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All the Rage

Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

By: Virginia Nicholson

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All the Rage

Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

By: Virginia Nicholson

From the popular historian and author of Among the Bohemians and How Was It For You? comes a new offering, unbuttoning the multi-layered, hundred-year-history of women's lives through fashion and beauty from 1860 to 1960 At the heart of this history is the female body. The century-span between the crinoline and the bikini witnessed more mutations in the ideal western woman's body shape than at any other period. In this richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson, described as 'one of the great social historians of our time...' (Amanda Foreman) takes us to the Frontline of Beauty to reveal the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body. The Power Who determines which shape is currently 'all the rage'? Looking at how custom, colour, class and sex fit into the picture, this book also charts how the advances made by feminism collided with the changing shape of desirability. The Pain Here is Gladys, who had botched surgery on her nose; Dorothy, whose skin colour lost her an Oscar; Beccy who took slimming pills and died; and - unbelievably - the radioactive corset. The Pleasure Here are the 'New Women' who discovered freedom by bobbing their hair; the boyish, athletic 'Health and Beauty' ladies in black knickers; and starlets in bohemian beachwear. Among the first to experience true women's liberation were the early adopters of trousers. Encompassing two world wars and a revolution in women's rights, All the Rage tells the story of western female beauty from 1860 to 1960, chronicling its codes, its contradictions, its lies, its highs - and its underlying power struggle.

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Virago

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0349014302

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9780349014302

Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes

By: Virginia M. Lewis

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Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes

By: Virginia M. Lewis

Myth, Locality, and Identity argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE. While Sicily has been thought to be lacking in local traditions for Pindar to celebrate, Lewis argues that the Sicilian odes offer examples of the formation of local traditions: the monster Typho whom Zeus defeated to become king of the gods, for example, now lives beneath Mt. Aitna; Persephone receives the island of Sicily as a gift from Zeus; and the Peloponnesian river Alpheos travels to Syracuse in pursuit of the local spring nymph Arethusa. By weaving regional and Panhellenic myth into the local landscape, as the book shows, Pindar infuses physical places with meaning and thereby contextualizes people, cities, and their rulers within a wider Greek framework. During this time period, Greek Sicily experienced a unique set of political circumstances: the inhabitants were continuously being displaced, cities were founded and resettled, and political leaders rose and fell from power in rapid succession. This book offers the first sustained analysis of myth in Pindar's odes for Sicilian victors across the island that accounts for their shared context. The nodes of myth and place that Pindar fuses in this poetry reinforce and develop a sense of place and community for citizens locally; at the same time, they raise the profile of physical sites and the cities attached to them for larger audiences across the Greek world. In addition to providing new readings of Pindaric odes and offering a model for the formation of Sicilian identities in the first half of the fifth century, the book contributes new insights into current debates on the relationship between myth and place in classical literature.

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240

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Oxford University Press

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0190910321

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9780190910327

American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790

By: Evarts Boutell Greene,Virginia Draper Harrington

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American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790

By: Evarts Boutell Greene,Virginia Draper Harrington

Co-authored by Virginia D. Harrington. 2nd printing, 1997. Prepared under the auspices of the Columbia University Council for Research in the Social Sciences.

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266

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806313773

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9780806313771

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Rule for Gays in the Military Is Unconstitutional

Opinion of a Federal Judge in California

By: Virginia A. Phillips

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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Rule for Gays in the Military Is Unconstitutional

Opinion of a Federal Judge in California

By: Virginia A. Phillips

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Opinion by Judge Virginia Phillips, U.S. Dist. Court, Central Dist. of CA, on Log Cabin Repub. (LCR), Plaintiff, v. U.S. and Robert Gates, Sec. of Def., Defend. LCR attacks the constitutionality of the statute known as the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT)", and its implementing reg¿s. Plaintiff's contends the Act violates its members' rights to due process guaranteed by the 5th Amend., and its members' rights of freedom of speech, guaranteed by the 1st Amend. Judge Phillips strikes down the ¿DADT' rule. ¿In order to justify the encroachment on these rights, defendants faced the burden of showing the 'DADT' act was necessary to significantly further the government¿s interests in military readiness and unit cohesion. Defendants failed to meet that burden.¿

