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Dollmaking has caught the imagination of people all over the world for centuries. And today, the fascination remains as great as ever. The Complete Book of Dollmaking shows you how to create your own collection of dolls without using expensive equipment and materials. The dolls range from charmingly naive cloth dolls and traditional peg dolls with painted faces, to elegant dolls with porcelain bisque heads, made in a similar style to the coveted Jumeau bebes of France. Now you too can make a doll that may become a collector's item or, at least, an antique of the future. There are delightful colour photographs throughout the book, depicting both traditional and modern, innovative and inspirational dolls, made by leading dollmakers from around the world. This beautiful book will guide and inspire you to try this satisfying and absorbing craft.
Provides information for making all types of dolls, including techniques for drawing and coloring faces, styling the hair, dressmaking, and tips on what type of equipment to use
In this innovative reader, Pamela Moss and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi present a unique, reflective approach to what feminist geography is and who feminist geographers are. Their carefully crafted textbook invigorates feminist debates about space, place, and knowledges with a fine balance among teaching chapters, reprints, and original essays. Offering an anthology that actually questions the very purpose of an anthology, the editors create and then negotiate a tension between reinforcing and destabilizing scholarly authority. They challenge the idea that there is one set of works that acts as the vision, interpretation, voice, and feel of feminist geography while both reproducing key previously...
Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of settings and topics including nationalism, migration, development, international relations, elections, social movements, governance and the environment in the Global North and South.
A small town is suddenly deprived of its elementary school. Citizens rallied to find out how they could get their school back. This story documents their successful efforts, and it details how other communities in a similar condition might prevail by overcoming severe roadblocks. It is an uplifting tale of human courage. The author once attended school in the tiny village of Saint Helen. Years later he retired to his old hometown. He learned to love the inhabitants, and he has come to love the spirit of his neighbors. It was this spirituality that caused us to prevail.
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