Download or read book Fearing the Black Body written by Sabrina Strings and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor Black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to Black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.

Download or read book Must Girls Love written by Sabrina Must and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her sister Miya's tragic suicide, Sabrina wrote to express all her emotions: shock, sadness, love, disbelief, anger. "Must Girls Love" is a memoir about her journey to understand, cope, and grieve for Miya. The youngest of the four sisters, and a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins University, 22-year-old Sabrina deconstructs her family's dynamics, Miya's issues, and ultimately her own issues in order to accept why Miya killed herself and understand why she struggles as she does. The book traces what happens to a family and to an individual in the year following such a tragedy. It also illustrates Miya's favorite phrase, "Must Girls Love," that celebrates the bond among four sisters and their parents.

Download or read book Why I Love My Gay Boyfriend written by Sabrina Zollo and published by Central Avenue Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sabrina Zollo captivates with her corporate world of cosmetology and the fashionistas who strive to own the beauty crown. I enjoyed how we followed Veronica fresh from gaining her new MBA with dreams of goodwill and how easily she succumbs to the lure of the shiny, sparkly aesthetic industry.” —Night Owl Reviews When Veronica graduated with an MBA and dreams of saving the world, she never knew she would end up a corporate slave to the lipstick gods, in love with her playboy boss and in need of a gay best friend to make her feel fabulous. Straight out of school, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Veronica has her heart set on an honorable job, such as saving starving children. Instead, she accepts a job at Gisele, a global cosmetics empire that seems to mock her every value. Veronica struggles to fit in until she meets Stevie, a gay co-worker, who immediately assumes the role of fashion counselor and fabulousness. Under Stevie’s mentorship, Veronica flourishes as a vixen and marketing peon. But for Veronica to truly succeed at Gisele and seduce her boss, she must bequeath her soul to the makeup gods and sacrifice her friends in a ritual known as corporate brainwash. How far does Veronica go before she realizes she is losing everything she once valued, including herself?

Download or read book All You Need is a Love Spell written by Randi Reisfeld and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabrina goes to great lengths to keep Harvey from falling for another girl.

Download or read book Love Bitten written by Sabrina C. Rose and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, sassy, sexy vampire romance where a case of mistaken identity leads to the love of a lifetime.

Download or read book Dirty Lying Faeries written by Sabrina Blackburry and published by W by Wattpad Books. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sabrina 60 Magical Stories written by Archie Superstars and published by Archie Comic Publications (Trade). This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate 60 years of Sabrina the Teenage Witch with this fun, full-color commemorative collection of magical and mischievous stories! Sabrina: 60 Magical Stories collects over 500 pages of classic and beloved comic book stories—one from each of the 60 spell-binding years of Sabrina's history. The must-have collector’s item also features special behind-the-scenes anecdotes that shed light on each decade and iteration of Sabrina. This spellbinding tome is the perfect companion to 2021’s fan-favorite Best of Archie Comics: 80 Years, 80 Stories collection!

Download or read book To Love LOVE written by Steve Robinson and published by Amazon Pro Hub. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four high school students' find a way to make a way, for themselves, their community and their family. Growth and maturity were inevitable. Transitions, we all experience some level of it. From the loss of a loved one to graduating junior high school and starting high school, we find ways to adjust and thrive. What do you do in the face of adversity? These four students realized they could lean on one another and push through anything. Understanding their strengths and weaknesses allowed them to support one another in ways most high school students can't imagine.

Download or read book The Disappearance of Sabrina Banks written by Wanda Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about three young girls that have been friends since grade school. In their junior year of school, they are giving a project for their English class. The project is for them to write pen pals. The pals are trouble children throughout the US. One of their letters gets picked up by a bad man, and he kidnaps and kills the girl. Now the police have to try and figure out who did it and why.

Download or read book Light Dark Greyknight written by D. M. Fife and published by Daniel M. Fife. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning from a less than magical year at the White Rock Academy of Illumination, which resulted in a friend’s death, the loss of a powerful Shadow weapon, the Black Bonded, and the continued perceived betrayal of those he trusts, Danny Firoth finds himself torn between the competing ideals of the Light and his own. Given the magnitude of the ongoing clash between the forces of Light and the forces of Dark, Danny finds the scale of high school trifles rather trivial in comparison. Reinforcing this viewpoint, his fears become all too real as the ancient battle between the Light and the Dark spills directly into the halls of the school. Danny is confronted with a new threat, wielding the very weapons he tried so desperately to keep from falling into the Shadows’ hands, Black Bondeds. In the face of this new threat, Danny and his friends must work alongside a new kind of ally, those of the Grey, the Greyknights. Unsure of these new would-be allies, Danny struggles in his continued effort to unravel the chronicle of the Mageknight and his place as the aspirant savior in the battle to come as the Shadow threat seems to grow to a culminating level. Faced with the overreaching shade of the Shadows, Danny must face a question that has been pending for quite some time, to embrace the lies of the Light and the falsehood of his prophesized role or betray their principles for the good of what is to come. Light and Dark: Greyknight is the third book in the Light and Dark Series, a continuing sequence of epic fantasy, adventure novels that combine new elements of science fiction, scientific theories and technology, and a mythological connection to legend, lore, and religion to an already thrilling world of formidable villains and gallant heroes, magic, super-powered action, and spell-casting escapades, exploring a fresh militaristic setting while adding the continued tradition of appealing characters, fictional and non-fictional locals, and an enchanted cast of races.

