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Book The Cuvier Women

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  • Author : Sylvia McDaniel
  • Publisher : Virtual Bookseller, LLC
  • Release : 2013-11-17
  • ISBN : 0988451352
  • Pages : 932 pages

Download or read book The Cuvier Women written by Sylvia McDaniel and published by Virtual Bookseller, LLC. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today Best Selling Author Sylvia McDaniel Enter the captivating world of scandal, bigamy, and murder in this gripping box set featuring three tales of love, betrayal, and redemption. Wronged Marian Cuvier's world shatters when she discovers her murdered husband's shocking secrets. As one of three Cuvier widows suspected of murder, she must navigate trust and temptation. Louis Fournet, her late husband's partner, faces a choice between business dreams and an irresistible widow. Can Marian trust again, or will ambition shatter her heart? Betrayed Nicole Cuvier's joyful news turns to horror as she finds her husband murdered alongside two other claimed widows. Pregnant and widowed, Nicole seeks a temporary husband to save her plantation. Enter Maxim Viel, a handsome drifter with hidden intentions. Can his love heal her heart, or is the price too high? Beguiled Layla Cuvier, recently married, is thrust into a murder scandal involving her husband and two other widows. Suspected of the crime, Layla must turn to Drew Soulier, a man she blames for her family's misfortunes. As trust and desire intertwine, Layla faces a trial that could save or condemn her. Is Drew the key to the truth, or is he driven by political ambition? Experience a trilogy of suspense, passion, and redemption in the "Cuvier Women box set. Will these widows find love amidst the shadows of scandal, or will their worlds crumble under the weight of betrayal?

Book The Radical Review

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book The Radical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality  1848 2016

Download or read book Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality 1848 2016 written by Félix Germain and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France. In addition to delineating the powerful contributions of black French women in the struggle for equality, contributors also look at the experiences of African American women in Paris and in so doing integrate into colonial and postcolonial conversations the strategies black women have engaged in negotiating gender and race relations à la française. Drawing on research by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and countries, this collection offers a fresh, multidimensional perspective on race, class, and gender relations in France and its former colonies, exploring how black women have negotiated the boundaries of patriarchy and racism from their emancipation from slavery to the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Book Conflict

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  • Author : Constance Smedley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Conflict written by Constance Smedley and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beguiled

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  • Author : Sylvia McDaniel
  • Publisher : Virtual Bookseller, LLC
  • Release : 2012-11-03
  • ISBN : 0988451344
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Beguiled written by Sylvia McDaniel and published by Virtual Bookseller, LLC. This book was released on 2012-11-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today Best Selling Author Sylvia McDaniel Scandal, Bigamy and Murder Recently married Layla Cuvier is awakened to the shocking news that her husband is murdered and that she is not his only widow. It’s true, she hated Jean Cuvier who forced Layla’s father to sell his shipping company and sanctioned their marriage. There may be three Cuvier widows, but Layla is the most likely suspect to his murder. Forced to turn to the man she blames for the sale of her father's shipping company, she must trust Drew Soulier, the best attorney in New Orleans. Layla knows that Drew doubts her innocence and is only using her trial to further his political ambitions, yet she can’t seem to deny his allure and finds herself struggling to resist her desires. Is Drew the man to find the truth that saves Layla from hanging and heals her troubled heart? Or will he stop at nothing to achieve his goal to be mayor? Fans of Shirlee Busbee and Merry Farmer will enjoy the tale of the three Cuvier Wives. The Cuvier Women Series Wronged Betrayed Beguiled

Book Geologic Life

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  • Author : Kathryn Yusoff
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2024-03-18
  • ISBN : 1478059281
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Geologic Life written by Kathryn Yusoff and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment thought and highlights how it creates anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices. Throughout, she outlines how the disciplines of geology and geography---and their conventions: surveying, identifying, classifying, valuing, and extracting—established and perpetuated colonial practices that ordered the world and people along a racial axis. Examining the conceptualization of the inhuman as political, geophysical, and paleontological, Yusoff unearths an apartheid of materiality as distinct geospatial forms. This colonial practice of geology organized and underpinned racialized accounts of space and time in ways that materially made Anthropocene Earth. At the same time, Yusoff turns to Caribbean, Indigenous, and Black thought to chart a parallel geologic epistemology of the "earth-bound" that challenges what and who the humanities have chosen to overlook in its stories of the earth. By reconsidering the material epistemologies of the earth as an on-going geotrauma in colonial afterlives, Yusoff demonstrates that race is as much a geological formation as a biological one.

Book Riotous Flesh

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  • Author : April R. Haynes
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-10-21
  • ISBN : 022628476X
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Riotous Flesh written by April R. Haynes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women’s leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise had very different goals. As April R. Haynes shows, the crusade against female masturbation was rooted in a generally shared agreement on some major points: that girls and women were as susceptible to masturbation as boys and men; that “self-abuse” was rooted in a lack of sexual information; and that sex education could empower women and girls to master their own bodies. Yet the groups who made this education their goal ranged widely, from “ultra” utopians and nascent feminists to black abolitionists. Riotous Flesh explains how and why diverse women came together to popularize, then institutionalize, the condemnation of masturbation, well before the advent of sexology or the professionalization of medicine.

