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    Sex Seen. The...

    Sex Seen. The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America

    Mooi exemplaar, Engelstalige paperback, zo goed als nieuw, geen naam voorin, mooie rechte rug.

    Sex Seen provides a complex and intriguing account of the changes that have taken place in the social construction of sexuality during the past century. Focusing on Sacramento, California, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Sharon Ullman juxtaposes early cinema, vaudeville performances, and popular newspapers and magazines with insights drawn from close interpretations of transcripts from Sacramento court cases. She demonstrates how attitudes that emerged in the popular discourse—ideas about gender roles, female desire, prostitution, divorce, and homosexuality—often found complex and contradictory expression in the courts. As judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and juries all weighed in with differing opinions, the courtroom itself became a site of multiple discourses that attempted to make sense of a growing sexual chaos. In tracing the birth of modern sexuality, Ullman chronicles the dynamics of social change during a unique cultural moment and explains the shifts in the sexual ethos of turn-of-the-century America.

    Instead of telling the familiar story of steadily increasing liberation of sexual urges, Ullman chronicles the complex confusions and negotiations of an increasingly public sexual discourse. She relates how laws against cross-dressing gained force at the same time that female impersonation became popular in vaudeville acts, how images of prostitutes were changed by the commercialization of the female body in advertising and film, and how visible expression of female desire was submerged in rape and divorce proceedings.

    Ullman blends social history, textual analysis, and film and performance criticism to explain how sexuality and desire became an essential part of personal identity in this century. Her keen, accessible account of a community on the brink of the modern era offers a provocative interpretation of the seeds of our sexual present.

    Sharon R. Ullman;

    € 12,50

    The Feminization of...

    The Feminization of Dr. Faustus. Female Identity Quests from Stendhal to Morgner

    Gebonden met omslag, Engels. In zeer goede staat. 

    While the decline of the male hero in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature is usually studied in isolation, Druxes uses a major manifestation of this phenomenon —the failing power of the Faust myth —as an interpretive lens through which to illuminate the corresponding rise in the viability of female Faustian heroes or would-be heroes. Her study of the female Faust figure in the realist novels of Stendhal, Gauthier, Keller, James, and the contemporary writer Morgner is further unusual in that she carries out her analyses both against the background of the sociohistorical factors conditioning these female figures and with reference to the mutual interaction of plot and novel form.

    Since nineteenth-century writers make female subjectivity the arena in which the conflicts of male subjecthood are debated, their attempts to create female versions of the heroic quest for self-knowledge speak not only to the crisis of the male model but also to the crisis of the realistic novel. Using psychoanalytic theory and French feminist and deconstructionist theory, Helga Druxes shows how the female Faustian quest for worldly knowledge and subjecthood develops a new concept of identity that takes its social constructedness into account, and she demonstrates some of the transgressive narrative strategies that male and female writers have employed, embodying their dissent not only in the creation of a female Faust but in their visions of an authentic female desire for selfhood and socially regenerative female bonding.

    Helga Druxes ;

    € 15,00

    A Jury of Her Peers....

    A Jury of Her Peers. American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

    Gebonden met omslag, in nieuwstaat

    "A Jury of Her Peers "is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--brimming with Elaine Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--we are introduced to more than 250 female writers. These include not only famous and expected names (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O'Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, and Jodi Picoult among them), but also many who were once successful and acclaimed yet now are little known, from the early American best-selling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter shows how these writers--both the enduring stars and the ones left behind by the canon--were connected to one another and to their times. She believes it is high time to fully integrate the contributions of women into our American literary heritage, and she undertakes the task with brilliance and flair, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the overrated firmly in their place. Whether or not readers agree with the book's roster of writers, "A Jury of Her Peers "is an irresistible invitation to join the debate, to discover long-lost great writers, and to return to familiar titles with a deeper appreciation. It""is a monumental work that will greatly enrich our understanding of American literary history and culture.

    Elaine Showalter;

    € 11,50

    How Stella Got Her...

    How Stella Got Her Groove Back

    Engels. Gebonden met stofomslag, nagenoeg als nieuw. Hardcover, with jacket, like new.

    Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW, and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind it too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love - and all of love's nasty fallout - anyway.
    But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core - not just by the relaxing effects of the sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular. He's tall, lean, soft-spoken, Jamaican, smells of citrus and the ocean - and is half her age. The tropics have cast their spell and Stella soon realizes she has come to a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life and the way she has lived it.
    Told in Stella's own exuberant, dead-on, dead honest voice, How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life - and what she must risk to do it.

    Terry McMillan ;

    € 8,50

    Bommen in Brussel

    Bommen in Brussel

    Mooi exemplaar. Paperback als nieuw.

    Op 22 maart 2016 ontploffen er bommen op de luchthaven van Zaventem en in het Brusselse metrostation Maalbeek. Na de aanslagen in Parijs en in andere Europese steden ontkomt ook België niet aan de terreur van de Islamitische Staat (IS). De explosies kostten het leven aan 35 mensen. Er vallen meer dan driehonderd gewonden. Journalist Joanie de Rijke en arts Tine Gregoor gaan voor dit boek op zoek naar betrokkenen van deze zwarte dag. Brussel ging op slot, het dreigingsniveau in het land werd verhoogd van drie naar vier. Wie herinnert zich niet meer waar ie was toen het nieuws bekend raakte? Hoe kijken de slachtoffers en hun familie terug op deze dag? Wat vindt de Indiase stewardess Nidhi Chaphekar, wier foto na de aanslagen de wereld rondging, van België? Heeft Beatrice de Lavalette, die op zeventienjarige leeftijd haar onderbenen verloor, de draad weer kunnen opnemen? Hoe verliep de gigantische molen van de hulpverlening die na de aanslagen op gang kwam? En wat hebben de veiligheidsmensen en beleidsmakers uit het 9/11 van België geleerd? Aan de hand van tientallen gesprekken schetsen de Rijke en Gregoor zowel een terug- als een vooruitblik. Of hoe hellhole Brussel destijds werd gedemoniseerd en weer overeind krabbelde. Joanie de Rijke is (oorlogs)journalist voor o.a. Knack en De Morgen. Ze reist hiervoor regelmatig naar Syrië, Irak, Libië, Turkije en Afghanistan. Ze publiceerde eerder In handen van de taliban en Pakistan, het gevaarlijkste land ter wereld. Tine Gregoor is arbeidsarts bij groep IDEWE en consultatie-arts bij Kind en Gezin. Op 22 maart 2016 is ze toevallig in de buurt van metrostation Maalbeek, waar ze een MUG-team bijstaat met de verzorging van de meest zwaargewonde slachtoffers. Ze geeft lezingen over haar ervaring en ontving verschillende onderscheidingen uit erkenning voor haar inzet.

    Joanie de Rijke; Tine Gregoor;

    € 15,00
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