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Lethal Woman

Author : Carrie Pierce
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1509245081
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Woman written by Carrie Pierce and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labeled as England’s most dangerous bodyguard, Lindsey Vasiliev is a woman raised from a young age to take out those who wish others harm, by any means necessary. But now, with her title on the line, Lindsey must redeem herself. She is hired to protect London’s most prized heir, Thomas Pavlov, a man who is in the crosshairs from a choice he didn’t make. Lindsey must make a choice. Pick her life and legacy, or save Thomas, the man who made her see that she is more than her calling card. Does her life really have more to offer than endless acts of violence?

Loyal and Lethal Ladies of Espionage

Author : Tom Moon
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595147496
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Loyal and Lethal Ladies of Espionage written by Tom Moon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one hundred wonderfully devious-and sometimes deadly-dames people this vivid collection of suspenseful, entirely true stories. Readers will delight at the many tricks, wiles and stratagems employed by these cunning members of "the fairer sex." Within these sizzling pages, learn why and how these Mata Hari's were driven to acts of sabotage and patriotism, intrigue and revenge. Using James-Bond-gadgetry and black propoganda tricks, these femme fatales used mind, body or whatever it took to achieve their aims. Some died horribly, tortured and maimed. Others lived happily ever after. These unforgettable tales-told by a former intelligence agent who personally knew many of these brave women-will not fail to titillate, excite or thrill any reader.

Femme Fatale

Author : James Ursini
Publisher : Limelight Editions
ISBN 13 : 0879107243
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Femme Fatale written by James Ursini and published by Limelight Editions. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). From the femme fatale of the early cinema to her post-feminist rebirth, this lavishly illustrated book and comprehensive guide traces the history of these dangerously alluring, manipulative, and desperate lethal ladies. Femme Fatale surveys the history of the femme fatale in world cinema, with more than 300 photographs testifying to the power of these mysterious women. The book begins with the silent period and its vamps, like Theda Bara, Pola Negri, Clara Bow, and Bebe Daniels, then moves on to the Pre-Code sound period of American films, which, showing liberated attitudes toward sex and women, featured actresses like Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo. The story continues with the noir 1940s, when the femme fatale became truly lethal including actresses like Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and Barbara Stanwyck. In the repressive 1950s, the international femme fatale took the fore Brigitte Bardot, Maria Felix, Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Ekberg, etc. Finally, the authors turn to the revolutionary post-feminist modern period, with an array of lethal ladies from all over the world, like Pam Grier, Salma Hayek, Gong Li, Angelina Jolie, and Sharon Stone.

Borders, Boundaries and the Bible

Author : Martin O'Kane
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781841271484
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Borders, Boundaries and the Bible written by Martin O'Kane and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on the interdisciplinary nature of current biblical studies, especially the interpretation of the Bible through the arts. Its aim is to illustrate how the crossing of boundaries enriches our understanding of the text itself. Contributors include Robert Carroll, Mary Douglas, Wendy Porter, Edward Kessler, Larry Kreitzer, John Hull and Martin O'Kane. The themes embrace literature (Kipling), music (Bach) and art (Holbein). The editor contributes an introduction and an illustrated essay on the Flight into Egypt as an icon of refuge.>

Woman Abuse in Rural Places

Author : Walter S. DeKeseredy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000244717
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Woman Abuse in Rural Places written by Walter S. DeKeseredy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles key contemporary developments in the social scientific study of various types of male-to-female abuse in rural places and suggests new directions in research, theory, and policy. The main objective of this book is not to simply provide a dry recitation of the extant literature on the abuse of rural women in private places. To be sure, this material is covered, but rural women’s experiences of crimes of the powerful like genocidal rape and corporate violence against female employees are also examined. Written by a celebrated expert on the subject, this book considers woman abuse in a broad context, covering forms of violence such as physical and sexual assault, coercive control genocidal rape, abortion bans, forced pregnancy, and corporate forms of violence. It offers a broad research agenda, that examines the multidimensional nature of violence against rural women. Drawing on decades of work in the shelter movement, with activist organizations, and doing government research, DeKeseredy punctuates the book with stories and voices of perpetrators and survivors of abuse. Additionally, what makes this book unique is that it focuses on the plight of rural women around the world and it introduces a modified version of Liz Kelly’s original continuum of sexual violence. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, women’s studies, cultural studies, policing, geography and all those interested in learning about the abuse women face in rural areas. Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He has published 26 books, over 100 refereed journal articles, and 90 scholarly book chapters on issues such as woman abuse, rural criminology, and criminological theory.

