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Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465022944 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 354
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The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges, she was deemed a danger to public morality for her candor about sexuality. By the end of her life Craddock, the nemesis of the notorious vice crusader Anthony Comstock, had become a favorite of free-speech defenders and women's rights activists. She soon became as well the case-history darling of one of America's earliest and most determined Freudians. In Heaven's Bride, prize-winning historian Leigh Eric Schmidt offers a rich biography of this forgotten mystic, who occupied the seemingly incongruous roles of yoga priestess, suppressed sexologist, and suspected madwoman. In Schmidt's evocative telling, Craddock's story reveals the beginning of the end of Christian America, a harbinger of spiritual variety and sexual revolution.
Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465022944 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 354
Book Description
The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges, she was deemed a danger to public morality for her candor about sexuality. By the end of her life Craddock, the nemesis of the notorious vice crusader Anthony Comstock, had become a favorite of free-speech defenders and women's rights activists. She soon became as well the case-history darling of one of America's earliest and most determined Freudians. In Heaven's Bride, prize-winning historian Leigh Eric Schmidt offers a rich biography of this forgotten mystic, who occupied the seemingly incongruous roles of yoga priestess, suppressed sexologist, and suspected madwoman. In Schmidt's evocative telling, Craddock's story reveals the beginning of the end of Christian America, a harbinger of spiritual variety and sexual revolution.
Author: Connie Brockway Publisher: ISBN: 9781612181448 Category : Adventure stories Languages : en Pages : 0
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Budding archeologist Ginesse Braxton solves the problem of finding a man to escort her through the desert by switching places with a woman traveliing to meet her fiance, an officer posted deep in the Sahara. Adventurer Jim Owen, tasked with escorting "Mildred" to her destination, finds she isn't at all what he expected.
Author: Alena Amato Ruggerio Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 0739177095 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 259
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Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how television, film, news coverage, and the Internet shape our expectations of the performance of women’s identities. This collection includes studies of Bridezillas, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Sex and the City, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, The Devil Wears Prada, Practical Magic, “momtini” blogs, and Mad Men fan websites. Readers will learn to apply the insights from each chapter to their own sets of myths, stereotypes, and assumptions about gendered roles, and to recognize the possibilities for both liberation and domination when women’s practices of marrying, mating, and mothering are represented and misrepresented in the media. This collection is an essential contribution to media studies and criticism of gender stereotypes in contemporary culture.
Author: Daniel E Schillinger Publisher: ISBN: 9781977976727 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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The Book of Revelation presents the people of God as a bride, and the pagan people of the world as a harlot. The same images are used of their respective places of abode. The contrast between the earthly city as harlot and the heavenly city as bride is obvious. With twenty-nine years of practical experience in local ministry, the author fills the niche for people needing a concise, readable, and practical commentary on the Book of Revelation. This volume conveys the true structure and meaning of God's message to John and the churches, and makes it easily available to teacher and student alike. If you're looking for clarity, brevity, and readability - written in a scholarly manner - this is the book for you!
Author: Meghan Daum Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1250067693 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 152
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The cult classic essay collection from “one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny . . . writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review). First published in 2001, My Misspent Youthcaptured a generation’s uneasy coming of age as the world made its chaotic way into a new millennium. It also established Meghan Daum as a leading literary voice, widely celebrated for her fresh, provocative approach to the hidden fault lines of America’s cultural landscape. From her New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber-relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her.
Author: Margaret Way Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 0373177992 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 185
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The last person Mel Norton expects to see on her doorstep is James "Dev" Langdon. His killer smile makes Mel's heart flutter uncontrollably once more...though she's vowed never to fall for him again. Dev has returned to take his childhood sweetheart back to his family home--Kooraki Station--for only there can she finally lay her demons to rest.... In the heart of the sweltering Australian outback, Mel's guarded exterior begins to crumble....
Author: Willa Cather Publisher: Modernista ISBN: 9181080794 Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
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When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Author: Jostein Gaarder Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1466804270 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 599
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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author: Thomas More Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: 8027303583 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 105
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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt
Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt
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