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Book Chains of Love

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  • Author : Emily West
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2010-10-01
  • ISBN : 0252092848
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Chains of Love written by Emily West and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have traditionally neglected relationships between slave men and women during the antebellum period. In Chains of Love, historian Emily West remedies this situation by investigating the social and cultural history of slave relationships in the very heart of the South. Focusing on South Carolina, West deals directly with the most intimate areas of the slave experience including courtship, love and affection between spouses, the abuse of slave women by white men, and the devastating consequences of forced separations. Slaves fought these separations through cross-gender bonding and cross-plantation marriages, illustrating West's thesis about slave marriage as a fierce source of resistance to the oppression of slavery in general. Making expert use of sources such as the Works Progress Administration narratives, slave autobiographies, slave owner records, and church records, this book-length study is the first to focus on the primacy of spousal support as a means for facing oppression. Chains of Love provides telling insights into the nature of the slave family that emerged from these tensions, celebrates its strength, and reveals new dimensions to the slaves' struggle for freedom.

Book Chains of Love and Beauty

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  • Author : Carolyn Dever
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2025-01-28
  • ISBN : 0691264775
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Chains of Love and Beauty written by Carolyn Dever and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2025-01-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as “Michael Field”—and who were partners and lovers for decades—is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literature Michael Field, the renowned late-Victorian poet, was well known to be the pseudonym of Katharine Bradley (1846–1914) and her niece, Edith Cooper (1862–1913). Less well known is that for three decades, the women privately maintained a romantic relationship and kept a double diary, sharing the page as they shared a bed and eventually producing a 9,500-page, twenty-nine-volume story of love, life, and art in the fin de siècle. In Chains of Love and Beauty, the first book about the diary, Carolyn Dever makes the case for this work as a great unknown “novel” of the nineteenth century and as a bridge between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Victorian marriage plot and modernist experimentation. While Bradley and Cooper remained committed to publishing poetry under a single, male pseudonym, the diary, which they entitled Works and Days and hoped would be published after their deaths, allowed them to realize literary ambitions that were unfulfilled during their lifetime. The women also used the diary, which remains largely unpublished, to negotiate their art, desires, and frustrations, as well as their relationships with contemporary literary celebrities, including Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and Walter Pater. Showing for the first time why Works and Days is a great experimental work of late-Victorian and early modernist writing, one that sheds startling new light on gender, sexuality, and authorship, Dever reveals how Bradley and Cooper wrote their shared life as art, and their art as life, on pages of intimacy that they wanted to share with the world.

Book Bound to Trust

Download or read book Bound to Trust written by Jaci Burton and published by Ellora's Cave. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several Earth women have disappeared, their trail leading to Xarta, a BDSM planet. Marina, Earth intergalactic investigator, knows that solving this case means a long-awaited promotion. But in order to find the missing women, she'll have to go undercover as a bondage slave on Xarta, something the strong, capable woman wants no part of. Kaden is a Dom and a native of Xarta. He's also an Intergalactic Marshall, sworn to break up the slave trading ring. His job is to take Marina as his submissive and train her while they're working undercover to expose the slavers and rescue the women. Reluctantly, Marina agrees to act as a submissive, vowing to both herself and to Kaden that her relationship with him is nothing but an act. Until Kaden shows her a side of life that calls to her in ways she didn't expect. Note: Bound To Trust contains light erotic scenes where females explore their sexuality with other females.

Book Chains of Fire

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  • Author : Christina Dodd
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2010-09-07
  • ISBN : 1101442832
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Chains of Fire written by Christina Dodd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth novel in the Chosen Ones series—from the New York Times bestselling author of Storm of Shadows. Samuel Faa is a Gypsy lawyer with the power to control minds. Isabelle Mason is wealthy, privileged, and refined, and has the gift for healing. Two of the Chosen Ones, they share a past filled with love and betrayal, and a future denied by fate-until the day they're trapped underground. No way out. No way to deny the passion that still burns beneath the surface. And when danger threatens, Isabelle has only one choice: to place her trust in the power of the one man she could never forgive...or forget.

