Sex in the Head

Sex in the Head

Author: Linda Ruth Williams

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780814325087

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Love Blooms

Love Blooms

Author: Jo McNally

Publisher: HQN Books

Published: 2021-07-27

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0369703596

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It’s never too late for a second chance… Tonight should be the best night of Lucy Higgins’s life. Tomorrow she’s finally marrying Owen Cooper. She’s been waiting to start a life of wedded bliss, like the happy marriage her parents have. Except…she just learned her parents are divorcing and she’s freaking out. Owen has been so distant lately, shutting her out. Suddenly this big wedding seems like a really bad idea. Packing up her car, Lucy bolts for Rendezvous Falls and finds work at a flower shop while she gets her life together. The last thing she expects is for Owen to show up, wanting her back. Owen Cooper’s carefully planned out life is ready to begin. He’s home from the military to join the family business and marry the sweet girl who captured his heart…until Lucy runs out on him. That was not part of the plan. Armed with an article that promises to help him win her back, Owen heads to Rendezvous Falls. But from the moment he sees her again, she seems…different. Happier, more confident and at ease. Can he convince this new version of Lucy that he’s become the man she deserves? He might need a little help from the local book club to accomplish this mission… Don’t miss When Sparks Fly, the next funny, heart-tugging romance in Jo McNally's Rendezvous Falls series centered around a matchmaking book club in Rendezvous Falls, New York. The Rendezvous Falls series Book 1: Slow Dancing at Sunrise Book 2: Stealing Kisses in the Snow Book 3: Barefoot on a Starlit Night Book 4: Love Blooms Book 5: When Sparks Fly


Sex-Positive Criminology

Sex-Positive Criminology

Author: Aimee Wodda

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0429624247

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Sex-Positive Criminology proposes a new way to think about sexuality in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. Sex-positivity is framed as a humanizing approach to sexuality that supports the well-being of self and others. It is rooted in the principle of active and ongoing consent, and it encourages perspectives that value bodily autonomy, the right to access education, and respect for sexual difference. In this book, the authors argue that institutions such as prisons, schools, and healthcare facilities, as well as agents of governments, such as law enforcement, correctional officers, and politicians, can unduly cause harm and perpetuate stigma through the regulation and criminalization of sexuality. In order to critique institutions that criminalize and regulate sexuality, the authors of Sex-Positive Criminology examine case studies exploring the criminalization of commercial sex and related harm (at the hands of law enforcement) experienced by those who sell sex. They investigate sex education in schools, reproductive justice in communities and institutions, and restrictions on sexuality in places like prisons, jails, juvenile detention, and immigrant detention facilities. They look into the criminalization of BDSM practices and address concerns about young people’s sexuality connected to age of consent and privacy violations. The authors demonstrate how a sex-positive perspective could help criminologists, policymakers, and educators understand not only how to move away from sex-negative frameworks in theory, policy, and practice, but how sex-positive criminological frameworks can be a useful tool to reduce harm and increase personal agency. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, sexuality studies, cultural studies, criminal justice, social theory, and all those interested in the relationship between sexuality and the crimino-legal system.


Sex and Class in Women's History

Sex and Class in Women's History

Author: Judith Lowder Newton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-09

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0415626919

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The essays collected in this volume reflect the upsurge of interest in the research and writing of feminist history in the 1970s/80s and illustrate the developments which have taken place – in the types of questions asked, the methodologies employed, and the scope and sophistication of the analytical approaches which have been adopted. Focusing on women in nineteenth-century Britain and America, this book includes work by scholars in both countries and takes its place in a long history of Anglo-American debate. The collection adopts 'the doubled vision of feminist theory', the view that it is the simultaneous operation of relations of class and of sex/gender that perpetuate both patriarchy and capitalism. This view informs a wide variety of contributions from 'Class and Gender in Victorian England', to 'Servants, Sexual Relations and the Risks of Illegitimacy', 'Free Black Women', 'The Power of Women’s Networks', and 'Socialism, Feminism and Sexual Antagonism in the London Tailoring Trade'. Both the vigour and the urgency of scholarship infused with social aims can be clearly felt in the essays collected here.


Heavenly Love?

Heavenly Love?

Author: Gabriele Griffin

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780719028816

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Hardboiled America

Hardboiled America

Author: Geoffrey O'Brien

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 1997-03-22

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780306807732

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Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis … these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties, forties, and fifties. With titles like The Big Sleep, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, and Street of the Lost, with racy cover lines like "My gun-butt smashed his skull!" and "Ruthless terror ripped away the mask that hid cold fear," and with some of the most extraordinary cover illustrations ever to grace American literature, these paperbacks held the ingredients of American nightmares. In Harboiled America—lavishly illustrated with 135 paperback covers, and expanded with new material on Thompson, Goodis, and others—Geoffrey O'Brien masterfully explores the art, history, and ideas of the American paperback.


With Reverence for the Word

With Reverence for the Word

Author: Jane Dammen McAuliffe

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-09-14

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 0199755752

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This volume represents the first trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation. During the medieval period the three exegetical traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam produced a vast literature, one of great diversity but also one of numerous cross-cultural similarities.


An Education in Sexuality and Sociality

An Education in Sexuality and Sociality

Author: Frank G. Karioris

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-07-07

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1498580858

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While hook-up culture on university campuses represents a part of the story, it is only part of the story. It is important to add to this and investigate the way the university itself brokers and seeks out specific forms of sexuality, sex, and connection amongst students. This booksheds light on how the university as an institution endorses certain forms of sociality, sexuality, and coupling, while excluding others. Building on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book furthers the discussion on the impact these institutional measures have on students, and how students work through and around them – while simultaneously establishing relations outside of and beyond hooking-up.


Breaking and Entering

Breaking and Entering

Author: Joy Williams

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0307763854

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From "a brilliant spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor" (Elle) comes a novel starring an exhilarating cast of characters that reflects the search, not just for home, but for self. Willie and Liberty are drifters. They break into Florida vacation homes while the owners are away, stay a while, and then move on. They have been lovers since they were teenagers, yet Liberty now senses that Willie is drifting away from her—that their search, so relentless and mysterious, is becoming increasingly dangerous.