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| the purity club: Club Cultures Sarah Thornton, 2013-08-23 This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves. |
| the purity club: Unbecoming Female Monsters Cristina Santos, 2016-12-07 This book traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of sociocultural fears of female sexuality and reproductive power. It examines the female maturation cycle and the various archetypes of female monsters associated with each stage of development in literature, art, film, and television with a particular focus on Latin American work. |
| the purity club: The V Club Kate Brian, 2009-10-27 When Victoria A. Treemont, the most revered and reclusive woman in Ardsmore, Pennsylvania, passes away, she leaves behind a $160,000 scholarship fund that rocks the worlds of the students at Ardsmore High School. The successful candidate must exemplify purity of soul, spirit, and body. Everyone agrees that this caveat can mean only one thing: The recipient of the scholarship must still be holding on to the big V. Welcome to the V Club -- where members embrace abstinence, get off on civic duties, and heat up their chances to clinch the Treemont scholarship. What better way to prove purity than to pledge allegiance to the virginity flag? Besides, chastity belts are sooo 1300s. Kai, Mandy, Debbie, and Eva have put their futures on the line. But will their deepest insecurities and darkest secrets ruin their chances at the scholarship, or worse, their relationships? Or will they discover the true meaning behind Mrs. Treemont's famous last words? |
| the purity club: The Virginity Club Kate Brian, Michael Frost, 2005-04-26 When an announcement is made for a special scholarship, four best friends begin a special club that is designed to demonstrate the purity required by the scholarship committee. |
| the purity club: Not So Pure and Simple Lamar Giles, 2020-01-21 Hysterical. I couldn’t put it down.” (Nic Stone) I laughed, I gasped, I church grunted through every chapter. (Tiffany D. Jackson) Heartfelt and hilarious on every page! (Justin A. Reynolds) 4 starred reviews! * An Indie Next List Pick! * Named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year! Two-time Edgar Award finalist Lamar Giles spotlights the consequences of societal pressure, confronts toxic masculinity, and explores the complexity of what it means to be a “real man.” Del has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. And now, during their junior year, she’s finally available. So when Kiera volunteers for an opportunity at their church, Del’s right behind her. Though he quickly realizes he’s inadvertently signed up for a Purity Pledge. His dad thinks his wires are crossed, and his best friend, Qwan, doesn’t believe any girl is worth the long game. But Del’s not about to lose his dream girl, and that’s where fellow pledger Jameer comes in. He can put in the good word. In exchange, Del just has to get answers to the Pledgers’ questions…about sex ed. With other boys circling Kiera like sharks, Del needs to make his move fast. But as he plots and plans, he neglects to ask the most important question: What does Kiera want? He can’t think about that too much, though, because once he gets the girl, it’ll all sort itself out. Right? With true-to-life characters and a straightforward handling of sex, including often ignored aspects of male sexuality, Giles’s thoughtful, hilarious read offers a timely viewpoint on religion, toxic masculinity, and teen sexuality. (Publishers Weekly, An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List) |
| the purity club: Secrets and Lies Jacqueline Green, 2014-05-06 Can you keep a secret? Tenley Reed and Sydney Morgan have never seen eye to eye -- until now. United by a common goal, they are determined to find out who was behind their friend's murder. Joined by Emerson Cunningham, a gorgeous but troubled teen model, the girls start their own investigation. But in the isolated beach town of Echo Bay, it's hard to know who's a friend and who's an enemy. Secrets and Lies is the second book in the Truth or Dare series -- and will keep readers in suspense from beginning to end. |
| the purity club: The Phi Gamma Delta , 1909 |
| the purity club: Watson's Magazine , 1906 |
| the purity club: Shanghai's Dancing World Andrew Field, 2010 It was thanks to its cabarets that Old Shanghai was called the `Paris of the Orient.' No one has studied the rise and fall of those cabarets more extensively than Andrew Field. His book is packed with fascinating information and attests on every page to his understanding of Shanghai's history. LYNN PAN, author of Sons of the Yellow Emperor -- |
| the purity club: Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs David Wilson, 2018-02-01 This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city’s South Side blues clubs and blocks. Like Chicago, cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia are experiencing a new redevelopment machine: one of tyrannizing and fear. Its actors are adroit at working via the creation of fear to “terror-redevelop” in these historically neglected neighborhoods. The book also discusses the powerful race and class-based politics in Chicago’s blues clubs that resist such change. A “leisure as resistance” framework represents the latest innovative form of opposition to the transformation of these historic sites. |
| the purity club: The Breeder's Gazette , 1910 |
| the purity club: Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World , 1908 |
| the purity club: Echoes from the Clubs , 1867 |
| the purity club: Biennial of the General Federation of Women's Clubs General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1910 |
| the purity club: Harvard Alumni Bulletin , 1926 |
