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La Gitana and the Lady Bullfighters of Mexico

Author : Sandra Martinez Geary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781595987563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book La Gitana and the Lady Bullfighters of Mexico written by Sandra Martinez Geary and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Gitana and the Lady Bullfighters of Mexico is the thrilling true story of real women matadoras, whose bravery defied tradition and death to take up the cape and sword in the bullrings of Mexico and Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. With more than 300 actual photos, La Gitana presents the real-life drama of these valiant women -- Gloria Martinez, La Gitana, the gypsy herself, Angelina Medina, and Teresita Andaluz, along with their heroic comadres -- as together they overcame every obstacle that a machismo society and a blood sport dating to Roman times could aim at them. In skillful prose, La Gitana shares the danger, threats, struggles, and triumphs the ladies faced, unfolding their riveting story from formative years and the training they endured -- to their excitement of being lady bullfighters and the adulation they received as maestras. La Gitana takes the reader into their private world, explores the psyches that drove these daredevil ladies into the ring, and reveals the bond that kept them together through one death-defying experience after another in country after country. La Gitana and the Lady Bullfighters of Mexico is a rare reading and visual experience -- of women fighting their way to the very top of a man's business, exhibiting astonishing courage, and prevailing dangerously against all odds. La Gitana says '#metoo' more than 7- years ahead of the game, setting a standard of steely nerve and valor for generations of women to follow.

Lady Bullfighter

Author : Patricia McCormick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lady Bullfighter written by Patricia McCormick and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lady Matador's Hotel

Author : Cristina Garcia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439181756
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Lady Matador's Hotel written by Cristina Garcia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a hotel in an unnamed Latin American country in the midst of political turmoil.

Women and Bullfighting

Author : Sarah Pink
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000180751
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Women and Bullfighting written by Sarah Pink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the popularity and success of contemporary women performers in bullfighting culture, which has been framed by a discourse of 'traditionalist' masculinity. This examination of the changing situation of women in the bullfighting world is used to explore the ways in which gender is represented, enacted and negotiated in contemporary Spain. The bullfight in the 1990s is in an ambiguous position: it is a 'traditional' performance in a changing consumer society. In order to survive, it needs to adapt itself to a wider social context and, in particular, to international media coverage. It is in this context that the current success of women performers is located. However, women performers are a contested phenomenon in the bullfighting world: there is heated debate over their acceptability, much of which focuses on the body. Moreover, the entry of women into the bullfight questions existing definitions of the sport's ritual structure and of gender relations in Spain. Thoroughly researched and compelling to read, Women and Bullfighting addresses these issues and argues that existing traditionalist approaches to gender, bullfighting and ritual in Spain need to be revised in order to locate women bullfighters in the context of a richly varied culture which is increasingly affected by the media and contemporary patterns of consumption. This provocative book will be of interest to researchers and students of anthropology, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, media studies and Spanish studies.

Big Spring and Howard County

Author : Tammy Burrow Schrecengost
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738520599
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Big Spring and Howard County written by Tammy Burrow Schrecengost and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Native Americans had been visiting the oasis at the cross roads of the Comanche War Trail for hundreds of years, Captain Randolph Marcy was the first White man to "discover" the springs on October 3, 1849. Settlers moved their families to the area, and the region quickly developed into a ranching and farming community. Captured here in over 200 vintage images are the trials and triumphs of settlers and residents to build a life in Big Spring and the towns of Howard County. As the first settlers began setting up stakes in the region, a tent city was built at the springs while awaiting the arrival of a railway. Once the train was in service, Big Spring began to develop more permanent dwellings; schools, churches, and a newspaper were established, followed quickly by the building of hotels and banks and the formation of a local government. Featured here are over 150 years of the region's residents, homes, and social events, covering the many towns and communities of the County such as Forsan, Coahoma, Lomax, Elbow, Garden City, Knott, Vealmoor, Ackerly, and Vincent.

