera: Kathleen Fraser and Caroline Bergvall -- Kathleen Fraser and visual reassembly: "[T]he screen was carried inside her"--Caroline Bergvall's rearticulated bodies: Photography and the graphic page -- Coda: Looking back to Loy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index