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The Stepford Wives

Author : Ira Levin
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062037609
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Stepford Wives written by Ira Levin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby With an Introduction by Peter Straub For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same. At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.

Stepford Daughters

Author : Johanna Isaacson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942173694
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Stepford Daughters written by Johanna Isaacson and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together. In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where oppressed people can understand, navigate and confront an increasingly ugly and horrifying world. Films like Hereditary and The Babadook show women coming apart at the seams as the promises of both the family and waged work fail them. In Get Out, we see how poor women and women of color perform the invisible labor that holds up our society, experiencing domestic work as a kind of possession. In "coming of rage" films such as Assassination Nation and Teeth, we see the ways social reproduction leads to a futureless horizon. Robbed of their dreams but not their power to resist, these heroines emerge as the monsters and avengers we need.

Sweet Deception

Author : Patricia Sargeant
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758245726
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Deception written by Patricia Sargeant and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Desire And Obligation. . . No one would expect that modest minister's daughter Joan Brown has a secret identity. But to her many fans, Joan is the author of a popular erotic romance series. And to fellow writer Ronald Montgomery, whom Joan met at an author panel, she is every bit the seductive diva. While their passion ignites instantaneously, Joan has another life to return to. . . Come Between Love And Passion? Ron Montgomery has been burned one too many times by love and can't help but harbor a grudge. . .until he meets sensual Joan Brown. And while he longs for her touch, he's not sure he can trust someone who is living a lie. When inhibitions become too much to bear, Ron and Joan find themselves locked in a romance that neither wants to ever escape. . . "Admirable." --Romantic Times (4 stars) on You Belong To Me "A stellar read!" --Coffee Time Romance (5 Cups) on You Belong To Me

Gather the Daughters

Author : Jennie Melamed
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316463671
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Gather the Daughters written by Jennie Melamed and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers -- chosen male descendants of the original ten -- are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly -- they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing. Gather the Daughters is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.

Abolish the Family

Author : Sophie Lewis
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839767197
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Abolish the Family written by Sophie Lewis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if we could do better than the family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family. Even in so-called happy families, the unpaid, unacknowledged work that it takes to raise children and care for each other is endless and exhausting. It could be otherwise: in this urgent, incisive polemic, leading feminist critic Sophie Lewis makes the case for family abolition. Abolish the Family traces the history of family abolitionist demands, beginning with nineteenth century utopian socialist and sex radical Charles Fourier, the Communist Manifesto and early-twentieth century Russian family abolitionist Alexandra Kollontai. Turning her attention to the 1960s, Lewis reminds us of the anti-family politics of radical feminists like Shulamith Firestone and the gay liberationists, a tradition she traces to the queer marxists bringing family abolition to the twenty-first century. This exhilarating essay looks at historic rightwing panic about Black families and the violent imposition of the family on indigenous communities, and insists: only by thinking beyond the family can we begin to imagine what might come after.

The Female Thing

Author : Laura Kipnis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307495442
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Female Thing written by Laura Kipnis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing an injured party and claiming independence. Rather than blaming the usual suspects—men, the media—Kipnis takes a hard look at culprits closer to home, namely women themselves. Kipnis serves up the gory details of the mutual displeasure between men and women in painfully hilarious detail. Is anatomy destiny after all? An ambitious and original reassessment of feminism and women’s ambivalence about it, The Female Thing breathes provocative new life into that age-old question.

You Play the Girl

Author : Carina Chocano
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054464896X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book You Play the Girl written by Carina Chocano and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner. “With dazzling clarity, [Chocano’s] commentary exposes the subliminal sexism on our pages and screens.”—O, The Oprah Magazine As a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused by the mixed messages all around her that told her who she could be—and who she couldn’t. She grappled with sexed up sidekicks, princesses waiting to be saved, and morally infallible angels who seemed to have no opinions of their own. It wasn’t until she spent five years as a movie critic, and was laid off just after her daughter was born, however, that she really came to understand how the stories the culture tells us about what it means to be a girl limit our lives and shape our destinies. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. Moving from Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, from Flashdance to Frozen, from the progressive ’70s through the backlash ’80s, the glib ’90s, and the pornified aughts—and at stops in between—she explains how growing up in the shadow of “the girl” taught her to think about herself and the world and what it means to raise a daughter in the face of these contorted reflections. In the tradition of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Chocano brilliantly shows that our identities are more fluid than we think, and certainly more complex than anything we see on any kind of screen. “If Hollywood’s treatment of women leaves you wanting, you’ll find good, heady company in You Play the Girl.”—Elle

