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Gendered Spaces
Daphne Spain'A work of vaulting ambition and synthesis. Daphne Spain is asked about the relations among gender, power, and space, our dwellings and domains.
Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in ...
Daphne SpainIn Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men.
Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage, and Employment Among ...
Daphne SpainThis volume contributes to the national dialogue about family policy, welfare reform, and responsibility for children by highlighting the pivotal roles women play at the intersection of family and work.
How Women Saved the City
Daphne SpainIn the extensive building projects of these associations - boarding houses, vocational schools, settlement houses, public baths, and playgrounds - she finds evidence of a built environment created by women.".
The Way We Wore
Daphne SelfeDaphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey.
Rule Britannia
Daphne Du MaurierIn this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States.
Daphne Du Maurier
Daphne Du MaurierThe story is as gripping as Rebecca, as full of surprises as My Cousin Rachel ... affectionate, honest, unsentimental and perceptive' Daily Mail 'Convincing throughout .
Best American Magazine Writing 2013
The American Society of Magazine EditorsCopyright © 2012 by Charles Graeber. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. “Portrait of a Lady,” by Daphne Merkin, originally published in Elle. Copyright © 2012 by Daphne Merkin. Reprinted by permission of Daphne Merkin . “Social ...
The Brother of Daphne
Dornford YatesDaphne is 'well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright'. In this, Yates' earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
The Brother Of Daphne
Dornford YatesDaphne is ‘well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright’. In this, Yates’ earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
The Immortal Throne
Bree DespainOnly Daphne's kiss can save him, but how can she escape Garrick and reach Haden in time? Surprises lurk around every corner in the final chapter of this epic romance story, as Haden and Daphne fight to fulfill their destinies.
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel
Daphne Du MaurierMy godfather, Nick Kendall, came over the following day, bringing Louise with him. As there were no close relatives to summon, and only bequests to Seecombe and the other servants, with the customary donations to the poor in the parish, the ...
Passing for Spain: CERVANTES AND THE FICTIONS OF IDENTITY
Barbara FuchsPassing for Spain charts the intersections of identity, nation, and literary representation in early modern Spain.
100 Places in Spain Every Woman Should Go
Patricia HarrisShe tells the tales of some formidable Spanish women, from a fourth-century B.C. goddess to a queen who wrested Spain from the Moors, to the twenty-first-century winemakers who elevated Spain's Toro and Rueda onto the world stage.
Pagan Spain
Richard WrightAs Pagan Spain portrays midcentury Spain as a country of tragic beauty, political oppression, and contradictions, Wright amalgamates at once polemic, travel narrative, history, and journalistic essay.
Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier
Tatiana de RosnayI’m sure my mother would have loved this book.” — Tessa Montgomery d’Alamein, daughter of Daphné du Maurier, as told to Pauline Sommelet in Point de Vue As a bilingual bestselling novelist with a mixed Franco-British bloodline and ...
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; ...
Daphne Du MaurierThis omnibus also includes The Doll, a collection of some of du Maurier's most thrilling short stories.
Europe in perspective, 1815 to the present
James Edward Gillespie... in Spain (1938); E. H. Peers, The Spanish Tragedy, (1937); Pierre Crabit.es, Unhappy Spain (1937) — defense of the Nationalist cause; George Young, The New Spain (1933); D. A. de Santillan, After the Revolution (1937); H. R. G. Greaves, ...
American Women in Transition
Suzanne M. BianchiSuzanne M. Bianchi, Daphne Spain. HE NOTION of "cultural lag,” developed by sociologist William F. Ogbum, is useful in understanding the changing roles of American women during this century. A cultural lag “occurs when one of two parts ...
Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
Nina AuerbachNina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.
The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, ...
Daphne MerkinDaphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to a wide array of subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life to the poignant underside ...
Daphne
Tatiana De RosnayCon una prosa impeccabile, Tatiana de Rosnay ci restituisce il romanzo della vita di una delle più complesse e tormentate figure di donna del Novecento, la scrittrice inglese Daphne du Maurier, autrice di romanzi come Rebecca, la prima ...
Research Collaboration between Europe and Latin America: ...
Rigas ArvanitisScientometrics, 53(3): 325-335. Levine, A.G. (2010). Advancing science in Spain: Not simply a Quixotic quest. AAAS/Science Business Office Feature. Focus on Spain. http://www.alainalevine.com/uploads/levine-Science-Spain-6-11-10.pdf ...
Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...
PreviewDAPHNE MERKIN (1954- ) Carolyn Ariella Sofia BIOGRAPHY "Perfect sex is like some Platonic essence," notes Daphne Merkin in "The Woman in the Balcony," her reading of the biblical Song of Songs, because it takes ' 'place only in our ...
Discover Spain
Stuart ButlerDescribes points of interest and itineraries for each region of Spain, and recommends hotels, restaurants, and entertainment.
The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation
Brad HooperDaphne Merkin, “Northern Exposure,” p. 60. 5. Daphne Merkin, “Northern Exposure,” p. 62. 6. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson/Gale, 2006, 22, p. 129. 7. Coral Ann Howells, Alice Munro, New York: St. Martin's ...
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & ...
Daphne Du MaurierIncludes the novels Frenchman's Creek and Hungry Hill, and the story collection The Birds & Other Stories.
Spain: Be Fluent in Spanish Life and Culture
PreviewSpain is a complex country. Beyond the stereotypes of sangria and bullfighting lies a cultured mosaic of regions, languages and customs.
Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne ...
Pauline ButlingConversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouré, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen and Fred Wah Pauline Butling, Susan Rudy. CONTENTS Preface vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi one "Historicizing ...
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