Stripped An Exotic Dancers Journey To God

Author : Toby Billie
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984559777

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Stripped an Exotic Dancers Journey to God by Toby Billie Pdf

Stripped an Exotic Dancers Journey to God speaks about a little five-year-old girl being molested by her sibling, which then hurls her into a life of abandonment and promiscuity, thus building an underworld enterprise. This intriguing real-life story tells how an innocent girl can be led into the life of violence, lewdness, and ultimately, imprisonment to having been brought out and guided by the hand of God. Toby Billie is an evangelist in ministry and is currently a sidewalk counselor. As a former dancer, the author has spent countless hours ministering throughout the streets of Baltimore, ranging from saving the youth to preventing abortions in the city. She also does campaign work for the youth at various churches, teaching them how to maintain abstinence and other valuable life lessons. Through her tireless efforts in ministry, she has received numerous awards. She comes from a large family of fourteen. The hardships from her upbringing propelled her to pursue higher education. As a college graduate, she is now a certified addictions counselor. Evangelist Billie currently resides in Maryland. She is married and is a proud mother of two daughters and five grandsugars. She also enjoys working out and weight training. She did an exclusive interview courtesy of the 700 Club for 460 million viewers and 138 countries around the world, internationally sharing her story.

Author : Verna Massdin,Verna Massdin Evangelist
Publisher : Tate Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1631224379

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Stripped by Verna Massdin,Verna Massdin Evangelist Pdf

Stripped: An Exotic Dancer's Journey to God, illustrates the life of a five year old little girl who, due to sexual abuse as a child, was hurled into a life of abandonment and promiscuity, thus building an underworld enterprise. This intriguing, real-life story shows how an innocent girl can be led into the life of violence, lewdness, and ultimately imprisonment, to having been brought out and guided by the hand of God.

Author : Maggie M. Werner
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271088327

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Stripped by Maggie M. Werner Pdf

Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols independent of language, Maggie M. Werner explores the signs and signals of erotic dance, audience responses to these codes, and how this exchange creates embodied rhetoric. Informed by her own ethnographic research conducted in strip clubs and theaters, Werner analyzes the movement, dress, and cosmetic choices of topless dancers and neo-burlesque performers. Drawing on critical methods of analysis, she develops approaches for interpreting embodied erotic rhetoric and the marginal cultural practices that construct women’s public erotic bodies. She follows these bodies out into the streets—into the protest spaces where sex workers and anti-rape activists challenge discourses about morality and victimhood and struggle to remake their own identities. Throughout, Werner showcases the voices of these performers and in the analyses shares her experiences as an audience member, interviewer, and paying customer. The result is a uniquely personal and erudite study that advances conversations about women’s agency and erotic performance, moving beyond the binary that views the erotic body as either oppressed or empowered. Theoretically sophisticated and delightfully intimate, Stripped is an important contribution to the study of the rhetoric of the body and to rhetorical and performance studies more broadly.

Author : Minister Lucie Poirier
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781619964044

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Dance for a Harvest by Minister Lucie Poirier Pdf

DANCE FOR A HARVEST is a book that instructs those laborers wanting to go deeper into the things of God and to be used more mightily in these last days. Written by dance veteran Lucie Poirier, you'll read how she went from exotic dancer to dancing before God Himself. She provides candid and valuable insight into not just the dance, but how to become a weapon in the hands of the Living God, regardless of your calling and ministry. This book offers the reader: - A description of what the dance communicates in the spirit realm; - A reference guide for dancers that provides details on how to empower your dance; - Biblically-sound teaching and advice on recognizing your authority, identity and place in Jesus Christ and how to use this knowledge to properly and effectively wield your weapon of warfare; - The "what, when, where, why and how-to" that's needed for these end times, not just for dancers, but for anyone in ministry; Lucie helped me find the dancer inside of me and built my confidence in the dance. Melody Bolduc Worship Leader This is a must-read book. It's full of wisdom and "aha " moments that intensifies your spiritual walk with the Lord. I was truly blessed by this book and would highly recommend putting it at the top of your list of reading material, regardless of your area of ministry or your calling. Sherrie Clark Writer & Editor

Author : Mindy S. Bradley-Engen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Bernadette Barton
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814799337

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Stripped by Bernadette Barton Pdf

Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those that specialize in lapdancing, table dancing, topless only, or peep shows, to reveal the startling lives of exotic dancers.

