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A lively look at the ways in which American women in the 1920s transformed their lives through performance and fashion. New definitions of American femininity were formed in the pivotal 1920s, an era that vastly expanded the "market" for sexually explicit displays by women. Angela J. Latham shows how quarrels over and censorship of women's performance — particularly in the arenas of fashion and theater — uniquely reveal the cultural idiosyncracies of the period and provide valuable clues to the developing iconicity of the female body in its more recent historical phases. Through disguise, display, or judicious appropriation of both, performance became a crucial means by which women contested, affirmed, mitigated, and revolutionized norms of female self-presentation and self-stylization. Fashion was a hotly contested arena of bodily display. Latham surveys 1920s fashion trends and explores popular fashion rhetoric. Resistance to social mandates regarding women's fashion was nowhere more pronounced than in the matter of "bathing costumes." Latham critiques locally situated contests over swimwear, including those surrounding the first Miss America Pageant, and suggests how such performances sanctioned otherwise unacceptable self-presentations by women. Looking at American theater, Latham summarizes major arguments about censorship and the ideological assumptions embedded within them. Although sexually provocative displays by women were often the focus of censorship efforts, "leg shows," including revues like the Zeigfeld Follies, were in their heyday. Latham situates the popularity of such performances that featured women's bodies within the larger context of censorship in the American theater at this time.
The first Flirts! volume is now free! See why readers say these are sexy, sweet, fun, must-reads. It's one of many books from 2013 Holt Medallion Award of Merit winner, Lisa Scott, author of the Flirts! collections and Willowdale Romance series. Flirts! 5 Romantic Short Stories features five contemporary romance shorts that stand alone, but also connect. It all ties up in a fab happy ending. (This is volume one of ten Flirts! volumes.) Each story is 8,000 to 11,000 words in length or 53,000 words total. Perfect for your lunch break, workout, or kids' sports practice. The stories in this volume include: “The Hot Girl’s Friend” How can a plain Jane find love when her best friend is a curvy blond man magnet? Jane usually busies herself during a night on the town, fending off the men lusting after her gorgeous friend Miranda. When Brady the bartender overhears her inspired, ludicrous excuses, he resolves to hook up Jane with his friends. But Jane would be quite happy with him. Pine along as Jane tries to find her own happily ever after. “Wrong Place, Right Guy” She’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Can the guy who saves her be Mr. Right? Or will his past keep them apart? When Kristen is jumped in a parking lot, Tony jumps in to save the day. While she thinks her hero could also be her heartthrob, Tony’s worried his past is reason to stay apart. Will the good guy get the girl in the end? “Not You” One night with a stranger…gets even stranger the next day. Single, lonely Carly thinks the best way to handle her mother’s third wedding is by throwing her own bachelorette-party-for-one the night before. What’s the harm in her first one-night stand ever? She’ll find out the next day. “Desperately Seeking Cupid” Does she finally have the key for finding love? Brianna has tried everything to find love—with no luck. So she’s turning to feng shui to bring romance to her world. Too bad the guy she’s after thinks its bunk. Will her formula for love work—or blow up in her face? “Never Been Dumped” It’s a relationship with an expiration date and it’s going to go bad. Rachel hates breaking hearts. She’s never been dumped, and she’s tired of being the one to walk away. But a handsome stranger in town for the summer promises he’ll dump her after their summer fling. Will they be able to say goodbye? Look for Lisa's other collections: Beach Flirts!, Holiday Flirts!, Fairy Tale Flirts!, Wedding Flirts!, More Flirts!, Reunion Flirts!, Fairy Tale Flirts 2!, Office Flirts!, and Magic Flirts! Look for another Flirts! in early 2015. Check out Lisa's Willowdale Romance series including No Foolin' and Man of the Month. Flirts! Free Freebie quick read
In the 5-book Beach House Romance series, the Holloway siblings inherit their parents' beach house—but there's one big catch! In this heart-warming and emotional beach read, a semi-pro surfer, his former love, and the daughter he never knew existed come together in unexpected ways. Luke Hunter had never forgotten the woman he once loved, Maggie Holloway. But after he broke her heart, she left town, never to return. Now, years later, Maggie and her daughter, Eva, are back to fulfill her parents’ quirky wishes, and Luke can't look away. As their daughters, Siena and Eva, become fast friends, Luke and Maggie are forced to confront their past and the secrets that tore them apart. But will the truth bring them closer together or end their relationship forever? Don't miss out on this captivating beach read that will tug at your heartstrings and leave you cheering for love, second chances, and the power of forgiveness. Read all 5 books in the Beach House series!: #1 Beach Sunrise #2 Beach Memories #3 Beach Secrets #4 Beach Sunset #5 Beach Music
Donegal, 1976 When a dolphin takes up residence in Carrig Cove, Emer and her best friend, Fee, feel like they have an instant connection with it. Then Dog Cullen and his sidekick, Kit, turn up, and the four friends begin to sneak out at midnight to go down to the beach, daring each other to swim closer and closer to the creature . . . But the fame and fortune the dolphin brings to their small village builds resentment amongst their neighbours across the bay, and the summer days get longer and hotter . . . There is something wild and intense in the air. Love feels fierce, old hatreds fester, and suddenly everything feels worth fighting for. In this beautiful, epic coming-of-age novel, an old tale is rewoven as a stunning YA story by well-known Irish author/illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick.
