Lost Divas

Author : André Tubeuf
Publisher : Assouline Books & Gifts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Divas written by André Tubeuf and published by Assouline Books & Gifts. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells all about a lost, authentically legendary species: the divas. They were the first movie stars before Pickford and Garbo, there was Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri, and Mary Garden. They were the most stunning opera singers, their personalities perhaps even bigger than their voices. Their success and their lives filled the gossip columns. Their fans loved them, grand dukes covered them in jewels. They represented both the splendorous excesses of an era of elegance and luxury, and its swan's song. There is almost nothing that survives of them today. Thankfully, their image remains and reveals all. Along with unpublished pictures of the greatest divas of this century, rediscover their voices in the accompanying CD produced specially for this publication. 70 b/w & colour illustrations

Author : Mike Madrid
Publisher : Exterminating Angel Press
ISBN 13 : 1935259245
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divas, Dames & Daredevils written by Mike Madrid and published by Exterminating Angel Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ComicsAlliance and ComicsBlend Best Comic Book of the Year BUST Magazine “Lit Pick” Recommendation Certified Cool™ in PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop’s Catalog “Mike Madrid gives these forgotten superheroines their due. These ‘lost’ heroines are now found—to the delight of comic book lovers everywhere.” —STAN LEE Wonder Woman, Mary Marvel, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ruled the pages of comic books in the 1940s, but many other heroines of the WWII era have been forgotten. Through twenty-eight full reproductions of vintage Golden Age comics, Divas, Dames & Daredevils reintroduces their ingenious abilities to mete out justice to Nazis, aliens, and evildoers of all kinds. Each spine-tingling chapter opens with Mike Madrid’s insightful commentary about heroines at the dawn of the comic book industry and reveals a universe populated by extraordinary women—superheroes, reporters, galactic warriors, daring detectives, and ace fighter pilots—who protected America and the world with wit and guile. In these pages, fans will also meet heroines with striking similarities to more modern superheroes, including The Spider Queen, who deployed web shooters twenty years before Spider Man, and Marga the Panther Woman, whose feral instincts and sharp claws tore up the bad guys long before Wolverine. These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history, but their influence on popular culture, and the heroes we’re passionate about today, is unmistakable. Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics and The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR “Best Book To Share With Your Friends” and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. Madrid, a San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.

Author : Russ Crawford
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496233824
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's American Football written by Russ Crawford and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackle football has been primarily viewed as a male sport, but at a time when men’s participation rates are decreasing, an increasing number of women are entering the gridiron—and they have a long history of doing so. Women’s American Football is a narrative history of girls and women participating in American football in the United States since the 1920s, when a women’s team played at halftime during an early NFL game. The women’s game became more organized in 1974, when the National Women’s Football League was established, with notable teams such as the Dallas Bluebonnets, Toledo Troopers, Oklahoma City Dolls, and Detroit Demons. Today there are two main professional leagues in the United States: the Women’s Football Alliance, with nearly seventy teams, and the Women’s National Football Conference, with eighteen, in addition to a number of smaller leagues. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the NFL have recently begun sponsoring flag football teams at the college level, and the game is growing for high school girls as well. In 2021 more than two thousand girls played on mostly boys’ teams, and there are currently four all-girls leagues in the United States and Canada, in Manitoba, Utah, Indiana, and New Brunswick. In addition to the rapid growth of women playing football, there have been advancements in other areas of the game. Beginning with Jennifer Welter in 2015, several women have earned positions coaching the professional game. In 2020 ESPN aired Born to Play, a documentary on the Boston Renegades, the 2019 champion of the Women’s Football Alliance. Based on extensive interviews with women players and focusing closely on leagues, teams, and athletes since the passage of Title IX in 1972, Russ Crawford illuminates the rich history of the women who have played football, breaking barriers on and off the field.