Book A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age  from Personal Acquaintance

Download or read book A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age from Personal Acquaintance written by Samuel Carter Hall and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age

Download or read book A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age written by Samuel Carter Hall and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Woman Who Walked into the Sea

Download or read book The Woman Who Walked into the Sea written by Mark Douglas-Home and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter who nobody wanted learns the truth about the mother she never knew. A page-turning, heart-breaking mystery 'full of surprises ... this is a classic whodunit' (Scotsman). Cal McGill is a unique investigator and oceanographer who uses his expertise to locate things - and sometimes people - lost or missing at sea. His expertise could unravel the haunting mystery of why, twenty-six years ago on a remote Scottish beach, Megan Bates strode out into the cold ocean and let the waves wash her away. Megan's daughter, Violet Wells, was abandoned as a baby on the steps of a local hospital just hours before the mother she never knew took her own life. As McGill is drawn into Violet's search for the truth, he encounters a coastal community divided by obsession and grief, and united only by a conviction that its secrets should stay buried... Praise for The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: 'An always entertaining and gripping mystery ... Infinitely better written than the majority of its competitors' Herald 'A classic whodunit. A mystery from the school of Ruth Rendell, and I can't imagine anyone who likes those not delighting in this' Scotsman 'Cal McGill is a triumph ... a wonderfully unique creation' crimefictionlover.com 'Simply intoxicating' Library Journal Praise for The Sea Detective: 'Raises the bar for Scottish crime fiction ... elegantly written and compelling' Scotsman 'Promises to be a fine series of detective novels' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month 'Excellent' Literary Review - top five crime books of the year 'A compelling protagonist' The Times Literary Supplement

Book What is Slavery to Me

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  • Author : Pumla Dineo Gqola
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2010-04-01
  • ISBN : 1868149528
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book What is Slavery to Me written by Pumla Dineo Gqola and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of slave memory in South Africa using feminist, postcolonial and memory studies Much has been made about South Africa's transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid. 'Memory' features prominently in the country's reckoning with its pasts. While there has been an outpouring of academic essays, anthologies and other full-length texts which study this transition, most have focused on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). What is slavery to me? is the first full-length study of slave memory in the South African context, and examines the relevance and effects of slave memory for contemporary negotiations of South African gendered and racialised identities. It draws from feminist, postcolonial and memory studies and is therefore interdisciplinary in approach. It reads memory as one way of processing this past, and interprets a variety of cultural, literary and filmic texts to ascertain the particular experiences in relation to slave pasts being fashioned, processed and disseminated. Much of the material surveyed across disciplines attributes to memory, or 'popular history making', a dialogue between past and present whilst ascribing sense to both the eras and their relationship. In this sense then, memory is active, entailing a personal relationship with the past which acts as mediator of reality on a day to day basis. The projects studies various negotiations of raced and gendered identities in creative and other public spaces in contemporary South Africa, by being particularly attentive to the encoding of consciousness about the country's slave past. This book extends memory studies in South Africa, provokes new lines of inquiry, and develops new frameworks through which to think about slavery and memory in South Africa.

Book The Three Legged Woman and Other Excursions in Teaching

Download or read book The Three Legged Woman and Other Excursions in Teaching written by Robert Klose and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal reflections and insights of one professor and writer on the experience of teaching at the "poorest college in America"

Book Translators  Interpreters  Mediators

Download or read book Translators Interpreters Mediators written by Gillian Dow and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on women writers as translators who interpreted and mediated across cultural boundaries and between national contexts in the period 1700-1900. Rejecting from the outset the notion of translations as 'defective females', each essay engages with the author it discusses as an innovator.

Book Postcolonial Hauntologies

Download or read book Postcolonial Hauntologies written by Ayo A. Coly and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of African women's sexuality "haunt" contemporary postcolonial African scholarship which--by maintaining a culture of avoidance about women's sexuality--generates a discursive conscription that ultimately holds the female body hostage. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of "hauntology" and "ghostly matters" to formulate an explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of female sexuality in the texts of African women. In illuminating the pervasive silence about the sexual female body in postcolonial African scholarship, Postcolonial Hauntologies challenges hostile responses to critical and artistic voices that suggest the African female body represents sacred ideological-discursive ground on which one treads carefully, if at all. Coly demonstrates how "ghosts" from the colonial past are countered by discursive engagements with explicit representations of women's sexuality and bodies that emphasize African women's power and autonomy.

Book Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth Century Archive

Download or read book Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth Century Archive written by Rachel Bryant Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams lead a cast of renowned scholars to initiate an interdisciplinary conversation about the mechanisms of power that have shaped the nineteenth-century archive, to ask: What is a nineteenth-century archive, broadly defined? This landmark collection of essays will broach critical and topical questions about how the complex discourses of power involved in constructions of the nineteenth-century archive have impacted, and continue to impact, constructions of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, and beyond academic confines. The essays, written from a range of disciplinary perspectives, grapple with urgent problems of how to deal with potentially sensitive nineteenth-century archival items, both within academic scholarship and in present-day public-facing institutions, which often reflect erotic, colonial and imperial, racist, sexist, violent, or elitist ideologies. Each contribution grapples with these questions from a range of perspectives: Musicology, Classics, English, History, Visual Culture, and Museums and Archives. The result is far-reaching historical excavation of archival experiences.

Book Skin Deep  Spirit Strong

Download or read book Skin Deep Spirit Strong written by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of the black female body in the American imagination

Book Bird lore

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1214 pages

Download or read book Bird lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 5-28 include its educational leaflets.