![]() ![]() ![]() Queering disability studies, while also expanding the purview of queer and sexuality studies, these essays shake up notions about who and what is sexy and sexualizable, what counts as sex, and what desire is. From multiple perspectives-including literary analysis, ethnography, and autobiography-they consider how sex and disability come together and how disabled people negotiate sex and sexual identities in ableist and heteronormative culture. What if "sex" and "disability" were understood as intimately related concepts? And what if disabled people were seen as both subjects and objects of a range of erotic desires and practices? These are among the questions that this collection's contributors engage. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much detail. The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies. ![]() ![]() Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Bourdieu finds a world of social meaning in the decision to order bouillabaisse, in our contemporary cult of thinness, in the “California sports” such as jogging and cross-country skiing. The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions-that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. What emerges from his analysis is that social snobbery is everywhere in the bourgeois world. Bourdieu bases his study on surveys that took into account the multitude of social factors that play a part in a French person’s choice of clothing, furniture, leisure activities, dinner menus for guests, and many other matters of taste. In the course of everyday life people constantly choose between what they find aesthetically pleasing and what they consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. France’s leading sociologist focuses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. ![]() Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. ![]() ![]() After years of trying to find a way to pay back his CO, Jimmy never thought his debt would get him mixed up with his commander’s uptight, British daughter. Her savior is Jimmy Panama, a cocky and annoyingly handsome former Navy SEAL. Instead, Sophie is attacked and almost kidnapped by her father’s enemies. ![]() Rather than mailing it as instructed, Sophie hops on a flight to Florida.īut the family reunion never happens. When he sends her a mysterious medallion and asks her to forward it to him in Miami, she can’t help herself from doing something totally un-Sophie-like. ![]() Perfect for fans of Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Janet Evanovich, this action-packed debut from a fresh voice in contemporary romance offers a sexy and comedic take on love, adventure, and what it means to trust your heart.Įnglish socialite Sophie Davies-Stone has been longing to meet her father since she was a little girl. ![]() ![]() But playing the role of an elegant movie star - and resisting Sam's charms - proves harder than Gracie bargained for. ![]() Turns out she's a dead ringer for the famous actress - who asks Gracie to be her stand-in. Gracie's world quickly turns on its head when one day a SUV carrying Chinese cinema's golden couple, Wei Fangli and Sam Yao, pulls up beside her. She put her knack for strong characterization and sense of place to work, devising the set-in-Toronto tale of Gracie Reed, who's just trying to hold it together after being fired by her overly "friendly" boss and dealing with being a caregiver for her aging mother. ![]() The Stand-In sprang from a nudge from her literary agent - but also from Chu's realization that the genre needed better representation of diversity in its characters and stories. ![]() Before writing her first rom-com book, Toronto author Lily Chu hadn't given much thought to writing romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “That is all very well, little Alice”, her grandfather tells her, “but there is a third thing you must do… you must do something to make the world more beautiful”. Miss Rumphius begins as the story of a little girl who hears her grandfather’s stories and tells him that one day she, too, will visit faraway places and that she, too, will live by the sea. I flinch every time I read it, but I keep coming back. I read it to my son perhaps a hundred times, and if it weren’t for him thinking he’s outgrown the book (and being read to), I’d read it to him a hundred times more. “This book” is Barbara Cooney’s Miss Rumphius (Viking Press, 1982 links below) – a picture book for young children that’s both lovely and profound. I hope you enjoy it, as I hope you’ve enjoyed a few others of my first 100. You’ll notice it hits some of my favourite themes (but not statistics everyone needs a break sometime). This is my 100th post on Scientist Sees Squirrel. Georg Rumpf, portrait from his Herbarium Amboinense (1741), public domain. Book cover, Miss Rumphius, Viking Press, fair use. Photo: Lupines at Svínafellsjökull, Iceland (photo S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the depraved nature of her murder became known, it was hard to fathom that any human could treat another in such a fashion. ![]() It belonged to English schoolgirl Pamela Werner, the daughter of a well-known Old China Hand and past British Consul. Then one bitterly cold January night, the body of an innocent mortal was dumped there. The locals believed the Fox Tower to be haunted at night by fox spirits that preyed upon innocent mortals. On one of those walls, the ancient Tartar Wall, was a massive watchtower, built in the fifteenth century to keep out invaders. Each new day brought a racheting up of tension inside the city walls. In the opium dens of the notorious Badlands the partying was harder than usual, while the wealthy foreigners of the Legation Quarter were making the most of their final days of privilege. The Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek had fled south to Nanking, where some said he was ready to cut a deal with Tokyo and leave the people of Peking to their fate. The encirclement by the Japanese army was tightening daily and troop skirmishes were on the rise. