Naked Lives

Author : Mindy S. Bradley-Engen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438426327

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Naked Lives by Mindy S. Bradley-Engen Pdf

Is stripping good or bad for the women who do it? According to sociologist Mindy S. Bradley-Engen, there's no simple answer. An exotic dancer's experiences can be both empowering and degrading: at times a dancer can feel like a goddess, at times ashamed and dirty. Drawing on extensive interviews as well as her own experiences as an exotic dancer, Bradley-Engen shows that strippers' work experiences are shaped by the types of establishments—the different worlds—in which they work. A typology of strip clubs emerges: the hustle club, the show club, and the social club, each with its own distinct culture, expectations, and challenges, each creating circumstances in which stripping can be good, bad, or indifferent. Going beyond the warring rhetorics of exploitation and empowerment, this book provides a rich and complex account of the realities of exotic dance and offers a fascinating, thought-provoking consideration for both academics and general readers.

Author : Annie Grace
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780996715010

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This Naked Mind by Annie Grace Pdf

This Naked Mind has ignited a movement across the country, helping thousands of people forever change their relationship with alcohol. Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it may even be affecting their health. But, they resist change because they fear losing the pleasure and stress-relief associated with alcohol, and assume giving it up will involve deprivation and misery. This Naked Mind offers a new, positive solution. Here, Annie Grace clearly presents the psychological and neurological components of alcohol use based on the latest science, and reveals the cultural, social, and industry factors that support alcohol dependence in all of us. Packed with surprising insight into the reasons we drink, this book will open your eyes to the startling role of alcohol in our culture, and how the stigma of alcoholism and recovery keeps people from getting the help they need. With Annie’s own extraordinary and candid personal story at its heart, this book is a must-read for anyone who drinks. This Naked Mind will give you freedom from alcohol. It removes the psychological dependence so that you will not crave alcohol, allowing you to easily drink less (or stop drinking). With clarity, humor, and a unique blend of science and storytelling, This Naked Mind will open the door to the life you have been waiting for. “You have given me my live back.” —Katy F., Albuquerque, New Mexico “This is an inspiring and groundbreaking must-read. I am forever inspired and changed.” —Kate S., Los Angeles, California “The most selfless and amazing book that I have ever read.” —Bernie M., Dublin, Ireland

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000107312336

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Naked Consumer by Erik Larson Pdf

Some companies gather and sell personal information to assist businesses in their marketing campaigns. It this American business at its finest, or simply a horrible invasion of our privacy? This shocking book will make readers think twice before writing their next check or going to the grocery store.

Author : Joseph Anthony LoGiudice,Michael Carosone
Publisher : Via Folios
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1599540509

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Our Naked Lives by Joseph Anthony LoGiudice,Michael Carosone Pdf

Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. Italian American Studies. Edited by Joseph Anthony LoGiudice and Michael Carosone. OUR NAKED LIVES: ESSAYS FROM GAY ITALIAN AMERICAN MEN includes essays by Michael Carosone, John D'Emilio, Charles Derry, George De Stefano, Joseph A. Federico, Joseph Anthony LoGiudice, Michael Luongo, David Masello, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Joe Oppedisano, Felice Picano, Frank Anthony Polito, Michael Schiavi, Frank Spinelli, and Tony Tripoli. The impetus for this book derived from Michael's thesis on the marginalization of Italian American literature for his master's degree in English. While conducting his research, Michael stumbled upon two books of gay Italian American writings. The only two books! At first, Michael was excited with his discovery. Then disappointment and anger erased the excitement when he realized that Gay Italian American identities and voices were not represented in literature, especially Italian American literature and Queer literature. So, we talked about how both of our identities—Gay and Italian American—never appeared throughout our years of formal education. Those two characters were never written in the scenes; those two actors were never given roles on the stage. And we wondered how much longer this would continue, and how much more we were able to tolerate. The purpose of this book is to present these essays that inform on the experiences of these men and their lives as part of the diverse fabric of American society. The lives of these writers are complex because they are forced to conform into a society that demands that they do not express their sexual and ethnic identities, with pride, in positive ways. As sexual and ethnic minorities, these men experience double discrimination. Many people will ask why this book is important and unique, and why this group of men is important and unique. Our answer to that often ubiquitous and trite question is this: Our identities, voices, words, and lives are important and unique because the intersection of our sexuality and ethnicity does not allow us to fit in to the mainstream American society and culture, thereby keeping us in the margins. And it should be common sense and common knowledge by now, in the twenty-first century, that no human being deserves to be marginalized for any reason.

Author : Sharon Zukin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199741892

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Naked City by Sharon Zukin Pdf

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--evident in escalating real estate prices, expensive stores, and closely monitored urban streetscapes--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and travels to both the city's first IKEA store and the World Trade Center site. She shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen. Indeed, Naked City is a sobering update of Jacobs' legendary 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Like Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood "characters" that Jacobs so evocatively idealized.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1N4W

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Plutarch's Lives of Romulus, Lycurgus, Solon ... and Others and His Comparisons by Plutarch Pdf

Author : Julian Hargreaves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Hargreaves, Julian
ISBN : 0953743861

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Naked Life by Julian Hargreaves Pdf

There's something for everyone in this collection of imagery celebrating the natural beauty of the male form, the invitation to fantasize, the subtle undertones of darkness and the forbidden, and the power of the overtly erotic. Here is the male body celebrated for style as well as for content, its beauty expressed through a visual language that owes as much to the raw power of hardcore as the purity of the classic aesthetic.

