Author: Stephen Leigh
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 9780553288759
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Suzette Haden Elgin
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558617760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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First published in 1984, Native Tongue earned wide critical praise, and cult status as well. Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, the novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life. In this world, Earth’s wealth relies on interplanetary commerce, for which the population depends on linguists, a small, clannish group of families whose women breed and become perfect translators of all the galaxies’ languages. The linguists wield power, but live in isolated compounds, hated by the population, and in fear of class warfare. But a group of women is destined to challenge the power of men and linguists. Nazareth, the most talented linguist of her family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for the government, supervising the children’s language education in the Alien-in-Residence interface chambers, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth does not yet know is that a clandestine revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them of men’s domination. Their secret must, above all, be kept until the language is ready for use. The women’s language, Láadan, is only one of the brilliant creations found in this stunningly original novel, which combines a page-turning plot with challenging meditations on the tensions between freedom and control, individuals and communities, thought and action. A complete work in itself, it is also the first volume in Elgin’s acclaimed Native Tongue trilogy.

Author: Ximena Gallardo C.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826415707
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This text examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver). It will be useful to researchers and teachers in film, mass communication, women's studies, gender studies and genre studies.

Author: Carlina Duan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780299331344
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen "spangling with light." Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland. I browse through archives full of men and women with long black hair, throwing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread of immaculate touch. paper son, or paper daughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed tip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey. I pledge allegiance. --Excerpt from "Alien Miss Confronts the Author"

Author: George Anthony King
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Author: Suzette Haden Elgin
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558612464
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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A brilliant cult classic of literary science fiction--back in print.

Author: Sue Lyndon
Publisher: Sue Lyndon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 627

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Powerful alien warriors, reluctant human brides, scorching hot passion… After Earth is conquered by the Kall, many human women find themselves forced into political marriages with the enemy or sold into slavery on the Kall homeworld. It’s a dark fate, being the spoils of war, but there’s no escaping the fierce aliens who take what they want and demand absolute obedience from their new human brides. This deliciously hot, dark, sci-fi alien romance collection includes all three books in the Kall Alien Warriors series. Featuring: Surrender Commander’s Slave Retribution

Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North American review
Languages : en
Pages : 1012

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Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

Author: George Jean Nathan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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