Download or read book Gender Bonds Gender Binds written by Sara S. Poor and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-American audience. With gender at its core as a category of analysis, "Gender Bonds, Gender Binds"uniquely opens up medieval German material to English speakers. Recognizing the impact of Ann Marie Rasmussen’s Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature, this transatlantic volume expands on questions introduced in her 1997 book and subsequent work. More than a mere tribute, the collection moves the debates forward in new directions: it examines how gender bonds together people, practices, texts, and interpretive traditions, while constraining and delimiting these things socially, ideologically, culturally, or historically. As the contributions demonstrate, a close, materially focused analysis produces complex results, not easily reduced to a platitude. The essays steer a firm course through the terrain of gender bonds and binds, many of which remain challenging in the present. Herein lies the broader reach of this volume, for understanding the longevity of patriarchy and its effects on human relations demonstrates how crucial the study of the past can be for us as a society today.

Download or read book Bond Girls written by Monica Germanà and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than the sexual objectification of female beauty. Through the original joint perspectives of body and fashion, this exciting study throws a new, subversive light on Bond Girls. Like Coco Chanel, fashion's 'eternal' mademoiselle, these 'Girls' are synonymous with an unconventional and dynamic femininity that does not play by the rules and refuses to sit still; far from being the passive objects of the male gaze, Bond Girls' active bodies instead disrupt the stable frame of Bond's voyeurism. Starting off with an original re-assessment of the cultural roots of Bond's postwar masculinity, the book argues that Bond Girls emerge from masculine anxieties about the rise of female emancipation after the Second World War and persistent in the present day. Displaying parallels with the politics of race and colonialism, such tensions appear through sartorial practices as diverse as exoticism, power dressing and fetish wear, which reveal complex and often contradictory ideas about the patriarchal and imperial ideologies associated with Bond. Attention to costume, film and gender theory makes Bond Girls: Body, Gender and Fashion essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, media and cultural studies, and for anyone with an interest in Bond.

Download or read book My Dearest Bridesmaid written by Melanie J. Pellowski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any girl that has shared special friendships and bonds knows that her wedding day means more than one proposal. The next step a bride-to-be surely thinks about after saying yes to her soulmate is how she is going to propose to her soul sisters in the same meaningful and memorable way. My Dearest Bridesmaid is a sentimental and playful interactive journal; an offering of friendship and the perfect invitation as a bride asks her dearest friends and family members to help her down the aisle. Inside this heartfelt keepsake, you'll discover: The colorful history of bridesmaids Bridal party dos and don'ts Ceremonial superstitions Quizzes and coupons from the bride-to-be Pages to paste in your own keepsakes And more! Heartfelt anecdotes and words of wisdom are scattered throughout this special gift to make My Dearest Bridesmaid a treasured keepsake and token of gratitude for a bride’s special friends. Look no further for a funny, sophisticated, and sentimental way to celebrate the spirit of being invited into a wedding party.

Download or read book Entered in the Alien Bride Lottery written by Margo Bond Collins and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a million ways to end up in the Alien Bride Lottery. But all it takes is one. Every unmarried female human over the age of twenty-one gets entered once a year. You can also accept extra entries for legal infractions--instead of paying a parking fine, for example, you can request an extra entry. Lots of women do that. I mean, why not? The chances are astronomical that your name will get chosen to be one of the hundred or so women who get shipped off to space every year. And even if your name is drawn, the odds are slim that you'll match up with an alien who's looking for a mate. Most of the lottery-drawn women come back to Earth every year and resume their lives as if nothing changed. But some don't. And no matter what, getting drawn in the Lottery means you have to compete in the Bride Games. Guess that's where I'm heading now. I only hope I can avoid catching the eye of one of the giant, rainbow-hued brutes whose mission is to protect Earth--and who can claim me as a mate. All because I was Entered in the Alien Bride Lottery... Fans of Grace Goodwin, Laurann Dohner, and Ruby Dixon will love this steamy new series featuring gorgeous, bright alien heroes and the sassy human women they choose as mates! Every book in the Khanavai Warrior Bride Games series is a standalone romance. Join these brides as they find a whole new world of happily ever afters. Buy now for hot alien romance!

Download or read book The Wedding Complex written by Elizabeth Freeman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA queer literary and cultural studies examination of the wedding ceremony (rather than the resulting marriages) which finds it to be a space of more open possibilities than might normally be supposed./div

Download or read book Pentecostals and Nonviolence written by Paul Alexander and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostals and Nonviolence explores how a distinctly Pentecostal-charismatic peace witness might be reinvigorated and sustained in the twenty-first century. To do so, the book examines the nature of the early Pentecostal commitment to nonviolence, and investigates the possibilities that might emerge from Pentecostals and Anabaptists entering into conversation and worship with each other. Contributors engage the arguments surrounding the heritage of Pentecostal pacifism in the United States and then move toward exploring nonviolence and peacemaking as crucial for contemporary Christianity as a whole. Ranging from theology, testimony, and pastoral ministry to interchurch relations, activism, and protest, this diverse collection of essays challenge and invite the whole church to the task of peacemaking while exploring the distinctive, and often neglected, contributions from the Pentecostal-charismatic tradition.

