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Book The End of Bastardy

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  • Author : Matthew Dean Gerber
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 976 pages

Download or read book The End of Bastardy written by Matthew Dean Gerber and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Praise of Cinematic Bastardy

Download or read book In Praise of Cinematic Bastardy written by Sébastien Lefait and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema may be called a bastard art in both meanings of the word: because it is usually defined as a hybrid art form, obviously, but also, and perhaps more importantly, because it has been able to become formally as well as generically innovative mostly through adulterous relationships, thus making illegitimacy its grounding principle by preferring a blurred lineage to a legible succession. Trying to find what film is referred to in a sequence, therefore, amounts to establishing a clear family tree, which takes no account of the illegitimate unions, natural children and forgotten ancestors that are nevertheless part and parcel of film history. If that quest should still be conducted, its object, it seems, should not be one sole point of reference. The aim of this book is to create the opportunity of studying, and perhaps of rehabilitating, those shadowy corners of cinematographic creation and film memory, and to provide film studies, but also literature and Arts studies altogether, with a newly productive way of using such familiar notions as difference, quotation, reference, blending, hybridity, miscegenation or crossbreeding.

Book The Law of Illegitimacy

Download or read book The Law of Illegitimacy written by Wilfrid Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bastardy and Its Comparative History

Download or read book Bastardy and Its Comparative History written by Peter Laslett and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1980 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Courtship  Illegitimacy  and Marriage in Early Modern England

Download or read book Courtship Illegitimacy and Marriage in Early Modern England written by Richard Adair and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of bastardy and marriage between the 16th and 18th centuries, exploring the topic from a regional perspective. The book asserts that the very concept of national demographic data is shown to be deeply flawed.

Book Deviant Maternity

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  • Author : Angela Joy Muir
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-02-17
  • ISBN : 1000035034
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Deviant Maternity written by Angela Joy Muir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival sources, it examines the scope and context of Welsh illegitimacy, and the link between illegitimacy, courtship and economic precarity. It also goes beyond courtship to consider the different identities and relationships of the mothers and fathers of illegitimate children in Wales, and the lived experience of conception, pregnancy and childbirth for unmarried mothers. This book reframes the study of illegitimacy by combining demographic, social and cultural history approaches to emphasise the diversity of experiences, contexts and consequences.

Book Decennial Edition of the American Digest

Download or read book Decennial Edition of the American Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 2096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Penal Code of Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Penal Code of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chitty s Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility  1225 1880

Download or read book Chitty s Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility 1225 1880 written by Joseph Chitty and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature

Download or read book Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature written by Geraldine Hazbun and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society’s definition of what is acceptable. Through the medieval epic poems Cantar de Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo, the ballad tradition, Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares, and Lope de Vega’s theatre, Geraldine Hazbun demonstrates that illegitimacy and legitimacy are interconnected and flexible categories defined in relation to marriage, sex, bodies, ethnicity, religion, lineage, and legacy. Both categories are subject to the uncertainties and freedoms of language and fiction and frequently constructed around axes of quantity and completeness. These literary texts, covering a range of illegitimate figures, some with an historical basis, demonstrate that truth, propriety, and standards of behaviour are not forged in the law code or the pulpit but in literature’s fluid system of producing meaning.

Book Illegitimate Power

Download or read book Illegitimate Power written by Alison Findlay and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Renaissance Drama, the bastard is an extraordinarily powerful and disruptive figure. We have only to think of Caliban or of Edmund to realise the challenge presented by the illegitimate child. Drawing on a wide rage of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England, reading them in relation to witch craft, spiritual insecurities and social unrest in family and State. The characters discussed range from demi-devils, unnatural villains and clowns to outstanding heroic or virtuous types who challenge officially sanctioned ideas of illegitimacy. The final chapter of the book considers bastards in performance; their relationship with theatre spaces and audiences. Illegitimate voices, Findlay argues, can bring about the death of the author/father and open the text as a piece of theatre, challenging accepted notions of authority.

Book Women Who Kill

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  • Author : Ann Jones
  • Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Release : 2009-10-01
  • ISBN : 1558616527
  • Pages : 575 pages

Download or read book Women Who Kill written by Ann Jones and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark study offers a rogues’ gallery of women—from the Colonial Era to the 20th century—who answered abuse and oppression with murder: “A classic” (Gloria Steinem). Women rarely resort to murder. But when they do, they are likely to kill their intimates: husbands, lovers, or children. In Women Who Kill, journalist Ann Jones explores these homicidal patters and what they reflect about women and our culture. She considers notorious cases such as axe-murderer Lizzie Borden, acquitted of killing her parents; Belle Gunness, the Indiana housewife turned serial killer; Ruth Snyder, the “adulteress” electrocuted for murdering her husband; and Jean Harris, convicted of shooting her lover, the famous “Scarsdale Diet doctor.” Looking beyond sensationalized figures, Jones uncovers different trends of female criminality through American history—trends that reveal the evolving forms of oppression and abuse in our culture. From the prevalence of infanticide in colonial days to the poisoning of husbands in the nineteenth century and the battered wives who fight back today, Jones recounts the tales of dozens of women whose stories, and reasons, would otherwise be lost to history. First published in 1980, Women Who Kill is a “provocative book” that “reminds us again that women are entitled to their rage.” This 30th anniversary edition from Feminist Press includes a new introduction by the author (New York Times Book Review).

Book Troubled Experiment

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  • Author : Jack D. Marietta
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2006-09-26
  • ISBN : 9780812239553
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Troubled Experiment written by Jack D. Marietta and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troubled Experiment exposes the difference between glowing reputation and grim reality of crime in early Pennsylvania. The plight of lawmakers and magistrates, and the sufferings of victims, women, children, and minorities take their places in this tragedy. The authors conclude that through this lens, we see the troubled future of America.

Book A Digest and Index with Chronological Tables of All the Statutes

Download or read book A Digest and Index with Chronological Tables of All the Statutes written by George Crabb and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Women  Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital

Download or read book Victorian Women Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital written by Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to address the questions of poverty, charity, and public welfare, taking the nineteenth-century London Foundling Hospital as its focus. It delineates the social rules that constructed the gendered world of the Victorian age, and uses 'respectability' as a factor for analysis: the women who successfully petitioned the Foundling Hospital for admission of their infants were not East End prostitutes, but rather unmarried women, often domestic servants, determined to maintain social respectability. The administrators of the Foundling Hospital reviewed over two hundred petitions annually; deliberated on about one hundred cases; and accepted not more than 25 per cent of all cases. Using primary material from the Foundling Hospital's extensive archives, this study moves methodically from the broad social and geographical context of London and the Foundling Hospital itself, to the micro-historical case data of individual mothers and infants.

Book History of the English Law

Download or read book History of the English Law written by John Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: