Backwards in High Heels

Backwards in High Heels
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780007357369
ISBN-13 : 0007357362
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Backwards in High Heels by : Tania Kindersley

The world is a fraught place for the contemporary female. Working mothers are still expected to make their children's costumes for the school play, despite the fact that home economics was abolished in the Seventies; we're told it's not looks but brains that count, and yet if we dare to leave the house looking vaguely our age we're made to feel like failures; women's magazines run earnest articles about the evils of size 00 culture, only to feature models with hips like 10-year-old boys a few pages later; we pay the same level of taxation as men, and yet on average we earn 25% less. So, this book - a book for women who never got around to perfecting the art of domestic divinity but would quite like to be able to cook supper for six without having a nervous breakdown; who never quite mastered Cosmo's 101 ways to please your man, but don't want the embarrassment, not to say inconvenience, of him running off with a 19-year-old Russian supermodel.

Dancing Backwards in High Heels

Dancing Backwards in High Heels
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 0894869981
ISBN-13 : 9780894869983
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Dancing Backwards in High Heels by : Patricia A. O'Gorman

Dancing Backwards In High Heels

Tango

Tango
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Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages : 146
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781558617476
ISBN-13 : 1558617477
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Tango by : Justin Bond

"Like Bond, the memoir is droll, pensive and filled with zingers teetering between funny and ferocious."--The New York Times Hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of [V's] generation" in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious coming-of-age tale. Bond recalls in vivid detail how it looked and felt to first discover Mom's lipstick (Iced Watermelon by Revlon), and how dreary it could be for a trans/queer kid to join the Cub Scouts. Always haunted by the knowledge of being "different," Bond began to create intimate friendships with girls, and to feel increasingly at risk with boys. But when the bully next door wanted to meet secretly, Bond couldn't resist. Their trysts went on for years, making Bond acutely aware of how sexual power and vulnerability can be experienced at the same time. With inimitable style, Bond raises issues about LBGTQ adolescence, parenting trans/queer children, and bullying, while being utterly entertaining.

Backwards and in Heels

Backwards and in Heels
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Publisher : Mango Media Incorporated
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 1633536173
ISBN-13 : 9781633536173
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Backwards and in Heels by : Alicia Malone

Tells the history of women in film in a different way, with stories about incredible ladies who made their mark throughout each era of Hollywood. From the first women directors, to the iconic movie stars, and present day activists.

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
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Publisher : Minotaur Books
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781250242204
ISBN-13 : 1250242207
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by : Elle Cosimano

"Getting the job done" for one single mom takes on a whole new meaning in Finlay Donovan is Killing It. A USA Today bestseller! One of Suspense Magazine's "Best Thrillers of 2021" One of New York Public Library's Best Books of 2021 Nominated for the Left Coast Crime 2022 Lefty Award for the Best Humorous Mystery “Finlay Donovan is irresistible!”—Janet Evanovich Finlay Donovan is killing it . . . except, she’s really not. She’s a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet . . . Soon, Finlay discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation. Fast-paced, deliciously witty, and wholeheartedly authentic in depicting the frustrations and triumphs of motherhood in all its messiness, hilarity, and heartfelt moments, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a brilliant new series from YA Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano.

Dancing Backwards in High Heels

Dancing Backwards in High Heels
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages : 390
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781458786104
ISBN-13 : 1458786102
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Dancing Backwards in High Heels by : Christine Darcas

Forty-one-year-old Madeleine Hutchinson is in a rut. From the outside, she seems pretty together: she has a responsible, caring husband, two healthy boys, and she's starting to make a few friends after the familys move from Chicago to Melbourne. So why does she feel like her marriage is a cage, and why does she feel so invisible? Lost one rainy ...

High Heel

High Heel
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages : 187
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ISBN-10 : 9781501325991
ISBN-13 : 150132599X
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis High Heel by : Summer Brennan

Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that matter, a man) to choose to wear them? Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairytale, from foot binding to feminism, and from the golden ratio to glam rock. Summer Brennan considers this most provocative of fashion accessories as a nexus of desire and struggle, sex and society, violence and self expression, setting out to understand what it means to be a woman by walking a few hundred years in her shoes. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Counting Backwards

Counting Backwards
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781442406919
ISBN-13 : 1442406917
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Counting Backwards by : Laura Lascarso

After stealing a car and assaulting a police officer, sixteen-year-old Taylor is sent to a boarding school that functions as a juvenile psychiatric correctional facility, where she struggles to hold onto her sanity as she battles her parents, overbearing therapists, and a group of particularly nasty fellow patients.

The Art of Being

The Art of Being
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9781480401969
ISBN-13 : 148040196X
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art of Being by : Erich Fromm

A guide to well-being from the renowned social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom. Though laptops, smartphones, and TVs have in many ways made life more convenient, they have also disconnected us from the real world. Days are spent going from screen to machine, machine to screen. In The Art of Being, renowned humanist philosopher and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm draws from sources as varied as Sigmund Freud, Buddha, and Karl Marx to find a new, centered path to self-knowledge and well-being. In order to truly live, Fromm argues, we must first understand our purpose, and the places where we lost it. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?

Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
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Publisher : AK Press
Total Pages : 226
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781849350891
ISBN-13 : 1849350892
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? by : Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into “straight-acting dudes hangin’ out,” what are the possibilities for a defiant faggotry that challenges the assimilationist norms of a corporate-cozy lifestyle? Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? challenges not just the violence of straight homophobia but the hypocrisy of mainstream gay norms that say the only way to stay safe is to act straight: get married, join the military, adopt kids! Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reinvokes the anger, flamboyance, and subversion once thriving in gay subcultures in order to create something dangerous and lovely: an exploration of the perils of assimilation; a call for accountability; a vision for change. A sassy and splintering emergency intervention! Called "startlingly bold and provocative" by Howard Zinn, and described as "a cross between Tinkerbell and a honky Malcolm X with a queer agenda" by The Austin Chronicle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is undoubtedly one of America's most outspoken queer critics. She is the author of two novels, including, most recently, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, and is the editor of four nonfiction anthologies, including Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.