By Charlotte Perkins Gillman

First released serially in Gilman's journal the Forerunner in 1909-10, the radical tells the tale of Diantha Bell, a tender girl who leaves her domestic and her fiancé to begin a housecleaning enterprise. A inventive heroine, Diantha quick expands her enterprise into an firm that features a maid provider, cooked meals supply carrier, eating place, and resort. by way of assigning a money worth to women's "invisible" paintings, delivering a way for the future health and ethical uplift of operating ladies, and freeing heart- and leisure-class ladies from the weight of traditional family chores, Diantha proves to her kinfolk and group some great benefits of professionalized housework.

By H. Bauer

ISBN-10: 0230221637

ISBN-13: 9780230221635

It truly is renowned that a lot of our sleek vocabulary of intercourse emerged inside nineteenth-century German sexology. yet how have been the 'German principles' translated and transmitted into English tradition? This learn offers an exam of the formation of sexual concept among the 1860s and Thirties and its migration throughout nationwide and disciplinary limitations.

By Kristin Ramsdell

ISBN-10: 0585147531

ISBN-13: 9780585147536

ISBN-10: 1563083353

ISBN-13: 9781563083358

Ramsdell's ebook responds to the super progress in and diversification of romance fiction during the last decade and to the call for for a radical consultant to the literature. After a desirable evaluation of the style as an entire (e.g., definition, heritage, purposes for appeal), the writer discusses every one of its significant subgenres, directory and describing the titles in every one and providing information for readers' advisory and assortment improvement. A revision of fortunately Ever After: A advisor to analyzing pursuits in Romance Fiction, this ebook has been totally up-to-date and rewritten. It contains new sections on replacement truth Romance (e.g., time trip, angels, vampires), Ethnic/Multicultural Romance, and constructing the Collection-with a steered center assortment record. mammoth additions were made to the learn Aids part, and significant revisions were made to the ancient and modern romance sections. an inventory of advised titles for YAs seems to be in an appendix. A needs to purchase for librarians inv

By Neil Bartlett

It really is three a.m. within the urban, and in a dismal nook of The Bar, fanatics collide within the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair. Boy: nineteen, appealing, prepared for somebody to take him domestic, and 'O': the Older guy, cynical, unpredictable, and on the mercy of his own demons. Their romance is orchestrated and saw via the landlord of The Bar, Madame, who takes care of her boys and guarantees that their haven continues to be inviolate. right now a festivity of gay love and tradition, and a devastating evocation of the homophobic weather which stemmed from the 80s AIDS hindrance, able to capture Him should still He Fall bargains a decisively modern recasting of the normal love tale. First released in 1990 and instantly acclaimed because the paintings of a daring new voice in English fiction, Neil Bartlett's robust debut keeps to polish with an ageless knowledge and wit.

By J. Hatheway

ISBN-10: 0312234929

ISBN-13: 9780312234928

The Gilded Age Roots of yank Homophobia is an research of the adverse reaction to the invention of the gay in past due nineteenth century the United States. This booklet investigates the responses of the emergent clinical group to this challenge, and concludes with a dialogue of ways the damaging reception of the gay impacted the long run social notion of homosexual women and men.

By Edna G. Bay

ISBN-10: 0813917921

ISBN-13: 9780813917924

Better halves of the Leopard explores persistent and tradition in a pre-colonial West African nation whose military of girls and perform of human sacrifice earned it notoriety within the racist mind's eye of overdue nineteenth-century Europe and the United States. Tracing 2 hundred years of the background of Dahomey as much as the French colonial conquest in 1894, the publication follows swap in important associations. One used to be the monarchy, the coalitions of fellows and ladies who seized and wielded energy within the identify of the king. the second one used to be the palace, a loved ones of a number of thousand other halves of the king who supported and controlled kingdom functions.Looking at Dahomey opposed to the backdrop of the Atlantic slave alternate and the expansion of eu imperialism, Edan G. Bay reaches for a quite Dahomean viewpoint as she weaves jointly facts drawn from tourists' memoirs and native oral money owed, from the non secular practices of vodun, and from ethnographic reports of the 20th century. other halves of the Leopard completely integrates gender into the political research of country platforms, successfully making a social background of strength. extra commonly, it argues that girls as an entire and males of the decrease sessions have been steadily squeezed out of entry to continual as monetary assets gotten smaller with the decline of the slave alternate within the 19th century. In those and alternative routes, the booklet presents an obtainable portrait of Dahomey's advanced and interesting tradition with no exoticizing it.

By Charles, K J

A primary ebook of the Society of gents sequence, a Regency m/m romance trilogy that includes radical politics, severe waistcoats, kink, conspiracy, category divide, occasional homicide and loads of gin. during this, younger radical Harry Vane is whisked out of poverty to be become a gentleman, with the reluctant relief of dandy Julius Norreys. yet issues don’t pass solely to plan...

By Aihwa Ong, Michæl G Peletz

ISBN-10: 0520088611

ISBN-13: 9780520088610

By Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

ISBN-10: 0804781214

ISBN-13: 9780804781213

ISBN-10: 0804781222

ISBN-13: 9780804781220

ISBN-10: 0804783454

ISBN-13: 9780804783453

By Stephen O. Murray

ISBN-10: 0585187665

ISBN-13: 9780585187662

ISBN-10: 0826316581

ISBN-13: 9780826316585

This anthropological quantity examines Latin American male homosexualities from theoretical, severe, ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and lexicological views. The authors speak about male homosexualities in Spanish-speaking societies, in Brazil, and in indigenous societies in terms of family members, society, tradition, politics, economic climate, and ethnicity. They speak about homosexuality in pre-Columbian indigenous societies and in colonial and smooth Latin the USA. participants discover wide-ranging concerns corresponding to gay categorization, machismo and homosexuality, the activo-pasivo cultural dichotomy, the homosexual photograph in Chicano fiction, male homosexuality and Afro-Brazilian ownership cults, the homosexual move and human rights, and others.