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Book Defiant Desire

Download or read book Defiant Desire written by Edwin Cameron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love poetry to new activism. The book is a document of lesbian and gay struggle, and indispensable for those interested in the sexual politics coursing beneath the country's troubled passage to democracy.

Book Defiant Desire

Download or read book Defiant Desire written by Edwin Cameron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love poetry to new activism. The book is a document of lesbian and gay struggle, and indispensable for those interested in the sexual politics coursing beneath the country's troubled passage to democracy.

Book Defiant Desire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Carsley
  • Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
  • Release : 1982-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780440120193
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book Defiant Desire written by Anne Carsley and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Defiant Desire

Download or read book Defiant Desire written by Kingsley Widmer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingsley Widmer, one of the most insightful and provocative learned critics, has long had a considerable influence on D. H. Lawrence studies. Here he elaborates the crucial argument that the erotic conversion experience and its dialectic of social negation centrally define Lawrence, thus creating his major legacies. In dialectically considering all of Lawrence’s novels and many of his essays and stories, Widmer carries the issues beyond the texts to Lawrence’s literary and ideological inheritors, including Henry Miller and Norman Mailer. In addition, he imbeds Lawrence’s fictions and roles in the "dark prophecy" of affirmatively countering the Nietzschean tradition and, in a striking chapter on Lady Chatterley’s Lover explores the use of obscenity, sexual ideology, and anticlass utopianism. This is Lawrence as a major dissident culture hero with a still pertinent, drastic revisionism of human responses in a nihilistic world. It is a large and controversial critical view.

Book Defiant Desire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kaye Wilson Klem
  • Publisher : Fawcett
  • Release : 1977-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780449137413
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Defiant Desire written by Kaye Wilson Klem and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DEFIANT MISTRESS  RUTHLESS MILLIONAIRE

Download or read book DEFIANT MISTRESS RUTHLESS MILLIONAIRE written by Yvonne Lindsay and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callie was abandoned by her parents at a young age. Fortunately, she was taken in by a wealthy family who owned a large business. Now she works for their company as a secretary. But it seems that someone in the company has been leaking information to a rival business. It took some persuading, but Callie finally agreed to spy on the competition in return. However, she runs into an immediate roadblock when she realizes Josh Tremont, the owner, is far more handsome and charming than she expected…

Book Defiant

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  • Author : Pamela Clare
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-07-03
  • ISBN : 1101559985
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Defiant written by Pamela Clare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charged with a crime they didn’t commit, the MacKinnon brothers faced a death sentence until they agreed to serve the British Crown in the colonies and take up arms against the French. Allied with the Indian tribes who lived beside them in the wilderness, the Scottish Highland warriors forged a new breed of soldier… MacKinnon’s Rangers Major Connor MacKinnon despises his commander, Lord William Wentworth, beyond all other men. Ordered to rescue Wentworth’s niece after the Shawnee take her captive, he expects Lady Sarah Woodville to be every bit as contemptible as her uncle. Instead, he finds a brave and beautiful lass in desperate peril. But the only way to free Sarah is for Connor to defeat the Shawnee warrior who kidnapped her—and claim her himself. Torn by tragedy from her sheltered life in London, Lady Sarah is unprepared for the harshness of the frontier—or for the attraction she feels toward Connor. When they reach civilization, however, it is she who must protect him. For if her uncle knew all that Connor had done to save her, he would surely kill him. But the flames of passion, once kindled, are difficult to deny. As desire transforms into love, Connor will have to defy an empire to keep Sarah at his side.

Book South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come

Download or read book South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come written by Brenna M. Munro and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the story of how the politics of queer sexuality have played out in the struggle for multiracial democracy in South Africa

Book History vs Women

Download or read book History vs Women written by Anita Sarkeesian and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebels, rulers, scientists, artists, warriors and villains Women are, and have always been, all these things and more. Looking through the ages and across the globe, Anita Sarkeesian, founder of Feminist Frequency, along with Ebony Adams PHD, have reclaimed the stories of twenty-five remarkable women who dared to defy history and change the world around them. From Mongolian wrestlers to Chinese pirates, Native American ballerinas to Egyptian scientists, Japanese novelists to British Prime Ministers, History vs Women will reframe the history that you thought you knew. Featuring beautiful full-color illustrations of each woman and a bold graphic design, this standout nonfiction title is the perfect read for teens (or adults!) who want the true stories of phenomenal women from around the world and insight into how their lives and accomplishments impacted both their societies and our own.

Book The Defiant Governess  Lessons in Love  Book 1

Download or read book The Defiant Governess Lessons in Love Book 1 written by Andrea Pickens and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the high-spirited Lady Jane Stanhope finds herself facing a marriage ordered by her father, she flees home, disguises herself as "Plain Jane" and lands a governess position to the ward of the reclusive Marquess of Saybrook. Winning the love of the shy little ward is easy. Sparking arguments between herself and the mysterious Saybrook is delightful fun. But both are putting her heart in danger. Now she's caught between desire and her deception, for the most a titled lord can offer to a mere governess is ruin. AWARDS: Best Regency of the Year, nominee - RT magazine, 1998 REVIEWS: "...a finely wrought love story featuring an irresistible pair of lovers who will melt every reader's heart." ~RT magazine LESSONS IN LOVE, in series order The Defiant Governess Second Chances The Storybook Hero INTREPID HEROINES SERIES, in order Code of Honor The Hired Hero A Stroke of Luck Pistols at Dawn SCANDALOUS SECRETS SERIES, in order The Banished Bride Lady of Letters The Major's Mistake

Book The Drag Queen Anthology

Download or read book The Drag Queen Anthology written by Lisa Underwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female gender performance! The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance and the people who live it. This provocative collection of original essays explores the possibilities, limitations, ironies, and controversies surrounding men who perform as women to an audience that knows the truth but celebrates the illusion. The book’s contributors call on extensive backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, theater, literature—even military studies—and use a variety of approaches to address common themes and genres of presentation, performance, and style in a wide range of historical settings and cultures. The Drag Queen Anthology explores female impersonation in the past and present, addressing the often-contradictory cultural impulses found in the performance of femininity. The book examines the important issues of this unique form of gendering, including the cultural and sociopolitical implications of drag, the symbolic cultural ideals associated with women, the impact of the performer’s social identities on his performance, and the reactions of the GLBT, straight, and feminist communities to drag. The book looks at traditional drag performance, challenges accepted perceptions about female impersonation, and exposes the notion of the effeminate drag queen as an outdated myth. The Drag Queen Anthology examines the important issues of male-to-female gender performance, including: how drag queen performance is used to attain situational status and power how drag queens challenge contemporary notions of gender what embodiment occurs when men undertake performances of femininity how drag queen performance is viewed as a theatrical presentation of self what representations of drag queens in film suggest about current gender relations why communities organize around drag queen performers how drag queen performance differs on-stage and off how male-to-female gendered performance intersects with performances of sexual identity, social class, race, age, and ethnicity The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators is an indispensable resource on drag’s core elements of performance and parody and how each affects contemporary notions of gender.

Book Post Apartheid Same Sex Sexualities

Download or read book Post Apartheid Same Sex Sexualities written by Andy Carolin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture. While the book situates these texts within the specific context of post-apartheid South Africa, it also looks outwards towards transnational connectivity and cultural flows. The author uses the idea of restlessness to refer to the uneven flow of cultural tropes, political sentiment, ideas, ideologies, and representational modes across geographical boundaries, across time and space, and between genres, presenting sexual cultures as simultaneously rooted and transnational. He focuses on how notions of race and gender, in the shadow of colonialism and apartheid, play out in the present and shape how sexualities are represented. This interdisciplinary book offers a conceptual entry point to several areas of study, including transnationalism, literary and cultural studies, critical race theory, gender and sexuality studies, and African studies, and will be of interest to students and researchers across these fields. Its inclusion of a range of textual genres extends its reach into visual culture, film and media studies, history, and politics.

Book Gender  Sexualities and Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jackie Jones
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2011-03-17
  • ISBN : 1136829237
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Gender Sexualities and Law written by Jackie Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues – both topical and controversial – raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering of law, persons and the legal profession, along with the gender bias of legal outcomes, has been a fractious, but fertile, focus of reflection. It has, moreover, been an important site of political struggle. This collection of essays offers an unrivalled examination of its various contemporary dimensions, focusing on: issues of theory and representation; violence, both national and international; reproduction and parenting; and partnership, sexuality, marriage and the family. Gender, Sexualities and Law will be invaluable for all those engaged in research and study of the law (and related fields) as a form of gendered power.

Book The Defiant

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lesley Livingston
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2018-01-23
  • ISBN : 0448494744
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Defiant written by Lesley Livingston and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The darling of the Roman Empire is in for the fight of her life in this lush sequel to the acclaimed historical fantasy The Valiant. Be brave, gladiatrix... And be wary. Once you win Caesar's love, you'll earn his enemies' hate. Fallon was warned. Now she is about to pay the price for winning the love of the Roman people as Caesar's victorious gladiatrix. In this highly anticipated sequel to THE VALIANT, Fallon and her warrior sisters find themselves thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, one that will threaten not only Fallon's heart - and her love for Roman soldier Cai - but the very heart of the ancient Roman Empire. When dark treachery and vicious power struggles threaten her hard-won freedom, the only thing that might help the girl known as Victrix save herself and her sisters is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors. The only trouble is, they might just kill her themselves first.

Book The State of Desire

Download or read book The State of Desire written by Lea Taragin-Zeller and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How does state policy shape our most intimate desires? This groundbreaking anthropological approach to the study of desire shows how Orthodox desires and their discontents are reshaped at the intersection of religion, reproduction and politics, highlighting how ethical choreographies between personal desire and the state emerge even in the most traditional settings"--

Book Through Shakespeare s Eyes

Download or read book Through Shakespeare s Eyes written by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs.

Book Defiant Captive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathy Jones
  • Publisher : Zebra Books
  • Release : 1987-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780821722206
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Defiant Captive written by Kathy Jones and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1987-11-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy Jones will capture readers' hearts with this swashbuckling story of passion and courage. From the moment he bought her, the Irish beauty swore she would never become the handsome pirate's slave--even if he tamed her wild heart.