Merry Murderers

Author : Zsófia Anna Toth
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443832294
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Merry Murderers written by Zsófia Anna Toth and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the different trends and the various changes in the representational history of femmes fatales within twentieth century American culture. While providing precedents, discussing the Western cultural history of this iconic female figure, as well as presenting the cultural and theoretical debates surrounding ‘her,’ the major focus lies in Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story entitled Chicago and how its diachronic and transmedial revivals contributed to this debate and what kind of an interpretation it provided of the lethal woman. Through a cultural, historical, literary and cinematic excavation this book argues that the story of Chicago produces a unique kind of deathly woman figure: the farcical femme fatale by combining the traditionally tragic aspects with comic modes of discourse and (re)presentation. In addition to the theorization of the femme fatale within Western culture, the discussion of the comic as well as various comic genres and comic strategies of representation, Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the carnival and the carnivalesque is discussed in great detail – with an emphasis on scapegoating – as well as Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity and Joan Riviere’s womanly masquerade in order to understand how the farcical femmes fatales of Chicago manage to get away with their sins and crimes. Additionally, the Vice of sixteenth century drama as well as the figure of the homme fatale are also taken under scrutiny since it is argued that, in the various versions of Chicago, we encounter farcical femmes fatales who are the minions of a modern(ized) Vice figure, and all their comic-grotesque performances and masquerades take place in the heterotopic space of the carnival. While also examining their historical and cultural contexts, the different versions of Chicago are investigated one by one starting from the original Chicago Tribune articles and ending in the 2002 film adaptation. This book reveals what strategies can be employed to justify the modification of the traditionally tragic scenario of the femme fatale. It is a scholarly work that is informative, thorough as well as entertaining.

Such Lethal Ladies

Author : Leonard Reginald Gribble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780745107752
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Such Lethal Ladies written by Leonard Reginald Gribble and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale

Author : Caroline Blyth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567680010
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale written by Caroline Blyth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Samson and Delilah in Judges 16 has been studied and retold over the centuries by biblical interpreters, artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers. Within these scholarly and cultural retellings, Delilah is frequently fashioned as the quintessential femme fatale - the shamelessly seductive 'fatal woman' whose sexual treachery ultimately leads to Samson's downfall. Yet these ubiquitous portrayals of Delilah as femme fatale tend to eclipse the many other viable readings of her character that lie, underexplored, within the ambiguity-laden narrative of Judges 16 - interpretations that offer alternative and more sympathetic portrayals of her biblical persona. In Reimagining Delilah's Afterlives as Femme Fatale, Caroline Blyth guides readers through an in-depth exploration of Delilah's afterlives as femme fatale in both biblical interpretation and popular culture, tracing the social and historical factors that may have inspired them. She then considers alternative afterlives for Delilah's character, using as inspiration both the Judges 16 narrative and a number of cultural texts which deconstruct traditional understandings of the femme fatale, thereby inviting readers to view this iconic biblical character in new and fascinating lights.

