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Author: Lisa Childs Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1488082723 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 182
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“We’ve talked enough about business. Let’s get back to pleasure…” Let the record show he has seduction on his mind… Someone is sabotaging lawyer Trevor Sinclair’s firm, and he’ll do whatever it takes to find out who it is. He has a prime suspect in mind: gorgeous ice queen Allison McCann. After all, she’s the publicist who handled every case that was leaked. She must be the mole. Now all Trevor needs is proof—and a plan. But one fiery-hot kiss is all the evidence he needs that Allison’s chilly exterior hides desires as hot and fierce as his own… Allison has never trusted lawyers. Especially ones who are gorgeous, tall and have piercing green eyes that send heat zinging through her body. She can’t afford to be attracted to him—especially when she has secrets to hide. Yet she can’t resist him; not when his touch ignites a hunger unlike anything she’s ever felt before… Now Trevor has the mole, and he won’t let her get away. It doesn’t matter that he’s playing a dangerous game. It doesn’t matter that he’s becoming trapped in his own longing and lies. Because it can’t be entrapment if they’re both playing with fire…can it? Sexy. Passionate. Bold. Discover Harlequin Dare, a new line of fun, edgy and sexually explicit romances for the fearless female.
Author: Lisa Childs Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1488082723 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 182
Book Description
“We’ve talked enough about business. Let’s get back to pleasure…” Let the record show he has seduction on his mind… Someone is sabotaging lawyer Trevor Sinclair’s firm, and he’ll do whatever it takes to find out who it is. He has a prime suspect in mind: gorgeous ice queen Allison McCann. After all, she’s the publicist who handled every case that was leaked. She must be the mole. Now all Trevor needs is proof—and a plan. But one fiery-hot kiss is all the evidence he needs that Allison’s chilly exterior hides desires as hot and fierce as his own… Allison has never trusted lawyers. Especially ones who are gorgeous, tall and have piercing green eyes that send heat zinging through her body. She can’t afford to be attracted to him—especially when she has secrets to hide. Yet she can’t resist him; not when his touch ignites a hunger unlike anything she’s ever felt before… Now Trevor has the mole, and he won’t let her get away. It doesn’t matter that he’s playing a dangerous game. It doesn’t matter that he’s becoming trapped in his own longing and lies. Because it can’t be entrapment if they’re both playing with fire…can it? Sexy. Passionate. Bold. Discover Harlequin Dare, a new line of fun, edgy and sexually explicit romances for the fearless female.
Author: Carl Stychin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135095329 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 194
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The law is one of the primary means through which sexuality is constructed, monitored and controlled. In this much needed book, Carl Stychin provides a critical examination of the relationship between law and sexual orientation in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The author exposes the connection between the law and sexual control through an exploration of key questions of current interest and controversy. He examines the motivations behind legal restrictions, and the impact on sexual subcultures and dominant society.
Author: Shahla Haeri Publisher: ISBN: Category : Muta Languages : en Pages : 0
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As an Iranian Muslim woman and a granddaughter of a well-known ayatollah, Shahla Haeri was accepted into the communities where she conducted her fieldwork on mut'a, temporary marriage. Mut'a is legally sanctioned among the Twelver Shi'ites who live predominantly in Iran. Drawing on rich interviews that would have been denied a Western anthropologist, the author describes the concept of a temporary-marriage contract, in which a man and an unmarried woman (virgin, widow, or divorcee) decide how long they want to stay married to each other (from one hour to ninety-nine years) and how much money is to be given to the temporary wife. Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the regime has conduction an intensive campaign to revitalize this form of marriage, and Shi'i ulama (religious scholars) support it as positive, self-affirming, and cognizant of human needs. Challenged by secularly educated urban Iranian women, and men and by the West, the ulama have been called upon to address themselves to the implications of this custom for modern Iranian society, to respond to the changes that mut'a is legally equivalent to hire or lease, that it is abusive of women, and that it is in fact legalized prostitution. Law if Desire thus makes available previously untapped and undocumented data about an institution in which sexuality, morality, religious rules, secular laws, and cultural practices converge. This important work will be of interest to cultural anthropologist, religious scholars, scholars of the Middle East, and lawyers as well as to those interested in the role of women in Islamic society.
Author: Jennifer Beard Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135309973 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 406
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Containing the best interdisciplinary work in international law, this book offers an intelligent and thought-provoking analysis of the genealogy of Western capitalist ‘development’. Putting forth ground-breaking arguments and challenging the traditional boundaries of thinking about the concept of development and underdevelopment, it provides readers with a new perspective on the West's relationship with the rest of the world. With Jennifer Beard’s departure from the common position that development and underdevelopment are conceptual outcomes of the Imperialist era, The Political Economy of Desire positions the genealogy of development within early Christian writings in which the Western theological concepts of sin, salvation and redemption are expounded. Drawing upon legal theory, anthropology, economics, historiography, philosophy of science, theology, feminism, cultural studies and development studies the author explores: the link between the writings of early theologians and the processes of modern identity formation – tracing the concept of development to a particularly Christian dynamic how the promise of salvation continues to influence Western ontology. An innovative and topical work, this volume is an essential read for those interested in international law and socio-legal theory.
