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Xuxa: The Mega-Marketing of Gender, Race, and Modernity
Former Playboy centerfold and soft-porn movie actress Xuxa (SHOO-sha) emerged in the 1980s as Brazil's mass media megastar Through her children's television show, which reaches millions of people in Latin America and the United States, this blond sex symbol has attained extraordinary cultural authority. Reaching far beyond younger audiences, Xuxa's show informs the culture at large about gender relations, racial democracy, and idealized beauty. Backed by Brazil's TV Globo, the fourth-largest commercial network in the world, Xuxa has built an empire. Amelia Simoson's colorful portrayal is the first book to explore how Xuxa's representation of femininity, her privileging of a white ideal of beauty, and her promotional approach to culture perpetuate inequality on an unprecedented scale. Simpson's thoughtful analysis exposes the complicity of a mass audience eager to celebrate Xuxa's deeply compromised representations of gender, race, and modernity. Xuxa also explores the meaning behind the myth—Xuxa's long-term relationship with Brazil's soccer idol, Pelé, and the near-worship of her atypical blond, blue-eyed appearance by Brazil's population. As the author examines Xuxa's suggestive style juxtaposed with juvenile entertainment, and the phenomenon of Xuxa-look-alike teenaged paquitas, she unfold the symbolic territory of blond sex symbols worldwide..
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Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes
The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. From the death of Archimedes at the hands of an irritated Roman soldier to the concoction of a superconducting witches' brew at the close of the twentieth century, the stories in Eurekas and Euphorias pour out, told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer. Open this book at random and you may chance on the clumsy chemist named Sapper who broke a thermometer in a reaction vat and made the discovery that launched the modern dyestuff industry. Or the physicist who dissolved his gold Nobel Prize medal in acid to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Nazis. We meet mathematicians and physicists in prison cells, and even in a madhouse, making important advances in their field. And we witness the careers, sometimes tragic, sometimes carefree, of the great women scientists, from Hypatia of Alexandria, to Sophie Germain and Sonia Kovalevskaya, to Marie Curie and her relentless battle with the French Academy. A glorious parade unfolds to delight the reader, with stories to astonish, to instruct, and most especially, to entertain..
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She's Gotta Have It : Euphoria, Sexuality, Orgasm - Discover Natural Ways to Enhance Libido Increase Sexual Pleasure, Have Satisfying Sex Every Time...At Any Age
The book discusses natural ways for women to enhance libido, increase sexual pleasure, and have satisfying sex every time - at any age. It tackles tough questions for any woman suffering from a lagging libido, chronic inability to achieve orgasm, disinterest in sex, vaginal dryness, or decreased fertility. Safe, healthy, and natural ways to reclaim a vibrant and satisfying sexuality are described..
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Queen Euphoria, A Shadowrun Adventure
It was a simple job, and the pay was good. Snatch Euphoria, the simsense star, sit on her for a weekend, and let her go. Easy. If you believe that, you've never run the shadows Because now she's been snatched for a second time ... and the corps think you did it. What does all this have to do with - Ambergel, the most popular junk food in Seattle? A former Coyote shaman? An evil power so strong it threatens all mankind? Find the Queen. Find the answers. HURRY!.
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