Download or read book Married To The Mop written by Barbara Colley and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As owner of Maid for a Day, Charlotte LaRue is cleaning up New Orleans house by house. When it comes to hired help, she's the best there is, especially if murder runs in the family. . . Though she's short two employees, Charlotte answers a desperate plea the weekend before Mardi Gras. A woman named Emily Rossi is hosting a huge bash for out-of-town guests, and just lost her maid to a family emergency. And Charlotte soon learns why. Emily's husband, Robert, just happens to be the most ruthless crime boss in the country. Nevertheless, Charlotte agrees to help at the Rossi family's costume ball when one of the servers comes down with the flu. She's beginning to think that the party is a cover for Robert's illegal activities, when the man himself is found dead in the library. The case seems cut-and-dried--to anyone but Charlotte, that is. Although Emily looks guilty as sin, Charlotte has seen enough of the Rossi family's dirty laundry to suspect everyone. But she'd better tread carefully if she doesn't want to spend Fat Tuesday in the bayou, sleeping with the catfish. . . Praise for Barbara Colley and her Charlotte LaRue Mysteries! "Thoroughly enjoyable." --Mystery Scene "An appealingly down-to-earth sleuth. Fans of Southern cozies will enjoy." --Library Journal ". . .Charlotte LaRue will dust her way into readers' hearts. . ." --Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Housework and Housewives in American Advertising written by Jessamyn Neuhaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of how since the end of te 19th-century advertising agencies and their housework product clients utilized a remarkably consistent depiction of housewives and housework, illustrating that that although Second Wave feminism successfully called into question the housewife stereotype, homemaking has remained an American feminine ideal.

Download or read book Housework and Housewives in American Advertising written by Jessamyn Neuhaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of how since the end of te 19th-century advertising agencies and their housework product clients utilized a remarkably consistent depiction of housewives and housework, illustrating that that although Second Wave feminism successfully called into question the housewife stereotype, homemaking has remained an American feminine ideal.

Download or read book The MOP written by David M. Salkin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When things get messy, the Director of CIA knows he can send in The MOP to clean things up. After waves of terrorist strikes on U.S. soil take their toll, the CIA is forced to "take out The MOP." They’re no choir boys—but they’re kind of men you want on your side. Breaking too many laws to count, the secret agents and special operators of The MOP race against the clock to prevent yet another attack—if it’s successful, it will cripple the world economy. As incursions happen all over the country, the FBI and CIA try desperately to catch up to the Army of Islam before it can carry out the next offensive. Omar bin-Abdul Haq won’t be satisfied until the U.S. is in ruins and his idea of the New World Order comes to fruition. His idea of Sharia law is the harshest yet, fueling his sociopathic visions. The MOP Team has little to go on, and too much to lose—a dangerous combination that requires their very, very special set of skills.

Download or read book Housework and Gender in American Television written by Kristi Rowan Humphreys and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean examines representations of housework and their relationships with gender in sixty of the most popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s, searching for trends, similarities, inconsistencies, and meaning. Much of the critical scholarship addressing mid-century televised housework claims that domestic activities marginalize female characters, removing them from scenes involving important familial discussions and placing them in devalued positions. This book challenges the notion that housework functions primarily as a mechanism through which female characters are marginalized, devalued, invisible, or passive, and instead proposes a different reading of housework in television, one that brings to the fore the loving, sacrificial, and active qualities so crucial and foundational to housework activity in both representation and reality. These qualities, in turn, attach a strength to female characters, and male characters when applicable, that is often ignored in standard feminist analyses of television. This study reveals roughly twenty trends established in four decades of televised housework, from the housewives of the fifties, to the witches and genies of the sixties, to the elimination of male domestic labor in the seventies, to the dominance of male housekeepers in the eighties.

