Dancing With The Virgins

Author : Deidre Sklar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520227910
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing with the Virgin written by Deidre Sklar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book -- at once personal and analytical -- explores, in vibrant detail and compelling depth, the capacity of movement to express the way that human beings experience their lives and identities. In recounting her exploration of a town in the American Southwest, Deidre Sklar examines themes common to cultures around the world."—Benjamin S. Orlove, editor of The Allure of the Foreign

Author : Stephen Booth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007242719
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing with the Virgins written by Stephen Booth and published by . This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Booth
Publisher : Witness Impulse
ISBN 13 : 9780062350435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing With the Virgins written by Stephen Booth and published by Witness Impulse. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing With the Virgins is an atmospheric, psychological stunner— perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson. As winter closes in on the moors, so does death. The body of a young woman is found within a ring of ancient cairns, her arms and legs arranged to look as though she's dancing. Now another young woman has been found, savagely wounded and severely traumatized, but alive. Ben Cooper and Diane Fry must unlock the memories trapped inside her mind before more blood is shed amongst the stones . . .

Author : Susan Reinhardt
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780758217097
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dishing with the Kitchen Virgin written by Susan Reinhardt and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A syndicated columnist, spokeswoman for skewed southern bellehood, and the worst cook ever presents a hilarious new collection of food stories, culinary disasters, and recipes. Original.

Author : Stephen Booth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956902795
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing with the Virgins written by Stephen Booth and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janet Lynn Roseman. Ph.D.
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1942493118
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance was her Religion written by Janet Lynn Roseman. Ph.D. and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three dancers who changed the face of Modern Dance and liberated dancers from ballet’s rigidity to glorify the human body as a scared vessel: Isadora Duncan, 1877-1927, Ruth St. Denis, 1879-1968, and Martha Graham, 1894-1991. From youth, each recognized an organic urge for ecstatic human expression. This book explores their pioneering approaches to spiritual choreography and reveals unkown aspects of their lives and work: * each insisted upon her vision of dance as prayer * each was a mystic * each had a profound, personal devotion to the Virgin Mary * each choreographed work in her honor * each portrayed the Madonna in dance * each felt herself to be a priestess of dance * each worked to establish a school, where dance was the basis for an enlightened life The book contains quotes about and interviews with these women, including rare materials, restoring the understanding of dance as religious expression and placing these women in their rightful places among spiritual philosophers.

Author : Analicia Sotelo
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319778
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virgin written by Analicia Sotelo and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo’s debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity—of naiveté, of careless abandon—before sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how “far & wide, / how dark & deep / this frigid female mind can go.” A schoolgirl hopelessly in love. A daughter abandoned by her father. A seeming innocent in a cherry-red cardigan, lurking at the margins of a Texas barbeque. A contemporary Ariadne with her monstrous Theseus. A writer with a penchant for metaphor and a character who thwarts her own best efforts. “A Mexican American fascinator.” At every step, Sotelo’s poems seduce with history, folklore, and sensory detail—grilled meat, golden habañeros, and burnt sugar—before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power, deceit, relationships, and ourselves. Here is what it means to love someone without truly understanding them. Here is what it means to be cruel. And here is what it means to become an artist, of words and of the self. Blistering and gorgeous, Virgin is an audacious act of imaginative self-mythology from one of our most promising young poets.

Author : Barbara Wood
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1596528893
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virgins of Paradise written by Barbara Wood and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Wood: A magnificent coming-of-age saga about two sisters from an aristocratic Egyptian family who rebel against tradition. Inside a beautiful mansion on Virgins of Paradise Street in post-World War II Cairo, Jasmine and Camelia Rasheed grow to womanhood under the watchful eyes of their grandmother and the other women of the prominent Rasheed family. Despite the glamour and elegance of the city, women still wear the veil and live in harems. But as Egypt begins to change, so do Jasmine and Camelia. Rebelling against a society in which the suppression of women is assumed, Jasmine and Camelia embark on turbulent personal and professional voyages of discovery. Cast out of the family, Jasmine travels to America to become a doctor while Camelia sets out to become one of the foremost beledi dancers in the Middle East. Sensuous, spicy, and romantic, Virgins of Paradise is a spellbinding novel set in an exotic and erotic culture. Brilliantly portraying two sisters' search for identity amidst historic change, Wood also conveys a portrait of an ancient nation merging into the modern era while mired in superstition, magic, and mythology.

Author : M. Cynthia Oliver
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800265
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen of the Virgins written by M. Cynthia Oliver and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores. Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. M. Cynthia Oliver maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or “queen show.” For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region's understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power. Focusing on the queen show, Oliver reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and created Creole royal rituals and celebrations heavily influenced by Africanist aesthetics. Using the U.S. Virgin Islands as an intriguing case study, Oliver shows how the pageant continues to reflect, reinforce, and challenge Caribbean cultural values concerning femininity. Queen of the Virgins examines the journey of the black woman from degraded body to vaunted queen and how this progression is marked by social unrest, growing middle-class sensibilities, and contemporary sexual and gender politics.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802135292
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing at the Edge of the World written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated author offers her thoughts on a broad range of subjects, including literary criticism, the state of science fiction writing today, and government and governmental policies.