Download or read book Sabrina s Story written by Regina Jones and published by Regina Jones. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabrina "s Story is a Heart Wrenching Fiction Story of a woman who was brought up in a dysfunctional abusive home. Not encouraged to embrace God, she was fondled by a family member and a neighborhood girl while she was yet a baby. Sabrina eventually battles drug addiction, abuse, sex working,stripping,drug smuggling, bulemia then her life comes to a draumatic end.

Download or read book Sabrina Manga Color Collection Vol 3 written by Archie Superstars and published by Archie Comic Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular manga-style take on Sabrina the Teenage Witch returns with a third thrilling, FULL-COLOR installment! Full of romance and the supernatural, Sabrina is torn between two worlds and two boys while attending both a mortal and magical high school. It's Sabrina as you've never seen her before in an enchanted adventure brought to you by super talented writer/artist Tania Del Rio, collecting her acclaimed run on everyone's favorite teenage witch!

Download or read book Ordinary Alphabet written by Michelle McNair and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an amazing book. It talks about many different subjects and topics. There are poems about love, life and laughter. Poems about having fun and reminiscing. It is a book of ordinary poems from an ordinary girl. This book is for anyone who has had a bad day and just want to take a rest from the world. Someone having a good day or in the middle and just want to relax. There are short poems and long poems. So if you are looking for a poem for 3 minutes or 10 seconds this book is the one. This book is for anyone who likes poems or for someone who is just beginning to explore other reading possibilities. There are different styles of poems including odes, acrostics, blues and unrhymed poems. This book is fun and adventurous. You will feel emotions anywhere from sad, gloomy and depressed to happy, excited and flabbergasted. Some topics you read about will make you think while others will make you question yourself. There are so many love poems in the book that make you want to be in love and many poems with life lessons to be learned. As you are reading you will find yourself hard to stop because the book is so interesting and friendly.

Download or read book Be Careful What You Wish for written by Cheryl Faye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you measure the worth of a woman? Or determine the value of a man? In this sexy, suspenseful novel, Cheryl Faye takes on the hot-button issues facing men and women as they struggle to build meaningful, lasting relationships. Jamilah Parsons and Sabrina Richardson are roommates and unlikely friends. Jamilah is a voluptuous, down-to-earth graphic artist who knows what she wants—a man to love her for herself. Gorgeous and model-thin, glamorous Sabrina is beset by doubts and insecurities. She uses her beauty to reel in the kind of man she thinks will give her the good life, without having to give anything in return. When Sabrina brings home sexy attorney Darius Thornton, the stage is set for conflict and drama. Jamilah is attracted to Darius; but Darius only has eyes for Sabrina, who is determined to keep him at arm's length until she has him right where she wants him. Then she meets someone even better—or so she thinks. What she doesn't know is that beneath this new suitor's suave exterior is a man filled with pain, ready to lash out at those closest to him. Now Sabrina must discover a courage she never knew she had, while Jamilah grapples with her own complicated feelings for both Sabrina and Darius. Intense, provocative, and intricate, Be Careful What You Wish For introduces complex, flesh-and-blood characters that readers will relate to, root for, and remember long after the final page.

Download or read book L as in Love Book One written by Ruth Gogoll and published by édition el!es. This book was released on 2016-01-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peek into the interwoven lives of the women who gather at the Sappho Café, and meet a broad cross section of Cologne's most interesting people. Whether we're in the presence of the "perfect" couples or the women who are on the lookout for love, you'll find that Sappho always has drama on the menu - as well as a first-rate cappuccino. So sit back and enjoy the ride. Once you've met Sabrina, Chris, Carolin, Rick, Rebekka and all the rest, you'll be back for more "L" - as in lovely ladies, lust, laughter, lies, lightheartedness, and lasciviousness - but mostly, "L - as in Love"!

Download or read book Dancing with the Moon written by June Marie Saxton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen year old Sabrina Ashley embraces her future by finally confronting her past. At the tender age of seven, Sabrina witnessed the murder of her father. She tucked a crucial piece of evidence away, burying it beneath her childhood treasures. Likewise, she hid the haunted, forbidden pains of sorrow deep within her soul. As Sabrina struggles to keep the past locked away, golden opportunities of promise present themselves. Delicious relationships are formed, and even though Sabrina never expects it, happiness dances on every horizon. Long awaited peace infuses Sabrina's soul, when at last the festering, infected secrets are confronted and justice is served.

Download or read book Catching of an Eye written by Kymberly Gonzalez and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if the love of your life is the "Catch Of An Eye" and he betrays you? Do you take revenge? Do you kill or do you forgive? Sabrina travels the maze of life looking for the answer. This novel contains a soundtrack on compact disc.