Author: Leila Silvana May
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Historians and literary critics have long understood the crucial significance of the family to the nineteenth-century middle-class sensibility, but almost all critical analyses to date have concentrated on the "vertical" pole of the familial axis - the parent-child relationship - and very little on the "horizontal" pole - the sibling bond. This book looks beyond these analyses to show that at the core of nineteenth-century domestic ideology is the figure of the sister."--BOOK JACKET.
Sisters & Lovers
Author: Connie Briscoe
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Three sisters live in Washington, D.C. One is reluctantly single, the second seems securely happy and married, while the third struggles to support her son and her useless husband.
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Three sisters live in Washington, D.C. One is reluctantly single, the second seems securely happy and married, while the third struggles to support her son and her useless husband.
Book Lovers
Author: Emily Henry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593334833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily ∙ Today ∙ Parade ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ PopSugar ∙ Katie Couric Media ∙ Book Bub ∙ SheReads ∙ Medium ∙ The Washington Post ∙ and more! One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593334833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily ∙ Today ∙ Parade ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ PopSugar ∙ Katie Couric Media ∙ Book Bub ∙ SheReads ∙ Medium ∙ The Washington Post ∙ and more! One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.
Sisters and Lovers
Author: Megan Jennaway
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461617324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This rich ethnography in a rural village in North Bali illuminates the construction of desire by exploring cultural practices regarding courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity. The way these cornerstones of daily life are played out in the alternative arenas of tourism and illness highlight pervasive gender disparities in the expression of sexuality. By allowing key informants to tell their stories in their own voices and by skillfully interweaving fictionalized interludes, the author gives us not only a rigorously researched ethnography but an intimate and fully realized portrait of Balinese women's innermost desires.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461617324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This rich ethnography in a rural village in North Bali illuminates the construction of desire by exploring cultural practices regarding courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity. The way these cornerstones of daily life are played out in the alternative arenas of tourism and illness highlight pervasive gender disparities in the expression of sexuality. By allowing key informants to tell their stories in their own voices and by skillfully interweaving fictionalized interludes, the author gives us not only a rigorously researched ethnography but an intimate and fully realized portrait of Balinese women's innermost desires.
Clare and Her Sisters
Author: Madeline Pecora Nugent
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780819815613
Category : Assisi (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inspired by St. Francis and his ideal of holy poverty Clare left everything to follow Christ. This decision meant conflict with her family and an uncertain future but Clare never wavered. Her small group of followers took root and the new foundation
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780819815613
Category : Assisi (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inspired by St. Francis and his ideal of holy poverty Clare left everything to follow Christ. This decision meant conflict with her family and an uncertain future but Clare never wavered. Her small group of followers took root and the new foundation
To My Trans Sisters
Author: Charlie Craggs
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784506680
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Lambda Literary Award Finalist - LGBTQ Anthology 2019 Over the Rainbow Recommended Book List Dedicated to trans women everywhere, this inspirational collection of letters written by successful trans women shares the lessons they learnt on their journeys to womanhood, celebrating their achievements and empowering the next generation to become who they truly are. Written by politicians, scientists, models, athletes, authors, actors, and activists from around the world, these letters capture the diversity of the trans experience and offer advice from make-up and dating through to fighting dysphoria and transphobia. By turns honest and heartfelt, funny and furious or beautiful and brave, these letters send a clear message of hope to their sisters: each of these women have gone through the struggles of transition and emerged the other side as accomplished, confident women; and if we made it sister, so can you!
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784506680
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Lambda Literary Award Finalist - LGBTQ Anthology 2019 Over the Rainbow Recommended Book List Dedicated to trans women everywhere, this inspirational collection of letters written by successful trans women shares the lessons they learnt on their journeys to womanhood, celebrating their achievements and empowering the next generation to become who they truly are. Written by politicians, scientists, models, athletes, authors, actors, and activists from around the world, these letters capture the diversity of the trans experience and offer advice from make-up and dating through to fighting dysphoria and transphobia. By turns honest and heartfelt, funny and furious or beautiful and brave, these letters send a clear message of hope to their sisters: each of these women have gone through the struggles of transition and emerged the other side as accomplished, confident women; and if we made it sister, so can you!
Sisters & Husbands
Author: Connie Briscoe
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Ten years have passed since Sisters and Lovers, and Beverly, now 39, is engaged to Julian, a man her family and friends agree is the epitome of a great catch: he's gorgeous, loyal, trustworthy, successful, and very much in love with her. Since this is Beverly's third engagement in the past five years, after breaking off the previous two at the last moment, everyone's happy that she's finally settling down. For Beverly and Julian, nothing could be better than being in love and planning their wedding. That is until Beverly's oldest sister's marriage falls apart and dampens the mood of what should have been the happiest time in Beverly's life. Now, second-guessing her impending nuptials, Beverly is forced to wonder if marriage really works. Will she stick it out? Or will her fears cloud her judgment once again?
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Ten years have passed since Sisters and Lovers, and Beverly, now 39, is engaged to Julian, a man her family and friends agree is the epitome of a great catch: he's gorgeous, loyal, trustworthy, successful, and very much in love with her. Since this is Beverly's third engagement in the past five years, after breaking off the previous two at the last moment, everyone's happy that she's finally settling down. For Beverly and Julian, nothing could be better than being in love and planning their wedding. That is until Beverly's oldest sister's marriage falls apart and dampens the mood of what should have been the happiest time in Beverly's life. Now, second-guessing her impending nuptials, Beverly is forced to wonder if marriage really works. Will she stick it out? Or will her fears cloud her judgment once again?
