Download or read book The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was written by Wendy Doniger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the self.In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value. The stories she considers range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood. They illuminate a basic human way of negotiating reality, illusion, identity, and authenticity, not to mention memory, amnesia, and the process of aging. Many of them involve marriage and adultery, for tales of sexual betrayal cut to the heart of the crisis of identity.These stories are extreme examples of what we common folk do, unconsciously, every day. Few of us actually put on masks that replicate our faces, but it is not uncommon for us to become travesties of ourselves, particularly as we age and change. We often slip carelessly across the permeable boundary between the un-self-conscious self-indulgence of our most idiosyncratic mannerisms and the conscious attempt to give the people who know us, personally or publicly, the version of ourselves that they expect. Myths of self-imitation open up for us the possibility of multiple selves and the infinite regress of self-discovery.Drawing on a dizzying array of tales-some fact, some fiction-The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was is a fascinating and learned trip through centuries of culture, guided by a scholar of incomparable wit and erudition.
Download or read book The Civil Partnership Act 2004 written by Paul Mallender and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for legal practitioners to the Civil Partnership Act for same-sex couples.
Download or read book Marriage Law and Gender in Revolutionary China written by Xiaoping Cong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the social and cultural significance of Chinese communist legal practice in constructing marriage and gender relations in the turbulent period from 1940 to 1960.
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Download or read book Mothers in Poverty written by F.G. Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers. The evidence marshalled does not support the idea that people continue on welfare generation after generation, that the children of broken families have disrupted marriages themselves, that the poor seek out public housing and public assistance because they prefer such dependency, or that husbandless mothers all have lower educational goals for their children than do married mothers. Beginning with major theoretical issues, Kriesberg developed hypotheses about the life of the poor and culture of poverty; the hypotheses were tested with data from a study of families in public housing projects.
Download or read book Sex Bias in the U S Code written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report identifies and analyzes sex-based references in the United States Code, which forms the basis of Federal laws which allow implicit or explicit sex-based discrimination. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has issued this report to inform the public and to provide resource materials for private citizens, the President, and members of Congress who want to identify and eliminate sex-discriminatory provisions in the Code. The report is divided into two major parts: (1) Selected Areas of Sex Bias; and (2) Title-By-Title Review. An Introduction, and a section of Findings and Recommendations are also included.
Download or read book Civil Partnership Act 2004 written by Great Britain and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal assent, 18th November 2004. Explanatory notes have been produced to assist in the understanding of this act and are available separately (ISBN 0105633046). With correction slip dated November 2018
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Download or read book Summerland written by Elin Hilderbrand and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "queen of the summer novel" explores the power of community, family, and honesty-and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight (Kirkus Reviews). A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt--but the emotional damage is overwhelming. Questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel. As summer unfolds, startling truths are revealed about the survivors and their parents, the secrets kept, promises broken, and hearts betrayed.
Download or read book The Public Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Motif Index of Folk Literature Volume 4 written by Stith Thompson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This monumental work has now become... the indispensable tool of all folk narrative scholars." --Southern Folklore Quarterly "A work of this kind can never be quite complete, but in this work Stith Thompson has approached perfection." --Volkskunde "An invaluable aid to students and scholars... " --Reference & Research Book News Indiana University Press, with the generous support of the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, is pleased to announce the republication of this folklore classic, in honor of the centenary of the American Folklore Society.
Download or read book The Bedtrick written by Wendy Doniger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.
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Download or read book A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom written by Isaac Schapera and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1994 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the first edition published in 1938. A specifically legal anthropology, its focus is on the careful, systematic presentation of the normative understandings of the Tswana world--its "rules"--without examination of the actual practices of everyday life or of enforcement. Appendices offer detailed data on lineages and age regiments. Distributed by Westview. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Civil Partnership written by Mark Harper and published by Jordan Publishing (GB). This book was released on 2005 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil Partnership Act 2004 constitutes one of the most significant pieces of family legislation for several years. The underlying aim of the legislation is to permit couples of the same sex to form registered civil partnerships, thereby creating a new legal status for such couples. Once registered, they acquire a package of rights and responsibilities which, subject to key differences, will place them on the same footing as married couples.Major provisions contained in the Act include:• Formation of civil partnership by registration• Formal dissolution of civil partnership which has broken down irretrievably• Grounds on which a civil partnership can be declared a nullity• Financial effects of dissolution, including arrangements for property division, pensions and tenancy succession rights• Ability of registered partners to acquire parental responsibility for each other's children and entitlement to apply for adoption, residence and contact orders• Recognition under inheritance and intestacy rulesCivil Partnership: The New Law provides an authoritative commentary, highlighting areas of potential difficulty and offering practical guidance and will be essential reading for all family lawyers, housing lawyers and also chancery practitioners dealing with inheritance claims.
