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Kissed By

Kissed By

Alexandra Chasin

Alexandra Chasin. Who. Writes. This. Shit?! You're in your first year of college in the North, where you've always lived, and the boy you're in love with tells a room full of people that the music to which he would commit suicide is Pachel- bel's ...
Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews

Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews

Jeff Bursey

Kissed By, by Alexandra Chasin RCF, Summer 2008 Some readers will agree with a blurb on the back of Kissed By that labels Alexandra's Chasin's debut work of fiction “experimental.” It's not as if experimental writers can be easily profiled, ...
All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America

All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America

Suzanna Danuta Walters

Alexandra Chasin, "Selling Out: The Gay/Lesbian Market and the Construction of Gender," Sojourner 22, no. 10 (June 1997): 14-15 29. Ibid. 30. Ibid. 31. Dan Savage, "Faithlessly Yours," OUT, June 1999, 62. 32. Alexandra Chasin, Selling Out: ...
Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for ...

Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for ...

Victoria E. Johnson

Becker and Alexandra Chasin call attention, though, to the fact that this advertiser -driven rhetoric regarding the affluent gay and lesbian demographic was largely promotional, rather than actual, and experienced unevenly where true.
Brief

Brief

Alexandra Chasin

Rich with references to the high art, mass culture, political ideologies, and military maneuvers of the post-war era, from the Cold War to the introduction of television, Brief chronicles the formation of an art vandal, until the story ...
Architecture and Adaptation: From Cybernetics to Tangible ...

Architecture and Adaptation: From Cybernetics to Tangible ...

Socrates Yiannoudes

Alexandra Chasin, for instance, tracing the relations between forms of mechanical (re)production (from the mechanical, to the electrical and the electronic), forms of labor (from industrial to service) and the differences between humans and ...
Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. ...

Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. ...

Alexandra Chasin

9 Less than 24 hours after Federal agents announced that Floyd was wanted as one of the Union Station killers, ... some with a fountain pen.12 Which brings us back to Floyd Baskette, the editor with 34. anslinger nation, or double agency | 219.
Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market

Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market

Alexandra Chasin

A thought-provoking study of the mainstreaming of the gay and lesbian consumer examines the relationship between the recent marketing aimed at the gay community and the movement that struggles to achieve equal rights for gay men and ...
Humour and Social Protest

Humour and Social Protest

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Alexandra Chasin aptly describes the Gay Pride parade as "a battleground of sorts for competing strategies".46 In many ways, the Pride parade is simply another example of carnival culture as Bakhtin describes it. The parade is popular in the ...
Public Scandals: Sexual Orientation and Criminal Law in Romania

Public Scandals: Sexual Orientation and Criminal Law in Romania

Human Rights Watch (Organization)

... Nan Buzard, Alexandra Chasin, Joe Collins, Marcia de Castro, Julie Dorf, Gerard Fergerson, Katherine Franke, Emily Honig, Tinku Ali Ishtiaq, Gara LaMarche, Chun Liu, Julie Mertus, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Jairo Enrique Pedraza, Darius Rejali, ...
Researching Trust and Health

Researching Trust and Health

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Julie Brownlie, Alexandra Greene, Alexandra Howson. Researching Trust and Health Edited by JulieBrownlie, Alexandra Greene and Alexandra Howson New York London First published 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York,
The Parrots

The Parrots

Alexandra Shulman

Alexandra Shulman. Alexandra Shulman THE PARROTS Acknowledgements Follow Penguin By the same author Can We Still.
A entrega: mensagens de Jesus recebidas por Alexandra Solnado

A entrega: mensagens de Jesus recebidas por Alexandra Solnado

Alexandra Solnado

O primeiro momento deste contacto deu-se quando Alexandra Solnado passou por um momento de grande desespero - a filha estava à beira da morte e não havia nada a fazer, por isso não teve outra alternativa senão confiar ao céu a ...
Alexandra David-Neel: Explorer at the Roof of the World

