Cherchez La Femme

Author : Cheryl Gerber
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781496826220

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Cherchez la Femme by Cheryl Gerber Pdf

Contributions by Constance Adler, Karen Celestan, Alison Fensterstock, Kathy Finn, Helen Freund, Cheryl Gerber, Anne Gisleson, Cherice Harrison-Nelson, Karen Trahan Leathem, Katy Reckdahl, Melanie Warner Spencer, Sue Strachan, Kim Vaz-Deville, and Geraldine Wyckoff New Orleans native Cheryl Gerber captures the vibrancy and diversity of New Orleans women in Cherchez la Femme: New Orleans Women. Inspired by the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, DC, Gerber’s book includes over two hundred photographs of the city’s most well-known women and the everyday women who make New Orleans so rich and diverse. Drawing from her own archives as well as new works, Gerber’s selection of photographs in Cherchez la Femme highlights the contributions of women to the city, making it one of the only photographic histories of modern New Orleans women. Alongside Gerber’s photographs are twelve essays written by female writers about such women as Leah Chase, Irma Thomas, Mignon Faget, and Trixie Minx. Also featured are prominent groups of women that have made their mark on the city, like the Mardi Gras Indians, Baby Dolls, and the Krewe of Muses, among others. The book is divided into eleven chapters, each celebrating the women who add to New Orleans’s uniqueness, including entertainers, socialites, activists, musicians, chefs, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, and burlesque artists.

Author : Walter Pfeiffer,Michelle Nicol,Martin Jäggi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Photography of women
ISBN : 3905509660

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Cherchez la femme! by Walter Pfeiffer,Michelle Nicol,Martin Jäggi Pdf

Author : Helen Hanson,Catherine O'Rawe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230282018

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The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts by Helen Hanson,Catherine O'Rawe Pdf

These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.

Author : Erika Fülöp
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443831123

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Cherchez la femme by Erika Fülöp Pdf

Throughout history, the most fundamental values at the basis of societal organization and culture were determined and sanctified almost exclusively by men—including the values traditionally associated with women, such as corporeal beauty, purity, motherhood, or empathy. However, from ancient times, and increasingly toward the end of the second millennium, women have succeeded in finding ways to overcome such limits and have made their contributions to the revision of values and to the establishment of new ones. Cherchez la femme offers a selection of essays inquiring into the nature of aesthetic, linguistic, cultural, and social values created, informed, or reformed by women in the French-speaking world, as well as studies on how the discourse of (male) power used female figures to strengthen its own position. With topics ranging in time from Semiramis’s ancient legend to today, and in space from Québec to Haiti, metropolitan France, and New Caledonia, the volume shares the richness and fruitfulness of the female perspective in art, culture, theory, and political action.

Author : Cheryl Gerber
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781496826206

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Cherchez la Femme by Cheryl Gerber Pdf

Contributions by Constance Adler, Karen Celestan, Alison Fensterstock, Kathy Finn, Helen Freund, Cheryl Gerber, Anne Gisleson, Cherice Harrison-Nelson, Karen Trahan Leathem, Katy Reckdahl, Melanie Warner Spencer, Sue Strachan, Kim Vaz-Deville, and Geraldine Wyckoff New Orleans native Cheryl Gerber captures the vibrancy and diversity of New Orleans women in Cherchez la Femme: New Orleans Women. Inspired by the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, DC, Gerber’s book includes over two hundred photographs of the city’s most well-known women and the everyday women who make New Orleans so rich and diverse. Drawing from her own archives as well as new works, Gerber’s selection of photographs in Cherchez la Femme highlights the contributions of women to the city, making it one of the only photographic histories of modern New Orleans women. Alongside Gerber’s photographs are twelve essays written by female writers about such women as Leah Chase, Irma Thomas, Mignon Faget, and Trixie Minx. Also featured are prominent groups of women that have made their mark on the city, like the Mardi Gras Indians, Baby Dolls, and the Krewe of Muses, among others. The book is divided into eleven chapters, each celebrating the women who add to New Orleans’s uniqueness, including entertainers, socialites, activists, musicians, chefs, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, and burlesque artists.

Author : Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226267449

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Willem de Kooning Nonstop by Rosalind E. Krauss Pdf

This image-rich essay offers a radical rethinking of the ab-ex painter Willem de Kooning by one of the greatest American art critics. Many have written about de Kooning s startling canvases of monstrous women, but none have approached them this way. In prose as energetic as her subject, Rosalind Krauss demonstrates how de Kooning could never stop reworking the same subject. Deploying one telling image after another, she shows that, from the early days of his career, de Kooning nearly always (1) worked with a tripartite vertical structure, (2) projected his own figure and point of view as the (male) artist into the painting, and (3) was compelled to produce the female figure, legs splayed obscenely or knees projected into the viewer s space in practically everything he made. Hidden in plain sight even in paintings of highways, boats, and landscapes, Woman is always there. How could we have missed this?"

