21St Century Stepford Wife
21St Century Stepford Wife

Author: C. Denise Whitehead CPLC

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2017-10-09

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1546208917

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There are instructions on how to put together everything, from electronics to furniture. Wouldnt it be great if marriage and relationships came with such a manual? What if you had instructions on how to troubleshoot or reboot a relationship drive? What if a manual told you what to do when a relationship freezes or stops working? In Twenty-First-Century Stepford Wife, author Celia Whitehead presents a relationship/marriage survival guide. It offers insight into why some relationships survive while others fail. It teaches you to effectively communicate with your partner, and it discusses the information and tools necessary to navigate the complexities of relationships. Using an innovative analogy of the Stepford wives, Whitehead revisits some of the traditional values that have been abandoned in the twenty-first century and applies them to modern-day relationships. Touching on key principles to a happy and healthy relationship in each chapter, Twenty-First-Century Stepford Wife helps you simplify your relationship through tools, advice, and exercises gleaned from Whiteheads almost forty years of married life. This marriage know-how arsenal provides the keys to help couples avoid the pitfalls of divorce.

Horror Comes Home
Horror Comes Home

Author: Cynthia J. Miller

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-06-12

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1476637695

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Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out--until it isn't. This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The contributors explore the shifting role of the home as both a source and a mitigator of the terrors of this world, and the next. Well known films are covered--including Psycho, Get Out, Insidious: The Last Key and Winchester House--along with films produced outside the U.S. by directors such as Alejandro Amenabar (The Others), Hideo Nakata (Ringu) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage), and often overlooked classics like Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger.

New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic
New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic

Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1317609018

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This book brings together a carefully selected range of contemporary disciplinary approaches to new areas of Gothic inquiry. Moving beyond the representational and historically based aspects of literature and film that have dominated Gothic studies, this volume both acknowledges the contemporary diversification of Gothic scholarship and maps its changing and mutating incarnations. Drawing strength from their fascinating diversity, and points of correlation, the varied perspectives and subject areas cohere around a number of core themes — of re-evaluation, discovery, and convergence — to reveal emerging trends and new directions in Gothic scholarship. Visiting fascinating areas including the Gothic and digital realities, uncanny food experiences, representations of death and the public media, Gothic creatures and their popular legacies, new approaches to contemporary Gothic literature, and re-evaluations of the Gothic mode through regional narratives, essays reveal many patterns and intersecting approaches, forcefully testifying to the multifaceted, although lucidly coherent, nature of Gothic studies in the 21st Century. The multiple disciplines represented — from digital inquiry to food studies, from fine art to dramaturgy — engage with the Gothic in order to offer new definitions and methodological approaches to Gothic scholarship. The interdisciplinary, transnational focus of this volume provides exciting new insights into, and expanded and revitalised definitions of, the Gothic and its related fields.

Moral Education in the 21st Century
Moral Education in the 21st Century

Author: Douglas W. Yacek

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 1009188372

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Moral education is an enduring concern for societies committed to the value of justice and the wellbeing of children. What kind of moral guidance do young people need to navigate the social world today? Which theories, perspectives, values, and ideals are best suited for the task? This volume offers educators insight into both the challenges and promises of moral education from a variety of ethical perspectives. It introduces and analyses several important developments in ethics and moral psychology and discusses how some key moral problems can be addressed in contemporary classrooms. In doing so, Moral Education in the 21st Century helps readers develop a deeper understanding of the complexities of helping young people grow into moral agents and ethical people. As such, researchers, students, and professionals in the fields of moral education, moral psychology, moral philosophy, ethics, educational theory, and philosophy of education will benefit from this volume.

The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives

Author: Ira Levin

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-04-26

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 0062037609

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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.

American Wife
American Wife

Author: Curtis Sittenfeld

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2009-02-10

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0812975405

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible “Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time • People • Entertainment Weekly A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when she is seventeen shatters her identity and changes the trajectory of her life. More than a decade later, when the charismatic son of a powerful Republican family sweeps her off her feet, she is surprised to find herself admitted into a world of privilege. And when her husband unexpectedly becomes governor and then president, she discovers that she is married to a man she both loves and fundamentally disagrees with—and that her private beliefs increasingly run against her public persona. As her husband’s presidency enters its second term, Alice must confront contradictions years in the making and face questions nearly impossible to answer. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Rocky Mountain News • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Washington Post Book World

Feminism and Religion in the 21st Century
Feminism and Religion in the 21st Century

Author: Gina Messina-Dysert

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-10

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1134625243

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This anthology will explore the new directions of conversations occurring in relation to feminism and religion, as well as the technological modes being utilized to continue dialogue, expand borders, and create new frontiers in feminism. It is a cross generational project bringing together the voices of foremothers with those of the twenty-first century generation of feminist scholars to discuss the changing direction of feminism and religion, new methods of dialogue, and the benefits for society overall.

Spiritually Rich and Sexy
Spiritually Rich and Sexy

Author: Pamela McQuade

Publisher: Worthy Shorts Inc

Published: 2011-06

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1935340727

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Welcome to your Life of Enchantment Are you enchanted with the beauty of your life--the beauty of you? Or like many women, do you think you need to be thinner, look younger, drive a luxury car, or attain a lofty position on the corporate ladder to be happy and complete? This book, which is dedicated to the heart and soul of every woman, lights your way, step by step, to the spiritual understanding that beauty, abundance, love, joy and freedom are your birthrights. In "Spiritually Rich and Sexy, " Pamela McQuade lets the secret out of the designer bag: "You already possess everything you seek--and more--just by being who you are!" Spiritually Rich & Sexy helps you find the beauty within and love yourself first. John Gray, Ph.D. Best Selling Author of Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus "Spiritually Rich and Sexy will help you discover the internal obstacles that prevent you from finding the "luxury" in every moment." Lorre White "The Guru Of Luxury" "

Queer TV in the 21st Century
Queer TV in the 21st Century

Author: Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-06-05

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1476625603

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Television has historically been largely ineffective at representing queerness in its various forms. In the 21st century, however, as same-sex couples have seen increasing mainstream acceptance, and a broader range of queer characters has appeared in the media, it seems natural to assume TV portrayals of queerness have become more enlightened. But have they? This collection of fresh essays analyzes queerness as depicted on TV from 2000 to the present. Examining Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The L Word, Modern Family, The New Normal, Queer as Folk, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, RuPaul's Drag Race, Spartacus and Will & Grace, among other series, the contributors demonstrate that queer characters in general have achieved visibility at the expense of minimizing much of their queerness--with a few eye-opening exceptions.

Gender and Female Villains in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives
Gender and Female Villains in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives

Author: Natalie Le Clue

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-02-11

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1801175667

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For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives of 21st Century media.