| the purity club: The Complete Private Collection Kate Brian, 2013-01-01 The entire Private collection by Kate Brian is now available as an eBook! When Reed Brennan arrived at Easton Academy, she entered a world of privilege she had never known. The other students have everything: trust funds, private planes—and horrible secrets. When Reed’s new crush is found dead in the woods, Reed embarks on a fight for her life as one crazy person after another wants her out of Easton or dead. No one said private school was easy. Now, the entire Private collection is available in one eBook and includes a total of sixteen books: all fourteen books in the series as well as the two standalone prequels, Last Christmas and The Book of Spells. |
| the purity club: Ambition Kate Brian, 2012-11-08 The higher the climb, the further the fall . . . For Reed Brennan, being elected president of the exclusive Billings Hall has changed her life. But she didn't count on being dumped by her boyfriend, Josh, or being held responsible for a fire that destroyed Easton Academy's oldest building. Now the administration wants to shut Billings down. Forever. Reed needs to come up with a plan . . . and fast! But with the police asking questions about Cheyenne Martin's death, Reed is rapidly becoming public enemy number one. Someone wants to see Billings, and Reed, go down. And they'll do anything to make it happen… |
| the purity club: Truth or Dare Jacqueline Green, 2013-05-14 When a simple round of truth or dare spins out of control, three girls find it's no longer a party game--it's do or die. It all started on a whim: The game was a way for Tenley Reed to reclaim her popularity, a chance for perfect Caitlin Angel Thomas to prove she's more than her Harvard application. Loner Sydney Morgan wasn't even there; she was hiding behind her camera, as usual. But when all three start receiving mysterious dares long after the party has ended, they're forced to play along, or risk exposing their darkest secrets. How far will Tenley, Caitlin, and Sydney go to keep the truth from surfacing? And who's behind this twisted game? Set against the backdrop of Echo Bay, an isolated beach town haunted by misfortune, Truth or Dare is the first book in the Truth or Dare series, and will keep readers in suspense from beginning to end. |
| the purity club: Pulse Check , 2000 |
| the purity club: year of the silence cm taylor, 2009-01-20 Somebody raped her and blew her brains out. And, you know what? I'm not leadin' another candlelight vigil in some vacant lot again, and this church will not be leavin' balloons and teddy bears and tellin' the media that we goin' to pray and talk to politicians about gun control and ... oh, we just don't know what we gonna do! We ... are ... going ... to ... do ... something! Pastor Bright's voice rose in controlled anguish and anger. God has listened to us long enough! Now we will listen to Him! There will be a meeting immediately following church for everybody in Good Neighbor SAM. WHAT WOULD YOUR CHURCH DO? |
| the purity club: Girls Who Lie Together Jessa Russo, 2025-05-13 Easy summers lead to hard falls in this Grease meets Mean Girls sapphic young adult romance… When seventeen-year-old Renata Carpenter hijacked her stepdad’s classic car, she hadn’t planned on totaling it and landing her best friend in a cast from hip to heel. She definitely hadn’t planned on being sent to a work program in New Orleans as punishment. And she certainly hadn’t planned on falling in love. But Ren’s summer of forced manual labor has a bright side: her name is Brit, and she’s everything Ren never knew she needed. First love becomes first heartbreak when their summer romance comes to a crashing close earlier than anticipated. Adding insult to injury, Ren’s break-up with Brit is followed by a big move to a small town. As if starting senior year completely alone isn’t bad enough, Ren soon discovers that the Hell on Heels mean girl who rules Sun Ridge Prep with an iron fist and a vicious tongue is none other than her first love. Too bad this Brit is far from lovable. But Ren knows the girl beneath the façade, and she refuses to give up on rekindling their relationship. Secretly, the girls pick up where they left off, falling deeper in love and risking it all to be together. But when their affair is exposed by Brit’s boyfriend, Ren and Brit are faced with the ultimate choice: love or acceptance. Because they certainly can’t have both. Content Warning: Homophobia, Homophobic Slurs, Marijuana Use, Cheating |
| the purity club: The Frontier Club Christine Bold, 2013-01-03 From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's founding of the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Christine Bold traces the origins and evolution of the western genre, revealing how a group of prominent eastern aristocrats-a cadre she terms the frontier club -created and propagated the myth of the Wild West to advance their own self-interest as well as larger systems of privilege and exclusion. Mining institutional archives, personal papers, novels, and films, The Frontier Club excavates the hidden social, political, and financial interests behind the making of the modern western. It re-reads frontier-club fiction, most notably Owen Wister's bestseller The Virginian, in relation to federal policies and cultural spaces (from exclusive gentlemen's clubs to national parks to zoos); it casts new light on key clubmen, both the famous and the forgotten-figures such as Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, Silas Weir Mitchell, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Frederic Remington-while recovering the women on whom these men depended and without whom this version of the popular West would not exist; and it considers the costs of the frontier-club formula, in terms of its impact on Indigenous peoples and its marginalization of other popular voices, including western writings by African Americans, women, and working-class white men. An engaging cultural history that covers print culture, big-game hunting, politics, immigration, Jim Crow segregation, and environmental conservation at the turn of the twentieth century, The Frontier Club provides a welcome new perspective on the enduring American myth of the Wild West. |
