Intimate Desires
Intimate Desires

Author: Elizabeth Lennox

Publisher: Elizabeth Lennox

Published: 2014-05-16

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1940134749

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Hannah is trying to get on with her life, but unexpected obstacles - a hot cop and a dead body are making it a challenge! With her short and regrettable marriage over, she is thrilled to enter her very own cafe each morning, and determined to keep men on the sideline for a while. Business is good, and her customers need her for their morning jolt of caffeine as well as her vivacious personality. Those who call the streets their home also depend on her kindness and compassion for an occasional warm drink or bite to eat. But for some of those unfortunate souls, Hannah’s cafe is turning out to be the wrong place to be found! One by one, three men have been found dead in the alley behind her bistro. The causes of death are different, but the scenes are spookily similar. And to her, they all mean one thing: a murderer is in her midst. Enter a handsome alpha male - Chicago Police Detective Sam Jeffers. His charm and undeniable physical appeal awaken desires in Hannah that she thought she had put on hold. And the persistence and determination that make him an effective homicide detective are wearing down her resolve... Will their feelings for each other have a chance to grow before the murderer gets even closer? Enjoy Intimate Desires - book one in The Love and Danger Series!

Veiled Desires
Veiled Desires

Author: Maureen Sabine

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2013-08

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0823251659

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Ingrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a "complete understanding" of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naive? Why have she and her cinematic sisters in postwar popular film so often been stereotyped or selectively analyzed, so seldom been seen as women and religious? In Veiled Desires--a unique full-length, in-depth study of nuns in film--Maureen Sabine explores these questions in a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study covering more than sixty years of cinema. She looks at an impressive breadth of films in which the nun features as an ardent lead character, including The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Sea Wife (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), Change of Habit (1969), In This House of Brede (1975), Agnes of God (1985), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Doubt (2008). Veiled Desires considers how the beautiful and charismatic stars who play chaste nuns, from Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn to Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, call attention to desires that the veil concealed and the habit was thought to stifle. In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeonholed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience who revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. She provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns on screen by showing how the films dramatize these women's Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment.

Intimacy and Desire
Intimacy and Desire

Author: Dr David Schnarch

Publisher: Scribe Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1921640324

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In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Schnarch, one of the foremost experts on sexuality and relationships, explains why normal healthy couples in long-term relationships have sexual desire problems, regardless of how much they love each other or how well they communicate. In-depth examples of couples he has counselled reveal his unique understanding of common-but-difficult sexual desire problems that affect couples of all ages. Combining compassion and clinical wisdom, Dr. Schnarch explains how to use his revolutionary Four Points of Balance approach to resolve low desire, mismatched desire, sexual boredom, and the emotional gridlock that accompanies these problems. Intimacy and Desire provides a roadmap for how couples can transform common sexual desire problems into self-exploration and personal development that leads to psychological and spiritual growth, stronger relationships, and more powerful and meaningful desire for each other. It provides time-proven comprehensive solutions that help couples reconnect with each other sexually, and take their intimacy and passion to new, previously unexplored heights.

New Desires, New Selves
New Desires, New Selves

Author: Gul Ozyegin

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2015-08-21

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0814762344

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As Turkey pushes for its place in the global pecking order and embraces neoliberal capitalism, the nation has seen a period of unprecedented shifts in political, religious, and gender and sexual identities for its citizens. In New Desires, New Selves, Gul Ozyegin shows how this social transformation in Turkey is felt most strongly among its young people, eager to surrender to the seduction of sexual modernity, but also longing to remain attached to traditional social relations, identities and histories. Engaging a wide array of upwardly-mobile young adults at a major Turkish university, Ozyegin links the biographies of individuals with the biography of a nation, revealing their creation of conflicted identities in a country which has existed uneasily between West and East, modern and traditional, and secular and Islamic. For these young people, sexuality, gender expression, and intimate relationships in particular serve as key sites for reproducing and challenging patriarchy and paternalism that was hallmark of earlier generations. As Ozyegin evocatively shows, the quest for sexual freedom and an escape from patriarchal constructions of selfless femininity and protective masculinity promise both personal transformations and profound sexual guilt and anxiety. A poignant and original study, New Desires, New Selves presents a snapshot of cultural change on the eve of rapid globalization in the Muslim world.

Intimate Japan
Intimate Japan

Author: Allison Alexy

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2019-01-31

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 082488244X

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How do couples build intimacy in an era that valorizes independence and self-responsibility? How can a man be a good husband when full-time jobs are scarce? How can unmarried women find fulfillment and recognition outside of normative relationships? How can a person express their sexuality when there is no terminology that feels right? In contemporary Japan, broad social transformations are reflected and refracted in changing intimate relationships. As the Japanese population ages, the low birth rate shrinks the population, and decades of recession radically restructure labor markets, Japanese intimate relationships, norms, and ideals are concurrently shifting. This volume explores a broad range of intimate practices in Japan in the first decades of the 2000s to trace how social change is becoming manifest through deeply personal choices. From young people making decisions about birth control to spouses struggling to connect with each other, parents worrying about stigma faced by their adopted children, and queer people creating new terms to express their identifications, Japanese intimacies are commanding a surprising amount of attention, both within and beyond Japan. With ethnographic analysis focused on how intimacy is imagined, enacted, and discussed, the volume's chapters offer rich and complex portraits of how people balance personal desires with feasible possibilities and shifting social norms. Intimate Japan will appeal to scholars and students in anthropology and Japanese or Asian studies, particularly those focusing on gender, kinship, sexuality, and labor policy. The book will also be of interest to researchers across social science subject areas, including sociology, political science, and psychology.

