Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences.
Diogo Morais Sarmento Madureira invita a un apasionante viaje intelectual al debate político contemporáneo sobre la familia, arrojando luz sobre factores históricos y antropológicos que refuerzan el valor de los lazos familiares y la necesidad de protegerlos.
This book examines gender inequality from the perspective of feminist economics, with empirical application, across different countries such as Turkey, the United States, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica and territories within Europe.
The book critically examines the epistemological disparities between colonialism and capitalism-critical cultural practices and Western art institutions.
Reveals the provocative and irreverent life of Dorman-Smith through his private letters and war diary, highlighting his military brilliance and conflicts with Churchill.
Diaries and letters from service personnel who were held captive throughout the Second World War survive in quite large numbers, but rarely are they so detailed as those of John Blomfield Dixon, whose home was in the Hertfordshire town of Ware.
The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 examines the trajectory of the Moroccan experimental novel and makes a link between its emergence in the early-mid 1970s and the Arab defeat in the six-day war with Israel in 1967.
Quan Simone de Beauvoir va publicar 'El segon sexe' (1949) va emprar com a epígraf una frase de 'Sobre la igualtat dels dos sexes' (1673), obra que reconeix explícitament com a referent del feminisme: «Tot el que n'hagen dit els homes [de les dones] ha de ser sospitós, perquè són jutges i part».
Bad Sex traces the evolution of representations of sex on screen, from earlier portrayals of sex as glamorous or taboo, to more complex depictions of often awkward or painful experiences and feelings.
«Tant en la història de la literatura com en el present hi ha la foscor dels silencis: alguns són els silencis d'anys per part dels nostres grans clàssics, alguns són silencis ocults, alguns no arriben a tenir mai forma de llibre.
Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion: Using Global and Multicultural Children's Literature in Grades K-5, Second Edition shows educators how to assist students in cultivating and appreciating diversity and inclusion in K-5 classrooms.
Collaborative Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry invites readers to participate in the experience of engaging in and reflecting on the author's collaborative cross-cultural narrative research online with Parvana, an Afghan woman living in Afghanistan until August 2021.
• Explica el alto poder energético, emocional y físico de contar con un espacio propio y sagrado para dormir
• Describe paso a paso 64 rituales que elevan el valor de la experiencia onírica a solas para reencontrarte contigo misma, con tu cuerpo y con tu feminidad
• Presenta el acto de dormir como un retiro espiritual para hallar respuestas a tus preguntas más íntimas
Los apremios de la vida cotidiana te roban energía e intención.
Seis horas, el lapso durante el que los medicamentos proporcionaban un alivio relativo, a veces más breve, a veces incompleto; seis horas la duración de la operación en que por fin liberaron a María Jesús de la tortura alojada en sus entrañas que la había martirizado casi a diario durante treinta años.
Ce livre est une création de Manuel Garcia, une véritable mine de plaisirs interdits et de rencontres passionnées, spécialement conçue pour satisfaire les appétits érotiques les plus audacieux des lecteurs gays adultes.
A timely and urgent inquiry by one of global literatures leading lights In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art head-on, questioning the very premise of dividing these two pillars of culture into an either/or proposition.
First published in 1941, the original blurb read: "e;Women have been among the worst sufferers not only in war-time but in every ill-organized time of peace.
Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Housing: Design, Research and Education, demonstrated some of the diversity and richness of the research being undertaken in housing at time, which took as its starting point peoples' notion of home and the way in which a sense of home is captured distilled and expressed through various facets of design, and conversely the urgent need for architects and planners to take seriously the everyday scale and scope of peoples' home experience.
Based on a cooperation between science and minority self-organizations, the book offers for the first time comprehensive data on the national minority of German Sinti and Roma and immigrant Roma in Germany.
A timely and urgent inquiry by one of global literatures leading lights In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art head-on, questioning the very premise of dividing these two pillars of culture into an either/or proposition.
Religion in Diverse Societies: Crossing the Boundaries of Prejudice and Distrust contributes to existing cutting-edge research on the constructive way in which religion can support the promotion of respect, dignity, and justice for all people, considered as essential features in shaping sustainable, diverse, and peaceful societies.
