Emelia’s Way
Emelia’s Way

Author: Tylia Flores

Publisher: Tylia L. Flores

Published: 2024-06-16

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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Rodriguez unfolds. Emelia, a remarkable 17-year-old girl born with Cerebral Palsy, embarks on a courageous journey to find her place in the world while navigating the challenges of her senior year at Plantation High School. This poignant narrative explores Emelia's unwavering determination and unwavering spirit as she strives to overcome obstacles and fulfill her dreams. In "Emelia's Way," Tylia L. Flores beautifully encapsulates the remarkable journey of Emelia Rodriguez, a young woman born with Cerebral Palsy, as she navigates her way through her senior year at Plantation High School and beyond. This powerful memoir is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and a reminder that our circumstances do not define us. Emelia's story is an inspiration to all, encouraging us to embrace resilience, advocate for inclusivity, and pursue our dreams with unwavering determination. Throughout "Emelia's Way," Flores emphasizes the importance of disability activism and advocacy. Emelia's determination to challenge societal norms and create a more inclusive world leaves a lasting impact on those around her. This memoir serves as a call to action, urging readers to recognize and dismantle the barriers faced by individuals with disabilities.

Christmas at Emelia's
Christmas at Emelia's

Author: Lexi Buchanan

Publisher: HFCA Publishing House

Published: 2020-12-14

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13:

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This Christmas join the De La Fuentes and McKenzies in Blossom Creek as they celebrate the grand opening of Emelia’s Restaurant. Over twenty years after Levi De La Fuente's parents opened the first Emelia’s, Levi and his cousin Ryan are getting ready to open a second location. Emma De La Fuente manages the first Emelia’s in Essex, Vermont for her parents. She’s in town to assist her brother and cousin in getting the new restaurant ready for its grand opening. However, she didn’t plan on the strong attraction she feels toward the town Sheriff. The man with his sweet words and heated looks has managed to derail her plans on returning home. While his sister is distracted, Levi finds himself in need of rescuing from a rather embarrassing situation. Luckily for him, Vivien Taylor, owner of Temptations, Blossom Creek’s handmade chocolate store, appears just at the right time. If only he didn’t crave the sweet woman, then maybe, this situation wouldn’t be so awkward. Blossom Creek just might be warm enough to melt the snow this holiday season.

Reading Veganism
Reading Veganism

Author: Emelia Quinn

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-09-02

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 019265540X

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Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope 'the monstrous vegan' across two hundred years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters, veganism's relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the 'human,' the book explores ways in which ethical identities can be written, represented, and transmitted. Reading Veganism proposes that we can recognise and identify the monstrous vegan in relation to four key traits. First, monstrous vegans do not eat animals, an abstinence that generates a seemingly inexplicable anxiety in those who encounter them. Second, they are hybrid assemblages of human and nonhuman animal parts, destabilising existing taxonomical classifications. Third, monstrous vegans are sired outside of heterosexual reproduction, the product of male acts of creation. And finally, monstrous vegans are intimately connected to acts of writing and literary creation. The principle contention of the book is that understandings of veganism, as identity and practice, are limited without a consideration of multiplicity, provisionality, failure, and insufficiency within vegan definition and lived practice. Veganism's association with positivity, in its drive for health and purity, is countered by a necessary and productive negativity generated by a recognition of the horrors of the modern world. Vegan monsters rehearse the key paradoxes involved in the writing of vegan identity.

Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film
Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film

Author: Sarah Hill

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1350120316

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In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet, British cinema's engagement with contemporary girlhood has - unlike its Hollywood counterpart - been largely ignored until now. Sarah Hill's Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film provides the first book-length study of how young femininity has been constructed, both in films like the St. Trinians franchise and by critically acclaimed directors like Andrea Arnold, Carol Morley and Lone Scherfig. Hill offers new ways to understand how postfeminism informs British cinema and how it is adapted to fit its specific geographical context. By interrogating UK cinema through this lens, Hill paints a diverse and distinctive portrait of modern femininity and consolidates the important academic links between film, feminist media and girlhood studies.

Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature
Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature

Author: Simone Chess

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1317360869

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This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. The author argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. Further, she argues that these relational representations show that the crossdresser and his/her allies often benefit financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation, a corrective to the dominant idea that queer gender has always been associated with shame, containment, and correction. By attending to these relational and beneficial representations of MTF crossdressers in early modern literature, the volume helps to make a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied and queer-feminine representations in our conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.

New Directions in Gender and Religion
New Directions in Gender and Religion

Author: Brigid M. Sackey

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780739110584

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Brigid M. Sackey's book is a comprehensive analysis of gender relations in religion in Ghana, using gendered anthropological tools of rare insight and originality. The book chronicles the efforts of men and women who bring a repackaged and customized Christianity and health delivery to meet with the specific cultural needs. Sackey disabuses notions of the helplessness of women in Ghana specifically (and Africa in general) as it highlights women's initiatives and assertiveness as healers and leaders of the churches they have founded, in addition to their increased involvement and participation in gender discourses and social change. Sackey also addresses the question of HIV and the AIDS epidemic, detailing how the churches, through the specific leadership of women, are supporting a national campaign on the disease. Basing her research on an exhaustive library of oral history, ethnography, theory, and case studies, Sackey has brilliantly chronicled the relentless proliferation of and innovations in African Independent Churches, and their impact on the national health delivery system and its development.