Alexandra David-Neel: Explorer at the Roof of the World

Facts On File, Incorporated

Alexandra David-Néel, My Journey to Lhasa. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p. 153 . 2. Ibid., p. 154. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid., p. 156. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid., p. 159. Chapter 2 10. Quoted in Ruth Middleton, Alexandra David-Néel: Portrait of an ...
Alexandra

Alexandra

Scott O''Dell

Tragedy forces Alexandra Papadimitrios, a member of a family of Florida sponge fishers, out of her traditional role into a new and dangerous course that leads her into all kinds of challenges, including the attentions of a handsome sea ...
Leaving Before the Rains Come

Leaving Before the Rains Come

Alexandra Fuller

The sequel to Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. In her twenties Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life.
Suspicion

Suspicion

Alexandra Monir

"If Alfred Hitchcock had directed Downton Abbey, the result would have been this book. Alexandra Monir takes us on a gripping, nonstop thrill ride with just the right amount of supernatural and an ending that you definitely won't suspect.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Alexandra Fuller

This is her story - of a civil war, of a quixotic battle with nature and loss, and of a family's unbreakable bond with the continent that came to define, scar and heal them.Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2002, Alexandra ...
Alexandra David-Neel: Portait of an Adventurer

Alexandra David-Neel: Portait of an Adventurer

Ruth Middleton

On the benches of the Sorbonne, in the salons and cafés, young people like Alexandra David were suddenly exposed to a cataclysm of ideas that would sweep away the safe, secure nineteenthcentury world into which they had been born.
Gypsy Fade

Gypsy Fade

Paije Alexandra West

A compilation of short stories written by Paije Alexandra West depicting her life in San Francisco, rife with trials and tribulations, love and heartbreak.
Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain

Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain

Alexandra Walsham

Prefaced by an extensive new historiographical overview, this collection brings together a selection of Alexandra Walsham's essays written over the last fifteen years, fully revised and updated to reflect recent research in this flourishing ...
BEHAVIOR ADJUSTMENT TRAINING 2.0: NEW PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES ...

BEHAVIOR ADJUSTMENT TRAINING 2.0: NEW PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES ...

Grisha Stewart, M.A., CPDT-KA

Horse trainers, including Monty Roberts and Alexandra Kurland, have used walking away from the animal as their reward for decades, and Kurland also used a clicker and treats at the same time (see Resources). To my knowledge, Alexandra ...
Initiations and Initiates in Tibet

Initiations and Initiates in Tibet

Alexandra David-Neel

Alexandra David-Neel. Chinnamastha, Dhumavati, Balagamukhi, Mathangi, and Mahalakshmi) will note a remote analogy between the rite described above and the chakra of the Shaktas who worship this goddess. Nevertheless, the object of ...
The Superhuman Life of Gesar of Ling

The Superhuman Life of Gesar of Ling

Alexandra David-Neel

Alexandra David-Neel. many pieces. Several versions of this legend exist; one of them relates how, giving way under the torture that was imposed on him, the demon became converted and swore to become a protector of the Buddhist faith  ...
Scribbling the Cat

Scribbling the Cat

Alexandra Fuller

When Alexandra "Bo" Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger".
Printmaking in Alberta, 1945-1985

Printmaking in Alberta, 1945-1985

Bente Roed Cochran

Alexandra Haeseker The figurative images of Alexandra Haeseker may be considered threatening, puzzling, unnerving, challenging, but are images that have been developed steadily and with a personal form and content Haeseker came to ...
Can We Still Be Friends

Can We Still Be Friends

Alexandra Shulman

Can We Still Be Friends is the debut novel by Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue.
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine: A Novel

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine: A Novel

Alexandra Kleeman

An intelligent and madly entertaining novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City of Glass, Alexandra Kleeman's unforgettable debut is a missing-person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person; an ...
The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene ...

The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene ...

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31 Alexandra Cuffel, “Reorienting Christian 'Amazons': Christian women warriors in medieval Islamic literature in the context of the crusades” in Gender, Religion, and Culture in the pre-modern world, ed. Brian Britt and Alexandra Cuffel (New ...

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