Disorderly Sisters
Author: Leila Silvana May
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Historians and literary critics have long understood the crucial significance of the family to the nineteenth-century middle-class sensibility, but almost all critical analyses to date have concentrated on the "vertical" pole of the familial axis - the parent-child relationship - and very little on the "horizontal" pole - the sibling bond. This book looks beyond these analyses to show that at the core of nineteenth-century domestic ideology is the figure of the sister."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Historians and literary critics have long understood the crucial significance of the family to the nineteenth-century middle-class sensibility, but almost all critical analyses to date have concentrated on the "vertical" pole of the familial axis - the parent-child relationship - and very little on the "horizontal" pole - the sibling bond. This book looks beyond these analyses to show that at the core of nineteenth-century domestic ideology is the figure of the sister."--BOOK JACKET.
A Daddy for Her Twins
Author: Jacqueline Diamond
Publisher: K. Loren Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
She never told him he’s the daddy of her twins. Now he’s coming to the ranch, and the secret is out! Callum has no idea he might be a father until he sees Jody’s entry in a contest sponsored by his magazine. Whoa—where did she get two little boys? And aren’t they exactly the right age to have resulted from his last visit to Texas, when he and his ex-girlfriend rediscovered their spectacular chemistry? Small-town girl Jody understood why her sexy, magnetic boyfriend had to pursue his dream of becoming a publisher in L.A. Even after learning she was unexpectedly pregnant, she refused to tie him down by admitting the truth. Besides, she has a busy life running her ranch and raising their sons. Callum’s about to fall in love with his instant family. But how can these total opposites find a happily-ever-after together? A delightful romance novella about dreams coming true, by the USA Today bestselling author of The Cowboy & the Shotgun Bride.
Publisher: K. Loren Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
She never told him he’s the daddy of her twins. Now he’s coming to the ranch, and the secret is out! Callum has no idea he might be a father until he sees Jody’s entry in a contest sponsored by his magazine. Whoa—where did she get two little boys? And aren’t they exactly the right age to have resulted from his last visit to Texas, when he and his ex-girlfriend rediscovered their spectacular chemistry? Small-town girl Jody understood why her sexy, magnetic boyfriend had to pursue his dream of becoming a publisher in L.A. Even after learning she was unexpectedly pregnant, she refused to tie him down by admitting the truth. Besides, she has a busy life running her ranch and raising their sons. Callum’s about to fall in love with his instant family. But how can these total opposites find a happily-ever-after together? A delightful romance novella about dreams coming true, by the USA Today bestselling author of The Cowboy & the Shotgun Bride.
To Have and to Hit
Author: Dorothy Ayers Counts
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067976
Category : Cross-cultural studies
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This vitally important volume places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context in a search for strategies to reform societies, including our own, that are prone to this pernicious form of violence. Based on first hand ethnographic data on more than a dozen societies, including a number in Oceania, this collection explores the social and cultural factors that work either to inhibit or to promote domestic violence against women. The volume also includes a study of abuse among nonhuman primates and a cross-cultural analysis of the legal aspects of wife beating. By presenting counterexamples from other cultures, contributors challenge Western assumptions about the factors leading to wife beating. Through a close examination of societies where wife beating is infrequent or absent, To Have and To Hit identifies the factors--economic, social, political, and cultural--that must be explored and transformed in order to combat this violence and eventually eliminate it.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067976
Category : Cross-cultural studies
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This vitally important volume places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context in a search for strategies to reform societies, including our own, that are prone to this pernicious form of violence. Based on first hand ethnographic data on more than a dozen societies, including a number in Oceania, this collection explores the social and cultural factors that work either to inhibit or to promote domestic violence against women. The volume also includes a study of abuse among nonhuman primates and a cross-cultural analysis of the legal aspects of wife beating. By presenting counterexamples from other cultures, contributors challenge Western assumptions about the factors leading to wife beating. Through a close examination of societies where wife beating is infrequent or absent, To Have and To Hit identifies the factors--economic, social, political, and cultural--that must be explored and transformed in order to combat this violence and eventually eliminate it.
Going Home, At Your Age?
Author: Jacqueline Diamond
Publisher: K. Loren Wilson
ISBN: 1936505878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Her hidden past is about to explode! Sara returns to her hometown for Christmas, to face her sisters—and the man she left behind—with a stunning secret. The baby she gave up for adoption years ago is having her own baby, and wants her to be the grandma. Young, pregnant and feeling abandoned, Sara rebelled against everyone she knew, including the man she secretly loved. Now, about to celebrate her 50th birthday, can she finally claim the family that should have been hers, right old wrongs, and find the home she believed lost forever? A compulsively readable tale of love and redemption packed with heartwarming surprises, this is the third book in the Sisters, Lovers & Second Chances series by USA Today bestselling author Jacqueline Diamond. Set in a small California town, the Better Late Romance collection is written by a group of established authors who are also friends.
Publisher: K. Loren Wilson
ISBN: 1936505878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Her hidden past is about to explode! Sara returns to her hometown for Christmas, to face her sisters—and the man she left behind—with a stunning secret. The baby she gave up for adoption years ago is having her own baby, and wants her to be the grandma. Young, pregnant and feeling abandoned, Sara rebelled against everyone she knew, including the man she secretly loved. Now, about to celebrate her 50th birthday, can she finally claim the family that should have been hers, right old wrongs, and find the home she believed lost forever? A compulsively readable tale of love and redemption packed with heartwarming surprises, this is the third book in the Sisters, Lovers & Second Chances series by USA Today bestselling author Jacqueline Diamond. Set in a small California town, the Better Late Romance collection is written by a group of established authors who are also friends.