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Author: Philippa Berry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1134934122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a reading of the texts of Lyly, Raleigh, Chapman, Spenser and Shakespeare, Berry explores the themes of sexuality and politics, classical myth and Neopatonic mysticism which became associated with Elizabeth I.
Author: Lisabeth During
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-04-23
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 022674163X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved, honored, and despised. Obsession with chastity has played a powerful and disturbing role in our moral imagination. It has enforced patriarchy’s double standards, complicated sexual relations, and imbedded in Western culture a myth of gender that has been long contested by feminists. Still not yet fully understood, the chastity plot remains with us, and the metaphysics of purity continue to haunt literature, religion, and philosophy. Idealized and unattainable, sexual renunciation has shaped social institutions, political power, ethical norms, and clerical abuses. It has led to destruction and passion, to seductive fantasies that inspired saints and provoked libertines. As During shows, it should not be underestimated. Examining literature, religion, psychoanalysis, and cultural history from antiquity through the middle ages and into modernity, During provides a sweeping history of chastity and insight into its subversive potential. Instead of simply asking what chastity is, During considers what chastity can do, why we should care, and how it might provide a productive disruption, generating new ways of thinking about sex, integrity, and freedom.
Author: Christine J. Gardner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-07-28
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0520950550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven though they are immersed in sex-saturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of the chastity movement and discovers a savvy campaign that uses sex to "sell" abstinence. Drawing from interviews with evangelical leaders and teenagers, she examines the strategy to shift from a negative "just say no" approach to a positive one: "just say yes" to great sex within marriage. Making Chastity Sexy sheds new light on an abstinence campaign that has successfully recast a traditionally feminist idea—"my body, my choice"—into a powerful message, but one that Gardner suggests may ultimately reduce evangelicalism’s transformative power. Focusing on the United States, her study also includes a comparative dimension by examining the export of this evangelical agenda to sub-Saharan Africa.
Author: Marisa Rudder
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11-20
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781736183502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCHASTITY | The Guide to Male Chastity is the latest book in Marisa Rudder's Female Led Relationship Series. This amazing Chastity book will change your life. Imagine your man treating you like a Queen and getting more pleasure out of pleasuring you than receiving pleasure himself. Imagine your man doing whatever you tell him without complaining. Imagine your man gladly doing the housework, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, dishes and more? With the techniques and training guidelines in my book, you can have such a man. In fact, you may already be living with a man who has the potential to become this perfect man. A modern Love and Obey Female Led Relationship or marriage includes male chastity and orgasm control. The wife decides when her husband is allowed to orgasm. The wife is in charge and the husband submits to her loving female authority. Her man is completely obedient. Women will learn how to use their feminine power to control their man's sexuality. Women will learn how to tame and train a man. Men will learn the value of submitting to loving female authority. Men will become more loving, devoted and romantic. Women will take charge of the relationship or marriage and their men will become obedient. The woman's authority and sexuality are worshiped by their man. At Love and Obey, we believe that whoever controls the pussy makes the rules. Pussy denial is used to guide your husband's behavior and this makes your Female Led Relationship more permanent. Men will worship us as goddesses and serve us as queens and obey us as their mistresses. Your Love and Obey Female Led Lifestyle, including Male Chastity, is the future of relationships and marriages. This book is essential reading for women interested in a loving female led relationship and men interested in loving, obeying and serving a superior female.
Author: Mistress Benay
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9781973249894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver Since Mistress Benay published her Award Winning Novel, "His Fall From Power," and then, the exciting and suspenseful Sequel to it, both in Kindle Format, she has been besieged with requests from her loyal readers to combine both Volumes in one Paperback Edition. Here for the first time, the Full Length Complete story of "His Fall From Power" is being published as a Beautiful Paperback.. Thomas McMillian was on Top of the World. As C.E.O. of a rapidly growing Electronics Company, he had it all. The Beautiful Wife, the Mansion in the Suburbs, the Fancy Foreign Cars, and Everything he could possibly wish for, until he made two mistakes which were going to cause him to lose everything. First he hired drop dead gorgeous Ashley Long to be his Executive Secretary, and then he betrayed his Wife, by having an affair with Ashley. Little did Thomas know, that those two mistakes would catapult him into his new role as a slave to his Wife and to his Secretary in this action packed novel filled with Corporate Intrigue and Sensual Relationships. Mistress Benay weaves a plot where the main character does not realize until it is too late that he has been led into a world of Male Chastity, Bondage, Bi-Sexual Relationships, Domestic Servitude, Discipline and Female Domination by the clever maneuvering of his Wife and his Secretary. After Betraying his wife by having an affair, Thomas McMillan now accepts the fact that his life will never be the same again, as his Beautiful wife, Doreen relegates him to the role as her 24/7 slave and maid. A role which Thomas could never have imagined would be filled with so much suffering and indignity. Female Domination, Male Chastity, Bi-Sexual Relationships, and Bondage & Discipline are an every day part of Thomas's new life now that he no longer is in charge of his Company, and has become a helpless slave to his wife, and to his former Secretary Ashley Long. Here is just one of the many Five Star Reviews this Novel has received: "The action in Mistress Benay's 'His Fall From Power' is well paced, often creative, and woman centered. Her style to me is measured and softly worded, rising to a crescendo, then deftly falling back to build again. 'His Fall From Power' is right up there among erotica written for women, by women, but tops my two favorite authors of female erotica, Anne Rice and Pauline Reage as, here, the woman does not suffer for love, but she commands it, demands it, and revels in the devotions a well trained male can provide."