Author : Cynthia Eller
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807067938

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The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory by Cynthia Eller Pdf

According to the myth of matriarchal prehistory, men and women lived together peacefully before recorded history. Society was centered around women, with their mysterious life-giving powers, and they were honored as incarnations and priestesses of the Great Goddess. Then a transformation occurred, and men thereafter dominated society. Given the universality of patriarchy in recorded history, this vision is understandably appealing for many women. But does it have any basis in fact? And as a myth, does it work for the good of women? Cynthia Eller traces the emergence of the feminist matriarchal myth, explicates its functions, and examines the evidence for and against a matriarchal prehistory. Finally, she explains why this vision of peaceful, woman-centered prehistory is something feminists should be wary of.

Author : Mark T. Conard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780813123776

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The Philosophy of Film Noir by Mark T. Conard Pdf

Explores philosophical themes and ideas inherent in classic noir and neo-noir films, establishing connections to diverse thinkers ranging from Camus to the Frankfurt School. The authors, each focusing on a different aspect of the genre, explores the philosophical underpinnings of classic films.

Author : Barbara Belyea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1320148077

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Cherchez la Femme by Barbara Belyea Pdf

Author : Pepé Le Pew,Sally Deems-Mogyordy
Publisher : Insight Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1608870103

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Stink of Love by Pepé Le Pew,Sally Deems-Mogyordy Pdf

Learn from the master of l’amour! In The Stink of Love, Monsieur Pepé Le Pew tells readers how to charm a belle femme with helpful chapters on Grooming, The Chase, and Couplehood. Let Pepé tells how to put one's best paw forward on the path to love, how to anticipate a potential mate’s needs and desires, how to woo and romance, and — most importantly — how to hold on to her! As Pepé says, “there is very little difference between men and women, but vivre le difference!" Mais oui, love is a many splendored thing! As the world turns to shades of pink and red, cynics can warm their hearts and laugh out loud to Pepé’s cheerful self-delusion. Deems-Mogyordy’s writing is pitch-perfect Pepé Le Pew, completely in character. As Pepé might say, “Cherchez la femme!”

Author : Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art criticism
ISBN : 0892367431

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Making Up the Rococo by Melissa Lee Hyde Pdf

Exploring how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class, this account of Boucher's art should persuade critics and admirers alike to take another, more considered look.

Author : Holly Virginia Blackford
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807744666

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Out of this World by Holly Virginia Blackford Pdf

The author analyzes the way the girls discuss pleasure in becoming "the eye" of the reader, use film to decode the genres of literature, master forms such as fantasy and Gothic, describe the differences between reading and viewing films, and identify only with animal rather than human characters. Blackford intertwines the vivid voices of her girl respondents with her own story of moving beyond her feminist and multicultural assumptions of how children are shaped by the stories we tell in literature. This breakthrough text presents surprising findings about how girls appreciate literature and what they enjoy about reading.

Author : Pierre L. Horn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313368820

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Handbook of French Popular Culture by Pierre L. Horn Pdf

Throughout the world, there has been much scholarly and general interest in French popular culture, but very little has been written on the subject in English. The authors of this book address that lack in a series of highly readable and well-documented essays describing French life styles, attitudes, and entertainments as well as the writers and performers currently favored by the French public. Several chapters explore French tastes in popular literature and other reading matter, including comics, cartoons, mystery and spy fiction, newspapers and magazines, and science fiction. Film, popular music, radio, and television are also discussed in detail, and influences from other cultures--particularly American imports--are assessed. The remaining essays examine French sports, the use of leisure time, the French style of eating and drinking, and relations between men and women and their attitudes toward romantic love. Each chapter provides up-to-date historical and bibliographic information that will enable the reader to pursue subjects of particular interest. Written by an international group of specialists, this handbook offers the benefits of broad coverage, a variety of viewpoints, and solid scholarship.

Author : Harvey J. Pitcher
Publisher : New York : F. Watts
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012294347

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Chekhov's Leading Lady by Harvey J. Pitcher Pdf

A biography of a leading actress of the Moscow Art Theatre who became the wife of Anton Chekhov three years before his death.

Author : Rachel Ingalls
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571367993

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Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions) by Rachel Ingalls Pdf

The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman ...'Disturbing but seductive ... Wonderful.' Margaret Atwood'Perfect.' Max Porter'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' Marlon James'A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.' Carmen Maria Machado'Kind of weird and cool. ' Irvine Welsh''Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.' Patricia Lockwood'Genius ... Like Revolutionary Road written by Franz Kafka ... Exquisite.' The Times'Incredibly liberates readers from the awfulness of convention to a state where weirdness and otherness are beautiful.' Sarah Hall'A devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar.' Irenosen Okojie (foreword)Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce. One day, she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research - but little does she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular, vegetarian, sexually magnetic, Larry the frogman is a revelation - and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams ... Rachel Ingalls's Mrs Caliban is a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago'A miracle . A perfect novel.' New Yorker'Every one of its 125 pages is perfect ... Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.' Harper'sWhat Readers Are Saying:'Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written'*****'A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape of Water.'*****'Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.'*****'Absolutely incredible. It's weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.'*****'One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I've ever read. It delves into gender politics. It takes a long, hard look at mental health. It addresses female sexual freedom and agency. It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human ... Genius.'*****'Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies that examines sad realities with hilarious verve ... Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. '*****'Hooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night ... Beautiful ... Will stay with me.'*****'What the hell just happened?'*****