Womb of Monsters
Title | Womb of Monsters PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Aiello |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2001-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0595206654 |
In the late sixties, a rogue psychiatrist created a gated community of mental patients called Yesterday, utilizing some revolutionary mental health techniques. When Orson Littlefield is sent to the Yesterday mental facility, he is introduced to a new medication that makes his delusions come to life. His next door neighbor, who is actually just another part of his delusion, becomes enraged when Orson kicks yet another figment of his imagination into her yard. She then promptly murders him with a nuclear warhead. Meanwhile, the antichrist, a Louisiana bunny rabbit, rises to power and seduces the world. One testament later, a high school football star takes on the persona of savior for a sports starved small town. His life is naturally replete with miracles, disciples, a donkey, and plenty of sex. Interspersed throughout are the author’s own attempts to come to terms with the fact that all the characters in his story are just figments of his imagination. Newspapers come to life, girlfriends evaporate, and various characters throughout are stricken with stigmata. A social commentary, religious satire, and absurdist comedy that examines the fine line between imagination and reality: come look inside the womb of monsters.
A Womb in the Shape of a Heart
Title | A Womb in the Shape of a Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Gallant |
Publisher | Nimbus Publishing Limited |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2021-09-21 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9781771089760 |
I am the space between motherhood and longing for it, bit it's a space that doesn't exist. I can't be both fertile and infertile, our language doesn't have space for it. So, this is the space I have created for myself. This is where I love. Forever fertile and infertile. A mother to six, a mother of one. I am childless, with child. Barren and fruiful. Pregnant and then not. Luckly, unlucky.
On Monsters and Marvels
Title | On Monsters and Marvels PDF eBook |
Author | Ambroise Pare |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-01-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0226645614 |
Ambroise Paré, born in France around 1510, was chief surgeon to both Charles IX and Henri III. In one of the first attempts to explain birth defects, Paré produced On Monsters and Marvels, an illustrated encyclopedia of curiosities, of monstrous human and animal births, bizarre beasts, and natural phenomena. Janice Pallister's acclaimed English translation offers a glimpse of the natural world as seen by an extraordinary Renaissance natural philosopher.
Goddesses and Monsters
Title | Goddesses and Monsters PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Caputi |
Publisher | Popular Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780299196240 |
The essays focus upon popular culture as it is informed by ancient and current mythic images, narratives, personalities, icons and archetypes. Topics include: the cult status of the serial sex killer; sexual murder as a contemporary form of religious sacrifice; pornography as an everyday narrative underlying not only sexism, but also racism, homophobia, and militarism; the relation of incest to nuclearism; pornography and the sacred; cyborg myth; and subtextual presence of ancient goddess figures in contemporary narratives, including that of Princess Diana.
The Works
Title | The Works PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hooker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 814 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Church polity |
ISBN |
Theology of The Womb
Title | Theology of The Womb PDF eBook |
Author | Christy Angelle Bauman |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2019-12-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 153266219X |
If it is true that God is a male, then His Divinity or Deity is expressed in His masculinity. Yet I am a woman, and there are parts of my body; such as my breasts, my vagina, and my womb that are telling a story about God that I have never learned or understood. This is an exploration of the significance of a womb that must shed and bleed before it can create. How will we engage our body which cyclically bleeds most of our life and can build and birth a human soul? How will we honor the living womb, that lives and sometimes dies within us? This is a book about the theology found in the cycle of the womb, which births both life and death. Every day each one of us is invited to create, and every day we make a decision knowing that from our creation can come death or life. Women's voices have been silenced for a long time as society and the church has quieted their bodies. Will we courageously choose to listen to the sound of your voice, the song of your womb, and speak for the world to hear?
The Monstrous-feminine
Title | The Monstrous-feminine PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Creed |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0415052599 |
Most critical writings on horror films conceptualise woman as victim. Creed challenges this view with a feminist psychoanalytic critique, discussing films such as Alien, I Spit on Your Grave and Psycho.