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Book Her Neighbor s Wife

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lauren Jae Gutterman
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2019-11-01
  • ISBN : 0812251741
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Her Neighbor s Wife written by Lauren Jae Gutterman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San Francisco, Barbara met Pearl, another PTA president who also had two children and happened to live only a few blocks away from her. To Barbara, Pearl was "the most gorgeous woman in the world," and the two began an affair that lasted over a decade. Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States. In doing so, Lauren Jae Gutterman draws our attention away from the postwar landscape of urban gay bars and into the homes of married women, who tended to engage in affairs with wives and mothers they met in the context of their daily lives: through work, at church, or in their neighborhoods. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the lesbian feminist movement and the no-fault divorce revolution transformed the lives of wives who desired women. Women could now choose to divorce their husbands in order to lead openly lesbian or bisexual lives; increasingly, however, these women were confronted by hostile state discrimination, typically in legal battles over child custody. Well into the 1980s, many women remained ambivalent about divorce and resistant to labeling themselves as lesbian, therefore complicating a simple interpretation of their lives and relationship choices. By revealing the extent to which marriage has historically permitted space for wives' relationships with other women, Her Neighbor's Wife calls into question the presumed straightness of traditional American marriage.

Book Neighbors  Wives

Download or read book Neighbors Wives written by John Townsend Trowbridge and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wives and Neighbors Two  Book 2

Download or read book Wives and Neighbors Two Book 2 written by Jasmine Haynes and published by Redwood Valley Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mitchells and the Harts, next-door neighbors up for a little wife-swapping and some very hot foursome get-togethers. But things didn’t go quite as planned for these kinky neighbors... Readers asked for more and here it is: Wives and Neighbors Two! Find out where these two naughty couples are now and what kinky adventures they’ve gotten themselves into. Will they all have a happy ending? Will they return to the way things were? Is that even possible? Or will someone get their just desserts? A naughty little foursome tale packed with loads of emotion. Grab your copy today! Try Wives and Neighbors, Book 1 to get the full enjoyment out of the complete story. “This delicious story will have you at Page One… really!” ~ BringBackDesire.com

Book Thy Neighbor s Wife

Download or read book Thy Neighbor s Wife written by Gay Talese and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window into a new world built on a new moral foundation, carrying the reader on a remarkable journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court, to the backyards and bedrooms of suburbia—through the development of the porn industry, the rise of the "swinger" culture, the legal fight to define obscenity, and the daily sex lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book that forever changed the way Americans look at themselves and one another.

Book Her Neighbor s Wife

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lauren Jae Gutterman
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2019-10-04
  • ISBN : 0812296575
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Her Neighbor s Wife written by Lauren Jae Gutterman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San Francisco, Barbara met Pearl, another PTA president who also had two children and happened to live only a few blocks away from her. To Barbara, Pearl was "the most gorgeous woman in the world," and the two began an affair that lasted over a decade. Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States. In doing so, Lauren Jae Gutterman draws our attention away from the postwar landscape of urban gay bars and into the homes of married women, who tended to engage in affairs with wives and mothers they met in the context of their daily lives: through work, at church, or in their neighborhoods. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the lesbian feminist movement and the no-fault divorce revolution transformed the lives of wives who desired women. Women could now choose to divorce their husbands in order to lead openly lesbian or bisexual lives; increasingly, however, these women were confronted by hostile state discrimination, typically in legal battles over child custody. Well into the 1980s, many women remained ambivalent about divorce and resistant to labeling themselves as lesbian, therefore complicating a simple interpretation of their lives and relationship choices. By revealing the extent to which marriage has historically permitted space for wives' relationships with other women, Her Neighbor's Wife calls into question the presumed straightness of traditional American marriage.

Book The Wintu   Their Neighbors

Download or read book The Wintu Their Neighbors written by Christopher K. Chase-Dunn and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the cutting edge of world-systems theory comes The Wintu and Their Neighbors, the first case study to compare and contrast systematically an indigenous Native American society with the modern world at large. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, and history, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly M. Mann have scoured the archaeological record of the Wintu, an aboriginal people without agriculture, metallurgy, or class structure who lived in the wooded valleys and hills of northern California. By studying the household composition, kinship, and trade relations of the Wintu, they call into question some of the basic assumptions of prior sociological theory and analysis. Chase-Dunn and Mann argue that Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems perspective, originally applied only to the study of modern capitalistic societies, can also be applied to the study of the social, economic, and political relationships in small stateless societies. They contend that, despite the fact that the Wintu appear on the surface to have been a household-based society, this indigenous group was in fact involved in a myriad of networks of interaction, which resulted in intermarriage and which extended for many miles around the region. These networks, which were not based on the economic dominance of one society over anotherÑa concept fundamental to Wallerstein's world-systems theoryÑled to the eventual expansion of the Wintu as a cultural group. Thus, despite the fact that the Wintu did not behave like a modern societyÑlacking wealth accumulation, class distinctions, and cultural dominanceÑChase-Dunn and Mann insist that the Wintu were involved in a world-system and argue, therefore, that the concept of the "minisystem" should be discarded. They urge other scholars to employ this comparative world-systems perspective in their research on stateless societies.