Author : Bernadette Barton
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479897285

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Stripped, 2nd Edition by Bernadette Barton Pdf

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Come Inside and See the Show -- 1. Becoming a Stripper -- 2. Dancing on the Möbius Strip -- 3. The Toll -- 4. Raunch Culture, Androsexism, and Stripping -- 5. Surviving Stripping -- 6. Sticking Together: Pathways to Well-Being in Stripping -- 7. Exiting Stripping -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Author : Judith Lynne Hanna
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780292744981

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Naked Truth by Judith Lynne Hanna Pdf

Across America, strip clubs have come under attack by a politically aggressive segment of the Christian Right. Using plausible-sounding but factually untrue arguments about the harmful effects of strip clubs on their communities, the Christian Right has stoked public outrage and incited local and state governments to impose onerous restrictions on the clubs with the intent of dismantling the exotic dance industry. But an even larger agenda is at work, according to Judith Lynne Hanna. In Naked Truth, she builds a convincing case that the attack on exotic dance is part of the activist Christian Right’s “grand design” to supplant constitutional democracy in America with a Bible-based theocracy. Hanna takes readers onstage, backstage, and into the community and courts to reveal the conflicts, charges, and realities that are playing out at the intersection of erotic fantasy, religion, politics, and law. She explains why exotic dance is a legitimate form of artistic communication and debunks the many myths and untruths that the Christian Right uses to fight strip clubs. Hanna also demonstrates that while the fight happens at the local level, it is part of a national campaign to regulate sexuality and punish those who do not adhere to Scripture-based moral values. Ultimately, she argues, the naked truth is that the separation of church and state is under siege and our civil liberties—free speech, women’s rights, and free enterprise—are at stake.

Author : Sayuri Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537300717

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Scriptures for Strippers by Sayuri Smith Pdf

Scriptures for Strippers will remind and reinforce the idea that redemption is possible for everyone. God loves, protects and wants a relationship with each of us. This work is the first devotional to the Holy Bible for exotic dancers and other in the adult entertainment industry. This book is a guide to the Holy Bible for women to look to God in times for spiritual confusion. Scriptures for Strippers is a journal where thoughts and study notes can be kept. There are areas to keep up with church visits, nightly earnings and long-term and short-term goals. This book is perfect for anyone who is starting a relationship with God and would like to keep track of helpful and useful scriptures. Learning how to fight spiritual warfare, deal with haters and relationship guide lines are only a few of the topics covered in this thorough study guide.

Author : Mary Rogers
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875654720

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Dancing Naked by Mary Rogers Pdf

Almost every journalist asks the subjects of profiles to tell the truth. Only Mary Rogers requires them to “dance naked.” To Rogers, an award-winning columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that term signifies a pact between the writer, the subject and the reader: only when stories eliminate artifice and express honest beliefs and emotions can they merit attention and trust. It’s a phrase and philosophy unique to Rogers, and as a result the stories in Dancing Naked: Memorable Encounters with Unforgettable Texans are unique, too. You’ve never read anything like them, and besides making you think, Rogers’ lyrical writing style and memorable insights into the traumas and triumphs of the human spirit will make you feel. Published in the Star-Telegram from 1991 through 2007, Dancing Naked presents the compelling stories of a variety of Texans (a few famous and all unforgettable) and adds a half-dozen essays from Rogers about her own colorful life. It’s a collection that will touch and inspire every reader, which is what fine writing is supposed to accomplish.

Author : Lily Burana
Publisher : Miramax Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786886757

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Strip City by Lily Burana Pdf

Lily Burana had given up on stripping years before she accepted a marriage proposal-but decided to strip her way from Florida to Alaska before settling down. Lily, now a successful journalist, looks back at stripping with a writer's perspective. Her humorous yet hard-edged memoir deftly describes funky clubs and offbeat characters, the exhilaration that overtakes a dancer on stage-and the darker realities that assail her heart when she's out of the spotlight. Strip City is both a hugely entertaining insider's account of a hidden world and a moving voyage of self-discovery. Lily Burana has written for The New York Times Book Review, GQ, New York magazine, The Village Voice, Spin, and Salon. She lives in New York State. This is her rst book.

