The Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism.
Ein faszinierender Einblick in die weibliche Seele und die Arbeit einer Psychotherapeutin – fantastisch erzähltTerri steht kurz vor der Hochzeit mit ihrem Verlobten, doch sie flüchtet sich immer wieder in One-Night-Stands mit Frauen.
Psyche of Indian Women is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the topics enriched by scholarly contributions of some of the leading psychologists in India, internationally acclaimed for their poineering work in the field.
The present book makes a comparative study of the need-related personality aspects and self-esteem of married employed, married unemployed and single employed women.
Author Robert Penn Warren's fiction captures centuries worth of mythology and folklore from all across the globe--from Hebrew, Norse, Roman and Caribbean mythology, to Arthurian legends.
In the twelfth century, a French poet wrote a verse romance about a young knight who witnesses a mysterious procession centered on a radiant vessel, a "e;grail.
During the long, cold December weeks leading up to Christmas, as we spend our time frantically panicking about the financial side of the festive season, it's all too easy to forget the traditional nativity story.
Ayquina, teatralidad de la fiesta religiosa popular de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe" de Manuel Letelier aborda una fiesta religiosa poco conocida en nuestro país.
It is often assumed that the female characters found in popular folk and fairy tales are little more than inconsequential stereotypes--mostly serving as hapless victims in need of rescue, boring one-dimensional princesses, or egotistical and conniving villains.
Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies.
Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today.
In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly.
May Kennedy McCord, lovingly nicknamed "e;First Lady of the Ozarks"e; and "e;Queen of the Hillbillies,"e; spent half a century sharing the history, songs, and stories of her native Ozarks through newspaper columns, radio programs, and music festivals.
This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality.
If youve ever found yourself questioning Gods timing, youll love the witty, tongue-in-cheek insights of Karon Phillips Goodmans Youre Late Again, Lord!
When this work one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building.
A classic that has been in print since its first publication in 1983, Womenfolks is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the often pernicious mythologies of southern cultural history.
Demonstrating the intimate connections among our public, political, and personal lives, these essays by Robert Cantwell explore the vernacular culture of everyday life.
Media expansion into the digital realm and the continuing segregation of users into niches has led to a proliferation of cultural products targeted to and consumed by women.
In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and nonhuman behavior.
Made-from-Bone is the first work to provide a complete set of English translations of narratives about the mythic past and its transformations from the indigenous Arawak-speaking people of South America.
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship.
Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behavior.
Winner of the 2010 PEN American Open Book AwardThrough a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women.
The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before.
A More Beautiful Life walks readers through setting HEART Goals, a proven framework that starts with helping you better understand yourself not by tracking and measuring everything to death but by meeting you right where you are.
The notion of ';happily ever after' has been ingrained in many of us since childhoodmeet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future.
