[PDF] Global Divas eBook

Author : Martin F. Manalansan IV
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2003-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822385171

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A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay identity is not teleological but fraught with fissures, Martin Manalansan IV describes how Filipino gay immigrants, like many queers of color, are creating alternative paths to queer modernity and citizenship. He makes a compelling argument for the significance of diaspora and immigration as sites for investigating the complexities of gender, race, and sexuality. Manalansan locates diasporic, transnational, and global dimensions of gay and other queer identities within a framework of quotidian struggles ranging from everyday domesticity to public engagements with racialized and gendered images to life-threatening situations involving AIDS. He reveals the gritty, mundane, and often contradictory deeds and utterances of Filipino gay men as key elements of queer globalization and transnationalism. Through careful and sensitive analysis of these men’s lives and rituals, he demonstrates that transnational gay identity is not merely a consumable product or lifestyle, but rather a pivotal element in the multiple, shifting relationships that queer immigrants of color mobilize as they confront the tribulations of a changing world.

Author : Martin F. Manalansan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2003-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822332176

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DIVAn ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities./div

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1619631814

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Drama ensues for the Dancing Divas, a team of eight- to twelve-year-old girls who live to dance, as they rehearse in the studio and travel all around competing for titles.

Author : Michael Montlack
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0299231232

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From Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, and Diana Ross to Queen Elizabeth I, Julia Child, and Princess Leia, these divas have been sister, alter ego, fairy godmother, or model for survival to gay men and the closeted boys they once were. And anyone—straight or gay, young or old, male or female—who ever needed a muse, or found one, will see their own longing mirrored here as well. These witty and poignant short essays explore reasons for diva-worship as diverse as the writers themselves. My Diva offers both depth and glamour as it pays tribute with joy, intelligence, and fierce, fierce love. Finalist, Lambda Book Award for LGBT Anthology, Lambda Literary Foundation

Author : Arnaldo Cruz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814716245

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The essays in this volume bring together scholars of postcolonial and lesbian and gay studies in order to examine, from multiple perspectives, the narratives that have sought to define globalization.

Author : Sonia Golani
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8184754884

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Eighteen extremely talented and determined women have balanced the home and the boardroom with equal aplomb; setting standards in the corporate world for all to follow. Corporate Divas offers inspiring insights into what motivates and sustains India’s leading corporate women. Through a series of in-depth conversations; this book reveals the unconventional styles and the secret mantras they use to achieve phenomenal success in their professions. A riveting and an uplifting read; it is an indispensible resource for anyone striving to build the right attitudes for success in today’s highly competitive global environment.

Author : Victoria Christopher Murray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451650477

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Secrets, scandal, and sin abound in the private lives of popular gospel group Destiny’s Divas in this page-turning novel by the Essence bestselling author of The Personal Librarian and A Sin and a Shame. Sierra, Raine, and Liza are Destiny’s Divas, a fresh, new gospel group whose unique blend of singing and testifying has gained them fans across the country. They tell the world about how good God has been to them, but off-stage, each is living a life totally opposite to what she preaches—and each is harboring a secret that could ruin them all. Twenty-something Sierra Dixon speaks about the joy of being single and celibate, though she is anything but, drifting from one relationship to another. Although she stresses the importance of unconditional love within the family, Raine Omari has hit her breaking point with her mother-in-law and is ready to take drastic steps. And when Liza Washington discovers that her pastor-husband is in the middle of a scandal that could bring down more than just their ministry, she knows she must do something to stop him. One fateful evening their secrets are exposed, and one diva commits an act that could land her in prison for the rest of her life. Each has motive—who will crack?

Author : Lauren Brown
Publisher : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Dog walking
ISBN : 9781402238888

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HAS THE DOG WALKERS' STRIKE LANDED YOU IN THE DOGHOUSE? DOES YOUR POOCH NEED A CRASH COURSE IN MANNERS? IS YOUR FOUR-LEGGED FRIEND'S STYLE SO LAST YEAR? The Doggy Divas are here to save the day! From head of the pack to lone, lone wolf! Roxy Davis is in the dog house.Big time. After kissing her BFF's crush over summer break, Roxy finds herself banished to the company of Monroe Middle School misfits Georgia and Kim. And when things can't get any worse, the town dog walkers go on strike. Dogs are running wild, giving Roxy the bright idea to recruit her fellow outcasts to start their very own dog walking business. Roxy soon learns that pampering pooches will not only earn her points for cleaning up the neighborhood, but will also teach her a thing or two about friendship. "The Doggy Divas: Roxy's Rules is an adventure from the first page to the last! It's got the makings of a good read: drama, friendship, and most important...fun!" -Julie Miller, TeenMag.com

Author : Jeffrey J. Sallaz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190630671

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The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world's "voice capital," and industry revenues are now the second largest contributor to national GDP. In Lives on the Line, Jeffrey J. Sallaz retraces the assemblage of a global market for voice over the past two decades. Drawing upon case studies of sixty Filipino call center workers and two years of fieldwork in Manila, he illustrates how offshore call center jobs represent a middle path for educated Filipinos, who are faced with the dismaying choice to migrate abroad in search of prosperity versus stay at home as an impoverished professional. A rich ethnographic study, this book challenges existing stereotypes regarding offshore service jobs and sheds light upon the reasons that the Philippines has become the world's favored location for "voice." It looks beyond call centers and beyond India to advance debates concerning global capitalism, the future of work, and the lives of those who labor in offshored jobs.

Author : Kimberly Nichele Brown
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253004705

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Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate black subjectivity from its connection to white culture. Brown traces the emergence of this new consciousness from its roots in the Black Aesthetic Movement through important milestones such as the anthology The Black Woman and Essence magazine to the writings of Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Jayne Cortez.