Book Land of pyramids  Babylonia and her neighbors

Download or read book Land of pyramids Babylonia and her neighbors written by Delphian Society and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors

Download or read book Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors written by W. Raymond Wood and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The written and visual legacies of these visitors—among them the German prince-explorer Maximilian of Wied, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, and American painter-author George Catlin—have long been the primary sources of information on the cultures of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, the peoples who met the first fur traders in the area. This book, by a team of anthropologists, is the first thorough account of the fur trade at Fort Clark to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record. The Mandans built a village in about 1822 near the site of what would become Fort Clark; after the 1837 smallpox epidemic that decimated them, the village was occupied by Arikaras until they abandoned it in 1862. Because it has never been plowed, the site of Fort Clark and the adjacent Mandan/Arikara village are rich in archaeological information. The authors describe the environmental and cultural setting of the fort (named after William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition), including the social profile of the fur traders who lived there. They also chronicle the histories of the Mandans and the Arikaras before and during the occupation of the post and the village. The authors conclude by assessing the results—published here for the first time—of the archaeological program that investigated the fort and adjacent Indian villages at Fort Clark State Historic Site. By vividly depicting the conflict and cooperation in and around the fort, this book reveals the various cultures’ interdependence.

Book A Geography of Russia and Its Neighbors

Download or read book A Geography of Russia and Its Neighbors written by Mikhail S. Blinnikov and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been replaced by A Geography of Russia and Its Neighbors, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4459-2.

Book Kith  Kin  and Neighbors

    Book Details:
  • Author : David A. Frick
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2013-06-15
  • ISBN : 0801467527
  • Pages : 735 pages

Download or read book Kith Kin and Neighbors written by David A. Frick and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, Calvinist, and Lutheran churches, one synagogue, and one mosque. Visitors regularly commented on the relatively peaceful coexistence of this bewildering array of peoples, languages, and faiths. In Kith, Kin, and Neighbors, David Frick shows how Wilno’s inhabitants navigated and negotiated these differences in their public and private lives. This remarkable book opens with a walk through the streets of Wilno, offering a look over the royal quartermaster’s shoulder as he made his survey of the city’s intramural houses in preparation for King Władysław IV’s visit in 1636. These surveys (Lustrations) provide concise descriptions of each house within the city walls that, in concert with court and church records, enable Frick to accurately discern Wilno’s neighborhoods and human networks, ascertain the extent to which such networks were bounded confessionally and culturally, determine when citizens crossed these boundaries, and conclude which kinds of cross-confessional constellations were more likely than others. These maps provide the backdrops against which the dramas of Wilno lives played out: birth, baptism, education, marriage, separation or divorce, guild membership, poor relief, and death and funeral practices. Perhaps the most complete reconstruction ever written of life in an early modern European city, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors sets a new standard for urban history and for work on the religious and communal life of Eastern Europe.

Book Distant Neighbors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Riding
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1989-10-23
  • ISBN : 0679724419
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Distant Neighbors written by Alan Riding and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-10-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being.

Book Contrary Neighbors

    Book Details:
  • Author : David La Vere
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780806132990
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Contrary Neighbors written by David La Vere and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: examines relations between Southeastern Indians who were removed to Indian Territory in the early nineteenth century and Southern Plains Indians who claimed this area as their own. These two Indian groups viewed the world in different ways. The Southeastern Indians, primarily Choctaws, Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles, were agricultural peoples. By the nineteenth century they were adopting American "civilization": codified laws, Christianity, market-driven farming, and a formal, Euroamerican style of education. By contrast, the hunter-gathers of the Southern Plains-the Comanches, Kiowas, Wichitas, and Osages-had a culture based on the buffalo. They actively resisted the Removed Indians' "invasion" of their homelands. The Removed Indians hoped to lessen Plains Indian raids into Indian Territory by "civilizing" the Plains peoples through diplomatic councils and trade. But the Southern Plains Indians were not interested in "civilization" and saw no use in farming. Even their defeat by the U.S. government could not bridge the cultural gap between the Plains and Removed Indians, a gulf that remains to this day.

Book Biblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighbors

Download or read book Biblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighbors written by Adriane Leveen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Hebrew Bible, strangers are indispensable to the formation of a collective Israelite identity. Encounters between the Israelites and their neighbors are among the most urgent matters explored in biblical narratives, yet relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to them. This book corrects that imbalance by carrying out close readings of the accounts of Israel’s myriad interactions with the surrounding nations. The book follows the people of Israel after they leave Egypt, as they wander in the wilderness, cross over into the land, become a unified people Israel and face explusion from that land. The introduction lays the groundwork for a literary reading. Each chapter that follows highlights a distinct people and the issues that they create. For example, Jethro, father-in-law of Moses and a Midian priest, provides a model of collaboration, while Samson’s behavior triggers a cycle of violent retribution. These engaging stories illustrate the perceived dangers of idolatry and military oppression, but also convey lessons in governance, cultural innovation and the building of alliances. This book is vital reading for Biblical scholars and interested readers who want to deepen their understanding of the Israelites’ relationship with neighboring peoples. It will also be of keen interest to academics who work in ancient history and culture.

Book The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors

Download or read book The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors written by Daniel Troy Case and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding

Book Myers and Neighbors of Jeffries Creek  SC

Download or read book Myers and Neighbors of Jeffries Creek SC written by Neil O. Myers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Myers married Ann Bruce in 1741. They had two children. He married Mary in about 1764. They had two children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

Book An Impossible Marriage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laurie Krieg
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2020-10-27
  • ISBN : 0830847944
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book An Impossible Marriage written by Laurie Krieg and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurie and Matt Krieg are in a mixed-orientation marriage: Laurie is primarily attracted to women—and so is Matt. With vulnerability and wisdom, they tell the story of how they met and got married, the challenges and breakthroughs of their journey, and what they've learned about how marriage is meant to point us to the love and grace of Jesus.

Book Sui Tang China and Its Turko Mongol Neighbors

Download or read book Sui Tang China and Its Turko Mongol Neighbors written by Jonathan Karam Skaff and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other.