Author: Natasha Walter
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748132066
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.' Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, LIVING DOLLS is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity - today.
Living Dolls
Author: Natasha Walter
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748132066
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.' Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, LIVING DOLLS is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity - today.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748132066
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.' Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, LIVING DOLLS is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity - today.
Living Doll
Author: Cindy Jackson
Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781843580492
Category : Barbie (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Cindy Jackson was a child growing up in the Deep South, she saw her first Barbie Doll and fell in love with it. As a young singer in a well-known rock bacnd, she was a plain young woman. Bright, bubbly and vivicious, she felt that something was missing from her life, something that derived from insecurities that had been with her from childhood. She was unhappy with the way she looked. And so she set out to do something about. Cindy was to spend tens of thousands of pounds transforming herself into a living Barbie Doll. This is her story of her metamorphosis.
Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781843580492
Category : Barbie (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Cindy Jackson was a child growing up in the Deep South, she saw her first Barbie Doll and fell in love with it. As a young singer in a well-known rock bacnd, she was a plain young woman. Bright, bubbly and vivicious, she felt that something was missing from her life, something that derived from insecurities that had been with her from childhood. She was unhappy with the way she looked. And so she set out to do something about. Cindy was to spend tens of thousands of pounds transforming herself into a living Barbie Doll. This is her story of her metamorphosis.
Living Dolls
Author: Gaby Wood
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571178797
Category : Androids
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Living Dolls tells the story of humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571178797
Category : Androids
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Living Dolls tells the story of humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations.
Night of the Living Dolls
Author: Joel A. Sutherland
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728225922
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Zelda is staying at her late grandmother's house when she rediscovers the doll she was given. It's old-fashioned and frayed, and Zelda doesn't think much of it. Until she realizes the doll is alive and is looking for revenge...
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728225922
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Zelda is staying at her late grandmother's house when she rediscovers the doll she was given. It's old-fashioned and frayed, and Zelda doesn't think much of it. Until she realizes the doll is alive and is looking for revenge...
Scooby-doo! and You
Author: Tracey West
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439231602
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The reader is invited to solve a mystery with Scooby-Doo and friends and find Bananas, the electronic monkey, stolen at the National Toy Convention, in New York City.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439231602
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The reader is invited to solve a mystery with Scooby-Doo and friends and find Bananas, the electronic monkey, stolen at the National Toy Convention, in New York City.
The Barbie Chronicles
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439143897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A THOROUGHLY GROWN-UP LOOK AT A TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSE OF OUTSTANDING PROPORTIONS To some she's a collectible, to others she's trash. In The Barbie Chronicles, twenty-three writers join together to scrutinize Barbie's forty years of hateful, lovely disastrous, glorious influence on us all. No other tiny shoulders have ever, had to carry the weight of such affection and derision and no other book has ever paid this notorious little place of plastic her due. Whether you adore her or abhor her, The Barbie Chronicles will have you looking at her in ways you never imagined.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439143897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A THOROUGHLY GROWN-UP LOOK AT A TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSE OF OUTSTANDING PROPORTIONS To some she's a collectible, to others she's trash. In The Barbie Chronicles, twenty-three writers join together to scrutinize Barbie's forty years of hateful, lovely disastrous, glorious influence on us all. No other tiny shoulders have ever, had to carry the weight of such affection and derision and no other book has ever paid this notorious little place of plastic her due. Whether you adore her or abhor her, The Barbie Chronicles will have you looking at her in ways you never imagined.
The Dollmaker of Krakow
Author: R. M. Romero
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 1524715417
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore, and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times. In the land of dolls, there is magic. In the land of humans, there is war. Everywhere there is pain. But together there is hope. Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Kraków, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past. The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina’s courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter—that is, once the Dollmaker gets over the shock of realizing a doll is speaking to him. But their newfound happiness is dashed when Nazi soldiers descend upon Poland. Karolina and the Dollmaker quickly realize that their Jewish friends are in grave danger, and they are determined to help save them, no matter what the risks.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 1524715417
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore, and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times. In the land of dolls, there is magic. In the land of humans, there is war. Everywhere there is pain. But together there is hope. Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Kraków, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past. The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina’s courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter—that is, once the Dollmaker gets over the shock of realizing a doll is speaking to him. But their newfound happiness is dashed when Nazi soldiers descend upon Poland. Karolina and the Dollmaker quickly realize that their Jewish friends are in grave danger, and they are determined to help save them, no matter what the risks.
Living Doll
Author: Laura Annawyn Shamas
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871290182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871290182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll
Author: Jean Nathan
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466845309
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book-and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together a glamorous life. Blond, beautiful Wright had begun her career as an actress and model and then turned to fashion photography before stumbling upon her role as bestselling author. But there was a dark side to the story: a brother lost in childhood, ill-fated marriage plans, a complicated, controlling mother. Edith Stevenson Wright, herself a successful portrait painter, played such a dominant role in her daughter's life that Dare was never able to find her way into the adult world. Only through her work could she speak for herself: in her books she created the happy family she'd always yearned for, while her self-portraits betrayed an unresolved tension between sexuality and innocence, a desire to belong and painful isolation. Illustrated with stunning photographs, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll tells the unforgettable story of a woman who, imprisoned by her childhood, sought to set herself free through art.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466845309
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book-and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together a glamorous life. Blond, beautiful Wright had begun her career as an actress and model and then turned to fashion photography before stumbling upon her role as bestselling author. But there was a dark side to the story: a brother lost in childhood, ill-fated marriage plans, a complicated, controlling mother. Edith Stevenson Wright, herself a successful portrait painter, played such a dominant role in her daughter's life that Dare was never able to find her way into the adult world. Only through her work could she speak for herself: in her books she created the happy family she'd always yearned for, while her self-portraits betrayed an unresolved tension between sexuality and innocence, a desire to belong and painful isolation. Illustrated with stunning photographs, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll tells the unforgettable story of a woman who, imprisoned by her childhood, sought to set herself free through art.
The New Feminism
Author: Natasha Walter
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The new feminism, according to Walter, deals specifically with the experiences and desires of women below 35, those who take their new advantages and continuing disadvantages for granted. She appeals to such women not to lose their new advantages.
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The new feminism, according to Walter, deals specifically with the experiences and desires of women below 35, those who take their new advantages and continuing disadvantages for granted. She appeals to such women not to lose their new advantages.