Download or read book Radical Challenges to the Family written by Ashley Lavelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending the nuclear family and extolling ’family values’ have long been central features of politics in capitalist societies, in spite of radical left challenges from social, counter-cultural and gay rights movements. This book examines these challenges as they emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, re-appraising their relevance in the light of recent developments, including the spread of more diverse family forms and the rise of the same-sex marriage movement. Drawing on archival research in the US, UK and Australia, the author asks what the emergence of same-sex marriage movements and legislation mean for challenges to the nuclear family in the light of an original general hostility to marriage and family structures in the gay liberation movement, whilst considering the extent to which the nuclear family might be included in the list of social and economic institutions subject to criticism on the part of more recent anti-capitalist movements, such as Occupy. A detailed study of the extent to which the nuclear family remains susceptible to the radical critiques of the last century, Radical Challenges to the Family examines whether the original challenges shed light on ensuring social problems, including domestic violence, child abuse, homophobia, and growing marital dissatisfaction. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in gender and sexuality, the sociology of the family and feminist thought.

Download or read book Shirley Jackson s Dark Tales written by Joan Passey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth look at the themes and legacies of her 200-plus short stories. Recognized as the mother of contemporary horror, scholars from across the globe, and from a range of different disciplinary backgrounds, dig into the lasting impact of her work in light of its increasing relevance to contemporary critical preoccupations and the re-release of Jackson's work in 2016. Offering new methodologies to study her work, this volume calls upon ideas of intertextuality, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis to examine a broad range of themes from national identity, race, gender and class to domesticity, the occult, selfhood and mental illness. With consideration of her blockbuster works alongside later works that received much less critical attention, Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales promises a rich and dynamic expansion on previous scholarship of Jackson's oeuvre, both bringing her writing into the contemporary conversation, and ensuring her place in the canon of Horror fiction.

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Download or read book Married to the Mop written by Barbara Colley and published by Wheeler Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte LaRue is back cleaning when she begins working for notorious crime boss Robert Rossi and his family. As family heirlooms disappear and family feuds flame, the big man himself winds up dead, seemingly at the hands of his wife, Emily.

Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

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Download or read book The Great X Cape Ii written by Angel Brown and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends. The Great X-Cape II (Gods Amazing Love) takes spiritual concepts from my first book, The Great X-Cape, expounds on those spiritual concepts in more detail, and is a continuation of my first book. Through the storms, through the valleys, and through the fire, God has been a constant source of motivation, inspiration, and comfort, and He has been my bridge over troubled water as I continue to make my great escape each day by faith. He is God on the mountain and He is still God even if we are facing the darkest valley that we could have ever imagined. There is a hiding place in God that we can enter into where our troubles can no longer find us as we find our faith in God and place our complete confidence in Him. God has turned my greatest tragedies into my greatest victories, my impossibilities into possibilities, and has become, to me, the greatest Superhero that I have ever known. When we surrender our self-made invisible cape to God, we will find that nothing is impossible with Him.

Download or read book The Great X Cape written by Angel Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PSALMS 71:2 DELIVER ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND CAUSE ME TO ESCAPE INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO ME, AND SAVE ME I titled this book The Great X-Cape because I always thought of myself as invincible, as most of us do, and some more than others. The Bible says that as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. (Proverbs 23:7) Not in this case! Imagine having Aquaman as your hero but he can't even swim, or Superman and Batman and they can't fly. I had my own self-made cape that I wore everywhere I went, being my own superhero. I had much faith in myself, in my abilities, my talents, my intelligence, and all of the things that failed me in my time of need. Today, I am a retired superhero, surrendering my cape to the One who rightfully deserves to wear it. The One who does not fail in our time of need, who truly is my Hero, and has saved me from the biggest enemy I've ever had: myself. There are many things in my life that God has allowed me to escape from, and by the end of my book I will have listed a lot of them, but truly, I just can't tell it all. By coming to the end of faith in myself, I found faith in Him. By coming to the end of my own life, I finally found His, and that is truly the greatest escape that we can ever make!

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