Download or read book Material Girls written by Kathleen Stock and published by Fleet. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard 'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex. Professor Kathleen Stock surveys the philosophical ideas that led to this point, and closely interrogates each one, from De Beauvoir's statement that, 'One is not born, but rather becomes a woman' (an assertion she contends has been misinterpreted and repurposed), to Judith Butler's claim that language creates biological reality, rather than describing it. She looks at biological sex in a range of important contexts, including women-only spaces and resources, healthcare, epidemiology, political organization and data collection. Material Girls makes a clear, humane and feminist case for our retaining the ability to discuss reality, and concludes with a positive vision for the future, in which trans rights activists and feminists can collaborate to achieve some of their political aims.

Download or read book Material Girls written by Elaine Dimopoulos and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Runway meets Divergent in this insightful young adult novel that looks at fashion and consumerism in a world where children are the gatekeepers of culture and staying young and trendy are the keys to success.

Download or read book Material Girls written by Suzanna Danuta Walters and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On feminist cultural theory

Download or read book Material Girl Mystical World written by Ruby Warrington and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utterly transporting and stylish, Material Girl, Mystical World takes you on an unforgettable journey through modern spirituality—from meditation and tarot to astrology—guided by wise and witty tastemaker Ruby Warrington, founder of The Numinous. Inspired by the consciousness-shifting traditions that have moved seekers for generations, Material Girl, Mystical World is a fabulous adventure in the "Now Age"—a sophisticated upgrade on cosmic thinking, from healing crystals to doing your dharma, for women who know that a closetful of designer shoes can happily coexist with a deeply meaningful life. Set against the backdrop of Ruby Warrington's own transformative path from her dream job as an influential fashion journalist to creating The Numinous, the high-style, high-vibe online magazine about spirituality for modern women, Material Girl, Mystical World invites readers on a colorful journey to discover their own path to personal enlightenment in every area of life, from love, sex, and relationships to fashion, beauty, health, and wellness. Combining the wit and charm of a modern-day Carrie Bradshaw with the stylish soul of Elizabeth Gilbert, Warrington shows us that it is within our power, right now, to create a life that is both intentional and fabulous—while also contributing to a major shift in global consciousness. From how to survive and thrive at Burning Man to creating rituals that celebrate the Divine Feminine to exploring the shaman in you, Material Girl, Mystical World is an inspiring call to arms for women looking to find their authenticity and voice in business, relationships, and spirit, from Brooklyn to London to Venice, C.A., and Black Rock City and beyond. A writer to watch, Warrington bestows on readers her wry, winning, and ultimately wise take on modern life.

Download or read book Prodigal Sons and Material Girls written by Nathan Dungan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s society many young people have lost sight of the value of money and seem to believe that money really does "grow on trees." Part expose and part survival guide, Prodigal Sons and Material Girls addresses the nagging issue faced by many parents today – why do their children have such unrealistic expectations about money? The book is divided into two comprehensive parts. Part I outlines the disturbing facts about America’s possession-crazed youth and the society that has distorted their views. You’ll be introduced to everything from the "three-headed monster"—a high-powered triumvirate of consumer products companies, media conglomerates, and advertising agencies that has tremendous influence over your children—to the distorted view of the American Dream as shaped by principles known as "The Teen Commandments." In learning what you’re up against you can teach financial responsibility from a position of strength. In Part II, Dungan offers creative and convincing examples on how to leverage his highly successful "Share-Save-Spend" approach to money – critical elements for you to help your children break free from the materialism that has become ingrained in our society. Through insightful anecdotes and simple exercises, you will learn how to: Talk to your children about money Understand the difference between financial wants and needs Increase the probability of your children having a prosperous life Raise your children’s marketing IQ Maintain healthy financial boundaries Set a healthy example for your children to follow The "Share–Save–Spend" methodology will help your children establish healthy financial habits and will undoubtedly become their foundation for making a lifetime of responsible financial decisions. Nathan Dungan is an innovative leader in the financial services industry. Over the past 15 years, he has been a top-performing financial advisor outside of Philadelphia, PA and most recently served as Vice President of Marketing for Lutheran Brotherhood (now Thrivent Financial for Lutherans), a $57 billion member-owned financial services company with nearly 3 million members. Dungan is a frequent speaker and workshop leader and has been widely quoted on this subject in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and has appeared on CNN and PBS.

