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Real Women Have Curves

Josefina López
Real Women Have Curves Book PDF

Author : Josefina López
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0871297256

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"Set in a tiny sewing factory in East L.A., this is the outrageously funny story of five full-figured Mexican-American women who are racing to meet nearly impossible production deadlines in order to keep their tiny factory from going under. And while they work, hiding from the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service), they talk ... about their husbands and lovers, their children, their dreams for the future. The story is told from the point of view of Ana, the youngest among them. Just graduated from high school, Ana dreams of getting out of the barrio and going off to college and becoming a famous writer. Although she needs the money, Ana doesn't like working at the factory and has little respect for the coworkers, who make fun of her ambitions and what they consider her idealistic feminist philosophies. However, Ana keeps coming to her job and chronicling her experiences in a journal. As the summer unfolds, she slowly gains an understanding and appreciation of the work and the women, eventually writing an essay that wins her a journalism fellowship which will take her to New York City. This play, a microcosm of the Latina immigrant experience, celebrates real women's bodies, the power of women, and the incredible bond that happens when women work together."--Publisher description.

Real Women Have Curves & Other Plays

Josefina López
Real Women Have Curves Other Plays Book PDF

Author : Josefina López
Publisher : Wpr Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1889379239

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Real Women Have Curves & Other Plays by Josefina López Pdf

"Real Women Have Curves explores the politics of beauty and the power women have when working together. Simply Maria or the American Dream deals with the struggle of a young Mexican girl to find her identity and stay true to her self and her dreams. Confessions of Women from East L.A. shatters stereotypes of Latina women by providing complex explorations into to the Latina experience. Food for the Dead is a satirical look at machismo while celebrating Mexican cultural traditions and sexual liberation. Unconquered Spirits explores the legend of "La Llorona" from a Chicana feminist perspective retelling the spiritual conquest of Mexico and celebrating the unbeatable spirit of the indigenous and Chicanos"-- Back cover.

Girls Get Curves

Danica McKellar
Girls Get Curves Book PDF

Author : Danica McKellar
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781101644409

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New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar makes it a breeze to excel in high school geometry! Hollywood actress and math whiz Danica McKellar has completely shattered the “math nerd” stereotype. For years, she’s been showing girls how to feel confident and ace their math classes—with style! With Girls Get Curves, she applies her winning techniques to high school geometry, giving readers the tools they need to feel great and totally “get” everything from congruent triangles to theorems, and more. Inside you’ll find: • Time-saving tips and tricks for homework and tests • Illuminating practice problems (and proofs!) with detailed solutions • Totally relateable real-world examples • True stories from Danica’s own life as an actress and math student • A Troubleshooting Guide, for getting unstuck during even the trickiest proofs! With Danica as a coach, girls everywhere can stop hiding from their homework and watch their scores rise!

American Like Me

America Ferrera
American Like Me Book PDF

Author : America Ferrera
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501180927

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents’ homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity. Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative. Now, in American Like Me, America invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who otherwise grew up with deep and personal connections to more than one culture. Each of them struggled to establish a sense of self, find belonging, and feel seen. And they call themselves American enthusiastically, reluctantly, or not at all. Ranging from the heartfelt to the hilarious, their stories shine a light on a quintessentially American experience and will appeal to anyone with a complicated relationship to family, culture, and growing up.

How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-so Stories

David P. Barash,Judith Eve Lipton
How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just so Stories Book PDF

Author : David P. Barash,Judith Eve Lipton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0231146647

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How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-so Stories by David P. Barash,Judith Eve Lipton Pdf

Barash and Lipton discuss the theories scientists have advanced to explain evolutionary enigmas--from how women get their curves to why women menstruate--and present hypotheses of their own.

Real Vampires Have Curves

Gerry Bartlett
Real Vampires Have Curves Book PDF

Author : Gerry Bartlett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425220966

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The Self-Love Revolution

Virgie Tovar
The Self Love Revolution Book PDF

Author : Virgie Tovar
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781684034130

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"A terrific resource that shows readers how to start feeling good about their body and rewire their sense of self-worth." —School Library Journal starred review It’s time to ditch harmful, outdated beauty standards and build real, lasting body positivity. It's time for a self-love revolution! Every day we see movies, magazines, and social media that make us feel like we need to change how we look. This takes a toll on how we think about ourselves—and how we allow others to treat us. And while many teens feel shame about their body, being a teen girl of color can be hard in unique ways. Maybe you feel alienated by the mainstream image of beauty, which is still thin, white and able-bodied. In addition to that, you may also feel pressure from within your community to measure up to a different—but equally unfair—beauty standard. So, how can you start feeling good about yourself when you’re surrounded by these unrealistic—and problematic—ideas about your body? In The Self-Love Revolution, leading body image expert and creator of #LoseHateNotWeight Virgie Tovar offers an unapologetic guide to help you question popular culture and cultivate radical body positivity. With this groundbreaking book, you’ll identify and challenge mainstream beliefs about beauty; understand the unique tools girls of color have to counter negative body image; and build real, lasting body empowerment. You’ll also learn how to call out diet culture, and discover ways to move beyond your own inner critic and start building the unconditional love for yourself that you deserve. It’s time to explode society’s beauty standards, stop messing with diets, wear what you want, and recognize that your body is your business. This book will help you find your way to radical body positivity, one step at a time.

