Download or read book Here She Is written by Hilary Levey Friedman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.

Download or read book Sweet Science written by Amanda Jo Goldstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: "sweet science" -- Blake's mundane egg: epigenesis and milieux -- Equivocal life: Goethe's journals on morphology -- Tender semiosis: reading Goethe with Lucretius and Paul de Man -- Growing old together: Lucretian materialism in Shelley's The triumph of life -- A natural history of violence: allegory and atomism in Shelley's The mask of anarchy -- Coda: old materialism, or romantic Marx

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Download or read book The Theory Of Celestial Influence written by Rodney Collin and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1954, The Theory of Celestial Influence is an exploration of the universe and man’s place in it. Drawing extensively on the teachings of Russian mathematician and esotericist P. D. Ouspensky and Greek-Armenian Esoteric doctrine teacher George Gurdjieff, author Rodney Collins examines 20th century scientific discoveries and attempts to unite astronomy, physics, chemistry, human physiology and world history with his own version of planetary influences. He concludes that the driving force behind everything is neither procreation nor survival, but expansion of awareness. Collin sets out to reconcile the considerable contradictions of the rational and imaginative minds and of the ways we see the external world versus our inner selves.

Download or read book The Darwin Effect written by Jerry Bergman and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, an imprisoned doctor in the Auschwitz camp, wrote that Nazi doctors hoped studying twins would solve the problem of faster reproduction of superior races. Nazis hoped to have each German mother bear as many twins as possible.What Darwin influenced went far beyond the Nazi death camps: Shocking political, social, and scientific legacies of Darwin and his familyDisturbing disclosure of how over 45 million Christians were killed in the 20th century because of their faithRevealing and layman-friendly presentation. This book is the result of 30 years of research and study carefully documenting the common destructive threads that tie some of history’s most murderous dictators, uncaring capitalists, and aggressive social activists to the flawed concepts of Charles Darwin in an effort to change the world — and how they succeeded. The extermination of races considered “lower” than others, the profound lack of empathy for less-advanced cultures, the corrupted atheistic justifications for taking the lives of millions — all done to advance the agendas of social Darwinism at work in the world today. More than mere theoretical discussions, we have seen the horrifying evidence of the practical results when applying these destructive and misleading concepts to society in the last 100 years!

Download or read book Beauty Truth and Grace written by Alycia Darby Zimnoch and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know EXACTLY what to change to WIN your pageant?Do you need a PAGEANT COACH that isn't afraid to tell you the truth?Listen, YOU know you are meant for something SPECTACULAR, but you haven't cracked the code to win big.You're in the right place. This honest and direct book will teach you exactly what you need to know to show up for your pageant as a TOP CONTENDER, positioned to WIN and prepared to perform with the greatest CONFIDENCE. Beauty, Truth and Grace is like having your personal coach in your back pocket - an entire coaching system with step-by-step trainings that leave nothing to chance. You'll know you're on the RIGHT path. Pageantry is a beautiful, wonderful, EXCITING world - especially if you win. Listen, it's no secret that pageantry gets confusing. It sometimes feels like they want it to be complex so that it's harder to win. Pageant contestants get confused by the often conflicting ideas of what it really take for a woman to climb to the top. When you're new to pageantry or just haven't had a title big enough to break into this wild, beautiful, thrilling world, it's hard to know what really goes on in the judges minds and what the competition is doing to STAND OUT. The simple concepts that are revealed in Beauty, Truth and Grace show you EXACTLY how to prepare so you are easily positioned to win. Alycia has been coaching clients around the globe for over 10 years. She is the host of the iTunes #1 pageant podcast and creator of her signature course, Pageant Interview Game Plan. Alycia has competed in every major pageant system across the United States and held several titles including Miss Maryland and Miss California. She has judged pageants, hosted pageants, choreographed for pageants, and now coaches women to win their pageants around the world. Alycia's master's degree in adult learning theory allows her to structure her training to best adhere to a woman so that her techniques are easily understood and perfectly aligned. Her success has allowed her to be featured in magazines and tv shows including OK! Magazine, PopSugarTV, The Steve Harvey Show, NBC, and more. No one has a better combination of the breadth of experience and technical training than Alycia does to deliver this level of coaching in such a simple form for you to apply to your own pageant preparation. Alycia breaks down all the phases of Comprehensive Pageant Preparation Plan into an easy-to-follow guide for you that will simplify the complexities of pageantry so that you can see exactly what separates winners from the rest of the competition. After reading this book, you'll be able to: Showcase your pageant BRAND on stage Communicate to your judges why YOU are the BEST person to win the pageant Control your pageant INTERVIEW (even before you arrive) Manage your nerves and Speak with ease Stand out as the Most OBVIOUS choice to win the pageant In order to win you have to do three things: 1. Radiate Beauty so everyone you meet will want to know you and adore you. 2. Know the Truth about what you bring to the table as a winner so that no one can beat you. 3. Present Grace with your look, communication, and performanceHINT: it doesn't have to cost a lot of money to win, but I'll show you how to raise big bucks if you want to spend a lot anyway Follow the advice in this book and you will be able to confidently compete against even the most seasoned pageant competition. You'll get immediate clarity about how you can soar in pageantry and take home the crown - it's simpler than you think. Are you ready to win your pageant?Scroll to the top and click the "BUY NOW" button.

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Download or read book Looking for Miss America written by Margot Mifflin and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress Looking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women’s status during periods of social change—the post–suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever–changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations. Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s. In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the pageant, Looking for Miss America examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.

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Download or read book Unity and Disunity in Evolutionary Biology written by Richard G. Delisle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Southern Beauty written by Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Macroevolution Contingency and Divine Activity written by Bradford McCall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the things that God values in the creative process? How does one define God's activity in such a world? How is God's involvement different from a contingent--what this author labels contingentist--instance? Why do we need a God-idea at all? Herein, Bradford McCall addresses how divine, amorepotent love works with and within a contingentist (i.e., radically contingent) evolutionary theory and worldview. Within the course of this project, he reaches a via media between the (somewhat) radical formalist position of Simon Conway Morris and the veritably radical contingent position of Stephen Jay Gould. But . . . how is the contingentist amorepotent and uncontrolling love of God understood as purposeful? McCall argues in detail that there in fact is some sort of purposiveness that is nevertheless working in a chastened Gouldian position, and he distinguishes between contingency and veritable divine involvement. He contends that God does not insist upon a particular outcome but merely allows propensities to work themselves out. God amorepotently loves the population of the natural world into greater forms of complexity, relationality, and beauty in varied and multifarious forms, along with the extension of diversity.

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