Book Chain of Love

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  • Author : Anne Stuart
  • Publisher : Anne Stuart
  • Release : 2016-08-03
  • ISBN : 0997530723
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Chain of Love written by Anne Stuart and published by Anne Stuart. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a classic romance, originally published in 1983. After escaping from an abusive relationship, Cathy Whiteheart has sworn off men. She has no desire to date, and she’s not looking for love. When her meddling sister, drags Cathy on to Sinclair MacDonald’s yacht, neither the handsome man nor his considerable charm is going to change Cathy’s mind. At least not at first. But Sinclair is handsome and kind and when the two are thrown together time and time again, he starts to make Cathy long for the kind of love she’s always dreamed of.

Book Letting Love In

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  • Author : Lindsay Snyder
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-06-06
  • ISBN : 9781720401339
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Letting Love In written by Lindsay Snyder and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open the Door to Lavish LoveHave you struggled to love yourself? Do you wonder what people think about you? Does fear keep you from moving forward in relationships? Author Lindsay Morgan Snyder explains how your Inner Critic may be holding you back and how you too can walk in love, joy, and freedom.A recovering self-saboteur, Lindsay endured the enemy's debilitating taunts for decades. Through personal stories and spiritual revelations, Lindsay shares how she evicted her Inner Critic and accessed renewing conversation with the Holy Spirit. She invites you to join a conversation with your Creator that will enrich all of your relationships.Give yourself permission today to experience the life of love that God wants you to live. Open the door to newfound intimacy with the Lover of your soul. Click above to start reading Letting Love In today!

Book Chains of Folly

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  • Author : Roberta Gellis
  • Publisher : Belgrave House
  • Release : 2015-06-22
  • ISBN : 1610849094
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Chains of Folly written by Roberta Gellis and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body of a woman is found in the bishop of Winchester’s bedchamber, with a letter from the king’s enemy. The obvious purpose is to embarrass the bishop and punish him for daring to criticize the king for his high-handed treatment of the bishop of Salisbury. Winchester’s knight, Sir Bellamy of Itchen, along with Magdalene la Bâtarde, whoremistress of the Old Priory Guesthouse must discover the truth. 4th Magdalene la Bâtarde Medieval Mystery by Roberta Gellis; originally published by Five Star

Book The Chains of Fate

Download or read book The Chains of Fate written by Pamela Belle and published by Pan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chains of Conformity

Download or read book The Chains of Conformity written by Kaviel Thranos and published by Amazon KDP, Google Books. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to The Chains of Conformity, a deeply personal and profoundly philosophical journey into the heart of existence. Within these pages, we embark on a quest for truth, challenging societal norms, religious dogma, and our own deepest fears. Join me on this introspective exploration as we confront the fundamental questions of human experience: Who am I? Why am I here? What lies beyond the veil of suffering and fear? Through raw, unflinching introspection and intellectual curiosity, we'll delve into the complexities of identity, belief systems, and the human condition. This isn't a guidebook or a manifesto – it's an invitation to join a shared inquiry into the mysteries of life. Together, let's venture into the uncharted territories of the self, where the boundaries of certainty blur and the horizon of possibility expands. Prepare to question, to seek, and to discover.

Book The Chains of Eros

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  • Author : Andre Green
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-06-04
  • ISBN : 0429920253
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book The Chains of Eros written by Andre Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green deplores the absence of sexuality and the erotic from current psychoanalytic theory and practice. Instead, he demonstrates how human sexuality forms an ‘erotic chain’. The work of analysis, he argues, consists in following the dynamic movements of the erotic process, by ascertaining its links with other aspects of the psyche.

Book Chains of Fate

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  • Author : Alledria E. Hurt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-06-13
  • ISBN : 9780692456996
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Chains of Fate written by Alledria E. Hurt and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vad'Alvarn promised Leviana that he would conquer the world with her at his side. The mighty king raises a great army, but Leviana does not live to see that promise fulfilled. Vad'Alvarn carries on alone for hundreds of years, growing into a monster in a man's skin. When Leviana is reborn in the body of a young woman, he will risk all that he has conquered to reclaim his lost love.

Book Breaking the Chains of Transgenerational Trauma

Download or read book Breaking the Chains of Transgenerational Trauma written by Dorothy Husen and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How could something that happened so long ago affect me today?" I asked my therapist right after she told me I was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). How could an assault at six years old be the defining factor in my adult existence? And with those questions, my life's trajectory changed. I began to search for answers. This is the story of that journey. A journey that took me deep into past traumas to face memories I'd tried to bury my whole life. A journey that revealed how my trauma was not mine alone but was connected to my parents' and grandparents' traumas. A journey that showed me how this transgenerational trauma had controlled my thoughts, my choices, and my life. And how it now infected my children's lives as well. This is a story of how I finally broke the cycle of transgenerational trauma and found healing-not only for me but for my children. And now, I share that healing with you. I invite you to travel along with me, practice the exercises at the end of each chapter, and begin your own healing journey from surviving to thriving.