Dressmaking for Real Women

Lorna Knight
Dressmaking for Real Women Book PDF

Author : Lorna Knight
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 1438000952

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Offers advice and techniques for women with full figures to modify store-bought dress patterns to create custom garments that fit and flatter their individual bodies.

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Erika L. Sánchez
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Book PDF

Author : Erika L. Sánchez
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781524700508

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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez Pdf

National Book Award Finalist! Instant New York Times Bestseller! The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican-American home. Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed. But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal? “Alive and crackling—a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. ”—The New York Times “Unique and fresh.” —Entertainment Weekly “A standout.” —NPR

Chick Flicks

Suzanne Ferriss,Mallory Young
Chick Flicks Book PDF

Author : Suzanne Ferriss,Mallory Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135895952

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Chick Flicks by Suzanne Ferriss,Mallory Young Pdf

With 11 original essays, this edited volume examines 'chick flicks' within the larger context of 'chick culture' as well as women's cinema. The essays consider chick flicks from a variety of angles, touching on issues of film history, female sexuality, femininity, age, race, ethnicity, and consumerism.

Real Women Have Curves

Josefina López,George LaVoo
Real Women Have Curves Book PDF

Author : Josefina López,George LaVoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Conflict of generations
ISBN : OCLC:50499927

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Real Women Have Curves by Josefina López,George LaVoo Pdf

Generational conflict is set off between the blossoming Ana, a Mexican-American teenager who has a chance to attend Columbia University on a scholarship, and her mother, Carmen, who is determined that Ana follow convention and go to work with her in a Los Angeles sweatshop.

Spitboy Rule

Michelle Cruz Gonzales
Spitboy Rule Book PDF

Author : Michelle Cruz Gonzales
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781629632551

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Michelle Cruz Gonzales played drums and wrote lyrics in the influential 1990s female hardcore band Spitboy, and now she’s written a book—a punk rock herstory. Though not a riot grrl band, Spitboy blazed trails for women musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, but it wasn’t easy. Misogyny, sexism, abusive fans, class and color blindness, and all-out racism were foes, especially for Gonzales, a Xicana and the only person of color in the band. Unlike touring rock bands before them, the unapologetically feminist Spitboy preferred Scrabble games between shows rather than sex and drugs, and they were not the angry manhaters that many expected them to be. Serious about women’s issues and being the band that they themselves wanted to hear, a band that rocked as hard as men but sounded like women, Spitboy released several records and toured internationally. The memoir details these travels while chronicling Spitboy’s successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way. Fully illustrated with rare photos and flyers from the punk rock underground, this fast-paced, first-person recollection is populated by scenesters and musical allies from the time including Econochrist, Paxston Quiggly, Neurosis, Los Crudos, Aaron Cometbus, Pete the Roadie, Green Day, Fugazi, and Kamala and the Karnivores.

Dangerous Curves

Isabel Molina-Guzmán
Dangerous Curves Book PDF

Author : Isabel Molina-Guzmán
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814757369

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With images of Jennifer Lopez’s butt and America Ferrera’s smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous presence. Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions. Isabel Molina-Guzmán maps the ways in which the Latina body is gendered, sexualized, and racialized within the United States media using a series of fascinating case studies. The book examines tabloid headlines about Jennifer Lopez’s indomitable sexuality, the contested authenticity of Salma Hayek’s portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the movie Frida, and America Ferrera’s universally appealing yet racially sublimated Ugly Betty character. Dangerous Curves carves out a mediated terrain where these racially ambiguous but ethnically marked feminine bodies sell everything from haute couture to tabloids. Through a careful examination of the cultural tensions embedded in the visibility of Latina bodies in United States media culture, Molina-Guzmán paints a nuanced portrait of the media’s role in shaping public knowledge about Latina identity and Latinidad, and the ways political and social forces shape media representations.

Plainsong

Kent Haruf
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Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375726934

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National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.

Half the Sky

Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn
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Author : Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307387097

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Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope, two of our most fiercely moral voices With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty. Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.