Manhunt Is My Mission

Author : Stephen Marlowe
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145325255X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Manhunt Is My Mission written by Stephen Marlowe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCaught in the middle of an Arab civil war, Drum looks for a missing surgeon/div DIVChester Drum knows it’s over for Qasr Tabuk when he sees the city’s prostitutes taking flight. He came to this war-torn Arab country in search of an American surgeon, Turner Capeheart, who disappeared when the rebels took up arms. His search turned up nothing, and now that the working girls are leaving, he decides to do the same. Death is coming to Qasr Tabuk, and though Drum may evade it for now, it will haunt him as long as he remains in this blighted desert land./divDIV /divDIVOn the road out of town, he offers a lift to a girl whose car has broken down. She is Samia Falcon, daughter of the rebel leader, and she knows where Dr. Capeheart is hiding. An army stands between them and the rebels, but Chester Drum doesn’t mind being outnumbered./div

Jeopardy Is My Job

Author : Stephen Marlowe
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 147942949X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Jeopardy Is My Job written by Stephen Marlowe and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chester Drum flies to Spain's Costa del Sol to investigate kidnapping and murder among the expatriate set, who drink always, work never, and love only themselves.

Death and Money in The Afternoon

Author : Adrian Shubert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198025556
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Death and Money in The Afternoon written by Adrian Shubert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. In his brilliant new interpretation of bullfighting, Adrian Shubert maintains that this view is both the product of myth and a complete misunderstanding of the real roots of the contemporary bullfight. While references to a form of bullfighting date back to the Poem of the Cid (1040), the modern bullfight did not emerge until the early 18th century. And when it did emerge, it was far from being an archaic remnant of the past--it was a precursor of the 20th-century mass leisure industry. Indeed, before today's multimillion-dollar athletes with wide-spread commercial appeal, there was Francisco Romero, born in 1700, whose unique form of bullfighting netted him unprecedented fame and wealth, and Manuel Rodriguez Manolete, hailed as Spain's greatest matador by the New York Times after a fatal goring in 1947. The bullfight was replete with promoters, agents, journalists, and, of course, hugely-paid bullfighters who were exploited to promote wine, cigarettes, and other products. Shubert analyzes the business of the sport, and explores the bullfighters' world: their social and geographic origins, careers, and social status. Here also are surprising revelations about the sport, such as the presence of women bullfighters--and the larger gender issues that this provoked. From the political use of bullfighting in royal and imperial pageants to the nationalistic "great patriotic bullfights" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this is both a fascinating portrait of bullfighting and a vivid recreation of two centuries of Spanish history. Based on extensive research and engagingly written, Death and Money in the Afternoon vividly examines the evolution of Spanish culture and society through the prism of one of the West's first--and perhaps its most spectacular--spectator sports.

Yankees in the Afternoon

Author : Lyn Sherwood
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786437693
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Yankees in the Afternoon written by Lyn Sherwood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader where only brave souls dare to compete--the world of bullfighting. Matadors risk serious injury or death to compete in their art, one that has been a part of Spanish and Latin American culture for centuries. Beginning with an introduction to bullfighting as it relates to American culture (not overlooking the negative views it often attracts), the book profiles 21 American matadors in detail, including women bullfighters, and novilleros (beginners). Chapters within each section are devoted to individual bullfighters. A major feature of this work are the numerous action photographs, many of which were taken by the author himself and impressively portray the flair, skill, emotion, and faces of bullfighting.