Download or read book Material Girl written by Julia London and published by Julia London. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quilt Big written by Jemima Flendt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big, bold, impressive designs that sew together quickly and easily! Approaching quilting in a big way, Quilt Big takes the inherent beauty found in single block patterns and creates big, bold quilts, quickly and easily. Whether you're simply short on time or intimidated by complex quilts, Quilt Big will show you how super-sizing your blocks make for faster finishes and so much more. In this block book and design resource, you'll find: • 22 BIG blocks to show off your favorite fabrics in fantastic ways. • Step-by-step guide to scaling traditional blocks to oversized designs. • 17 quilt designs featuring bold, super-sized blocks. Plus, these 15", 18", and 24" blocks are interchangeable for one-of-a-kind finished projects! • No CD required! Block patterns have been designed in a way that no specially sized templates are needed. If you're new to quilting, there's no better way to learn than on a grand scale. And, for the experienced quilter, large block pieces are a fabric-friendly way to feature your favorite designer collections. Super-size your love of quilting with Quilt Big!

Download or read book Material Girl written by Laura Jaramillo and published by Subpress. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "The experience of MATERIAL GIRL begins in a field of distinct flowers poems are 'the flowers of associational thinking, ' as Charles Bernstein teaches each composition held in its own light, which it produces. Can the experiment 'express our peasant sufferings'? Can the beauty of the language be made to make things clear? 'Material Girl' and MATERIAL GIRL abide in and arise from these questions, inhabiting them, moving through them, to the point of noticing, transmitting, 'the nation's wild flowers bow gently // around our waists in the open.' If the thing is that we have to learn how both to inhabit and escape, adore and destroy well, now I feel sure that this is the thing, because this is what Laura Jaramillo teaches." Fred Moten "Negative Ecstasy. She said it herself and it's true. Laura Jaramillo's poems are just short of too smart. Meaning they are too real to critique. Cascading ('jism from the cock of a cartoon') they (shake-shake) are it." Eileen Myles "Before Madonna was Monroe, before Monroe, Mina Loy, before Mina Loy, was Laura Jaramillo, who crosscuts a multitude of materialities so that a girl will appear, abject, yet a star, a girl who lives in Italian movies and in Queens, who, knowing her Adorno, is as well a materialist girl, a dazzling embodiment of critical thought and purest longing, awakening to life in and away from the city. True, as she intimates, Manhattan may not exist, but the romance of it lives on in every lyrical, sharp-eyed, exhilarating, witty, and sad line of this marvelous book. Reader, beware: Laura Jaramillo will make you miss New York so much it hurts, even if, especially if, you've never been there." Joseph Donahue"

Download or read book The Girl Who Carried Too Much Stuff written by Marc Boston and published by Juju Seeds Media LLC. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of a little girl who loves to carry almost all of her possessions whenever she leaves home. She soon learns that having too much stuff can create a world of trouble. She makes a self discovery that sharing her things with others is a happy solution.

Download or read book Material Girl 2 written by Keisha Ervin and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dylan Monroe, our favorite shopaholic, is back! She's three months pregnant and madly in love with the father of her child, sexy heavyweight champion, Angel. The only problem is the long-legged Victoria's Secret model standing in the way of getting him back. If that weren't enough stress, her Jack Daniel's-loving mother, Candy, returns to stir up even more trouble. Unsure of how to face her future as a single mother, Dylan reverts back to the only thing she knows to comfort her pain—shopping! Rounding out the cast of colorful characters are Billie, Dylan's tightly wound friend, and flamboyant transgender cousin Tee-Tee, aka Dick'em Down Diva. Labels and Love promises to be a laugh-out-loud, heartfelt tale of love lost and love regained.

Download or read book Ms and the Material Girls written by Catherine Gourley and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1970s through the 1990s and how they brought about major changes for women.

Download or read book Material Girl written by Keisha Ervin and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dylan Monroe is the kind of chick females love to hate, but children and dogs mysteriously adore. She’s a material girl, living in a material world filled with diamonds, furs, limousines, celebrities, and private planes. To the world, she has it all, but behind closed doors, she has nothing. Almost bankrupt, she finds solace with State, a wealthy entrepreneur with a heart of steel, the man who breaks her heart time and time again. When State leaves her heart in shambles, she turns to Angel, her best friend’s brother. She’s had a secret crush on him for years. Swept off her feet by her new love, but still mending from the pain of the old one, Dylan finds herself caught up in a web of lies, lust, love, and betrayal. National bestselling author Keisha Ervin delivers a sophisticated love story filled with laughter, witty banter . . . and excessive shopping!

