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Immodest Acts

Author : Judith C. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197652220
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Immodest Acts written by Judith C. Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. Brown was an event of major historical importance. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the earliest documentation of lesbianism in modern Western history. Born of well-to-do parents, Benedetta Carlini entered the convent at the age of nine. At twenty-three, she began to have visions of both a religious and erotic nature. Benedetta was elected abbess due largely to these visions, but later aroused suspicions by claiming to have had supernatural contacts with Christ. During the course of an investigation, church authorities not only found that she had faked her visions and stigmata, but uncovered evidence of a lesbian affair with another nun, Bartolomeo. The story of the relationship between the two nuns and of Benedetta's fall from an abbess to an outcast is revealed in surprisingly candid archival documents and retold here with a fine sense of drama.

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

Author : Jacqueline Murray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351008706
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy written by Jacqueline Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject. In this interdisciplinary volume, twelve scholars of history, literature, art history, and philosophy use a variety of both textual and visual sources to examine themes such as gender identities and dynamics, sexual transgression and sexual identities in leading Renaissance cities. It is divided into three sections, which work together to provide an overview of the influence of sex and gender in all aspects of Renaissance society from politics and religion to literature and art. Part I: Sex, Order, and Disorder deals with issues of law, religion, and violence in marital relationships; Part II: Sense and Sensuality in Sex and Gender considers gender in relation to the senses and emotions; and Part III: Visualizing Sexuality in Word and Image investigates gender, sexuality, and erotica in art and literature. Bringing to life this increasingly prominent area of historical study, Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy is ideal for students of Renaissance Italy and early modern gender and sexuality.

Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope [1828-1849]

Author : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope [1828-1849] written by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope

Author : Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope written by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Matter of Difference

Author : Valerie Wayne
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801499654
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Matter of Difference written by Valerie Wayne and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively volume investigates Shakespeare's plays in terms of the relations between material conditions of Renaissance culture and differences of gender, class, race, and erotic practice.

Crime and Criminology

Author : Sue Titus Reid
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1454896469
Total Pages : 1381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Criminology written by Sue Titus Reid and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 1381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for its unique blend of social science and legal research, Crime and Criminology, Fifteenth Edition uses an interdisciplinary approach to bring a sprawling subject into sharp relief. From the history and theory of criminal law to today’s hot-button topics, leading scholar Reid clearly explains to students how criminology affects and relates to criminal justice policies. Key Features: An effective and unique balance of social science and legal research. Media Focus and Global Focus boxes that give context to theories with discussions of current, real-life events. Student-friendly chapter outlines, chapter summaries, key terms, exhibits, study questions, and Internet assignments. Case excerpts and related material organized in a supplement to make the book more flexible for a variety of class structures. New material on: medical marijuana, mental illness, cybercrime, crimes by and against the police, and the impact of gender and race in sentencing decisions.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Judicial Tribunals in England and Europe, 1200-1700

Author : Maureen Mulholland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719063428
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Judicial Tribunals in England and Europe, 1200-1700 written by Maureen Mulholland and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time, this book examines trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Chapters consider the judges and juries and the amateur and professional advisers involved in legal processes as well as the offenders brought before the courts, with the reasons for prosecuting them and the defences they put forward. The cases examined range from a fourteenth century cause-célèbre, the attempted trial of Pope Boniface VIII for heresy, to investigations of obscure people for sexual and religious offences in the city states of Geneva and Venice. Technical terms have been cut to a minimum to ensure accessibility and appeal to lawyers, social, political and legal historians, undergraduate and postgraduates as well as general readers interested in the development of the trial through time.