Author: Emily Hart Publisher: Europa Edizioni ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 209
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The death of Samantha Grey’s mother and imprisonment of her father made her shut everyone out of her life. Including him. Ten years later, the murder of her father brings them back together and now Detective Nate Evans has two mysteries on his hands: a murder to solve and a past of questions that still gnaw at the surface to face. A past he’s tried hard to bury. One that includes her. As Nate and Samantha are forced to work together to bring justice for the dead, it is clear the case is not the only mystery being unearthed between them. They are led down dark, township alleyways, towards drug-dealer territory, and into the box of a decade old cold case… but how long will they take to realize how deep the roots of this case go? Neither of them are prepared for the trials they face as they start digging through Samantha’s twisted family history and exposing the cost of hidden truths. Will the collision of the past and present destroy what little faith they have in finding healing, or will it be the key to solving the decade old mysteries between them and finding redemption in the chaos? Emily Hart is a young South African author. She’s been involved in humanitarian work in the Middle East and half a dozen African countries, meeting people and seeing places that inspire her writing. Emily lives in Stellenbosch with her family and five chickens.
Author: Jill Gentile Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429913680 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 417
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Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire explores the conjunction between psychoanalysis and democracy, in particular their shared commitments to free speech. In the process, it demonstrates how lawful constraints enable an embodied space or "gap" for the potentially disruptive but also liberating and novel flow of desire and its symbols. This space, intuited by the First Amendment as it is by Freud's free association, enables personal and collective sovereignty. By naming a "feminine law," we mark the primacy a space between the conceivable and the inconceivable, between knowledge and mystery. What do political free speech and psychoanalytic free association have in common, besides the word "free"? And what do Sigmund Freud and Justice Louis Brandeis share besides a world between two great wars? How is the female body a neglected key to understanding the conditions and contradictions of free discourse? Drs. Jill Gentile and Michael Macrone take up these questions, and more, in their wide-ranging, often passionate exploration of the hidden legacy of Freud and the Founding Fathers.
Author: Austin Sarat Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804768344 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 196
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The study of catastrophe is a growth industry. Today, cosmologists scan the heavens for asteroids of the kind that smashed into earth some ninety million years ago, leading to the swift extinction of the dinosaurs. Climatologists create elaborate models of the chaotic weather and vast flooding that will result from the continued buildup of greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere. Terrorist experts and homeland security consultants struggle to prepare for a wide range of possible biological, chemical, and radiological attacks: aerated small pox virus spread by a crop duster, botulism dumped into an urban reservoir, a dirty bomb detonated in a city center. Yet, strangely, law's role in the definition, identification, prevention, and amelioration of catastrophe has been largely neglected. The relationship between law and other limiting conditions—such as states of emergency—has been the subject of rich and growing literature. By contrast, little has been written about law and catastrophe. In devoting a volume to the subject, the essays' authors sketch the contours of a relatively fresh, yet crucial, terrain of inquiry. Law and Catastrophe begins the work of developing a jurisprudence of catastrophe.
Author: Edward Mussawir Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136816623 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 209
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Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought. The author addresses and reopens a central aesthetic problem in jurisprudence: the difference between the expression and the representation of law. Deleuze is taken as offering not just an important methodological recovery of an ‘expressionism’ in philosophy – specifically through Nietzsche and Spinoza – but also a surprisingly practical jurisprudence which recasts the major technical terms of jurisdiction (persons, things and actions) in terms of their distinctively expressive or performative modalities. In paying attention to law’s expression, Deleuze is thus shown to offer an account of how meaning may attach to the instrument and medium of law and how legal desire may be registered within the texture and technology of jurisdiction. Contributing both to a renewed transposition of Deleuze into contemporary legal theory, as well as to an emerging interest in law’s technology, institution and instrumentality in critical legal studies, Jurisdiction in Deleuze will be of considerable interest.
Author: J. Shoshanna Ehrlich Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 143845306X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
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Starting with the mid-nineteenth-century campaign by the American Female Moral Reform Society to criminalize seduction and moving forward to the late twentieth-century conservative effort to codify a national abstinence-only education policy, Regulating Desire explores the legal regulation of young women's sexuality in the United States. The book covers five distinct time periods in which changing social conditions generated considerable public anxiety about youthful female sexuality and examines how successive generations of reformers sought to revise the law in an effort to manage unruly desires and restore a gendered social order. J. Shoshanna Ehrlich draws upon a rich array of primary source materials, including reform periodicals, court cases, legislative hearing records, and abstinence curricula to create an interdisciplinary narrative of socially embedded legal change. Capturing the complex and dynamic nature of the relationship between the state and the sexualized youthful female body, she highlights how the law both embodies and shapes gendered understandings of normative desire as mediated by considerations of race and class.
Author: Eric Berkowitz Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1619026465 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 397
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The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another. Combining meticulous research and lively storytelling, The Boundaries of Desire traces the fast–moving bloodsport of sex law over the past century, and challenges our most cherished notions about family, power, gender, and identity. Starting when courts censored birth control information as pornography and let men rape their wives, and continuing through the "sexual revolution" and into the present day (when rape, gay rights, sex trafficking, and sex on the internet saturate the news), Berkowitz shows how the law has remained out of synch with the convulsive changes in sexual morality. By focusing on the stories of real people, Berkowitz adds a compelling human element to what might otherwise be faceless legal battles. The law is made by people, after all, and nothing sparks intolerance – on the left and right –– more than sex. Ultimately, Berkowitz shows the emptiness of sanctimonious condemnation, and argues that sexual questions are too subtle and volatile for simple, catch–all solutions.
Author: Lisa Childs
Author: Lisa Childs
Author: Carl Stychin
Author: Shahla Haeri
Author: Jennifer Beard
Author: Emily Hart
Author: Jill Gentile
Author: Austin Sarat
Author: Edward Mussawir
Author: J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Author: Eric Berkowitz