Ladies And Gents

Author : Olga Gershenson,Barbara Penner
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781592139408

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Ladies and Gents by Olga Gershenson,Barbara Penner Pdf

Public toilets provide a unique opportunity for interrogating how conventional assumptions about the body, sexuality, privacy, and technology are formed in public spaces and inscribed through design across cultures. This collection of original essays from international scholars is the first to explore the cultural meanings, histories, and ideologies of public toilets as gendered spaces. Ladies and Gents consists of two sets of essays. The first, "Potty Politics: Toilets, Gender and Identity," establishes the importance of accessible, secure public toilets to the creation of inclusive cities, work, and learning environments. The second set of essays, "Toilet Art: Design and Cultural Representations," discusses public toilets as spaces of representation and representational spaces, with reference to architectural design, humor, film, theater, art, and popular culture. Compelling visual materials and original artwork are included throughout, depicting subjects as varied as female urinals, art installations sited in public restrooms, and the toilet in contemporary art. Taken together, these seventeen essays demonstrate that public toilets are often sites where gendered bodies compete for resources and recognition—and the stakes are high. Contributors include: Nathan Abrams, Jami L. Anderson, Johan Andersson, Kathryn H. Anthony, Kathy Battista, Andrew Brown-May, Ben Campkin, Meghan Dufresne, Peg Fraser, Deborah Gans, Clara Greed, Robin Lydenberg, Claudia Mitchell, Alison Moore, Frances Pheasant-Kelly, Bushra Rehman, Alex Schweder, Naomi Stead, and the editors.

Author : Adam Ross
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307596758

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Ladies and Gentlemen by Adam Ross Pdf

After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives. A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the rescue of his irresponsible, irresistible younger brother. An unsettling story resonates between the dysfunctional couple telling it and their listening friends as well. A lonely professor, frequently regaled with unbelievably entertaining tales by the office handyman, suddenly fears he’s being asked to abet a murderous fugitive. An awkward but nervy adolescent uses his brief career as a child actor to further his designs on a WASPy friend’s seemingly untouchable sister. A man down on his luck closes in on a mysterious, much-needed job offer while doing a good turn for his fragile neighbor, with results at once surreal and hilarious. And when two college kids goad each other on in an escalating series of breathtaking dares, the outcome is as tragic as it is ambiguous. Laced with glimmers of redemption, youthful energy, and hard-won wisdom, these noirish stories unspool purposefully and fluidly; together they confirm the arrival of—as Michiko Kakutani put it in The New York Times—“an enormously talented writer.”

Author : Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813921990

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Ladies and Gentlemen on Display by Charlene M. Boyer Lewis Pdf

Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful and entertaining Virginia Springs. While some came in search of a cure, most traveled over the mountains to enjoy the fashionable society and participate in an array of social activities. At the springs, visitors, as well as their slaves, interacted with one another and engaged in behavior quite different from the picture presented by most historians. In the leisurely and pleasure-filled environment of the springs, plantation society's hierarchies became at once more relaxed and more contested; its rituals and rules sometimes changed and reformed; and its gender divisions often softened and blurred. In Ladies and Gentlemen on Display, Charlene Boyer Lewis argues that the Virginia Springs provided a theater of sorts, where contests for power between men and women, fashionables and evangelicals, blacks and whites, old and young, and even northerners and southerners played out—away from the traditional roles of the plantation. In their pursuit of health and pleasure, white southerners created a truly regional community at the springs. At this edge of the South, elite southern society shaped itself, defining what it meant to be a "Southerner" and redefining social roles and relations.