Women in Scripture

Author : Carol Meyers
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547345585
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Women in Scripture written by Carol Meyers and published by HMH. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This splendid reference describes every woman in Jewish and Christian scripture . . . monumental” (Library Journal). In recent decades, many biblical scholars have studied the holy text with a new focus on gender. Women in Scripture is a groundbreaking work that provides Jews, Christians, or anyone fascinated by a body of literature that has exerted a singular influence on Western civilization a thorough look at every woman and group of women mentioned in the Bible, whether named or unnamed, well known or heretofore not known at all. They are remarkably varied—from prophets to prostitutes, military heroines to musicians, deacons to dancers, widows to wet nurses, rulers to slaves. There are familiar faces, such as Eve, Judith, and Mary, seen anew with the full benefit of the most up-to-date results of biblical scholarship. But the most innovative aspect of this book is the section devoted to the many females who in the scriptures do not even have names. Combining rigorous research with engaging prose, these articles on women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament will inform, delight, and challenge readers interested in the Bible, scholars and laypeople alike. Together, these collected histories create a volume that takes the study of women in the Bible to a new level.

Wishes Under a Highland Star

Author : Mary Morgan
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1509244360
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Wishes Under a Highland Star written by Mary Morgan and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As chieftain for his clan, Alex MacFhearguis struggles with the burden of an unwanted responsibility. With the midwinter feast approaching, he flees his castle to find comfort and solitude within the forest. Yet on his quest, Alex stumbles into a world filled with magic, mysteries, and a woman with beguiling eyes who could capture his heart. When half-Fae Aine Fraser makes a powerful wish, her simple request unlocks the magic she possesses and brings forth a Highlander into her world. Though the man has lost all his memories, she finds her attraction growing for this brooding warrior with each passing day. Unable to deny her feelings, Aine risks everything when she confesses her greatest secret. Can a beauty who wished for a champion tame the beast of Leòmhann Castle?

The Women Behind the Few

Author : Sarah-Louise Miller
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785907980
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book The Women Behind the Few written by Sarah-Louise Miller and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The courageous pilots of the Royal Air Force who faced the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, affectionately known as 'the Few', are rightly hailed as heroes. Recently, efforts have been made to recognise the thousands who supported RAF operations behind the scenes. And yet one group remains missing from the narrative: the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. WAAFs worked within the Dowding System, the world's most sophisticated air defence network. Throughout the Blitz, they used radar to aid Fighter and Bomber Commands in protecting Britain's civilians. WAAFs were also behind the discovery of the terrifying German V-weapons. Their work was critical ahead of the Normandy landings and they were present in their hundreds at Bletchley Park. In this thrilling book, Sarah-Louise Miller celebrates their wartime contribution to British military intelligence. Hidden behind the Few but vital to their success, WAAFs supplied the RAF with life-saving information. Here, for the first time, is their story.

Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions

Author : Raphael Patai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471717
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions written by Raphael Patai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.

The Most Dangerous Cinema

Author : Bryan Senn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786435623
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Most Dangerous Cinema written by Bryan Senn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People hunting people for sport--an idea both shocking and fascinating. In 1924 Richard Connell published a short story that introduced this concept to the world, where it has remained ever since--as evidenced by the many big- and small-screen adaptations and inspirations. Since its publication, Connell's award-winning "The Most Dangerous Game" has been continuously anthologized and studied in classrooms throughout America. Raising questions about the nature of violence and cruelty, and the ethics of hunting for sport, the thrilling story spawned a new cinematic subgenre, beginning with RKO's 1932 production of The Most Dangerous Game, and continuing right up to today. This book examines in-depth all the cinematic adaptations of the iconic short story. Each film chapter has a synopsis, a "How Dangerous Is It?" critique, an overall analysis, a production history, and credits. Five additional chapters address direct to video, television, game shows, and almost "dangerous" productions. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography and index are included.