Author : Karin Pendle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135848130
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Music written by Karin Pendle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deuce 'n Domino written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzanne Kamata
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440572801
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screaming Divas written by Suzanne Kamata and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on MTV.com At sixteen, Trudy Baxter is tired of her debutante mom, her deadbeat dad, and her standing reservation at the juvenile detention center. Changing her name to Trudy Sin, she cranks up her major chops as a singer and starts a band, gathering around other girls ill at ease in their own lives. Cassie Haywood, would-have-been beauty queen, was scarred in an accident in which her alcoholic mom was killed. But she can still sing and play her guitar, even though she seeks way too much relief from the pain in her body and her heart through drugs, and way too much relief from loneliness through casual sex. Still, it's Cassie who hears former child prodigy Harumi Yokoyama playing in a punk band at a party, and enlists her, outraging Harumi's overbearing first-generation Japanese parents. The fourth member is Esther Shealy, who joins as a drummer in order to be close to Cassie--the long-time object of her unrequited love--and Harumi, her estranged childhood friend. Together, they are Screaming Divas, and they're quickly swept up as a local sensation. Then, just as they are about to achieve their rock-girl dreams, a tragedy strikes.

Author : LaToya Ferguson
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1454934484
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Women's Wrestling written by LaToya Ferguson and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and fascinating illustrated look at women’s professional wrestling, including 100 profiles of superstars from around the world. Women’s pro wrestling has existed in the USA since the 1930s, and this colorful encyclopedia references the fashion, fun, and drama of the sport through the years and around the world. Focusing on 100 competitors—from current faves Sasha Banks and Charlotte Flair, to Germany's Jazzy Gabert, Japan’s Io Shirai, and Canada's LuFisto, to legends like The Fabulous Moolah, Sable, Ivory, and Lita—it includes relevant stats and each one’s compelling story. Written by noted authority LaToya Ferguson, this engaging history is great for anyone interested in powerful women, fantastic costumes, and pro wrestling itself.

Author : Kouka Kishine
Publisher : J-Novel Club
ISBN 13 : 171830384X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle Divas: Volume 3 written by Kouka Kishine and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardly any time has passed since the battle against Eshantel, and King Alnoa’s plan to seal the Demon King away once more is coming along perfectly. That is, until he receives an unexpected visitor named Luna, who is a Diva, a princess of Distania...and also Al’s former bride-to-be! With her arrival, the Divas break out into an all-out battle for the young king’s hand in marriage!

Author : Victoria Christopher Murray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451650477
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destiny's Divas written by Victoria Christopher Murray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THEY CAN TALK THE TALK, BUT CAN THEY WALK THE WALK? Sierra, Raine, and Liza are Destiny’s Divas, a fresh, new gospel group whose unique blend of singing and testifying has gained them fans across the country. They tell the world about how good God has been to them, but off-stage, each is living a life totally opposite to what she preaches—and each is harboring a secret that could ruin them all. Twenty-something Sierra Dixon speaks about the joy of being single and celibate, though she is anything but, drifting from one relationship to another. Although she stresses the importance of unconditional love within the family, Raine Omari has hit her breaking point with her mother-in-law and is ready to take drastic steps. And when Liza Washington discovers that her pastor-husband is in the middle of a scandal that could bring down more than just their ministry, she knows she must do something to stop him. One fateful evening their secrets are exposed, and one diva commits an act that could land her in prison for the rest of her life. Each has motive—who will crack?

Author : Merci Miglino
Publisher : PageFree Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781589611450
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Doormat to Diva! written by Merci Miglino and published by PageFree Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Doormat to Divea recognizes every woman's secret desire to take center stage. Merci Miglino, life strategist and Jacqueline-of-all trades, takes you on a journey - from back stage to center stage in 10 simple steps. With a Perspective Makeover, Merci challenges you to forget the bad rap Divas get and consider the true and divine nature of the Diva in you! Use Diva vision and adopt a Diva-tude, says the author, to re-define selfishness, empowerment and extreme self-care. With humor-laced truth, enthusiasm, and an energy that pops off the page, Merci escorts you from the back row of your life, straight down the aisle to center stage!