Author : Leon Z. Surmelian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Armenia
ISBN : UOM:39015013929552

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I Ask You, Ladies and Gentlemen by Leon Z. Surmelian Pdf

Author : Albert Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:11075383

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce by Albert Goldman Pdf

Author : Michael S. Lief,Ben Bycell,Mitchell Caldwell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781471108549

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Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury by Michael S. Lief,Ben Bycell,Mitchell Caldwell Pdf

In the hands of a skilled trial lawyer, the closing argument offers the courtroom's greatest dramatic possiblilities. It is the advocate's last opportunity to convince the jury of their version of the "truth" before the defendent's fate is sealed. Every argument included here is a finely crafted verbal work of art - they represent the modern-day, highest form of an ancient profession and art: that of the storyteller. The only available collection of great closing arguments - complete with insightful analysis and biographical profiles of the lawyers involved - this fascinating volume gathers the passionate finales of the most celebrated cases in history. Included are the climactic closes to the Nuremberg War Trials; Gerry Spence's crusade against the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Power Plant after the mysterious death of Karen Silkwood; Vincent Bugliosi's successful prosecution of cult leader Charles Manson and his followers; the astounding acquittal of John Delorean despite video evidence of his offences and the prosecution resulting from the Mai Lai massacre.

Author : Jonathan Goldstein
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780143172901

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Ladies and Gentlemen the Bible! by Jonathan Goldstein Pdf

Yes, it's the greatest story ever told, but let's face it: It always could have used a little punching up. In Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!, Jonathan Goldstein brings human depth, humour, and snappier dialogue to millennia-old biblical stories. Goldstein's version of the Bible answers the questions you need to know: Wouldn't a person get bored living inside a whale? How did Joseph explain Mary's pregnancy to the guys at work? How could anyone be as dense as Samson?

Author : Florence King
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466816251

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Southern Ladies & Gentlemen by Florence King Pdf

Looking for guidance in understanding the ways and means of Southern culture? Look no further. Florence King's celebrated field guide to the land below the Mason-Dixon Line is now blissfully back in print, just in time for the Clinton era. The Failed Souther Lady's classic primer on Dixie manners captures such storied types as the Southern Woman (frigid, passionate, sweet, bitchy, and scatterbrained--all at the same time), the Self-Rejuvenating Virgin, and the Good Ole Boy in all his coats and stripes. (The Clinton questions--is he a G.O.B. or isn't he?--Miss king covers in her hilarious new Afterword.) No one has ever made more sharp, scathing, affectionate, real sense out of the land of the endless Civil War than Florence King in these razor-edged pages.

Author : Molly Glentzer,Don Glentzer
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0307352730

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Pink Ladies & Crimson Gents by Molly Glentzer,Don Glentzer Pdf

A beautifully photographed celebration of the rose traces the origins and history of fifty exquisite rose varieties and the legends, artists, and other intriguing figures who inspired such names as "Greenmantle," "Mozart," "Belle Isis," "Champneys' Pink Cluster," and others. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Tariq Zaidi
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3868289739

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Sapeurs by Tariq Zaidi Pdf

British photographer Tariq Zaidi presents a fashion subculture of Kinshasa & Brazzaville: La Sape, Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes. Its followers are known as 'Sapeurs' ('Sapeuses' for women). Most have ordinary day jobs as taxi-drivers, tailors and gardeners, but as soon as they clock off they transform themselves into debonair dandies. Sashaying through the streets they are treated like rock stars - turning heads, bringing 'joie de vivre' to their communities and defying their circumstances.

Author : Eliza Bisbee Duffey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Etiket
ISBN : UCSC:32106000130846

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The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Etiquette by Eliza Bisbee Duffey Pdf

Author : Jean-Louis Ginibre
Publisher : Filipacchi Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781933231044

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Ladies Or Gentlemen by Jean-Louis Ginibre Pdf

From Greek drama through vaudeville and modern cinema, nothing in the theatrical experience has ever guaranteed a laugh like a man in a dress. This spectacular pictorial history examines the grand tradition of male cross-dressing in the movies through more than 700 photos, more than half of which are previously unpublished. The screen's greatest stars, from comedians like Buster Keaton and Peter Sellers to "serious" actors like Marlon Brando and Max von Sydow, are pictured in everything from bustiers to ball gowns. Just as in real life, the cinematic motives for cross-dressing are complex, ranging from plot device (I Was a Male War Bride) and social commentary (Tootsie) to the simple sight gags of Laurel and Hardy. The book explores these and myriad other reasons actors are coaxed out of dress suits and into dresses. By turns provocative, serious, and silly, Ladies or Gentlemen is a delightful study of a seldom-explored facet of cinema history.