| the purity club: Journal California. Legislature, 1875 |
| the purity club: The SAGE Handbook of Drug & Alcohol Studies Torsten Kolind, Betsy Thom, Geoffrey Hunt, 2016-10-20 With contributions from leading international academics across the social sciences, this accessible handbook takes a critical look at the key theories, disciplinary approaches, contemporary issues and debates in the field. · Part I Central Social Science Theories Drug and Alcohol Studies · Part II Pillars in Social Science Drug and Alcohol Studies · Part III Controversies and New Approaches in Social Science Drug and Alcohol Studies This Handbook is an excellent reference text for the growing number of academics, students, scientists and practitioners in the drug and alcohol studies community. |
| the purity club: The Club-fellow , 1905 |
| the purity club: I Fight for a Living Louis Moore, 2017-09-11 The black prizefighter labored in one of the few trades where an African American man could win renown: boxing. His prowess in the ring asserted an independence and powerful masculinity rare for black men in a white-dominated society, allowing him to be a man--and thus truly free. Louis Moore draws on the life stories of African American fighters active from 1880 to 1915 to explore working-class black manhood. As he details, boxers bought into American ideas about masculinity and free enterprise to prove their equality while using their bodies to become self-made men. The African American middle class, meanwhile, grappled with an expression of public black maleness they saw related to disreputable leisure rather than respectable labor. Moore shows how each fighter conformed to middle-class ideas of masculinity based on his own judgment of what culture would accept. Finally, he argues that African American success in the ring shattered the myth of black inferiority despite media and government efforts to defend white privilege. |
| the purity club: Key Concepts in Drugs and Society Ross Coomber, Karen McElrath, Fiona Measham, Karenza Moore, 2013-04-29 ′This is a great resource that reflects the huge expertise of the authors. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and indeed anyone wanting critical but comprehensive coverage of key issues and trends concerning drugs and society - locally and globally, historically and today.′ - Nigel South, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex ′Provides informative, balanced and contextualized insights into the relationships between people and drugs. Whatever your background and however knowledgeable you feel you are about contemporary drug issues, I guarantee that you will learn something unexpected and new from this valuable text.′ - Joanne Neale, Professor of Public Health, Oxford Brookes University Why do people take drugs? How do we understand moral panics? What is the relationship between drugs and violence? How do people′s social positions influence their involvement in drug use? Insightful and illuminating, this book discusses drugs in social contexts. The authors bring together their different theoretical and practical backgrounds, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction that opens up a wide scientific understanding moving beyond cultural myths and presuppositions. This is an invaluable reference source for students on criminology, sociology and social sciences programmes, as well as drug service practitioners such as drug workers, social workers and specialist nurses. |
| the purity club: Mercantile Co-operator ... , 1924 |
| the purity club: Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film Erin Harrington, 2017-08-10 Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space of entertainment and excitement, of terror and dread, and one that relishes the complexities that arise when boundaries – of taste, of bodies, of reason – are blurred and dismantled. It is also a site of expression and exploration that leverages the narrative and aesthetic horrors of the reproductive, the maternal and the sexual to expose the underpinnings of the social, political and philosophical othering of women. This book offers an in-depth analysis of women in horror films through an exploration of ‘gynaehorror’: films concerned with all aspects of female reproductive horror, from reproductive and sexual organs, to virginity, pregnancy, birth, motherhood and finally to menopause. Some of the themes explored include: the intersection of horror, monstrosity and sexual difference; the relationships between normative female (hetero)sexuality and the twin figures of the chaste virgin and the voracious vagina dentata; embodiment and subjectivity in horror films about pregnancy and abortion; reproductive technologies, monstrosity and ‘mad science’; the discursive construction and interrogation of monstrous motherhood; and the relationships between menopause, menstruation, hagsploitation and ‘abject barren’ bodies in horror. The book not only offers a feminist interrogation of gynaehorror, but also a counter-reading of the gynaehorrific, that both accounts for and opens up new spaces of productive, radical and subversive monstrosity within a mode of representation and expression that has often been accused of being misogynistic. It therefore makes a unique contribution to the study of women in horror film specifically, while also providing new insights in the broader area of popular culture, gender and film philosophy. |
| the purity club: The Athenaeum , 1861 |
| the purity club: Handbook for Scout Masters Boy Scouts of America, 1913 |
