Red Hot Mama

Author : Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477312360

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Red Hot Mama by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff Pdf

The “First Lady of Show Business” and the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas,” Sophie Tucker was a star in vaudeville, radio, film, and television. A gutsy, song-belting stage performer, she entertained audiences for sixty years and inspired a host of younger women, including Judy Garland, Carol Channing, and Bette Midler. Tucker was a woman who defied traditional expectations and achieved success on her own terms, becoming the first female president of the American Federation of Actors and winning many other honors usually bestowed on men. Dedicated to social justice, she advocated for African Americans in the entertainment industry and cultivated friendships with leading black activists and performers. Tucker was also one of the most generous philanthropists in show business, raising over four million dollars for the religious and racial causes she held dear. Drawing from the hundreds of scrapbooks Tucker compiled, Red Hot Mama presents a compelling biography of this larger-than-life performer. Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff tells an engrossing story of how a daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants set her sights on becoming one of the most formidable women in show business and achieved her version of the American dream. More than most of her contemporaries, Tucker understood how to keep her act fresh, to change branding when audiences grew tired and, most importantly, how to connect with her fans, the press, and entertainment moguls. Both deservedly famous and unjustly forgotten today, Tucker stands out as an exemplar of the immigrant experience and a trailblazer for women in the entertainment industry.

Author : Colette Dowling
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780307796929

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Red Hot Mamas by Colette Dowling Pdf

Colette Dowling's uplifting book celebrates the myriad possibilities for women who are now turning 50. "Red hot mamas" are the dozens of women (some famous, some not) who are defying stereotypes to discover renewed power and vitality at midlife. In honest, empowering language, the women share with readers their energetic approaches to menopause, career changes, family life, and intimacy.

Author : Leslie C. Dunn,Nancy A. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 052158583X

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Embodied Voices by Leslie C. Dunn,Nancy A. Jones Pdf

Explores cultural manifestations of female vocality in the light of theories of subjectivity, the body, and sexual difference.

Author : Erin Cox
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781401939632

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One Hot Mama by Erin Cox Pdf

After giving birth, even the most confident, fit, and spiritually centered women can feel depressed, overwhelmed by the responsibilities of motherhood, and disheartened by their plump postpartum bodies. Erin Cox knows exactly how they feel. She wrote One Hot Mama as a comprehensive guide to support, nurture, and steer women through a fun and completely doable process to lose unwanted pregnancy pounds and create an exceptional life. Erin understands that weight loss is an emotional process, and new mothers need to feel empowered and supported to make healthy lifestyle changes. New moms don’t have the time or energy to count calories, but rather need guidelines and easy-to-implement suggestions on how to improve their diet and exercise routines. Using a realistic approach that has proven to be effective, mothers will be encouraged to make positive life changes that will encourage weight loss, positive thinking, and self-love. Women who read this book will not only feel empowered and invigorated to get their bodies back in shape, but the positive changes will impact every single aspect of life—allowing them to live a joyous and fulfilled life as a woman and mother, even emerginghappier and healthier than before getting pregnant!

Author : Lori Harrison-Kahan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813547824

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The White Negress by Lori Harrison-Kahan Pdf

During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an attraction to African American culture. Until now, the debate about whether such black-Jewish encounters thwarted or enabled Jews' claims to white privilege has focused on men and representations of masculinity while ignoring questions of women and femininity. The White Negress investigates literary and cultural texts by Jewish and African American women, opening new avenues of inquiry that yield more complex stories about Jewishness, African American identity, and the meanings of whiteness. Lori Harrison-Kahan examines writings by Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as the blackface performances of vaudevillian Sophie Tucker and controversies over the musical and film adaptations of Show Boat and Imitation of Life. Moving between literature and popular culture, she illuminates how the dynamics of interethnic exchange have at once produced and undermined the binary of black and white.

Author : Jennifer Estep
Publisher : Jennifer Estep
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780988423213

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Hot Mama by Jennifer Estep Pdf

Fiona Fine is the hottest fashion designer in Bigtime, N.Y.—literally. That's because she moonlights as Fiera, a superhero with superstrength and volatile, fire-based powers. As Fiera, she's also a member of the Fearless Five, the city's most powerful and popular superhero team. However, Fiona's been through a lot lately, including the death of her fiancé, who was murdered by an ubervillain. But Fiona is ready to move on with her life, so it seems like good karma when she meets sexy businessman Johnny Bulluci at a friend's wedding. But Fiona has little time to think of love thanks to Siren and Intelligal—the city's newest ubervillains who crash the wedding and then go on a citywide crime spree. Fiona doesn’t know exactly what the ubervillains are up to, but if she doesn't figure it out, she's the one who just might go up in flames this time ...

