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Author : Layne Cutright
Release : 1996-03
Genre : Interpersonal relations
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 102/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Straight from the Heart by : Layne Cutright
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Layne Cutright. This book was released on 1996-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer S. Prough
Release : 2010-11-16
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 578/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Straight from the Heart by : Jennifer S. Prough
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Jennifer S. Prough. This book was released on 2010-11-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manga is the backbone of Japanese popular culture, influencing everything from television, movies, and video games to novels, art, and theater. Shojo manga (girls’ comics) has been seminal to the genre as a whole and especially formative for Japanese girls’ culture throughout the postwar era. In Straight from the Heart, Jennifer Prough examines the shojo manga industry as a site of cultural storytelling, illuminating the ways that issues of mass media, gender, production, and consumption are involved in the process of creating shojo manga. With their glittery pastel covers and focus on human relationships and romance, shojo manga are thoroughly marked by gender—as indeed are almost all manga titles, magazines, and publishing divisions. Drawing on two years of fieldwork on the production of shojo manga, Prough analyzes shojo manga texts and their magazine contexts to explain their distinctive appeal, probe the gendered dynamics inherent in their creation, and demonstrate the feedback system that links producers and consumers in a continuous cycle of "affective labor." Each chapter focuses on one facet of shojo manga production (stories, format, personnel, industry dynamics), providing engaging insights into this popular medium. Tacking between story development, interactive magazine features, and relationships between male editors and female artists, Prough examines the concrete ways in which shojo manga reflect, refract, and fabricate constructions of gender, consumption, and intimacy. Straight from the Heart thus weaves together issues of production and consumption, human relations, and gender to explain the unique world of shojo manga and to interpret its dramatic cultural and economic success on a national—and increasingly global—scale.
Author : Pamela Wallace
Release : 1996
Genre : Widowers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 894/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Straight from the Heart by : Pamela Wallace
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Pamela Wallace. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoey Donavan might have it made in New York City, but at 35, she wants more than what her successful photography career offers. Secretly she longs for a real family life, shared with someone who doesn't value work above everything else.
Author : Ann Richards
Release : 2013-04-23
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 270/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Straight from the Heart by : Ann Richards
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Ann Richards. This book was released on 2013-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straight from the Heart is Ann Richards’s story, told with her trademark candor and spicy humor. Born in a tiny town near Waco, Texas, she entered politics when her husband wouldn’t—and went on to become state treasurer, the first woman elected to statewide office in Texas in fifty years. She’s had her victories and her battles (the breakup of a thirty-year marriage and a bout with alcohol), but it’s her love of Texas and Texas politics that has made her who she is. This extraordinary memoir by one of the nation’s leading politicians proves the wisdom of her observation that women “can have a good and wonderful life, but that it only begins when they accept responsibility for it, not when they expect someone else to make it happen.” Richards talks openly about the course her life has taken and the choices she has made on the way. Her hard-won triumphs and savvy political career provide inspiring examples for all.
Author : Bob Jackson-Paris
Release : 2009-09-26
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 039/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Straight from the Heart by : Bob Jackson-Paris
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Bob Jackson-Paris. This book was released on 2009-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Mr. Universe Bob Paris and topflight model Rod Jackson tell how their marriage catapulted them from physique icons to international spokesmen for gay rights.
