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Author: John Izbicki
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Published: 2014-10
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781910074046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the fascinating story of Lydia Lova; one of the most decorated women in France for her war-time resistance work; later a nude dancer at the Folies Bergere.
Author: David Kunzle
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2006-08-24
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 0752495453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting the history of corsetry and body sculpture, this edition shows how the relationship between fashion and sex is closely bound up with sexual self-expression. It demonstrates how the use of the corset rejected the role of the passive, maternal woman, so that in Victorian times it was seen as a scandalous threat to the social order.
Author: Jeremy Agnew
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-07-25
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 147663257X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica--often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than quality--publishers realized high profits playing to low tastes. Estimates put pulp magazine circulation in the 1930s at 30 million monthly. This vast body of "disposable literature" has received little critical attention, in large part because much of it has been lost--the cheaply made books were either discarded after reading or soon disintegrated. Covering the history of pulp literature from 1850 through 1960, the author describes how sensational tales filled a public need and flowered during the evolving social conditions of the Industrial Revolution.
Author: D. Hassler-Forest
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-04-14
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1137443855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling.
Author: Kathleen Ragan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2000-05-17
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 0393285871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne hundred great folk tales and fairy tales from all over the world about strong, smart, brave heroines. Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and New World settlers, from Asia and the Middle East, these 100 folktales celebrate strong female heroines. Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters is for all women who are searching to define who they are, to redefine the world and shape their collective sensibility. It is for men who want to know more about what it means to be a woman. It is for our daughters and our sons, so that they can learn to value all kinds of courage, courage in battle and the courage of love. It is for all of us to help build a more just vision of woman.
Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. Jane Burns
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2014-07-09
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0812291247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns unfolds the rich display of costly garments worn by amorous partners in literary texts and other cultural documents in the French High Middle Ages. Burns "reads through clothes" in lyric, romance, and didactic literary works, vernacular sermons, and sumptuary laws to show how courtly attire is used to negotiate desire, sexuality, and symbolic space as well as social class. Reading through clothes reveals that the expression of female desire, so often effaced in courtly lyric and romance, can be registered in the poetic deployment of fabric and adornment, and that gender is often configured along a sartorial continuum, rather than in terms of naturally derived categories of woman and man. The symbolic identification of the court itself as a hybrid crossing place between Europe and the East also emerges through Burns's reading of literary allusions to the trade, travel, and pilgrimage that brought luxury cloth to France.
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 864
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Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 632
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