Author : Darlene McLaughlin
Publisher : Owl of Hope
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1942923295

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Stripped by Darlene McLaughlin Pdf

Have you ever felt unfinished? Forgiven of your sins, but not set free from your past? In Stripped, Darlene McLaughlin, a former exotic dancer turned Christian Counselor and pastor's wife shares her journey from a condemned past to finding a complete freedom to minister with authenticity and vulnerability, without guilt or fear. Your past may be the key to unlocking someone's future. Your testimony has been in the enemy's camp, and he's been using it against you for too long. God wants you to take your testimony back, and bring it out of hiding, so He can use it to fight for His Kingdom. Stripped: Recovered and Refinished by the Hand of the Lord will encourage you to see people as God sees them, a work in His Hands. He may have to strip His people down, but He will always recover and refinish them for His glory.

Author : Leslie Masters MD
Publisher : Author House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452015781

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Naked by Leslie Masters MD Pdf

In, Naked. This is My StoryThis is Our Song, Dr. Masters has, with finesse and conviction, written a basic primer on personal storytelling. With her own mesmerizing story woven throughout, Dr. Masters successfully connects the real with the surreal. Naked is a story within a lesson and a lesson within a story. More than that Naked is lifelife bubbling over with success, tragedy, pain, renewal, failure, transformation, and redemption. It is a guttural look at what it means to be a human beingboth contemptible and beyond contempt. Naked is the true story of Leslie Masters, a 45 year old physician, single mother of three, soccer mom, cheer and gymnastics coach, cosmetic medicine expert, entrepreneur, small business owner, imperfect, spiritual human being. As she tells her story in the first person singular, Dr. Masters lures the reader onto the mindboggling and at times bewitching trail of recovery and discovery. From DEA officers in her office to mice in her kitchen, Dr. Masters' artistry in storytelling will make you laugh, make you cry and introduce you to emotions you have not known before. With the benevolence and compassion of a trusted friend she holds out her hand and both invites and emboldens the reader to tell the one story that only they can telltheir own story. Dr. Masters reaches deep within the wisdom of the ages and from Plato to Jesus, Buddha to Einstein and Sigmund Freud to Bill Wilson, Dr. Masters helps us transform teachings into right here, right now applications. What makes this book special is that it is wretched, raucous, raw and real. Dr. Masters shows with brutal honesty, courage and sophistication just what telling your story is all about. Leslie is bright, articulate, and funnyand what she becomes to the reader is a treasured intimate friend. Before the final page has been turned, Dr. Masters has become Lesliea flawed, broken, faulty, incomplete member of humanity. The result is a captivating work that is relevant, and even necessary, in the world that we all live in today. Fueled by the power of truth, this is a story that needs to be heard.

Author : I. Vasileiou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015010693789

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A Journey to India by I. Vasileiou Pdf

Author : Harmony Dust
Publisher : Monarch Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0825463092

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Scars and Stilettos by Harmony Dust Pdf

Fear of being abandoned keeps nineteen-year-old Harmony Dust trapped in an abusive and cruel relationship. She thinks she has hit bottom--tens of thousands of dollars in debt, struggling to get by, and so controlled by her boyfriend that she doesn't protest when he begins openly sleeping around. Things can't get worse . . . until someone tells her how much money she can make as an exotic dancer. For the next three years, Harmony lives a double life as Monique, a dancer in a fully-nude strip club. Scars and Stilettos is Harmony's stark, honest, and ultimately hopeful story of how God found her in that dark, noisy place and led her out. She has since married, completed an MA in social welfare, and now leads Treasures, an organization helping women in the sex trade discover their true worth. "Harmony wrote her story so that you and your friends may get help out of whatever dark tunnel you find yourself in. I know her heart, and it is to see all of us live our lives in the very purpose for which we were created. I do want to warn you . . . once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. You will laugh, you will cry, you will be encouraged, you will fall in love with God all over again . . . and you will want to get a copy for every person you know." --Holly Wagner, from the preface "Harmony's story is compelling evidence of how far the love of God reaches to heal broken lives and restore all that has been stolen." --Nancy Alcorn, Mercy Ministries