| the purity club: The Wrestler's Body Joseph S. Alter, 1992-08-03 The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology. Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a wrestler and build collective strength through self-discipline. |
| the purity club: Proceedings: Eighth Annual Convention of the International Association of Rotary Clubs , |
| the purity club: Truth , 1883 |
| the purity club: The Rambler Club's aeroplane W. Crispin Sheppard, 2025-03-02 In The Rambler Club's Aeroplane, W. Crispin Sheppard masterfully weaves a narrative that captures the exhilarating spirit of early aviation adventure. Set in the burgeoning era of the 20th century, the book explores themes of friendship, exploration, and the human quest for innovation in a rapidly changing world. Sheppard's literary style combines vivid imagery and engaging dialogue, immersing readers in the characters' escapades as they navigate both technical challenges and personal growth, a reflection of the societal shifts during this dynamic period in history. W. Crispin Sheppard, an author whose passion for aviation and storytelling is evident in his works, draws from both historical context and personal fascination with flight. His background in mechanical engineering and history of the early 20th century informs his richly detailed narratives, bringing authenticity to the character's struggles and triumphs as they embark on their daring missions. Sheppard's own experiences and inspirations lend depth to the themes of camaraderie and adventure that permeate the novel. Readers seeking a captivating journey through the skies and into the hearts of adventurous souls will find The Rambler Club's Aeroplane a rewarding read. This book not only offers thrilling escapades but also serves as a tribute to the ingenuity and spirit of exploration that defined an era. Delve into Sheppard's narrative and be transported to a time where the sky was not the limit but the very beginning of boundless possibilities. |
| the purity club: Glasgow and Its Clubs John Strang, 1864 |
| the purity club: Glasgow and its Clubs John Strang, 2023-10-12 Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. |
| the purity club: Bengal’s Football Steps Into 170 Years Champakali Chattopadhyay, 2024-05-10 a Bengali Prose by Champakali Chattopadhyay An English version of Bengali Book Eksho Sattore Banglar Football Written by Aniruddha Ghosh and Translated by Champakali Chattopadhyay |
| the purity club: Drugs, Clubs and Young People Bill Sanders, 2016-04-29 In this volume, contributors employ sociological and public health perspectives to offer insights into behaviours common at raves and nightclubs. The volume provides theoretical observations on illicit club drug use and supply, helping to challenge current orthodoxies on the role of drug use within young peoples' lives. Drawing material from the USA, UK and Hong Kong, the volume allows the demystification of stereotypical presentations surrounding young people who attend clubs and/or use club drugs. This work provides a badly needed and objective analysis of youthful drug use, and a foundation from which future sociological and public studies on young people, clubs and drugs - as well as young people themselves - will benefit. |
| the purity club: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle , 1861 |
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PURITY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
PURITY meaning: 1. the state of not being mixed with anything else: 2. the clear and perfect quality of a sound…. Learn more.
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freedom from guilt or evil; innocence. physical chastity; virginity. purity of expression. Optics. the chroma, saturation, or degree of freedom from white of a given color. cleanness or …
PURITY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PURITY is the quality or state of being pure. How to use purity in a sentence.
PURITY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
PURITY definition: 1. the state of not being mixed with anything else: 2. the clear and perfect quality of a sound…. Learn more.
Purity - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com
When you're talking about something that is clean and unmixed, you are talking about something characterized by purity. This can refer to someone's character or intentions. It can also describe …
purity noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes ...
the state or quality of being pure. The purity of the water is tested regularly. Definition of purity noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example …
Purity - definition of purity by The Free Dictionary
Define purity. purity synonyms, purity pronunciation, purity translation, English dictionary definition of purity. n. 1. The quality or condition of being pure: the purity of the drug. 2. Freedom from …
PURITY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
That idea of purity of intent. This is about the purity of competition. We understand it was also of high purity. This country is huge – one or two mines will not destroy its purity. The essential toxin …
PURITY | definition in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary
PURITY meaning: the quality of being pure: . Learn more.
PURITY - Definition & Translations | Collins English Dictionary
Discover everything about the word "PURITY" in English: meanings, translations, synonyms, pronunciations, examples, and grammar insights - all in one comprehensive guide.
PURITY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
PURITY meaning: 1. the state of not being mixed with anything else: 2. the clear and perfect quality of a sound…. Learn more.
PURITY Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
freedom from guilt or evil; innocence. physical chastity; virginity. purity of expression. Optics. the chroma, saturation, or degree of freedom from white of a given color. cleanness or spotlessness, …