Tucked away in the corner of a Kona, Hawaii shopping center is the favorite haunt of the former navy men from the Big Island Dive shop and the Aloha Series. Though not mentioned by name, we first learn of the Surf's Up Saloon as Billy's preferred hangout in Brooklyn's book Shell Game. Later in Aloha Texas, Nick informs us his bachelor pad is over a bar. Yep. That too would be the Surf's Up. And in Dive into You we get the chance to learn a little more when Doug and Emily introduce us to the owner Steve Kapula and his brother Ben. Unable to resist playing with these fun new characters, as well as with the well-loved heroes from the Aloha Series, between Aloha books Chris Keniston has brought you fun stories she calls Flirts. What's a Flirt you ask? It's a very short story, like a television episode, set in the Aloha Series world. Specifically, at the Surf's Up Saloon. It's a wonderful chance to drop in and play with old friends and new and now Chris has brought you six sweet Flirts in one easy to read collection ! Jokingly, Chris refers to her Flirts as Cheers meets Love American Style! Pick up a copy and find out why! Aloha and Mahalo Hawaii, military romance, beach reads, fans of bella andre, navy SEALs, romance series, friends and family
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A world renowned anthropologist explores the nonverbal signs, signals, and cues human beings exchange to attract and keep their mates. As a medium of communication, Love's silent language predates speech by millions of years. Today, we still express emotions and feelings largely apart from words. The postures, gestures, and facial cues of attraction are universal, in all societies and cultures. According to Dr. Givens, courtship moves slowly though five distinct phases: attracting attention, recognition phase, conversation phase, touching phase, making love. Since potential mates "test" each other before uniting as one, courtship is a choreographed give and take of signs granting physical and emotional closeness. Love Signals is part enthnography and part how-to. Dr. Givens documents the little courting rituals witnessed in elevators, on subways, and in the workplace. He examines the essential role the face plays in courtship and how it can be optimally displayed. He decodes the body to find silent messages given off by shoulders, neck, arms, hands, waist, calves, ankles, feet, and toes. Dr. Givens analyzes expressive shapes, colors, and markings encoded in arm wear, shoulder wear, leg wear, and shoes. He deciphers the background messages of spaces, places and interiors to learn how environs help or hinder in the meeting process. Chemical cues emanating from aromas, tastes, steroids, sterols, and hormones strongly shape a partner's feelings, so they are explored as well. The book suggests ways to gaze, ways to read eyes across a room, and ways to sit, stand, align, walk dress, and lift a drink to participate in the fascinating adventure of finding, winning, and keeping a mate. Knowing the unspoken vocabulary of love signals will give readers an edge. What this means for courtship is that the reader becomes able to read unspoken motives, emotions, and feelings with great clarity and precision. The more readers know about the nonverbal idiom of attraction, the more likely they will find a loving, lasting partner.
Why did Fonzie hang around with all those high school boys? Is the overwhelming boy-meets-girl content of popular teen movies, music, books, and TV just a cover for an undercurrent of same-sex desire? From the 1950s to the present, popular culture has involved teenage boys falling for, longing over, dreaming about, singing to, and fighting over, teenage girls. But Queering Teen Culture analyzes more than 200 movies and TV shows to uncover who Frankie Avalon’s character was really in love with in those beach movies and why Leif Garrett became a teen idol in the 1970s. In Top 40 songs, teen magazines, movies, TV soap operas and sitcoms, teenagers are defined by their pubescent discovery of the opposite sex, universally and without exception. Queering Teen Culture looks beyond the litany to find out when adults became so insistent about teenage sexual desireand whyand finds evidence of same-sex desire, romantic interactions, and identities that, according to the dominant ideology, do not and cannot exist. This provocative book examines the careers of male performers whose teenage roles made them famous (including Ricky Nelson, Pat Boone, Fabian, and James Darren) and discusses examples of lesbian desire (including I Love Lucy and Laverne and Shirley). Queering Teen Culture examines: Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, and Leave It to Beaver: Were Ricky, Bud, and Wally sufficiently straight? the juvenile delinquent films of the 1950s: Why weren’t the rebel-without-a-cause bad boys interested in girls? horror, sci-fi, and zombies from outer space: Body of a boy! Mind of a monster! Soul of an unearthly thing! teen idolspretty, androgynous, and feminine: No wonder they were rumored to be funny beach movies: She wants to plan their wedding but he wants to surf, sky-dive and go drag racing with the guys Biker-hippies boys of the late 1960s: I know your scenedon’t think I don’t! the 1950s nostalgia of the 1970s: Why does Fonzie spend all his time with high school boys? teen gore: What makes the psycho-killer angry? and much more, including Gidget, the Brat Pack, buddy dramas, nerds and operators, Saved by the Bell, The Real World, and the incredible shrinking teenager Queering Teen Culture is an essential read for academics working in cultural and gay studies, and for anyone else with an interest in popular culture.