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Author | : Lauren Redniss |
Publisher | : It Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-01-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780062104885 |
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The Ziegfeld Follies, Florenz Ziegfeld's stage spectaculars, promised the best performers, the most lavish sets, and the most ravishing girls. Doris Eaton Travis was one of these prized beauties–and, at 14, was chosen as the youngest chorus girl in the Follies. "Mine eyes are yet dim with the luminous beauty of a girl named Doris," one Chicago reviewer wrote. Doris Eaton Travis was the last living Ziegfeld girl. In her 106 years, she performed for presidents and princesses, entertained Gershwin, Lindbergh, and Astaire, starred in silent and talking pictures, bantered with Babe Ruth, offended Henry Ford, outlived six siblings, written a newspaper column, hosted a television show, earned a Phi Beta Kappa degree in history, raised turkeys, and raced horses. In 2010, she performed on Broadway, returned home to Detroit and two weeks later peacefully passed away. Century Girl is a visual tour of this extraordinary woman's journey through life.
Author | : Carol Drinkwater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780439999410 |
Download Twentieth-century Girl Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
22 DEcember 1899 Time is marching forward, carrying us over the threshold and pitching us willy nilly, into a new century. The prospect of growing up in that unexplored territory is so thrilling that I fancy, if I close my eyes tight, I can almost see the process taking place! A day slips away like sand in a sand glass and then another day dawns and so we are caught up in this inevitable passage towards 1900. I bought a journal and have begun to transfer all my scribblings of the last few days into it. I shall call it 'Twentieth Century Girl', for that is what I intend to be!
Author | : Marilyn Sadler |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Grandparents |
ISBN | : 9780689805141 |
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Because Zenon creates trouble at her space station home somewhere in the Milky Way, her parents send her to her grandparent's farm on Earth to work for the summer.
Author | : Marilyn Sadler |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2012-01-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307800229 |
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21st Century #4 Meet Zenon Kar. She’s your typical elementary school kid, except she lives on a space station in 2049! In book #4, Zenon’s teacher, Mr. Peres, leads her fifth-grade class on a very special field trip off of Space Station 9. But when she gets separated from the group, Zenon finds out what it’s like to be stuck on Earth! The Zenon books are written and illustrated by the award-winning husband and wife team who created P.J. Funnybunny and Alistair.
Author | : Sue Palmer |
Publisher | : Orion |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1409112233 |
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An absolute must-have parenting guide to raising girls in the 21st century. 'An excellent book' Vanessa Feltz 'Required reading for all parents, teachers and grandparents' DAILY MAIL 'There can be no keener revelation of a country's soul than the way it treats its children.' Nelson Mandela Childhood, as a stage in human development, has been steadily eroded. Children today are introduced to 21st-century adult values and behaviour at an increasingly early age, long before they are developmentally ready to cope with them. We expend immense time and effort attending to their material needs while simultaneously neglecting their developmental needs. In this important polemic, Sue Palmer believes that if we do not get a grip on this problem soon, the increase in developmental disorders, behavioural difficulties and mental health problems recorded by experts over recent decades will soon spiral out of control. Sue discusses challenges faced in the 21st century including: -the problems facing parents in an age of materialism -the way gender wars have intensified those problems -the debate about the 'female brain' -the reasons why contemporary culture can be so damaging for children, especially girls -the challenges involved in detoxifying family life Every parent, grandparent, teacher and carer of girls needs to read this book.
Author | : Julie Pfeiffer |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1496836286 |
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Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence explores the paradox of the nineteenth-century girls’ book. On the one hand, early novels for adolescent girls rely on gender binaries and suggest that girls must accommodate and support a patriarchal framework to be happy. On the other, they provide access to imagined worlds in which teens are at the center. The early girls’ book frames female adolescence as an opportunity for productive investment in the self. This is a space where mentors who trust themselves, the education they provide, and the girl’s essentially good nature neutralize the girl’s own anxieties about maturity. These mid-nineteenth-century novels focus on female adolescence as a social category in unexpected ways. They draw not on a twentieth-century model of the alienated adolescent, but on a model of collaborative growth. The purpose of these novels is to approach adolescence—a category that continues to engage and perplex us—from another perspective, one in which fluid identity and the deliberate construction of a self are celebrated. They provide alternatives to cultural beliefs about what it was like to be a white, middle-class girl in the nineteenth century and challenge the assumption that the evolution of the girls’ book is always a movement towards less sexist, less restrictive images of girls. Drawing on forgotten bestsellers in the United States and Germany (where this genre is referred to as Backfischliteratur), Transforming Girls offers insightful readings that call scholars to reexamine the history of the girls’ book. It also outlines an alternate model for imagining adolescence and supporting adolescent girls. The awkward adolescent girl—so popular in mid-nineteenth-century fiction for girls—remains a valuable resource for understanding contemporary girls and stories about them.
Author | : Ilana Nash |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780253218025 |
Download American Sweethearts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until the present day, they have appeared in books and films, comics and television, as the embodied fantasies and nightmares of youth, women, and sexual maturation. Looking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, American Sweethearts shows how popular culture has shaped our view of the adolescent girl as an individual who is simultaneously sexualized and infantilized. While young women have received some positive lessons from these cultural icons, the overwhelming message conveyed by the characters and stories they inhabit stresses the dominance of the father and the teenage girl's otherness, subordination, and ineptitude. As sweet as a cherry lollipop and as tangy as a Sweetart, this book is an entertaining yet thoughtful exploration of the image of the American girl.
Author | : Andrea Gabbard |
Publisher | : Seal Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2000-12-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781580050487 |
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Traces the achievements of female surfers and the impact they have had on the sport over the last one hundred years.
Author | : Alan Martin |
Publisher | : Titan Comics |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2015-06-10 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1782768076 |
Download 21st Century Tank Girl #1 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
JAMIE HEWLETT RETURNS TO TANK GIRL! After a break of 20 years, illustrator extraordinaire Jamie Hewlett (GORILLAZ) is leaping back on the Tank Girl wagon, re-teaming with series co-creator Alan Martin to bring you a whole new take on the foul-mouthed, gun toting, swill-swigging hellion! Featuring riotous 100% original content from Hewlett & Martin along with contributions from a host of series stalwarts and newcomers, get your head down, put your hands over your private parts, and prepare for a chaotic collection of strips, pin-ups, and random carnage!
Author | : Anita Harris |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135938717 |
Download Future Girl Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Anita Harris creates a realistic portrait of the "new girl" that has appeared in the twenty-first century--she may still play with Barbie, but she is also likely to play soccer or basketball, be assertive and may even be sexually aware, if not active. Building on this new definition, Harris explores the many key areas central to the lives of girls from a global perspective, such as girlspace, schools, work, aggression, sexuality and power.