Desire
Desire

Author: Anna Clark

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1135762910

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‘... the rich range of historical information that Clark weaves into her chapters... makes this ambitious overview of sex in Europe a highly accessible and successful endeavour.’ – Times Higher Education Supplement 'Provides a valuable overview of the history of sexuality in Europe since classical antiquity, synthesising as it does a mass of studies of specific regions and periods which have appeared during the last two decades.' Lesley Hall, Wellcome Library, UK Desire: A History of European Sexuality is a sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present day. It traces two concepts of sexual desire that have competed in European history: desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly; and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary. This book follows these changing attitudes toward sexuality through the major turning points of European history. Written in a lively and engaging style, the book contains many fascinating anecdotes drawing on a rich array of sources including poetry, novels, pornography and film as well as court records, autobiographies and personal letters. While Anna Clark builds on the work of dozens of historians, she also takes a fresh approach and introduces the concepts of twilight moments and sexual economies. Desire integrates the history of heterosexuality with same-sex desire, and focuses on the emotions of love as well as the passions of lust, the politics of sex as well as the personal experiences.

On the Emotions
On the Emotions

Author: Richard Wollheim

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780300147452

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Leading philosopher Richard Wollheim recruits into service the insights of literature and of psychoanalysis, as well as of philosophy, in this rich and thought-provoking account of the emotions. Starting from the premise that emotions form a distinct psychological category, Wollheim argues that they are—like beliefs and desires—dispositions or underlying forces in the mind that erupt from time to time into the stream of consciousness. However, to assimilate emotions to beliefs or to desires or to some combination of the two is quite wrong. Emotions are attitudes or orientations to the world, says the author, and in this regard they are naturally associated with the imagination. The book considers what emotions are, how they arise in our lives, and how standard and "moral" emotions differ. Wollheim writes within the analytic tradition, yet decisively abandons a number of assumptions associated with that tradition and instead develops what he calls the psychologization, or repsychologization, of the emotions. Addressing repsychologization of the mind and its contents as a major theme, the author offers sustained discussion of the opinions of Sartre, William James, Freud, Melanie Klein, Stendhal, Montaigne, and Bertrand Russell.

The New Latino Studies Reader
The New Latino Studies Reader

Author: Ramon A. Gutierrez

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016-08-23

Total Pages: 669

ISBN-13: 0520284836

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The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of what itÕs like to be a Latino in the United States. Ê With the reader, students explore the sociohistorical formation of Latinos as a distinct panethnic group in the United States, delving into issues of class formation; social stratification; racial, gender, and sexual identities; and politics and cultural production. And while other readers now in print may discuss Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Central Americans as distinct groups with unique experiences, this text explores both the commonalities and the differences that structure the experiences of Latino Americans. Timely, thorough, and thought-provoking, The New Latino Studies Reader provides a genuine view of the Latino experience as a whole. Ê

Intimacy & Empowerment
Intimacy & Empowerment

Author: Lily Dawson

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2024-10-16

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1456657127

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Discover the Path to Authentic Intimacy and Empowerment Are you ready to embark on a journey towards a more fulfilling and empowered sexual life? Intimacy & Empowerment: The Path to Sexual Fulfillment offers a transformative guide that delves deep into the complexities and beauty of human sexuality. Unlock the mysteries of your sexuality with a thorough exploration of personal identity, cultural influences, and historical perspectives. With chapters dedicated to self-love, sexual health, and overcoming societal expectations, this guide provides the tools you need to embrace your unique sexual self. Transform your relationships and communication by learning the art of expressing desires, cultivating intimacy, and building trust. Discover effective strategies for navigating challenging conversations, understanding consent, and sustaining passion in long-term relationships. Whether you're single, partnered, or exploring diverse orientations and identities, this book offers invaluable resources for everyone. Dive into a world of pleasure and empowerment by exploring techniques for self-discovery and shared pleasure. With chapters on sexual wellness products, technology, and mindfulness, you'll find innovative ways to enhance your sexual experiences and embrace new dimensions of pleasure. Empower yourself with knowledge, from reproductive choices to embracing sexuality later in life. Join countless others in embracing your sexual journey with confidence and joy. Discover inspiration from real-life stories, redefine your narrative, and celebrate your continuous growth. Take the leap and transform your life today with Intimacy & Empowerment: The Path to Sexual Fulfillment. Your empowered future awaits!