The Sexual Education of a Beauty Queen

2014-08-05 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Taylor Marsh
Release : 2014-08-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 13X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Sexual Education of a Beauty Queen by : Taylor Marsh

Download or read book The Sexual Education of a Beauty Queen written by Taylor Marsh. This book was released on 2014-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Miss Missouri talks sex, politics, and sexual politics, and shares the wisdom she’s gained about men and women. The Sexual Education of a Beauty Queen is at once memoir, commentary, enlightenment, and a little dose of self-help. Taylor Marsh was Miss Missouri and performed on Broadway, hosted a radio show, and starred in a one-woman show. She was also a relationship consultant for the nation’s largest newsweekly, edited the web’s first megasuccessful women-owned and -operated soft-core pornography site, worked as a phone-sex actress, and studied sexuality and relationships for years. She’s been single, a girlfriend, a mistress, and a wife. She has the inside track to what men want, what women need, and how we all tend to muck it up. As a political commentator and popular writer, Taylor is intelligent and inspiring. She blends personal experience, pop culture, and the politics of sex in an entertaining, engaging, and inspiring read.

Here She Is

2020-08-25 Social Science

Author : Hilary Levey Friedman
Release : 2020-08-25
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 64X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Here She Is written by Hilary Levey Friedman. This book was released on 2020-08-25. 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.

Sexuality Education

2009-04-30 Health & Fitness

Author : Elizabeth Schroeder
Release : 2009-04-30
Genre : Health & Fitness
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 952/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sexuality Education written by Elizabeth Schroeder. This book was released on 2009-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exemplary team of professionals provides a comprehensive look at sex education, the heated debate over federal controls, current research and practice, programs, politics, legislation, and cultural and religious issues related to sex and sexuality education. In the groundbreaking Sexuality Education: Past, Present, and Future, the history, practices, and politics of sexuality education are explained. Respected educators, counselors, and therapists marshal both research and educated opinion to offer insights into exactly what is meant by "sex education," what the various approaches are, what "age appropriate" lessons are supported by most professionals, and the impact of government policies. Noting that the need for sexuality education has expanded to adults, from new parents to senior citizens, this unique work also takes readers into classrooms and makes them privy to conversations representing everyone from elementary school students to nursing home residents. These comments reveal the range of unanswered questions about sex—questions that are important for psychological, as well as physical health. In addition, the contributors explore ongoing issues in sexuality education, such as how to present "culturally competent" lessons that include consideration of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. The experts also examine sexuality education in other countries, the challenges those countries face, and their victories over unplanned pregnancy and STDs in the global effort to preserve sexual health.

Beauty Queens

2011-05-24 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Libba Bray
Release : 2011-05-24
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 716/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Beauty Queens by : Libba Bray

Download or read book Beauty Queens written by Libba Bray. This book was released on 2011-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.

Sex Goes to School

2008-06-26 Education

Author : Susan K. Freeman
Release : 2008-06-26
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 248/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sex Goes to School written by Susan K. Freeman. This book was released on 2008-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informed perspective on sex education in the 1940s and 1950s

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