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Īs 1936 gave way to 1937, the people of Peking waited nervously for the axe to fall. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. ![]() NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In between descriptions of his days and nights, Clay recounts a vacation spent with his parents and grandparents, during which he seemed to be the only person concerned that his grandmother was dying of cancer. While partying, he tries to track down his best friend from high school, Julian, with whom he hasn't spoken in months. Through first-person narration, Clay describes his progressive alienation from the culture around him, loss of faith in his friends, and his meditations on events in his recent past.Īfter reuniting with his ex-girlfriend Blair, and friends like Trent, now a successful model, Clay embarks on a series of drug-fueled nights of partying, during which he has one-night stands with both sexes. The novel follows the life of Clay, a rich young college student who has returned to his hometown of Los Angeles, California for winter break circa 1984. Home Less Than Zero Wikipedia: Plot summary ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I always reading about these two mostly because they are irreverent and just plain fun. ![]() Some of the secondary characters were entertaining though like Nix and Regin. The main characters, Lucia and Garreth were ho-hum. So, it’s no surprise and nor is it satisfying. That’s the other thing, the series is painfully predictive which makes me wonder why even bother reading the initial bit especially since none of it will matter? They huff and puff and make all kinds of stupid decisions, all in a bid to ignore the other person but as the reader, you always know how it’s gonna end. Yes, Lucia and Garreth did their yes and no dance for most of the book and of course they ended up together. So I picked up Pleasure of a Dark Prince expecting just that so I was a little surprised to find that I didn’t absolutely hate Lucia and Garreth.Īs usual, PoaDP was absolutely frustrating at times and needlessly long (it could have been substantially shorter and perhaps better for it) but I managed to finish and didn’t hate it as I had the previous books in the series. Aurora Burning (Aurora Cycle #02) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff ReviewĮvery once in a while I like to torture myself by reading books where I know I will pretty much hate the primary protagonists.Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson #11) & Smoke Bitten (Mercy Thompson #12) by Patricia Briggs Review. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Goddess and the Gaiety Girl Barbara Cartland Then his plane goes down, and he learns the truth. The Russian interpreter might've tried to seduce his boss, but she ends up in Lucas's bed-and he has every intention of seeing her there again. ![]() Lucas Kent has always liked leggy blondes, and Yulia Tzakova is as beautiful as they come. He wants her from the first moment he sees her. When his plane goes down, it should be the end. A chance to make up for a failed assignment and get information on Kent's arms dealer boss. But when she meets Lucas Kent, she knows the hard ex-soldier may be the most dangerous of them all. Yulia Tzakova is no stranger to dangerous men. She fears him from the first moment she sees him. Summary A new dark romance series from the New York Times bestselling author of Twist Me ![]() But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! Capture Me - Capture Me #1 Anna Zaires, Dima Zales We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The world of Blonde Roots, in which young Doris Scagglethorpe (known by her slave name of Omorenomwara) must attempt to escape from her master if she hopes to see her family again, is not a straightforward parallel of the 18th-century landscape of the slave trade’s heyday. The epigraph she takes from Nietzsche underlines the point of such a reversal: ‘Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.’ In Blonde Roots, ‘whyte Europanes’ are enslaved by ‘blak Aphrikans’ and shipped either to the plantations in the imaginary West Japanese Islands (so-called because a famous Aphrikan explorer was sailing round the world in search of Asia when he landed there, and the name stuck) or to serve wealthy blak families in the island of Great Ambossa, where the plantation owners live. But how do you maintain that shock over atrocities 200 years old without people feeling they have heard the story before?īernardine Evaristo, of British and Nigerian descent, has come up with an ingenious way of refreshing the horrors of the slave trade: by creating a photographic negative of historical reality, where what was black becomes white and vice versa. ![]() F ew people who read Alex Haley’s 1976 novel Roots, which told of his African slave ancestor Kunta Kinte, will forget the shock of those descriptions of the slave ships and the brutality of the plantations, nor the shame and anger that accompanied it. ![]() |