Author : Brian D. McLaren
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062074645

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Naked Spirituality by Brian D. McLaren Pdf

“A rich, brilliant and important book: wonderfully readable and personal, filled with insight and wisdom, it invites us into practices that can transform our lives.” —Marcus J. Borg, author of Speaking Christian “Brian McLaren is a bridge builder. In these simple yet profound spiritual practices he perfectly marries his evangelical heart and contemplative soul, and we are all richer for the union.” —Cynthia Bourgeault, author of Centering Prayer and The Wisdom Jesus In the same way he revitalized our faith in A New Kind of Christianity, church leader Brian McLaren reinvigorates our approach to spiritual fulfillment in Naked Spirituality—by tearing down the old dogmatic practices that hamper our spiritual growth, and leading us toward the meaningful spiritual practices that can help transform our lives.

Author : A. D. Rowen
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1793339236

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Love Life of a Naked Girl by A. D. Rowen Pdf

If being best friends with a naked girl was an experience, just wait until you try dating her! Kind-hearted Lisa and exuberant exhibitionist Becky were best friends since childhood, and now they are officially an item. But Becky shows no signs of reigning in her enthusiasm for nudism and public nakedness, and two girls are finding it isn't easy to maintain a relationship over long distances while they study at university. Add to the mix a charming caddish photographer, a riotous rock band, a young couple eager to experiment, and an organisation of serious naturists, and you have a potential recipe for disaster. Now, will the very thing that brought Becky and Lisa together be what drives them apart? The sequel to the hit 'Best Friends with a Naked Girl'

Author : Peter Unwin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441159175

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Newcomers' Lives by Peter Unwin Pdf

How the culture and life of the British people have been transformed by the contribution of immigrants in recent history.

Author : Tim Delaney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317262145

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Connecting Sociology to Our Lives by Tim Delaney Pdf

Many introductory texts claim to make sociology relevant to student interests. Perhaps no other text has done this so completely - and engagingly - as Connecting Sociology to Our Lives. Tim Delaney not only uses popular and contemporary culture examples, he explains sociology thoroughly within the frame of the contemporary culture of students - a culture shaped by political, economic, and environmental trends just as much as by today's pop stars. This book will help academics to engage their students in sociology through the prism of their own culture. It involves students in critical thinking and classroom discussion through the book's many 'What Do You Think?' inserts, and will inspire them to careers with the book's unique chapter, 'Sociology's Place in Society: Completing the Connection'.

Author : William H. Epstein,R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438460796

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Invented Lives, Imagined Communities by William H. Epstein,R. Barton Palmer Pdf

How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American. Biopics—films that chronicle the lives of famous and notorious figures from our national history—have long been one of Hollywood’s most popular and important genres, offering viewers various understandings of American national identity. Invented Lives, Imagined Communities provides the first full-length examination of US biopics, focusing on key releases in American cinema while treating recent developments in three fields: cinema studies, particularly the history of Hollywood; national identity studies dealing with the American experience; and scholarship devoted to modernity and postmodernity. Films discussed include Houdini, Patton, The Great White Hope, Bound for Glory, Ed Wood, Basquiat, Pollock, Sylvia, Kinsey, Fur, Milk, J. Edgar, and Lincoln, and the book pays special attention to the crucial generic plot along which biopics traverse and showcase American lives, even as they modify the various notions of the national character. “A provocative, critically astute study, this collection examines the biopic as a reflexive, refractive modernist film genre. Admirably researched essays provide close, compelling readings of chosen films, while exploring the multilayered matrices of historical fact, biographical and autobiographical literature, popular media representations, and cultural histories—shaping not only the lives and narratives of the performers, artists, and political/historical figures represented but also the practices of the filmmakers as they worked within or on the margins of the Hollywood industry.” — Cynthia Lucia, Rider University “The volume’s greatest strengths include its range, its variety of ideas on the significance of the biopic, and its research—definitive in several cases—into the relation between historical figures and their cinematic counterparts.” — James Morrison, author of Passport to Hollywood: Hollywood Films, European Directors

Author : Harlan Cohen
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781429926959

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Getting Naked by Harlan Cohen Pdf

From Harlan Cohen, the bestselling author of THE NAKED ROOMMATE: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run into in College, comes GETTING NAKED, an honest, hopeful guide to getting a date, falling in love—or lust—and finding happiness in love (and in life). With a simple 5-step approach to finding the love of your life, Harlan answers the most commonly asked questions from his syndicated advice column, his college tours, his website, and his newest book for Gen Y. He helped a generation make the most of college life, now he'll help them find the love of their lives.

Author : Giorgio Vasari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015007568002

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Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari Pdf

Author : Luke Rolfes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1952224179

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Impossible Naked Life by Luke Rolfes Pdf

A collection of short stories and flash fiction that makes magical realism a fresh and powerful new genre. These stories range from humor to heartbreak, often in the same brief tale; a unique and wildly entertaining collection.