Download or read book In Defense of Witches written by Mona Chollet and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed? Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility; and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. Rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society’s seemingly eternal misogyny, while women today are direct descendants to those who were hunted down and killed for their thoughts and actions. With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witches seeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who live their lives on their own terms.
Download or read book The Telling of the Act written by Peter Maxwell Cryle and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells how the diverting array of pleasures in eighteenth-century libertine fiction gave way, through a process of thematic drift and realignment, to a powerfully linear story that actually defined sex and the gender roles pertaining to it. Many of the key notions in modern talk about sex are in fact narrative ones: climax, foreplay, and the sex act are all said to lie at the heart of human sexuality. But 'The Telling of the Act' questions whether these notions deserve to be thought of as timeless, and in fact locates their emergence in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Download or read book Magic Ritual and Witchcraft written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le Moyen de Parvenir written by Béroalde de Verville and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maman O es tu written by Anne-Marie Mac Donald Courtemanche and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’abus sexuel, la violence domestique, la prison, l’alcoolisme – Anne-Marie Courtemanche les a tous vécu et la plupart avant l'âge de quinze ans. Dans Maman, où es-tu ? elle partage son cheminement tissant ensemble une histoire de perte, de douleur, de courage et transformation. Ce livre contient des thèmes pour adultes au sujet de la négligence, d’abus sexuels, de violence domestique, de traumatismes, de la grossesse chez les adolescentes, des cruautés de l’adoption, de tromperie et de la manipulation. Elle partage comment ces expériences ont affectés sa vie. Ce livre partage tous les détails de son enfance traumatisante. Une mémoire émotionnelle et bouleversante d’amour et de survie. Les souvenirs déchirants d’une fille secouée par la brutalité et la réalité d’une innocence volée un cercle familial brisé. Ce livre démontre que la vie n’est pas définie par les frontières placées autour de nous par les agresseurs et les manipulateurs, mais par la profondeur de l’amour dans son cœur. Très difficile à croire, mais c’est une histoire vrai qui jaillit du Canada.
Download or read book Rhapsodie pour un Ange written by and published by P2D. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Culture and Society in Medieval Occitania written by Linda Paterson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Occitania, a geographical and linguistic area often referred to as 'the South of France', 'the South', 'the Midi', or more loosely 'Provence', was politically diverse but culturally coherent. It was here that the troubadours created Courtly Love and a new poetic language, which together were to affect the whole course of European literature and sensibilities. The essays made readily accessible in this collection reflect the author's many-sided interests in the troubadours and the society from which they sprang: the historical and cultural place of the women forming the ostensible objects of their desire, veneration, or anxieties; the extent to which French notions of chivalry penetrated the South; the nature and meaning of various elements of court culture; the precocious development of medical science in this region; its complex responses to the Crusades; and the question of Occitan identity. Mostly complementing her major publications (The World of the Troubadours, collaborative editions of the songs of the troubadour Marcabru, of the epic fragment the Canso d'Antioca, and of the medieval Occitan tensos and partimens), they provide either more detailed material than found its way into those works, or developments from them. 'Occitan literature and the Holy Land' anticipates a new project on responses to the Crusades in Occitan and Old French lyrics.
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Download or read book The Royal Dictionary Abridged I French and English II English and French The Second Edition Corrected and Improved with Above Fifteen Hundred English Words As Also an Alphabetical List of the Most Common Christian Names of Men and Women Etc written by Abel BOYER and published by . This book was released on 1708 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pour la Couronne et le Dragon written by Stephen Hunt and published by Green Nebula. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pour la Couronne et le Dragon Nous sommes dans les dernières années du XVIIIe siècle, mais dans un monde que peu de gens reconnaîtraient. Les Européens s'abritent dans de petits îlots de sécurité, refuges de la nature sauvage et enchantée - les étranges forêts sans limites que les gens appellent le Tumble. C'est à travers ce paysage hanté par les démons que l'officier de basse naissance Taliesin doit mener ses hommes, pris dans les intrigues les plus meurtrières tout en menant des guerres pour une classe noble qui le méprise. Avec des meurtriers vicieux issus des pires caniveaux du royaume marchant derrière lui, et les forces des nations les plus puissantes du continent dressées contre lui, les chances sont contre Taliesin. De toute évidence. Pourtant, il continuera à se battre, à affronter des armées, des sorciers, des assassins, des hommes-bêtes et à croiser la route de l'enfer lui-même. Pas par loyauté, ni par respect pour son monarque intrigant, ni même pour la petite montagne d'argent que la reine de l'île lui a promise s'il réussit. Mais parce que le combat est tout ce que lui et sa bande de voleurs et d'égorgeurs ont toujours connu. *** Livre 1 de la duologie Triple Realm. 1. Pour la couronne et le dragon. 2. La forteresse dans le givre. *** À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Stephen Hunt est le créateur de la série fantastique très appréciée "Far-called" (Gollancz/Hachette), ainsi que de la série "Jackelian", publiée dans le monde entier par HarperCollins aux côtés d'autres auteurs de fantasy, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Raymond E. Feist et C.S. Lewis. *** REVUE Éloges des romans de Stephen Hunt : M. Hunt s'envole à toute allure. - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL L'imagination de Hunt est probablement visible depuis l'espace. Il disperse des concepts que d'autres écrivains exploiteraient pour une trilogie comme des emballages de barres chocolatées. - TOM HOLT Toutes sortes d'extravagances bizarres et fantastiques. - DAILY MAIL 'Une lecture compulsive pour tous les âges'. - GUARDIAN 'Bourré d'inventions'. -THE INDEPENDENT 'Dire que ce livre est plein d'action est presque un euphémisme... une merveilleuse histoire d'évasion ! - INTERZONE Hunt a truffé l'histoire d'astuces intrigantes... touchantes et originales. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Une aventure palpitante à la Indiana Jones. -RT BOOK REVIEWS Un curieux mélange de futur et de futur partiel. - KIRKUS REVIEWS Un ouvrage inventif et ambitieux, plein de merveilles et d'émerveillements. - THE TIMES Hunt sait ce que son public aime et le lui donne avec un esprit sardonique et une tension soigneusement développée. - TIME OUT Un récit qui déchire... l'histoire se déroule à toute allure... l'inventivité constante maintient le lecteur accroché... le final est une succession de cliffhangers et de retournements de situation surprenants. Très amusant. - SFX MAGAZINE Mettez vos ceintures pour une rencontre frénétique entre le chat et la souris... une histoire passionnante. - SF REVU
