Authors:Danielle Egan, Katherine Frank, Merri Lisa Johnso,
Publisher: Seal Pre
Keywords: exotic, dance, consuming, producing, fantasy, flesh
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-12-21
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1560257210
ISBN-13: 9781560257219

With a recent burst of feature films, documentaries and books on strippers, the business of exotic dancing is hotter than ever. Over the last decade, there has been a steadily expanding interest in exotic dance, from its role as an art form to its benefits as a means of exercise. Themselves former dancers, Egan, Frank and Johnson explore the complex experiences of producing and consuming exotic dance. Their goal in this book is to move beyond the old debates and provide a first-hand look at the world of exotic dancing. The essays here provide personal perspectives and strip bare workplace poli

Author: Shanti Sosienski
Publisher: Seal Pre
Keywords: women
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1580051839
ISBN-13: 9781580051835

Women run for all kinds of reasons. We run for health, to ease tension, for strength, to challenge ourselves, to be social with friends, as professional athletes or the dream of being one, to turn our minds on, and to turn them off. Whether running a marathon, taking a quick jog around the neighborhood, or trying to reach the top of Pikes Peak, women of all ages and abilities have discovered running. In Women Who Run a wide range of women, including Olympians, marathoners, ultra runners, young track phenoms, and recreational runners, talk about why they run, what drives them, and what continue

Author: Susan Stryker
Publisher: Seal Pre
Keywords: studies, seal, history, transgender
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-05-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 158005224X
ISBN-13: 9781580052245

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990—the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; an

Author: Andy McNab
Publisher: Seal
Keywords: light, last
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-06-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0770428967
ISBN-13: 9780770428969

Author: John Irving
Publisher: Seal
Keywords: hand, fourth
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-04-29
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345463153
ISBN-13: 9780345463159

The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: “How can anyone identify a dream of the future?” The answer: “Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love."While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-hand

Author: Rachel Da Silva
Publisher: Seal Press (WA)
Keywords: women, adventurous, stories, mountaineering, leading
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1580050107
ISBN-13: 9781580050104

Exploring the physical and emotional challenges that accompany mountain adventure, this collection features essays by 25 of the top women climbers in the world. 25 photos. 31 illustrations.

Author: Daphne Gottlieb
Publisher: Seal Press
Keywords: stories, fictions, true, mostly, daphne, fucking
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1580052355
ISBN-13: 9781580052351

When Daphne Gottlieb first found herself the character in someone else’s story she was intrigued; over time, as she appeared in more and more stories, she started to wonder about the implications of what was real and what wasn’t. Did it matter that there were published stories of her having sex in bathrooms, vacant parking lots, on the balcony at a party in an old bordello? Did it matter whether or not they were true? This question sparked the idea for Fucking Daphne, a collection that blurs the lines between reality and fiction and begs the question “who is the real Daphne?” A pill-po