The Camp Fire Girls

• Author : Jennifer Helgren
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release : 01 December 2022

Through the lens of America’s first and most popular girls’ organization, Jennifer Helgren traces the role and changing meaning of American girls’ citizenship across critical intersections of gender, race, class, and disability in the twentieth-century United States.

• Author : Amie A. Doughty
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release : 17 August 2016

This collection of essays explores a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture. Contributions about picture-books include analyses of variants of the folktale “The Little Red Hen” and bullying. Race and gender are explored in essays about picture-books featuring children as consumable objects, about books focused on African American female athletes, and about young adult dystopian fiction. Gender itself is further explored in articles about Monster High, Joyce Carol Oates’s Beasts, and The Hunger

• Author : Elizabeth A. Duclos-Orsello,Joseph B. Entin,Rebecca Hill
• Publisher : University Press of Kansas
• Release : 17 August 2021

“What if American Studies is defined not so much in the pages of the most cutting-edge publications, but through what happens in our classrooms and other learning spaces?” In Teaching American Studies Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Joseph Entin, and Rebecca Hill ask a diverse group of American Studies educators to respond to that question by writing chapters about teaching that use a classroom activity or a particular course to reflect on the state of the field of American Studies. Teaching American Studies

• Author : Laura Mattoon D'Amore
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 07 April 2021

This book tracks the vigilante feminist teenage super/heroine in comics and YA literature, a character who acts as a vigilante on behalf of the protection of girls and women. It traces the trajectory of super/heroines who experience violent trauma and are subsequently empowered by use of violence to reclaim control over their lives and bodies.

• Author : Natasha Ngan
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 06 November 2018

The mesmerising New York Times bestseller! Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honour they could hope for . . . and the most demeaning. This year, there's a ninth. And instead of paper, she's made of fire. 'A timely reminder that, in the right hands, the fantasy genre has things to say about injustice and abuse of power in the real world' Guardian Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the

• Author : Noah A. Tsika
• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• Release : 10 April 2015

In this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry's top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the diaspora to become one of the globe's most prolific and diverse media producers. Carrying VHS tapes and DVDs onto airplanes and publicizing new methods of film distribution, the stars are active agents in the global circulation of Nollywood film. From Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde's cameo role on VH1's popular series

• Author : Briallen Hopper
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 05 February 2019

A sharp and entertaining essay collection about the importance of multiple forms of love and friendship in a world designed for couples, from a laser-precise new voice. Sometimes it seems like there are two American creeds, self-reliance and marriage, and neither of them is mine. I experience myself as someone formed and sustained by others' love and patience, by student loans and stipends, by the kindness of strangers. Briallen Hopper's Hard to Love honors the categories of loves and relationships

• Author : J.P. Holmes
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release : 22 December 2009

Three long service police Detectives take early tirements to form their own detective agency, they start out with a rented officethree desks and chairs a phone on the floor. This doesn't last as one of the detectives Aunts join them and her college son who is a computor wizard who can hack into anything. Detectives go from one case to another involving blackmail,mates checking on their spouses, white slavery here in American, drug runners and much more.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
• Release : 13 March 2018

Pat Conroy's memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn't revealed to readers—until now. My Exaggerated Life is the product of a special collaboration between this great American author and oral biographer Katherine Clark, who recorded two hundred hours of conversations with Conroy before he passed away in 2016. In the spring and summer of 2014, the two spoke for an hour or more on the phone every day. No subject was

• Author : Charlotte Beyer
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release : 01 March 2021

This unique and timely book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing innovative and fresh perspectives to the analysis of this most popular and vibrant literary genre. Investigating contemporary crime fiction and the critical debates surrounding its reception and production, the introductory chapter sets the scene for the subsequent analyses of distinct crime fiction topics, themes and authors. The topics include the experimental detective narrative, race and ethnicity, historical crime fiction, domestic noir, feminism and crime, environmental crime,

• Author : Marshall Everett
• Publisher : DigiCat
• Release : 28 May 2022

This book tells about the Iroquois Theatre fire that occurred on December 30, 1903, at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The fire resulted in more than 600 deaths and was the deadliest theater fire and single-building fire in U.S. history. This book is a tribute to the tragedy that left a deep trace in the memory of past generations and is also horrifying to a modern reader.

• Author : Sandra Eckard
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 28 December 2018

This book is designed to help teachers from middle school through college find exciting new strategies to help students develop their literacy skills.

• Author : Susan R. Schrepfer
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 2023

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• Author : JEAN EXUMA
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 20 March 2014

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• Author : Anna Strhan,Stephen G. Parker,Susan Ridgely
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 26 January 2017

From recent sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, to arguments about faith schools and religious indoctrination, this volume considers the interconnection between the actual lives of children and the position of children as placeholders for the future. Childhood has often been a particular site of struggle for negotiating the location of religion in public and everyday social life, and children's involvement and non-involvement in religion raises strong feelings because they represent the future of religious and secular communities,