Author : Kathi Lipp,Erin MacPherson
Publisher : Revell
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493400140

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10 Ideas to Inspire Red Hot Sex by Kathi Lipp,Erin MacPherson Pdf

When was the last time you and your husband had red hot sex? If you're ready to turn time in the bedroom from ho-hum to hot, you're ready for this Hot Mama Challenge!

Author : Valerie Bell
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0310219175

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A Well-Tended Soul by Valerie Bell Pdf

You can go to a mirror to find our how your body is doing, but how can you get a picture of your soul? A Well-Tended Soul holds a mirror up to your life for a refreshing, unabashedly feminine look at spiritual formation. Valerie Bell shows how to start building a life of incredible richness as you become more internally focused, forming your soul to God's own heart. A well-tended soul is a woman's beautifier. Soul-care weeds out what is malignant and false and builds in what is lovely, worthy, and redemptive. With refreshing candor, empathy, and earthiness, Bell uses her own experiences to help you - Live a deeper, more genuinely connected life - Pursue your truest dreams - Shape the world around you with an authentic spirituality - Discover the power of thankfulness to uproot envy and loss - Build confidence, joy, and beauty into your life - Transcend the fears and losses of aging . . . and much more.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281278

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Karl F. Cohen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476607252

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Forbidden Animation by Karl F. Cohen Pdf

Tweety Bird was colored yellow because censors felt the original pink made the bird look nude. Betty Boop's dress was lengthened so that her garter didn't show. And in recent years, a segment of Mighty Mouse was dropped after protest groups claimed the mouse was actually sniffing cocaine, not flower petals. These changes and many others like them have been demanded by official censors or organized groups before the cartoons could be shown in theaters or on television. How the slightly risque gags in some silent cartoons were replaced by rigid standards in the sound film era is the first misadventure covered in this history of censorship in the animation industry. The perpetuation of racial stereotypes in many early cartoons is examined, as are the studios' efforts to stop producing such animation. This is followed by a look at many of the uncensored cartoons, such as Lenny Bruce's Thank You Mask Man and Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat. The censorship of television cartoons is next covered, from the changes made in theatrical releases shown on television to the different standards that apply to small screen animation. The final chapter discusses the many animators who were blacklisted from the industry in the 1950s for alleged sympathies to the Communist Party.

Author : Erik Redling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110339017

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Translating Jazz Into Poetry by Erik Redling Pdf

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Author : David W. Christner
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516814800

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Red Hot Mamas by David W. Christner Pdf

Synopsis Abby Adams and Dan Casey are a couple of middle-aged empty nesters, looking forward to enjoying the first period of solitude they've had in years; however, their plans change abruptly when Abby invites her newly widowed mother-in-law, Sarah, to move in. Sarah immediately phones Claudia, Abby's mother, to tell her the "wonderful" news. Playing her trump card of guilt, Claudia masterfully maneuvers herself in the household as well, and by week's end both mothers-in-law have packed their belongings and are descending on their besieged offspring. Act I delights the audience with the difficulties that ensue once the widows stake claim in the children's nest. After a rough beginning, the mothers-in-law bond in Act II and let their spirits soar, taking up drinking, smoking, ignoring curfews and flaunting "parental" control. But is it the mothers who are out of control? History: The play initially received a workshop production at New Gate Theatre in Providence, RI as part of a new plays festival. It was subsequently produced in Canberra, Australia as part of a national "Year of the Older Person" celebration. Since then the play has had a number of sold out extended runs in theaters in the US, India, Canada and a protracted professional run at Detroit Repertory Theatre. Translations of the play are scheduled for production in Tula, Russia and Rovereto, Italy in 2016.

Author : Samson Raphaelson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:4064066424190

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The Jazz Singer by Samson Raphaelson Pdf

"The Jazz Singer" by Samson Raphaelson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Karen Giblin,Mache Seibel
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780738215105

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Eat to Defeat Menopause by Karen Giblin,Mache Seibel Pdf

Eat to Defeat Menopause combines easy-to-understand health information to combat the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause with delicious and healthy recipes from both the authors and some of America's top chefs.Along with practical advice, essential information on women's health, and a healthy dose of humor, Eat to Defeat Menopause offers dietary strategies to improve sleep, hot flashes, and other menopausal symptoms; key foods for health and wellness during menopause; information on soy foods--the perfect food for menopause; dietary guidelines and healthy weight tips and more.

Author : Jon Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351561693

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"Jews, Race and Popular Music " by Jon Stratton Pdf

Jon Stratton provides a pioneering work on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Rather than taking a narrative, historical approach the book consists of a number of case studies, looking at the American, British and Australian music industries. Stratton's primary motivation is to uncover how the racialized positioning of Jews, which was sometimes similar but often different in each of the societies under consideration, affected the kinds of music with which Jews have become involved. Stratton explores race as a cultural construction and continues discussions undertaken in Jewish Studies concerning the racialization of the Jews and the stereotyping of Jews in order to present an in-depth and critical understanding of Jews, race and popular music.