Dangerous Acquaintances
Title | Dangerous Acquaintances PDF eBook |
Author | Choderlos de Laclos |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780140441161 |
An epistolary novel chronicles the cruel seduction of a young girl by two ruthless, eighteenth-century aristocrats
Dangerous Liaison
Title | Dangerous Liaison PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Cockburn |
Publisher | Stoddart |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Intelligence service |
ISBN | 9780773725225 |
A Dangerous Liaison
Title | A Dangerous Liaison PDF eBook |
Author | Sheri De Borchgrave |
Publisher | Onyx Books |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1994-07-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780451405098 |
When young, beautiful Sheri Heller met handsome, wealthy European nobleman Jacques de Borchgrave, it was her dream come true. But then the dream turned into a nightmare. Here is the horrifying true story of a fairy-tale romance gone wrong. 8-page insert.
Dangerous Liaisons
Title | Dangerous Liaisons PDF eBook |
Author | Cinzia Arruzza |
Publisher | Resistance Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Feminist theory |
ISBN | 9780850366440 |
An accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers' movement and the women's movement, this book investigates the questions "Why does gender inequality exist?" and "How does it relate to capitalism? "Historical examples range from the mid-19th century to the 1970s and include events, debates, and key personalities from China, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Spain, and Britain. It shows time and again the controversial, often difficult relationship between feminism and Marxism. The theoretical questions discussed include the origins of women's oppression, domestic labor, dual systems theory, performativity, and differentialism. Women's oppression is a structural element of the division of labor and one of the direct factors through which capitalism not only reinforces its ideological domination but also organizes the exploitation and reproduction of labor. The integration of patriarchal relations and capitalism has led to their radical transformation--in the family, in terms of women's place in production, in sexual relations, and with respect to sexual identity. Marxism needs to probe complex processes: ongoing transformations and crises, a global context creating an increasingly feminized workforce, and changing relations between men and women. The book maintains that it is a mistake to submerge gender into class or to believe that freedom from exploitation automatically brings about women's liberation and the ending of sexual roles; it is equally wrong is to think the class question can be removed and gender made the main enemy.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Title | Les Liaisons Dangereuses PDF eBook |
Author | Choderlos de Laclos |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | |
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Dangerous Liaisons
Title | Dangerous Liaisons PDF eBook |
Author | Choderlos de Laclos |
Publisher | Penguin Classics |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Aristocracy (Social class) |
ISBN | 9780140624489 |
For the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont seduction is a game - the former lovers relish manipulating others to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While Valmont is determined to succeed in his conquest of a virtuous married woman, Merteuil challenges him to seduce an innocent convent girl who it to be married to her former lover. As their intrigues become increasingly duplicitous and they find their human pawns responding in ways they could not have predicted, the consequences prove to be more serious, and deadly, than the two conspirators could have guessed. Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons (1782) is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature.
Dangerous Liaisons
Title | Dangerous Liaisons PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Casas-Zamora |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2013-09-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0815725302 |
The relationship between criminal syndicates and politicians has a long history, including episodes even from the earliest years of America's colonies. But while organized crime may not get the headlines it once did in North America, the resurgence of such criminal activity in Latin America, and in some European nations, has grabbed the public's attention. In Dangerous Liaisons noted scholars describe and analyze the role of organized crime in the financing of politics in selected democracies in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico) and in Europe (Bulgaria and Italy). The book seeks to unravel the myths that have developed around crime in these locales, while providing facts and informing the debate on how organized crime corrupts democratic institutions, especially in relation to the funding of political parties and their activities. Among the subjects studied in detail are the role of organized crime in political finance through the lens of Argentina's presidential campaigns of 1999 and 2007; Brazil's elected officeholders and their role in corruption; the weakness of Colombia's democracy; the growing role of money in Costa Rica's politics; the destructive effects of drug money on Mexican institutions; the link between organized crime—narrowly and broadly understood—and political financing in Bulgaria; and crime and political finance in Italy. The work of the scholars corrects what volume editor Kevin Casas-Zamora calls "a glaring gap in the literature on the role of organized crime in the corruption of democratic institutions." That is, the funding of political parties and their activities—which in these cases are mostly election campaigns. The chapters not only present the evidence but also can be regarded as a call to action. Contributors include Leonardo Curzio (CISAN/UNAM), Donatella della Porta (European University Institute), Delia Ferreira Rubio (a member of the international boa