Nightfalls in Texas

Author : Thomas Posey
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595190936
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Nightfalls in Texas written by Thomas Posey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightfalls in Texas is a moving saga of life and love, of loss and redemption, of trails taken, and trails not taken. It is also a lyrical, touching, humorous, and sometimes poetic portrayal of growing up on the vast West Texas plains. Nightfalls in Texas is a story complete with all of the trials, the tribulations, and the cruel twists of fate that we all face in our shared experiences. Mr. Posey has captured the very essence of what life in a small west Texas Hamlet is like. “The Great Gatsby” meets “Giant” meets “The Last Picture Show.” He has infused his book with colorful and uniquely textured characters. The “starry-eyed-bubbas”, “small-town beauties”, “craggy land barons”, “gridiron warriors”, “town crazies”, “sage old soreheads”, “genteel debutantes”, “marauding desperadoes”, and other various and sundry characters. Nightfalls in Texas is also a story of shattered dreams and a boy’s journey into the promise land, and of another man’s lifelong search for a second chance that may never come. Finally, you are left with the remnants of a bittersweet story and a haunting ballad that will leave a searing resonance on your heart, and the sound of a distant clap of thunder on your soul.

Impossible Desires

Author : Gayatri Gopinath
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386534
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Impossible Desires written by Gayatri Gopinath and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings challenge nationalist ideologies by bringing to light that which has been rendered illegible or impossible within diaspora: the impure, inauthentic, and nonreproductive. Gopinath juxtaposes diverse texts to indicate the range of oppositional practices, subjectivities, and visions of collectivity that fall outside not only mainstream narratives of diaspora, colonialism, and nationalism but also most projects of liberal feminism and gay and lesbian politics and theory. She considers British Asian music of the 1990s alongside alternative media and cultural practices. Among the fictional works she discusses are V. S. Naipaul’s classic novel A House for Mr. Biswas, Ismat Chughtai’s short story “The Quilt,” Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy, and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night. Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta’s controversial Fire and Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding, she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood’s strategies of queer representation and to what is lost or gained in this process of translation. Gopinath’s readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching.

Queer Cinema in America

Author : Aubrey Malone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Queer Cinema in America written by Aubrey Malone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference helps readers navigate the perilous odyssey those of an LGBTQ orientation had to face in an age less enlightened than our own, when an attraction to members of the same gender could lead to horrendous abuse. Just as American society has changed dramatically from decade to decade, so has queer cinema. Taking us from a time when LGBTQ characters were often represented as either caricatures or figures of farce, this lively yet authoritative reference explores the sea change ushered in by such stars as Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s and '40s, androgynous figures such as Montgomery Clift, James Dean, and Marlon Brando in the '50s, and closeted gay men such as Rock Hudson and Liberace, whose double lives were exposed by the scourge of AIDS. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on stars, directors, films, themes, and other topics related to queer cinema in America, including films and persons from outside the U.S. who nonetheless figured prominently in America popular culture. Entries cite works for further reading, sidebars provide snippets of interesting trivia, a timeline highlights key events, and a selected, general, end-of-work bibliography cites the most important major works on the topic.

The Death of Cool

Author : Gavin McInnes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451614187
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Cool written by Gavin McInnes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Previously published as How to piss in public."