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DIANE Publishing

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1437939368

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9781437939361

Singled Out

How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War

By: Virginia Nicholson

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Singled Out

How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War

By: Virginia Nicholson

Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast. Drawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring stories of these women: the student weeping for a lost world as the Armistice bells pealed, the socialite who dedicated her life to resurrecting the ancient past after her soldier love was killed, the Bradford mill girl whose campaign to better the lot of the "War spinsters" was to make her a public figure--and many others who, deprived of their traditional roles, reinvented themselves into something better. Tracing their fates, Nicholson shows that these women did indeed harbor secret sadness, and many of them yearned for the comforts forever denied them--physical intimacy, the closeness of a loving relationship, and children. Some just endured, but others challenged the conventions, fought the system, and found fulfillment outside of marriage. From the mill-girl turned activist to the debutante turned archeologist, from the first woman stockbroker to the "business girls" and the Miss Jean Brodies, this book memorializes a generation of young women who were forced, by four of the bloodiest years in human history, to stop depending on men for their income, their identity, and their future happiness. Indeed, Singled Out pays homage to this remarkable generation of women who, changed by war, in turn would change society.

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328

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Oxford University Press

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0190452196

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9780190452193

Among the Bohemians

Experiments in Living 1900-1939

By: Virginia Nicholson

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Among the Bohemians

Experiments in Living 1900-1939

By: Virginia Nicholson

They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Post-impressionism. They were often drunk and broke, sometimes hungry, but they were of a rebellious spirit. Inhabiting the same England with Philistines and Puritans, this parallel minority of moral pioneers lived in a world of faulty fireplaces, bounced checks, blocked drains, whooping cough, and incontinent cats. They were the bohemians. Virginia Nicholson -- the granddaughter of painter Vanessa Bell and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf -- explores the subversive, eccentric, and flamboyant artistic community of the early twentieth century in this "wonderfully researched and colorful composite portrait of an enigmatic world whose members, because they lived by no rules, are difficult to characterize" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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386

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Harper Collins

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0060548460

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9780060548469

The Lost Elements

The Periodic Table's Shadow Side

By: Marco Fontani,Mariagrazia Costa,Mary Virginia Orna

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The Lost Elements

The Periodic Table's Shadow Side

By: Marco Fontani,Mariagrazia Costa,Mary Virginia Orna

The story of the false entries, good-faith errors, retractions, and mistakes that occurred during the formation of the Periodic Table of Elements as we know it.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199383340

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9780199383344

Robert Pattinson

The Unauthorized Biography

By: Virginia Blackburn

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Robert Pattinson

The Unauthorized Biography

By: Virginia Blackburn

Fans can learn everything there is to know about Rob: from his childhood in London, private school education and early success with the Barnes Theatre Company to his modelling career and current star status.

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Michael O'Mara Books

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184317510X

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9781843175100

Once There Was a Farm

A Country Childhood Remembered

By: Virginia Bell Dabney

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Once There Was a Farm

A Country Childhood Remembered

By: Virginia Bell Dabney

A memoir of life on a backwoods Virginia farm in the first half of the 20th century. Virginia Bell Dabney recalls the hardships of the Depression, the fire that destroyed her home and how her mother struggled to make a life for her family, but also finds much to rejoice in her country childhood.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813918472

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9780813918471

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All the Rage

All the Rage

Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes

Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes

American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790

American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Rule for Gays in the Military Is Unconstitutional

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Rule for Gays in the Military Is Unconstitutional

Singled Out

Singled Out

Among the Bohemians

Among the Bohemians

The Lost Elements

The Lost Elements

Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson

Once There Was a Farm

Once There Was a Farm

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