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    Why Tammy Wynette Matters

    by Steacy Easton ...
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    Unabridged

    5 hours 19 min

    With hits such as “Stand By Your Man” and “Golden Ring,” Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first lady of country. Steacy Easton places the complications of Wynette’s music and her biography in sharp-edged relief, exploring how she made her sometimes-tumultuous life into her work, a transformation that was itself art.Wynette created ... Read more

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  • Dolly Parton's White Limozeen

    by Steacy Easton ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    A discussion of White Limozeen, from Dolly's self-fashioning to a rigorous critique of her genre.White Limozeen (1989) was a commercial recovery after Dolly Parton's first major failure two years previously with the release of Rainbow. This book is a case study in how an album is sold and a persona constructed. The album had a complex relationship to the country music genre at a time when the ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • Daddy Lessons

    by Steacy Easton ...
    Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakeningSteacy Easton grew up Mormon, queer, and Autistic in the West. This book traces the people and spaces that made them who they are: the Mormon church, an Anglican boys’ boarding school where they were sent to be ‘reformed’ and where they were abused by a teacher, and then, later on, rodeos and bathhouses and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Why Tammy Wynette Matters

    by Steacy Easton ...
    Series series Music Matters
    How Tammy Wynette channeled the conflicts of her life into her music and performance.With hits such as “Stand By Your Man” and “Golden Ring,” Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first lady of country. Steacy Easton places the complications of Wynette’s music and her biography in sharp-edged relief, exploring how she made her sometimes ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Don't Ask, Tell All

    Stories of Christian Colleges' Anti-LGBTQ+ Regimes

    Dorm room hookups, skinny dipping, stalking, conversion therapy. Whether titillating or traumatizing, these are some of the aspects of campus life for LGBTQ+ students at conservative Christian schools across the world. Such realities are rehashed in Don’t Ask, Tell All, an anthology of personal anecdotes that exposes homophobia and transphobia in twenty-two short essays on twenty-two different ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

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    Dolly Parton's White Limozeen

    by Steacy Easton ...
    Narrated by Mark Jason Royse ...
    Series series 33 1/3

    Unabridged

    4 hours 1 min

    A discussion of White Limozeen, from Dolly’s self-fashioning to a rigorous critique of her genre. White Limozeen (1989) was a commercial recovery after Dolly Parton's first major failure two years previously with the release of Rainbow. This book is a case study in how an album is sold and a persona constructed. The album had a complex relationship to the country music genre at a time when the ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Dolly Parton 218 Success Facts - Everything you need to know about Dolly Parton

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