Virginity Or Death

Author : Katha Pollitt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307432858
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginity or Death! written by Katha Pollitt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As this book, which is greater than the sum of its brilliant parts makes clear, Katha Pollitt, who is famously a feminist, is also a humorist, a moralist and a most hilarious, wise, and incisive observer.” –Victor Navasky, author of A Matter of Opinion Through presidential administrations Democratic and Republican, Katha Pollitt has observed and exposed the inconsistencies and illogic of those who stand in the way of progress solely to hold on to their power. In defense of human rights and equality, she assails the corrupt and educates the misguided with compassion, Swiftian wit, and complete literary authority. In this compelling collection, Pollitt skewers one hypocrite after another. She suggests, for example, that creationists be permitted to oppose the teaching of evolution only so long as they agree to forgo the benefits of the theory–such as flu vaccines. She gently wonders if those who denounced the decision to allow Terri Schiavo to die in peace would themselves be satisfied to be video-diagnosed by Senator Bill Frist. And in the title essay about fundamentalists’ antagonism toward sex education and STD prevention, she asks, “What is it with these right-wing Christians? Faced with a choice between sex and death, they choose death every time.” Pollitt is one of the most eloquent and persuasive voices in American political conversation of this or any other era, and Virginity or Death! Is a marvelous demonstration of her keen insight, mordant humor, and sense of justice. “Katha Pollitt has long and rightly been hailed for her brilliance, wit, and great insight into politics, social issues, and women’s rights. As with all of her work, I am enormously grateful for Virginity or Death!, and also deeply jealous.” –Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies

Author : Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307401936
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Suicides written by Jeffrey Eugenides and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.

Author : Anke Bernau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virgins written by Anke Bernau and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty and thought-provoking, 'Virgins' reveals virginity's changing cultural significance throughout its long history, and its enduring power in contemporary society.

Author : Hanne Blank
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596910119
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virgin written by Hanne Blank and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative social history examines the history of virginity and of noted virgins in Western culture, describing the unique fascination civilization has had for virginity from a social, political, economic, philosophical, medical, and legal standpoint. Reprint.

Author : Sarah Salih
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0859916227
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England written by Sarah Salih and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.

Author : St. Gregory of Nyssa
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Virginity written by St. Gregory of Nyssa and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Virginity written by Saint Gregory of Nyssa and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of this treatise is to create in its readers a passion for the life according to excellence. There are many distractions , to use the word of the Divine Apostle, incident to the secular life; and so this treatise would suggest, as a necessary door of entrance to the holier life, the calling of Virginity; seeing that, while it is not easy in the entanglements of this secular life to find quiet for that of Divine contemplation, those on the other hand who have bid farewell to its troubles can with promptitude, and without distraction, pursue assiduously their higher studies.

Author : Michel Rene Barnes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620326019
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Man of the Church written by Michel Rene Barnes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph del Colle was born in New York City on October 3, 1954 and was raised in Mineola, Long Island. He attended Xavier High School in Chelsea and received a BA in History and Literature of Religions from New York University, and MDiv, MPhil, and PhD degrees from Union Theological Seminary. Ralph taught for 17 years in the Marquette University Theology Department; prior to that he taught at Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida and at St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire. Ralph's lively Christian faith and interest in church unity led to his participation in ecumenical dialogues. He served as a representative to the International Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue for the Pontifical Council on Christian Unity for 12 years and also served on the Catholic-Reformed Dialogue and Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue, both for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He was invited by the Pontifical Council to serve as a representative to the World Council of Churches Assembly in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1998. In 2002-2003, he served as the President of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and in 2003 Ralph received the Archbishop's Vatican II Award. Ralph's scholarly work, especially his work on the Holy Spirit, made significant contributions to the field of Systematic Theology. Ralph died in July of 2012, slightly more than four weeks after he was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer. He was fifty-seven.

Author : C. Harol
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403983658
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature written by C. Harol and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.

Author :
Publisher : Fig
ISBN 13 : 1626300100
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concerning Virginity written by and published by Fig. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: