Modern Box Set 5-8 Feb 2019/The Prince's Scandalous Wedding Vow/Untouched Queen by Royal Command/The Greek's Forbidden Innocent/Dem
Title | Modern Box Set 5-8 Feb 2019/The Prince's Scandalous Wedding Vow/Untouched Queen by Royal Command/The Greek's Forbidden Innocent/Dem PDF eBook |
Author | Annie West |
Publisher | HarperCollins Australia |
Pages | 723 |
Release | 2019-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1489279636 |
The Prince's Scandalous Wedding Vow - Jane Porter When Josephine rescues a drowning stranger, she's captivated. Until it's revealed he's Prince Alexander, heir to the throne of Aargau... Now the threat of scandal means this shy Cinderella must become a royal bride! Untouched Queen By Royal Command - Kelly Hunter King Augustus is shocked when his country delivers him a courtesan. But Sera's surprising innocence and undisguised yearning for him pushes Augustus's self-control to the limits. Now, he won't rest until Sera becomes his queen! The Greek's Forbidden Innocent - Annie West Finding herself incognito and captive on Alexei's private island, Princess Mina must convince him she's his future bride. But after a night in the Greek's bed, there's more at stake than her hidden identity-her heart's at Alexei's mercy too! Demanding His Secret Son - Louise Fuller By the time Theodora realised she was pregnant, her marriage to Aristotle was already over. Since then, she's zealously guarded her secret... Until Aristotle discovers his heir-and demands Teddie marry him again!
Understanding Media
Title | Understanding Media PDF eBook |
Author | Marshall McLuhan |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2016-09-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781537430058 |
When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling and Reveiling
Title | Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling and Reveiling PDF eBook |
Author | Hamideh Sedghi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | 9780511296574 |
Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sedghi's original and unprecedented contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Using primary and secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women's agency in relation to state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over women at the centre of the political struggle between secular and religious forces and demonstrates that control over women's identities, sexuality, and labor has been central to the consolidation of state power. Sedghi links politics and culture with economics to present an integrated analysis of the private and public lives of different classes of women and their modes of resistance to state power.
Paradoxes of Gender
Title | Paradoxes of Gender PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Lorber |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300064971 |
In this pathbreaking book, a well-known feminist and sociologist--who is also the Founding Editor of Gender & Society--challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber views gender as wholly a product of socialization subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation. In her new paradigm, gender is an institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences. Drawing on many schools of feminist scholarship and on research from anthropology, history, sociology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies, Lorber explores different paradoxes of gender: --why we speak of only two "opposite sexes" when there is such a variety of sexual behaviors and relationships; --why transvestites, transsexuals, and hermaphrodites do not affect the conceptualization of two genders and two sexes in Western societies; --why most of our cultural images of women are the way men see them and not the way women see themselves; --why all women in modern society are expected to have children and be the primary caretaker; --why domestic work is almost always the sole responsibility of wives, even when they earn more than half the family income; --why there are so few women in positions of authority, when women can be found in substantial numbers in many occupations and professions; --why women have not benefited from major social revolutions. Lorber argues that the whole point of the gender system today is to maintain structured gender inequality--to produce a subordinate class (women) that can be exploited as workers, sexual partners, childbearers, and emotional nurturers. Calling into question the inevitability and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize economic, educational, and cultural resources or the positions of power.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Title | The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention PDF eBook |
Author | Jared Genser |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 655 |
Release | 2019-09-26 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107034450 |
This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body's 1,200 jurisprudence cases.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Title | Ancient Mesopotamia PDF eBook |
Author | A. Leo Oppenheim |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2013-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022617767X |
"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
Female Masculinity
Title | Female Masculinity PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Halberstam |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780822322436 |
Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances. Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. She rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities. She also explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender dykes"--lesbians who pass as men--and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators. Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders.