The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction
The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction

Author: Heather Levy

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781433109409

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The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction proposes an insight into the ways in which Virginia Woolf engaged with the questions of how class influences working women's occupation of private and public space and how material privilege or economic distress inhibits or encourages their likelihood of obtaining their intellectual, spiritual, and physical desires. This groundbreaking book uses class as the determining factor to assess how servants and working class women occupy private and public space and articulate or fail to realize their desires. Drawing upon published and unpublished holograph and typescript drafts of the shorter fiction in The Monks House Papers as well as the Berg Collection, this book examines Woolf's oscillating patterns of elision, idealization, and contempt for the voices and desires of female servants, lesbians, gypsies, and other disenfranchised women. The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction also assesses how the portrayal of working class women in the shorter fiction becomes a vital template for the representation of working class women in Woolf's novels and essays. This study of the cumulative portrayal of the working class woman in all of Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction will also be compelling for anyone interested in social justice, especially for advocates of equality in gender/race/class/sexuality conflicts.

Servants of Desire
Servants of Desire

Author: Ella Ford

Publisher:

Published: 2018-12-04

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 9781790691807

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Birchwood Heights is a secretive lesbian community based on one shocking assumption: that some women want to own and some women want to be owned. Freed from the shackles of society's expectations, the residents of Birchwood Heights pursue existences of pleasure and pain that they could only dream of in their former lives. All of this behind high walls and strong gates, safe from the prying eyes of the outside world. Until now.Where Women Own Women: Amanda Flynn is a reporter with a nose for a story and a burning curiosity. After an anonymous tip, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth behind Birchwood Heights. But every path she follows leads to nowhere and every door seems closed to her. Close to giving up, she makes the fateful decision to sneak into the community. Without realizing, Amanda stumbles into a world of forbidden lesbian love that causes her to question everything she thought she knew about herself.Sold To Another Woman: As her journey continues, Amanda must enter The Academy and become a trained beta, learning to surrender to her deep and insatiable need to submit, to become obedient and docile, an expert at giving pleasure and a willing recipient of bitter pain. Because in Birchwood Heights, nothing is forbidden and everything has a price, including Amanda herself.Owned By An Alpha Woman: After the endless pleasures and agonies of her training at Birchwood Academy, she entered the service of Ms. Karen Rhodes, a powerful and intimidating alpha woman. Insatiable, driven and perverted, Karen Rhodes terrified and excited Amanda in equal measure. But she is not alone in her new life, and the struggle to become Mistress's favorite is one that will never end.

Mrs. Woolf and the Servants
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants

Author: Alison Light

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1608192423

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When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own in 1929, she established her reputation as a feminist, and an advocate for unheard voices. But like thousands of other upper-class British women, Woolf relied on live-in domestic servants for the most intimate of daily tasks. That room of Woolf's own was kept clean by a series of cooks and maids throughout her life. In the much-praised Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light probes the unspoken inequality of Bloomsbury homes with insight and grace, and provides an entirely new perspective on an essential modern artist.

Servants of the Map: Stories
Servants of the Map: Stories

Author: Andrea Barrett

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2003-02-17

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0393323579

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Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.

Servants of the King
Servants of the King

Author: Tom Cannon

Publisher: Tom Cannon

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 0979615925

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Jesus Christ is the greatest example of servant-leadership in the history of the world. We are called to follow His lead. Are you ready to begin the grandest adventure of them all? In Practical Leadership, Dr. Tom Cannon will introduce you to the leadership style of Jesus Christ, and show you how to successfully emulate His ministry in your daily life. For those who believe servant-leadership is for wimps, be assured, you are absolutely wrong. Servant-leaders are world-changers. Men and women who stand strong amid any crisis, and through their words, actions, and attitude, reveal Christ to a hurting, confused, and often angry world. The world is perishing, they need you to help reveal the love, mercy, grace and kindness of Jesus Christ to them, in a real and personal way. How? Become a servant-leader of the King, and lead them like Jesus did. Are you up to the challenge? I hope so, because the future of our churches, communities, and nation are on the line.

Servants for His Glory
Servants for His Glory

Author: Miguel Núñez

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1087741890

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Being is greater than doing. We all come into the world with a certain emptiness in our lives—an emptiness that leads to a search for meaning. And the world tells us that search for meaning can be solved by doing. Unfortunately, an overemphasis on doing has led many people away from cultivating an interior life that allows them to sustain their exterior life. This explains the many failures we continuously see in day-to-day life. When a person’s inner life—who he or she is—is not prepared, that person's character does not have the maturity or the strength to sustain them in the long run. In this book, Miguel Núñez points us to Scripture and experience to show us how being is more important than doing. He teaches us how to cultivate the foundations of our lives, so that we can be what we need to be, in order to do what we need to do.

The Servant
The Servant

Author: Fatima Sharafeddine

Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

Published: 2013-04-22

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1554983096

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Faten’s happy life in her village comes to an abrupt end when her father arranges for her to work as a servant for a wealthy Beirut family with two spoiled daughters. What does a bright, ambitious seventeen-year-old do when she is suddenly deprived of her friends, family, education and freedom? Could the mysterious, wealthy young man who lives in the next apartment building help? When Faten finally manages to make contact with Marwan, a musician and engineering student, he helps her figure out a way to pursue her studies in secret. Even against the uncertain backdrop of the civil war, their romance develops, as the two conspire to exchange notes and meet at an idyllic seaside cafe. But in Lebanese society the differences in religion, class and wealth are stacked against them, and their parents have very different ideas about what their futures should be. When Marwan’s mother chooses a girl who will make him a suitable wife, Faten must pick up the pieces of her life and move forward. She does so, despite the odds, pursuing a job, an education and her independence. And, in the end, it seems there may be room in her life yet for romance, and hope for a future where young people can determine their own destinies. An engaging and lucidly written coming-of-age novel. Faten struggles to fulfill her potential in the midst of her society’s rigid expectations. She’s a nuanced, complex protagonist that any teenager can relate to — stubborn, impulsive and full of longing, but with the determination and smarts to keep her real dreams in sight.