Women and the Machine

Author : Julie Wosk
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0801877814
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Machine written by Julie Wosk and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engaging study of the ways women and machines have been represented in art, photography, advertising, and literature.” —Arwen Palmer Mohun, University of Delaware From sexist jokes about women drivers to such empowering icons as Amelia Earhart and Rosie the Riveter, representations of the relationship between women and modern technology in popular culture have been both demeaning and celebratory. Depictions of women as timid and fearful creatures baffled by machinery have alternated with images of them as being fully capable of technological mastery and control—and of lending sex appeal to machines as products. In Women and the Machine, historian Julie Wosk maps the contradictory ways in which women’s interactions with—and understanding of—machinery has been defined in Western popular culture since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on both visual and literary sources, Wosk illuminates popular gender stereotypes that have burdened women throughout modern history while underscoring their advances in what was long considered the domain of men. Illustrated with more than 150 images, Women and the Machine reveals women rejoicing in their new liberties and technical skill even as they confront society’s ambivalence about these developments, along with male fantasies and fears. “Engaging and entertaining . . . Using illustrations, cartoons and photographs from the past three centuries, Wosk delineates shifts in social acceptance of women’s relationship to technology . . . her work is complex, comprehensive and highly readable.” —Publishers Weekly “Art historian Wosk analyzes the overt and covert messages in depictions of women and machines in an array of fiction and, more impressively, in some 150 visual images.” —Booklist

Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes, Second Edition

Author : Alice Ogden Bellis
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611644003
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes, Second Edition written by Alice Ogden Bellis and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling book, now revised and updated, shares the work of many feminist biblical scholars who have examined women's stories for several years. These stories are powerful accounts of women in the Old Testament--stories that have profoundly affected how women understand themselves as well as men's perception of them. Here, Alice Bellis shares the research of feminist biblical scholarship during a quarter of a century, which renders a vast amount of refreshing, exciting, sometimes disturbing material.

Schnitzler's Century

Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393048933
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Schnitzler's Century written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have always believed that Queen Victoria defined the mores of the nineteenth century. Yet Peter Gay, one of our most eminent cultural historians, asserts in this radical work that it is the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), the most influential Austrian writer of his time, who provides a better symbol for the age." "In a set of nine closely linked chapters, each focusing on major topics of bourgeois life, Gay synthesizes three decades of far-ranging research, presenting a lucid reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century middle class - its passions, politics, religion, and anxieties - that we can only think we know well. Extending his examination back to 1815, at the close of the age of Napoleon, Gay chronicles a hundred-year period that witnessed not only the emergence of the middle class but also the birth of a culture that remains vital today. Throughout Schnitzler's Century, he does justice to the complexity of the era, showing that there was superstition as well as science, cruelty as well as humanity, anxiety as well as Eros. But digging deep into bourgeois life all the way from Philadelphia to Moscow, London to Rome, he has recognized a general Victorian style through the Western world, however colored each country was by characteristic local habits." "Schnitzler's Century is not revision for its own sake, but for the sake of the truth about the past. With the daring Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler as his companion, Gay provides startling perspectives on once-familiar subjects. Schnitzler's Century provides astonishing insights into an age that made us largely what we are today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Basic Instinct

Author : Stevie Simkin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137296097
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Basic Instinct written by Stevie Simkin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Verhoeven's 1992 thriller Basic Instinct - starring Michael Douglas as a police detective and Sharon Stone as the femme fatale Catherine Tramell - was one of the first mainstream 'erotic thrillers', a film which shifted the boundaries for graphic representations of sex in Hollywood cinema. It remains a significant milestone in film censorship and controversy. In his fascinating study, the first in-depth account of the film, Stevie Simkin explores the unrest and protest that Basic Instinct sparked in the gay, lesbian and feminist communities in the US, incensed by what they saw as the script's homophobia and misogyny. Simkin considers the social and cultural context in which Basic Instinct was made, examining the film's troubled production history, the battles with censors, and its reception. He offers a number of readings of the movie, looking at its representation of bisexuality and the depiction of a 'transgressive' female protagonist. He also focuses on key sequences, including the infamous interrogation scene, and details the cuts demanded by the censors, resulting in different UK and US versions. In conclusion, Simkin considers the legacy of Basic Instinct, and its enduring effect on media representations of the violent woman. STEVIE SIMKIN is Reader in Drama and Film at the University of Winchester, UK. His publications include work on cult television, popular music, and Renaissance drama. He is the author of, amongst other works, A Preface to Marlowe (1999), Revenge Tragedy: A New Casebook (2001), Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence (2005), and, also in the Controversies series, a book on the Peckinpah film, Straw Dogs.