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But, you might say, I've read lots of diet books, and none of them
have worked. I hear you. However, this book is different. Using an
NLP framework, Jill Cody helps you address numerous emotional
roadblocks that keep you stuck in your old thinking and eating
habits. The main points in this book may seem obvious at first, but
are extremely important in helping you be successful in winning the
weight war.
Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of
corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail
waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers,
and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a
world whose enormous profitability is dependent on the labor of
women assigned stereotypically female occupations making beds and
serving food on the one hand and providing sexual allure on the
other. But behind the neon lies another world, peopled by thousands
of remarkable women who assert their humanity in the face of gaming
empires' relentless quest for profits.
The casino women profiled here generally fall into two groups.
Geoconda Arguello Kline, typical of the first, arrived in the
United States in the 1980s fleeing the war in Nicaragua. Finding
work as a Las Vegas hotel maid, she overcame her initial fear of
organizing and joined with others to build the preeminent
grassroots union in the nation the 60,000-member Culinary Union
becoming in time its president. In Las Vegas, "the hottest union
city in America," the collective actions of union activists have
won economic and political power for tens of thousands of working
Nevadans and their families. The story of these women's
transformation and their success in creating a union able to face
off against global gaming giants form the centerpiece of this
book.
Another group of women, dealers and middle managers among them,
did not act. Fearful of losing their jobs, they remained silent,
declining to speak out when others were abused, and in the case of
middle managers, taking on the corporations' goals as their own.
Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones appraise the cost of their silence
and examine the factors that pushed some women into activism and
led others to accept the status quo.
Casino Women will appeal to all readers interested in women,
gambling, and working-class life, and in how ordinary people stand
up to corporate actors who appear to hold all the cards."
In this book, B. Jill Carroll uses the nature writing of Annie
Dillard and the philosophical categories of Emmanual Levinas to
critique the models of God that drive contemporary political
theologies, especially feminist and liberation theologies. These
political theologies ignore the amoral and often harsh aspects of
our existence in the natural world, even though they often align
God with the cosmos. Political theologies excise from their models
of God all notions of violence, indifference to social justice or
general amorality in favor of models that support and advance
specific social, political and economic ideologies. Such
"domestication" of God does not do justice to the hard facts of our
existence in the natural world, nor does it fully plumb the depths
of using nature to metaphorize God. Furthermore, Carroll argues
that current political models of God do not survive the most
important critiques of religion in the modern era, namely those
leveled by Feuerbach, Freud and Nietzsche. Instead, the "God of the
oppressed" stands tall among any number of gods that exist
primarily as projections of our best selves, illusions rooted in
wish fulfillment, and attempts to further our own personal goals by
claiming the universe is on our side. The Savage Side offers us a
glimpse of a natural theology uninterested in apologetics, but
thoroughly obsessed with using the natural world as a springboard
for describing God. The God that emerges is wildly beautiful,
terrifyingly indifferent to political or moral ideology, the
consummate Other, and the ultimate ground of our being. This book
demands to be read by anyone interested in the relationship between
religion and politics, especially those who have given themselves
to the cause of social justice in the name of God. Readers will be
challenged to let go of comfortable, but outdated notions of deity
despite their convenience for the advancement of certain social and
political goals, like gay and lesbian rights, women's rights, or
third world liberation. I
Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate
gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail
waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers,
and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a
world whose enormous profitability is dependent on the labor of
women assigned stereotypically female occupations-making beds and
serving food on the one hand and providing sexual allure on the
other. But behind the neon lies another world, peopled by thousands
of remarkable women who assert their humanity in the face of gaming
empires' relentless quest for profits.The casino women profiled
here generally fall into two groups. Geoconda Arguello Kline,
typical of the first, arrived in the United States in the 1980s
fleeing the war in Nicaragua. Finding work as a Las Vegas hotel
maid, she overcame her initial fear of organizing and joined with
others to build the preeminent grassroots union in the nation-the
60,000-member Culinary Union-becoming in time its president. In Las
Vegas, "the hottest union city in America," the collective actions
of union activists have won economic and political power for tens
of thousands of working Nevadans and their families. The story of
these women's transformation and their success in creating a union
able to face off against global gaming giants form the centerpiece
of this book.Another group of women, dealers and middle managers
among them, did not act. Fearful of losing their jobs, they
remained silent, declining to speak out when others were abused,
and in the case of middle managers, taking on the corporations'
goals as their own. Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones appraise the
cost of their silence and examine the factors that pushed some
women into activism and led others to accept the status quo.Casino
Women will appeal to all readers interested in women, gambling, and
working-class life, and in how ordinary people stand up to
corporate actors who appear to hold all the cards.
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