Download or read book Madonna written by Rebecca Gulick and published by Running Press Book Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young Girl written by Tiqqun and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical dissection of capitalism's ultimate form of merchandise: the living spectacle of the Young-Girl. The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female. She is the figure of total integration in a disintegrating social totality. —from Theory of the Young-Girl First published in France in 1999, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl dissects the impossibility of love under Empire. The Young-Girl is consumer society's total product and model citizen: whatever “type” of Young-Girl she may embody, whether by whim or concerted performance, she can only seduce by consuming. Filled with the language of French women's magazines, rooted in Proust's figure of Albertine and the amusing misery of (teenage) romance in Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke, and informed by Pierre Klossowski's notion of “living currency” and libidinal economy, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl diagnoses—and makes visible—a phenomenon that is so ubiquitous as to have become transparent. In the years since the book's first publication in French, the worlds of fashion, shopping, seduction plans, makeover projects, and eating disorders have moved beyond the comparatively tame domain of paper magazines into the perpetual accessibility of Internet culture. Here the Young-Girl can seek her own reflection in corporate universals and social media exchanges of “personalities” within the impersonal realm of the marketplace. Tracing consumer society's colonization of youth and sexuality through the Young-Girl's “freedom” (in magazine terms) to do whatever she wants with her body, Tiqqun exposes the rapaciously competitive and psychically ruinous landscape of modern love.

Download or read book Material Girl written by Louise Kean and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Real Life Have A Happy -Ever-After? A Controversial, Debate-Provoking Novel About Growing Older, Taking Risks And Living For The Moment, From The Author Of The Highly Acclaimed The Perfect 10. Take Some Lessons In Love From A Movie Star& Dolly Russell Was A Star Of The Big Screen At A Time When Women Were Beautiful And Men Were Strong. Scarlet White Is A Make-Up Artist At A Time When Women Are Desperate To Be Beautiful And Men Are Pretty Rubbish& Dolly, Having Been Coaxed Out Of A Decade'S Exile In The Hollywood Hills After A Glittering Career And A Headline-Grabbing Love Life, Is The Latest Star To Grace The West End. A Notorious Diva, She'S Used To Getting Her Own Way. Scarlet Is A Woman On The Edge Going Nowhere Fast With Her Boyfriend Of Three Years, Getting Herself Into Compromising Situations, Lusting Over The Leading Man And Wondering Where The Promise Of Yesterday Went. When The Two Are Thrown Together On The Eve Of The Opening Night, The Last Make-Up Artist Having Fled With A Bad Case Of Nerves, Fireworks Seems Inevitable. But Instead An Unlikely Friendship Blossoms As Dolly Gives Scarlet Some Valuable Lessons In Life And Love, Opening Up As Scarlet Gets Closer, Her Still-Beautiful Mask Finally Slipping. In A World Where Sex And Love Are Often Mistaken, Possessions Are More Important Than Emotions And Where 'Must Do' Is Swapped For 'Make Do', Scarlet'S Passion For Life Is Reawakened. As She Ventures To Live Life Like A Movie Star, She Wonders If Maybe A Fairytale Ending Complete With Leading Man And Glorious Sunset Is Possible After All&

Download or read book Who s That Girl written by Michael D Craig and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who’s That Girl? The Ultimate Madonna Trivia Book! Just how well do you know Madonna, the most famous woman in the world? Read this fun book and find out… What Madonna hit was featured in a television ad for The Gap? Which Madonna sibling danced along side his sister in her “Lucky Star” music video? What snack food is reportedly Madonna’s favorite? Which Madonna album is her biggest seller? From Material Girl to Mother of Two, Who’s That Girl? The Ultimate Madonna Trivia Book explores the fascinating life of the world’s most outspoken, controversial and celebrated superstar. Written with respect and admiration by best-selling author and pop culture expert Michael-Dante Craig, it is the ultimate trivia book for Madonna’s legion of fans around the globe. Who’s That Girl? The Ultimate Madonna Trivia Book is the perfect book for all True Blue Madonna fans

Download or read book Material Girls written by Suzanna Danuta Walters and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: These much-discussed media icons are the starting points of Suzanna Walter's brilliant, much-needed introduction to feminist cultural theory. Accessible yet theoretically sophisticated, up-to-date and entertaining, Material Girls acquaints readers with the major theories, debates, and concepts in this new and exciting field. With numerous case studies and illustrations, Walters situates feminist cultural theory against the background of the women's movement and media studies. Using examples from film, television, advertising, and popular discourse, she looks at topics such as the "male gaze," narrative theory, and new work on female "ways of seeing" and spectatorship. Throughout, Walters provides a historically grounded account of representations of women in popular culture while critiquing the dominance of psychoanalytic and postmodern analyses. The first comprehensive guide to the approaches and debates that make up this growing field, Material Girls belongs on the shelf of every cultural critic and savvy student today.