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 650
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Swami Chetanananda
Publisher: Advaita Ashrama (A Publication House of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
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Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Avadhuta Gita, or the song of a liberated soul, is a text of Vedanta representing extreme Advaita or Non-dualism. It breathes the atmosphere of the highest experience of Brahman. It goes into no philosophical argument to prove the oneness of reality, but is content to make the most startling statements, leaving the seeker of truth to imbibe them and be lifted from illusion into the blazing light of Knowledge. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India.
Author: Charles J. Reid
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2004-10-29
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780802822116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe term "conjugal rights" has long characterized ways of speaking about marriage both in the canonistic tradition and in the secular legal systems of the West. This book explores the origins and dimensions of this concept and the range of meanings that have attached to it from the twelfth century to the present. Employing far-ranging sources, Charles Reid Jr. examines the language of marriage in classical Roman law, the Germanic legal codes of early medieval Europe, and the writings of canon lawyers and theologians from the medieval and early modern periods. The heart of the book, however, consists of the writings of the canonists of the High Middle Ages, especially the works of Hostiensis, Bernard of Parma, Innocent IV, and Raymond de Peafort. Reid's incisive survey provides a new understanding of subjects such as the right of parties to marry free of parental coercion, the nature of "paternal power," the place of bodies in the marriage contract, the meaning and implications of gender equality, and the right of inheritance.
Author: Peter Haugen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-06-02
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0470446544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow updated! Your personal tour guide to the history of the world Want to know more about global history? This concise guide explains in clear detail all the major players and events that have made the world what it is today. Covering the entirety of human history, this comprehensive resource highlights important developments in everything from religion and science to art and war — giving you an understanding of how the 21st-century world came to be. Begin to connect with the past — label the eras as you meet the Neanderthals, home in on Homer, raise Atlantis, and preserve Pharaohs Find strength in numbers — trace the growth from ancient civilizations to today's global community and discover what makes societies succeed or fail Discover the impact of thought — explore the rise of religion, the roots of philosophy, and the advance of science — and how our feelings and beliefs continually redefined us Know the global consequences of war — ride with the Greeks and the Romans, arm yourself with the cavalry, dig the trenches, and follow the paths humans took to wage modern war Meet the movers and shakers — from great leaders and courageous revolutionaries to ruthless tyrants and unsung heroes Examine significant events of the 21st century — from 9/11 and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to climate change, Hurricane Katrina, and the economic rise of China, India, and Brazil Open the book and find: A detailed overview of history The development of the world's religions Reviews of essential historical documents, from the Bible to the Bill of Rights The invention of writing and art Scientific developments that revolutionized the world Capsule biographies of people who changed history — and a few who were changed by it Ten unforgettable dates in world history
Author: Sue P. Starke
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 184384124X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe figure of the woman as hero in pastoral romance is shown to grow in importance and complexity in this important new study. The genre of pastoral romance flourished dramatically in Renaissance England between 1590 and 1650. One of its key elements is that it is the daughter, not the son, of the gentle family who increasingly becomes the subject of theromance's attempt to define and illustrate heroism. The pastoral heroine's task is paradoxical: to break out of her pastoral paradise in order to ensure its reconstitution. She is the princess, the shepherdess, the Lady, or the virtuous daughter who becomes a repository of honor and virtue in a changing society where traditional chivalric definitions of honor hold decreasing purchase. This groundbreaking book examines the typical challenges facedby the pastoral romance heroine as she matures within the pastoral locus amoenus: the foundling dilemma; the loop-shaped quest: the rhetorical battle; the chastity threat; the reconciliation of beauty to virtue; and familial reunification. It illustrates how the allegorical, symbolic, and psychological characterizations of pastoral heroines in the works of Sidney, Spenser, Wroth, Fletcher, Milton, and Marvell anticipate developments in the representation of female subjectivities normally associated with the novel. SUE P. STARKE is Associate Professor of English at Monmouth University, New Jersey.