Author : Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery
Publisher : Blue Snake Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781583948699

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Self-Defense for Gentlemen and Ladies by Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery Pdf

This 19th-century self-defense manual—written by a master swordsman—will appeal to fencers and martial artists as well as fans of Victorian-era culture, steampunk, and American history Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery was a master swordsman who participated in more than fifty duels, fought under twelve flags, battled gangsters, and was constantly involved in the great conflicts and upheavals of his time. In the 1870s, he began writing his magnum opus—a series of newspaper articles that are now collected here for the first time in Self-Defense for Gentleman and Ladies. In this book, Colonel Monstery presents a unique look into the Victorian-era fighting world. He describes styles such as British “purring” (shin-kicking), Welsh jump-kicking, and American rough-and-tumble fighting, in addition to providing illustrated instruction in the art of gentlemanly self-defense with a cane, staff, or one’s bare hands. Fifty rare drawings and photographs from the period illuminate Monstery’s world, while an extensive glossary of terms and an introductory biography of Colonel Monstery—including fascinating details of his many duels as well as his groundbreaking devotion to teaching fencing and self-defense skills to women—update his text to make it accessible and useful to gentlemen and ladies of any era. Contents Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery: The Unknown American Martial Arts Master I. Introduction. II. The Logic of Boxing. III. Standing and Striking. IV. Advancing to Strike and Feinting. V. Simple Parries in Boxing. VI. Parries with Returns. VII. Effective or Counter Parries in Boxing. VIII. Offence and Defense by Evasions. IX. Trips, Grips, and Back-Falls. X. Rules for a Set-to with Gloves. XI. Observations on Natural Weapons. XII. The Use of the Cane. XIII. The Use of the Cane (continued). XIV. The Use of the Staff. XV. The Use of the Staff (continued). Appendix: Monstery's Rules for Contests of Sparring and Fencing Glossary

Author : Sarah A. Chrisman
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781634500005

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True Ladies and Proper Gentlemen by Sarah A. Chrisman Pdf

Regardless of time period, some things hold true: kindness is timeless. Invasion of privacy; divorce; relationship issues; encounters between people from different places and cultures; new technologies developed at dizzying speeds . . . the hectic pace of life in the late nineteenth century could make the mind reel. Wait a minute—the nineteenth century? Many of the issues people faced in the 1880s and ’90s surprisingly remain problems in today’s modern world, so why not take a peek at some Victorian advice about negotiating life’s dizzying twists and turns? Gathered from period magazines and Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms, a book on social conduct originally published in 1891, this volume provides timeless guidance for a myriad of situations, including: The husband’s duty: Give your wife every advantage that it is possible to bestow. Suggestions about shopping: Purchasers should, as far as possible, patronize the merchants of their own town. (Buy local!) Suggestions for travel: Having paid for one ticket, you are entitled to only one seat. It shows selfishness to deposit a large amount of baggage in the surrounding seats and occupy three or four. Unclassified laws of etiquette: Never leave home with unkind words. This advice is accompanied by watercolors and illustrations throughout. Though these are tips originate from nineteenth-century ideas, you’ll find that they certainly do still apply.

Author : Marvin Edward McAllister
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0807854506

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White People Do Not Know how to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour by Marvin Edward McAllister Pdf

McAllister offers a history of black theater pioneer William Brown's career and places his productions within the broader context of U.S. social, political, and cultural history.