SPIN

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SPIN written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Ever After

Author : Vicki Courtney
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433682974
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Ever After written by Vicki Courtney and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most every woman dreams about having a family and a building a home. We grow up on a steady diet of fairytales and chick flicks that drive our dreams . . . and leave us with a sugarcoated version of reality. We want it all: the prince, the kiss, the proposal, the ring, the castle, and eventually, the kids in smocked rompers playing cheerfully on the perfectly manicured lawn. Our hopes and dreams are pinned on the world’s version of happily-ever-after. The problem is, the fairytales and chick flicks end where real life begins. We never see that follow-up scene where the prince and princess argue at 3 a.m. over who will get up with the colicky newborn. Or the princess reluctantly returns to work to help pay the bills and feels the stress of juggling work and family. And you certainly won’t see that part where the princess moves her last child into the dorm and realizes the bulk of her identity has been based on being a mother. The truth is, marriage and motherhood are hard. Few of us are prepared to handle the balancing act of being a good wife and a good mother, without one or the other getting the short end of the stick. No matter how much we give or how hard we try, we never quite feel like it’s enough. And heaven help us, we always imagine every one else is doing a much better job. In Ever After, best-selling author Vicki Courtney addresses the realities of marriage and motherhood, the difficulties and the blessings. It offers women a behind the scenes glimpse of what a fairytale really looks like on the average day for the average wife and mom. Poignant, funny, and even cathartic, Vicki shares mistakes made, lessons learned, and memories to keep. Most of all, she reflects the hope and promise that God meets us in the middle wherever we are in the journey.

Number Two Daughter

Author : Susanna Laird Madden
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728371228
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Number Two Daughter written by Susanna Laird Madden and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military officer and his wife, along with their three daughters, travel to and live in several states and foreign countries. The middle daughter, who derived her nickname Shizukosan after living in Japan, was also tagged Number Two Daughter, as her family lovingly referred to her throughout her life. This is not just a tale, but many tales -- or vignettes -- of the author's life as a Military Brat. It then continues on with her memories, trials, and blessings, expressed in a humorous manner. The vignettes separate each decade into brief, individually titled bites, making it convenient when you want a quick read. Poignant. Entertaining. Educational. Humorous. Those words describe Number Two Daughter. Susanna invites you to sit back, relax, and take a front row seat in this movie of her life.

Just Another Blog in Paradise

Author : Christine Arness
Publisher : Satin Romance
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Just Another Blog in Paradise written by Christine Arness and published by Satin Romance. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Burned Out to… Once a wild child, Susie’s now stuck in an ordinary life in Minnesota. To atone for past sins, she’s devoted her energies to volunteer work and empowering others. But in helping people find their hidden strengths, Susie’s exhausted her own emotional batteries. Her choices are to either keep treading water and risk drowning or dive into the deep end of life. Sunburned! Uprooting everything familiar, Susie moves to Florida, planning to recharge by repairing her fractured relationship with her sister, become part of her nieces’ lives and build friendships. As self-therapy, she also unleashes her inner snark by writing a blog describing the strangeness of life in Florida and her new community. Tropical depressions often become hurricanes… Susie’s loving life in paradise, especially when a hunky deputy sheriff moves into her apartment complex. But Florida’s not all blue skies and sunshine when an unpopular neighbor is found face down in the lake. Susie discovers that the people she thought she knew each possess a secret. Secrets worth killing to keep. Only discovering her own hidden strengths can save Susie from becoming the next victim…

Dr. Cook's Garden

Author : Ira Levin
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822203285
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Dr. Cook's Garden written by Ira Levin and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As The New York Herald-Tribune outlined: ...in the Vermont village of Greenfield Center, there is a genial, benevolent and greatly loved old physician who is very proud of his community. It is peopled with fine, wholesome folk, and

HIS-AND-HERS FAMILY

Author : Bonnie K. Winn
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 145926066X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book HIS-AND-HERS FAMILY written by Bonnie K. Winn and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake Matthews is… Designer suits and aftershave Seductive smiles LA Father of Three Cassie Hawkins is… Aprons and Ivory soap Blushing cheeks Twin Corners, TX Mother of three Well…they've got one thing in common. Make that six! A millionaire needed a country girl? Cassie couldn't imagine why…until she met Blake's—um—lively sons and wound up glued to a drain pipe! Cassie's own kids were smart, polite, with big dreams and an old-fashioned courtesy that Blake wanted for his sons. He hired Cassie for their sake—but one he'd lured her to the City of Angels, would he see that he needed Cassie even more for himself?