Crossing Borders

Author : Sahar Amer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812240871
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Sahar Amer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-07-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety. In Crossing Borders, Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic sexological writings to focus, in particular, on their open attitude toward erotic love between women. By juxtaposing these Arabic texts with French works, she reveals a medieval French literary discourse on same-sex desire and sexual practices that has gone all but unnoticed. The Arabic tradition on eroticism breaks through into French literary writings on gender and sexuality in often surprising ways, she argues, and she demonstrates how strategies of gender representation deployed in Arabic texts came to be models to imitate, contest, subvert, and at times censor in the West. Amer's analysis reveals Western literary representations of gender in the Middle Ages as cross-cultural, hybrid discourses as she reexamines borders—cultural, linguistic, historical, geographic—not as elements of separation and division but as fluid spaces of cultural exchange, adaptation, and collaboration. Crossing these borders, she salvages key Arabic and French writings on alternative sexual practices from oblivion to give voice to a group that has long been silenced.

International Medical Digest

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book International Medical Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perspectives on Renaissance Drama

Author : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810111950
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Renaissance Drama written by Mary Beth Rose and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. Volume XXIV, "Perspectives on Renaissance Drama," includes essays that focus on a wide range of topics about the drama in England, France, and Italy, including female-female eroticism, women's silences in Renaissance texts, early Jacobean political tragedy, and virginity in John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis.

Spirit Marriage

Author : Megan Rose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591434165
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Spirit Marriage written by Megan Rose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Presents interviews with ten contemporary practitioners of spirit marriage, exploring how the relationship developed and the opportunities and challenges • Discusses the author’s own spirit marriage, including her awakening as an erotic mystic and her encounters with her Faery beloved • Explains how to cultivate a spirit marriage, sharing precautions and practices to spiritually prepare yourself and navigate the potential challenges of spirit marriage Exploring the phenomenon of the spirit spouse or spirit lover--an entity to which a human is psychically bonded--Megan Rose, Ph.D., examines the practice and purpose of spirit marriage around the world, presenting transcultural evidence of this form of sacred union in anthropological research, religious literature, mythology, folklore, and the oral tradition. She shares her in-depth interviews with ten contemporary practitioners of spirit marriage, including a Faery Seer, a Shakta Tantric, a West African Shrine Keeper, a New Orleans Voodoo Mambo, Haitian Vodou practitioners, and a ceremonial magician. Through these respectful interviews, the spirit-marriage practitioners tell their stories of initiation and of having a spouse who is both otherworldly and able to assist in waking- world activities. They offer intimate insight into this growing global practice and its larger evolutionary purpose. We learn about their experiences of first contact, the decision to marry, how the relationship is upheld by their community, and the impact on their other relationships. We also learn about the risks and challenges as well as one example of divorcing a spirit. Sharing her personal experience, the author discusses in detail her own spirit marriage, including the erotic nature of being “spirit filled” and her encounters with her Faery beloved. She explains how to cultivate a spirit marriage, sharing precautions and practices to spiritually prepare yourself, interpret your paranormal encounters, and navigate the potential challenges of spirit marriage. Presenting the first study of the transcultural, shamanistic practice of spirit marriage, this book shows how bonded relationships with spirits are needed now more than ever to assist with spiritual evolution.

Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies

Author : Timothy F. Murphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579581428
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies written by Timothy F. Murphy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to existing academic literature on issues, persons, periods, and topics important in lesbian and gay studies. With a focus on book-length studies in English, entries offer a very brief introduction and a more detailed overview of the secondary literature, including the relative merits of each source under consideration. While the overall arrangement of entries is alphabetical, other means of access include a booklist, general indexes, cross references, and a thematic list (African American culture, AIDS, art and artists, Asian studies, biological sciences, lesbian and gay culture, education, family, gender studies, history, law, literature, media studies, medicine, music, performing arts, politics, psychology, philosophy and ethics, and others). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History