Book Chains of Freedom

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  • Author : Selina Rosen
  • Publisher : Meisha Merlin Publishing
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781892065421
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Chains of Freedom written by Selina Rosen and published by Meisha Merlin Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world went to hell in a hand basket and was taken over by an evil empire known as the Reliance. The Reliance turned the Earth into a planet of agricultural slaves and went off in search of better, more mineral and resource-rich planets where they ran into a bipedal, humanoid race known as Argys--who were doing the same thing. They instantly decided not to share the universe and went to war. Needless to say, neither the Reliance nor their alien enemy care one bit about the general population of either species. When political prisoner David Grant ran from the forced labor camp where he'd been imprisoned, his only thought was of escape. However, fate turns its hand and as he runs blindly through the forest he literally runs into the one person who can help him in his fight against the all-powerful Reliance. RJ is the rebel Elite who's been raiding supply trains and sabotaging Reliance facilities so successfully that even the work units know her name. With David's innocent enthusiasm and desire for justice and RJ's knowledge of weapons and warfare, they begin to chip away at the Reliance armor"--Yard Dog Press website.

Book The Rights Of Desire

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  • Author : André Brink
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2010-12-15
  • ISBN : 1446412849
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Rights Of Desire written by André Brink and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings. He has been obliged to take early retirement from his job as a librarian due to 'rationalisation' and the new political realities of South Africa. His wife has died. One of his sons has settled in Australia, the other is about to emigrate to Canada while trying to persuade Ruben that it is too dangerous to remain. The only constants are his old family home, haunted by the ghost of a young slave woman; and his housekeeper, Magrieta, with whom he has a shared history that goes back more than half his life. When Tessa Butler comes out of the rain one night in response to an advertisement for a lodger, Ruben is captivated by her. She restores passion to his life, but brings with her a turbulent past.

Book Jan Saudek

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  • Author : Edita Pacovská
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010*
  • ISBN : 9788023982251
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Jan Saudek written by Edita Pacovská and published by . This book was released on 2010* with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dialectic of Love

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  • Author : David Pugh
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1997-03-05
  • ISBN : 0773564144
  • Pages : 453 pages

Download or read book Dialectic of Love written by David Pugh and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997-03-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialectic of Love analyses the arguments of Schiller's major writings on aesthetics and argues that his philosophical thought, theories, and concepts are characteristic of the Platonic tradition. Schiller's conception of beauty is seen as synthesis, the sublime as separation. Pugh connects these concepts to Aristotle's critique of Plato's theory of ideas, in which Aristotle points out an aporia of chorismos (separation) and methexis (participation). In Schiller's thought, Pugh argues, beauty and the sublime operate primarily as metaphysical relations of methexis and chorismos and only secondarily as aesthetic concepts. While Schiller, Pugh reveals, is not very well suited for the role of champion of the Enlightenment, he remains a crucial figure in the transmission of the Platonic tradition to modern idealism and in the application of the Platonic metaphysical heritage to nineteenth-century aesthetics.

Book Juliet Dove  Queen of Love

Download or read book Juliet Dove Queen of Love written by Bruce Coville and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical fantasy adventure about the high cost of loving, from the award-winning author of My Teacher Is an Alien and The Unicorn Chronicles. Juliet Dove is a girl who doesn't like to be noticed. But though she may be shy, she has a wickedly sharp wit. Whenever someone does take notice of her, she tears into the person with a savagery that’s earned her the nickname “Killer.” Juliet ends up leaving Mr. Elives’s magic shop with Helen of Troy's amulet—that is, a virtual man magnet. Juliet doesn’t know what she’s got, but the boys in her class do—they start to notice her . . . Soon every boy in town is swooning for her. Yet, much as she’d like to lose all the unwanted attention, she can’t: The amulet won't come off! “Although humorous, the story has surprising depth, with musings on honor, power, strength, courage, and, above all, love.” —School Library Journal “A rare book . . . . Funny [and] absorbing.” —Miami Herald