Author: G. U. Y. BLAISE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781677367641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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After two decades of living in America, Guy Blaise is struck by the differences between the French and Americans approach to relationships, marriage, and chivalry.What makes French women so outspoken about receiving respect and equal rights in a country known for love and romance? And what keeps American women from demanding the same? In a collection of essays and letters, Guy, in coming from a long family line of strong women, presents his observations of cultural norms and attitudes that highlight the differences between French and American women. By exposing the American "man-code", giving advice to newlyweds, debunking stereotypes about Frenchmen, and sharing words of wisdom from French proverbs, Guy suggests that American women learn from their French sisters to strengthen their fight for equality.
Author: Ayyappappanikkar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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With reference to Indian cultural diversity.
Author: Penelope Ashe
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345241269
Category : Sex
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Diane Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110115389X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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"Like Jane Austen, Johnson delights in the worldly rituals surrounding courtship and marriage... she is a philosopher as much as a novelist."—The New Yorker From the author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist Le Divorce, a sparkling comedy of manners once again set in the world of Americans in Paris Anne-Sophie is a young Frenchwoman engaged to Tim Nolinger, an American journalist hot on the trail of a breaking story: The theft of a valuable illuminated manuscript from a private collection in New York, which may now be in the possession of a reclusive film director living on the outskirts of Paris. As Tim, Anne-Sophie, a pair of American antique dealers, and one amorous member of the local gentry converge on the director's chateau, the director's wife—a former actress—is accused of desecrating a national monument. Add to that a disappearing American; a hunting contretemps; a wrongful arrest; and murder, and you have this sexy, stylish, delight of a novel that celebrates the paradoxes of marriage and morality as they are perceived on both sides of the Atlantic. Filled with the author's pithy insights and hilarious asides, Le Mariage is Diane Johnson at her very best.
Author: Anthony Walsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780685667200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Diane Johnson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448103134
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Set in Paris, LE DIVORCE is an alluring and elegant comedy of love and divorce French-style. Isabel Walker, a young, not-so-innocent, American abroad, arrives in Paris to find that her sister's French husband ('the frog prince') has just walked out. While Isabel embarks on her own sentimental education - seduced by gourmet food, antiques, existentialism and an older man - her sister's marriage disintergrates into bitter Franco-American wrangles over money, titles and a mysterious painting. With a sharp tongue and an ironic eye for the foibles of the Parisian bourgeoisie, the French art world and American ex-patriots, Isabel is a collector of experience, even those she can't control. Comedy veers suddenly close to tragedy as passionate jealousy, self-interest and artistic intrigue interweave.
Author: John Wendell Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Béatrice Levasseur
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340422953
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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A supplementary resource book, providing some insights into the differences and similarities between French and British attitudes to life and each other. Nine chapters cover a wide range of topics: civil and religious traditions and ceremonies, holidays, health, travel, food and drink, education, sport, leisure and politics. An enormous range of original sources are used and the book is highly illustrated with authentic documentation, drawings and photographs. A glossary and questions are provided for each chapter.
Author: Petr Sojka
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319455109
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 565
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2016, held in Brno, CzechRepublic, in September 2016. The 62 papers presented together with 3 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech; speech and spoken language generation; semantic processing of text and speech; integrating applications of text and speech processing; automatic dialogue systems; as well as multimodal techniques and modelling.
Author: Liz Sperling
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000160742
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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This title was first published in 2000: The 1990s have been heralded as the 'age of women' based on the facts that, globally, more women are benefiting from formal education and are in paid employment in greater numbers than ever. As such, the possibility that an age of post-feminism has been reached, in which battles for women’s basic rights have largely been won, is implied. This book, based on research across academic disciplines, challenges such claims. Using women and work as the basis analysis, the authors consider whether such things as flexible working, equal opportunities initiatives and even contemporary conceptions of citizenship are universally beneficial to women. The book presents research ranging from issues of immigrant sex-workers in Japan to the implementation of EU equality policies and raises the ironic question that, as the global economy increasingly depends on women, could a growing but uneasy alliance be developing between capitalism and feminism?