Author : Whitney Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317991850
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History written by Whitney Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History presents examples of contemporary art historical research on homoeroticism and homosexuality in the visual arts (chiefly painting and sculpture) of the Western tradition from the ancient to the modern periods. Chapters explore the dynamic interrelation of sexuality and visual art and emphasize problems of historical evidence and interpretation and the need to reconstruct social and cultural realities sometimes quite different from our own. Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History addresses contemporary art historians’interest in studying sexuality in the visual arts, examining such questions as: What are some of the present-day reasons for, and problems of, this research? How is it related to other research areas within art history and to wider public debates about the meaning, value, and propriety of works of art? While the book examines a variety of research problems and theoretical perspectives, most chapters focus on the historical interpretation of a particular work of art, artist, or visual convention. Chapters present new documentation of the importance of homosexuality in the production and reception of artworks in the Western tradition, develop models for approaching the question of how sexuality and visual creation are related, and explore researchers’experiences and obligations in working in the area of gay and lesbian studies in art history today. Contributing authors stress problems of historical evidence and reconstruction; the social and cultural construction of homosexuality; and the active role of visual conventions in shaping perceptions of homosexuals, homosexuality, and homosexual desire. They discuss both the biography of artists and the significance of individual works of art and the social reception and circulation of works of art in the context of wider religious, legal, medical, political, and economic relations. The book may revise readers’beliefs about the significance and value of a number of works of art hitherto forgotten, neglected, under-appreciated, or misinterpreted. Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History is an enlightening and informative book for art historians, museum professionals, scholars in the field of lesbian and gay studies, and art history students and professors.

The Handbook of Mirza Ghalib’s Poetry and Poetics

Author : Tariq Rahman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819978920
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Mirza Ghalib’s Poetry and Poetics written by Tariq Rahman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal, 1720-1798

Author : Bernard Heyberger
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 022790172X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal, 1720-1798 written by Bernard Heyberger and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling narrative, Bernard Heyberger relates the fascinating history of Hindiyya 'Ujaymi, a highly charismatic eighteenth-century mystic of sinister repute. Heyberger makes a careful study of Hindiyya's life from earliest childhood, with a detailed picture of her formative years in the eighteenth century Christian community of Aleppo, the domestic reality of which is little known, exploring the influences she would have experienced. He leads us through her spiritual development under the direction of the Jesuits, her determination to found a new religious order, and the tragic history of its collapse in a welter of paranoia and persecution. Heyberger also reveals the tensions and complex rivalries at play around Hindiyya between Rome, the Jesuits, and Eastern tribes, which were also beset by feuds and alliances. He makes extensive use of a wide variety of sources, from Hindiyya's own writings to reports from her confessors and Roman inquisitors, to shed light upon the Hindiyya affair. 'Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal' relates the history of a woman of inflexible power of will and great charisma, who managed to move beyond the circumscribed world of her girlhood and realise what she believed to be her destiny. It will be of great interest to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of an affair which has been long obscured by contradictory reports, or to those interested in eighteenth-century Maronite Christianity and its complex interactions with the authority of Rome.

Women's History in Global Perspective

Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252029905
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Women's History in Global Perspective written by Bonnie G. Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Historical Association's Committee on Women Historians commissioned some of the pioneering figures in women's history to prepare essays in their respective areas of expertise. These volumes, the second and third in a series of three, complete their collected efforts. The first volume of the series dealt with the broad themes necessary to understanding women's history around the world. As a counterpoint, volume 2 is concerned with issues that have shaped the history of women in particular places and during particular eras. It examines women in ancient civilizations; including women in China, Japan, and Korea; women and gender in South and South East Asia; Medieval women; women and gender in Colonial Latin America; and the history of women in the US to 1865. Authors included are Sarah Hughes and Brady Hughes, Susan Mann, Barbara N. Ramusack, Judith M. Bennett, Ann Twinam, and Kathleen Brown. As with volume 2, volume 3 also discusses current trends in gender and women's history from a regional perspective. It includes essays on sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, early and modern Europe, Russian and the Soviet Union, Latin American, and North America after 1865. Asuncion Lavrin, Ellen Dubois, and Judith P. Zinsser writing with Bonnie S. Anderson. Incorporating essays from top scholars ranging over an abundance of regions, dates, and methodologies, the three volumes of Women's History in Global Perspective constitute an invaluable resource for anyone interested in a comprehensive overview on the latest in feminist scholarship. Bonnie G. Smith is the Board of Governors Professor of History and director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. She is the author of Confessions of a Concierge: Madame Lucie's History of Twentieth-Century France and many other books.