The Only Game in Town

Author : David Remnick
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679603662
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Only Game in Town written by David Remnick and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievement—in 1930. John Cheever pens a story about a boy’s troubled relationship with his father and the national pastime. From Lance Armstrong to bullfighter Sidney Franklin, from the Chinese Olympics to the U.S. Open, the greatest plays and players, past and present, are all covered in The Only Game in Town. At The New Yorker, it’s not whether you win or lose—it’s how you write about the game. Including: “The Web of the Game” by Roger Angell “Ahab and Nemesis” by A. J . Liebling “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” by John Updike “The Only Games in Town” by Anthony Lane “Race Track” by Bill Barich “A Sense of Where You Are” by John McPhee “El Único Matador” by Lillian Ross “Net Worth” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “The Long Ride” by Michael Specter “Born Slippy” by John Seabrook “The Chosen One” by David Owen “Legend of a Sport” by Alva Johnston “A Man-Child in Lotusland” by Rebecca Mead “Dangerous Game” by Nick Paumgarten “The Running Novelist” by Haruki Murakami “Back to the Basement” by Nancy Franklin “Playing Doc’s Games” by William Finnegan “Last of the Metrozoids” by Adam Gopnik “The Sandy Frazier Dream Team” by Ian Frazier “Br’er Rabbit Ball” by Ring Lardner “The Greens of Ireland” by Herbert Warren Wind “Tennis Personalities” by Martin Amis “Project Knuckleball” by Ben McGrath “Game Plan” by Don DeLillo “The Art of Failure” by Malcolm Gladwell “Swimming with Sharks” by Charles Sprawson “The National Pastime” by John Cheever “SNO” by Calvin Trillin “Musher” by Susan Orlean “Home and Away” by Peter Hessler “No Obstacles” by Alec Wikinson “A Stud’s Life” by Kevin Conley

A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One

Author : Jean Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131774666X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One written by Jean Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers. Questions explored in this text include: What are the fresh perspectives and newly available sources for the historian of women’s sport? How do these take forward established debates on women’s place in sporting culture and what novel approaches do they suggest? How can our appreciation of fashion, travel, food and medical history be advanced by looking at women’s involvement in sport? How can we use some of the current ideas and methodologies in the recent literature on the history and sociology of sport in order to look afresh at women’s participation? Jean Williams’s original research on these topics and more will be a useful resource for scholars in the fields of sports, women’s studies, history and sociology.

Grammar and Gender

Author : Dennis E. Baron
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300038835
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Grammar and Gender written by Dennis E. Baron and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of sexual bias in the English language, examines attempts at reform, and discusses new words coined to reduce sexism in language

Three Women

Author : August Franza
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669874478
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Three Women written by August Franza and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THREE WOMEN is about Eleanor, Helen, and Rana-- their ambitions, their indignities, and their fates.

LIFE

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1956-04-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Firsts

Author : Wilson Casey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101159006
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Firsts written by Wilson Casey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who ever wanted to know the history of the chocolate chip cookie, earmuffs, and Daylight Savings! Firsts, history through the milestones of human achievement, are fun. And Wilson Casey, trivia expert, has collected over 500 firsts in nearly every major category of culture: from fashion to food, politics to science, entertainment to art to architecture. Each 'first' is a full explanation of the topic at hand, written in a humorous yet authoritative style. It includes: ?The true history of the golf tee ?How a blind man came up with cruise control ?The myth behind the origins of the Caesar salad ?Why and how the first dieter dieted

Jane Dolinger

Author : L. Abbott
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230111831
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Jane Dolinger written by L. Abbott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost forty years, Jane Dolinger traveled the world and wrote about her adventures, from the Amazon jungle to the sands of the Sahara. She produced eight books and more than a thousand articles between 1955 and 1995, and she also earned a reputation as a glamorous celebrity and model. Jane Dolinger was an anomaly in her time, a dynamic and attractive woman with an impressive literary talent, a woman who lived and documented a most unconventional and inspirational life. Sometimes controversial but always outstanding, Jane was a pioneer among women and writers. Here for the first time, her life and work are studied in a thoroughly researched yet entertaining literary biography.

Reporting Always

Author : Lillian Ross
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501116010
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Reporting Always written by Lillian Ross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the inimitable veteran New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross--a stunning collection of Ross's iconic New Yorker pieces"--