Download or read book 7 Brides for 7 Bodies written by Stephanie Bond and published by NeedtoRead Books. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happily never after... Carlotta Wren’s life has taken a startling turn—she’s not sure what’s going to happen next. So when her retail job temporarily plants her in the world of wedding planning, she’s happy for the distraction—at first. Because the happily-ever-after setting only heightens the stress surrounding the decisions she faces about her romantic life. The three hot men vying for her attention aren’t going to wait forever for her answer. On the other hand, at least the bridal show gets her away from body moving for a while, right? Wrong. Because when grooms all over Atlanta start dropping like flies, once again, Carlotta finds herself square in the middle of a murder mystery! “Body Movers is one of the most delightful series I have read in quite some time. Stephanie Bond shows her audience what a wickedly funny mystery should be all about.” Suspense Romance Writers Book Review “Stephanie Bond's Body Movers Series is an absolute hoot!” TheRomanceReadersConnection.com “Bond has successfully switched to the crime genre, bringing along her trademark humor and panache.” Booklist If you're looking for laugh-out-loud books, check out the BODY MOVERS series! To-date, titles in the series include: PARTY CRASHERS (prequel) BODY MOVERS 2 BODIES FOR THE PRICE OF 1 3 MEN AND A BODY 4 BODIES AND A FUNERAL 5 BODIES TO DIE FOR 6 KILLER BODIES 6 ½ BODY PARTS (novella) 7 BRIDES FOR 7 BODIES

Download or read book Spiritual wives written by William Hepworth Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Miners of Djaromir Shuddre written by Leora Gonzales and published by Leora Gonzales. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman on a mission… Petal Jane, PJ to her family, is on the way to rescue her big sister—whether she wants her to or not. Or at least that was the plan her parents had come up with. “Don’t worry,” they assured her. It was supposed to be foolproof. First, sign up for the Djaromir volunteer program. Check. Second, catch a Phaeton spaceship to the distant planet where her sister had disappeared to. Check. Last, grab her sister and get the hell back to Earth before one of the big guys think she’s there to get mated, sexed up, and pregnant like all the other fools she’d arrived with… And that’s where she runs into a snag. He’s more than a little rough around the edges… Shuddre doesn’t talk much—if at all. His penchant for silence, combined with his mountainous size, makes others uncomfortable. Taller and wider than all of his brethren, his bulk is both a blessing and a curse. His massive size and abilities are valuable assets to Gunninng, yet when he’s within the tunnels of the city, he feels suffocated. It’s one of the reasons why he’s determined to answer his warlord’s summons, find out what Gunninng needs, and then get the hell back to the mines as quickly as possible. He never thought there’d be anything to keep him here… Until he saw her.

Download or read book The Wedding Ringer written by Kerry Rea and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman who wants nothing to do with love or friendship finds both in the unlikeliest ways in this hilarious and heartwarming debut by Kerry Rea. Once upon a time, Willa Callister was a successful blogger with a good credit score, actual hobbies, and legs that she shaved more than once a month. But after finding her fiancé in bed with her best friend, she now spends her days performing at children's birthday parties in a ball gown that makes her look like a walking bottle of Pepto Bismol. Willa dreams of starting fresh, where no one knows who she used to be, but first she needs to save up enough money to make it happen. Maisie Mitchell needs something too: another bridesmaid for her wedding. After a chance encounter at a coffee shop, Maisie offers to pay Willa to be in her bridal party. Willa wants nothing to do with weddings—or Maisie—but the money will give her the freedom to start the new life she so badly desires. Willa's bridesmaid duties thrust her into Maisie's high-energy world and into the path of hotshot doctor Liam Rafferty. But as Willa and Maisie form a real friendship, and Liam's annoyingly irresistible smile makes her reconsider her mantra that all men are trash, Willa's exit strategy becomes way more complicated. And when a secret from Maisie's past threatens to derail the wedding, Willa must consider whether friendship—and romance—are worth sticking around for.

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Download or read book Tales of Ton written by E. H. MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems on Various Subjects written by Andrew Scott and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Virgil S Aeneid in Modern Verse written by Howard Felperin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its epic models, Homers Iliad and Odyssey, Virgils Aeneid ranks among the greatest poems, not only of classical antiquity, but of all time. It tells the story of Aeneas, who leads a band of survivors from fallen Troy through wandering and war to found the city that will become imperial Rome. Fully equal to Homer in narrative sweep, dramatic power, and lyric intensity, Virgils epic outshines its models in the passion and compassion with which its characters, even its heros formidable opponents, are delineated: Dido, the African queen and femme fatale who would hold him back from his mission; and Turnus, the proud Italian prince he must overcomeultimately in single combatto fulfill it. Even the gods above are all too human. A fairy-tale? Of course; but the grandest fairy-tale of western culture, whose later literature it has fundamentally shaped. Not surprisingly, few works have been so oftenor so inadequatelytranslated. Its not just a matter of classical Latin into modern English; in itself, thats not so hard. Its the aura of the great original: its classical flavour, cultural significance, and stately poetic style have never been, perhaps never can be, captured. Yet that is what this translation sets out to do. It begins from our side of the classics, from the western literature the poem has so deeply influenced, and reflects the narrative fluency, dazzling lyricism, and distinctive dignity of Virgils poem in a fresh and unstilted blank verse resonant with English and American tradition. The result is the most readable version ever. The problems and principles such a project involves are aired in an introduction that illuminates Virgils great work as never before. Enjoy!

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