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A Handbook of Literary Feminisms

A Handbook of Literary Feminisms

Shari Benstock

The first section of the book offers a history of women's contributions to Anglo-American literature over the past 500 years.
No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton

No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton

Shari Benstock

A biography of the noted author, tracing her evolution from shy debutante to the social chronicler of her age.
Schweigen als Widerstand: Shari Benstock, Sacvan Bercovitch ...

Schweigen als Widerstand: Shari Benstock, Sacvan Bercovitch ...

Bert Bobock

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2000 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft II, 11 ...
On Fashion

On Fashion

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Shari Benstock, Suzanne Ferriss. tumn 1975): 6-18; Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Bloomington: Indiana University Press , 1987); E. Ann Kaplan, Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera (New ...
Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940

Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940

Shari Benstock

... Blanche Gelfant, Sidney Huttner,DavidV. Koch, Maryse Mucciante, DanielePitavy Soukes, Michael Pretina, Alan Schaffer,David Schoonover, William Shawn,Thomas F. Staley, PaulaA. Treichler, JamesG.Watson, George Wickes, and Russell ...
The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading

The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading

Minrose Gwin

... edited hy Elizaheth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart (1986); Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship, edited hy Shari Benstock (1987); Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism, edited hy Rohyn Warhol and Diana Price ...
Things Go Flying

Things Go Flying

Shari Lapeña

Shari Lapeña takes the wit of David Sedaris and the outrageousness of Douglas Coupland to create a dark, hilarious and wildly inventive contemporary comedy about how the past can come back to haunt you.
A Stranger in the House

A Stranger in the House

Shari Lapena

‘So many dizzying twists you'd better not drive after reading’ LINWOOD BARCLAY The electrifying new thriller from Shari Lapena, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Couple Next Door. ***** Why would you run scared from a happy ...
Naboparret

Naboparret

Shari Lapena

Hun er væk. Du har aldrig ringet til politiet før. Nu er de i jeres hus. Hvem ved, hvad de kommer til at finde ... Shari Lapenas psykologiske thriller NABOPARRET er blevet en international bestseller. En baby forsvinder sporløst.
Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

Shari L. Dworkin

Your body fat index? Increasingly, Americans are being sold on a fitness ideal — not just thin but toned, not just muscular but cut — that is harder and harder to reach. In Body Panic, Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs ask why.
Shi'i Reformation in Iran: The Life and Theology of Shari’at ...

Shi'i Reformation in Iran: The Life and Theology of Shari’at ...

Ali Rahnema

The Life and Theology of Shari'at Sangelaji Ali Rahnema. First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA ...
Yiutjip k'ŏp'ŭl: The couple next door

Yiutjip k'ŏp'ŭl: The couple next door

Shari Lapeña

Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all -- a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora.
Happiness Economics

Happiness Economics

Shari Lapeña

Shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour Will Thorne is a stalled poet, married to Judy, a wildly successful celebrity economist.
La pareja de al lado

La pareja de al lado

Shari Lapena

Críticas: «Alta tensión que se mantiene hasta la última, y asombrosa, página.» The Times «Un thriller psicológico potente, nada sanguinario, muy visual y atractivo.
What Alice Knew

What Alice Knew

TA Cotterell

'Intriguing and layered ... an impressive debut' Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door 'It made me look at marriage in a different light' Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife' How far would you go to keep a secret?
Islam, Sharia and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mechanisms ...

Islam, Sharia and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mechanisms ...

Mohamed Keshavjee

This book shows that Shari'a and its 'fiqh' (laws set forward by various Islamic legal schools) comprise a far more nuanced matrix of interpretations than is often assumed to be the case.
Shari'a in the West

Shari'a in the West

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Leading scholars from a range of countries and academic disciplines, and representing different political viewpoints and faith traditions, explore the complex issues surrounding the legal recognition of religious faith in a multicultural ...
A Life Without You: An emotional page-turner to make you ...

A Life Without You: An emotional page-turner to make you ...

Shari Low

Touching, funny, and bittersweet, this is a story that will make you laugh, cry, and call your best friend to tell her you love her. 30-year-old Dee Harper and her husband, Joe, are blissfully happy.
The Couple Next Door

The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena

Even then, you'll never guess the truth...until it's too late' LISA GARDNER ‘Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp. THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR lingers long after you turn the final page’ HARLAN COBEN
100 Days of Cake

100 Days of Cake

Shari Goldhagen

But when Molly finds out FishTopia is turning into a lame country diner, her already crummy life starts to fall even more out of her control, and soon she has to figure out what— if anything—is worth fighting for. 100 Days of Cake is a ...
Quiet Testimony: A Theory of Witnessing from ...

Quiet Testimony: A Theory of Witnessing from ...

Shari Goldberg

Develops an account of testimony and the ethics of witnessing through readings of nineteenth-century American literary texts, including those of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Henry James.
Maqasid al-Shari’a and Contemporary Reformist Muslim ...

Maqasid al-Shari’a and Contemporary Reformist Muslim ...

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8 Maqāṣid alSharīʿa, Gender Nonpatriarchal QurʾānSunna Hermeneutics, and the Reformation of Muslim Family Law Adis Duderija 9 A Case Studyof Patriarchy and Slavery: The Hermeneutical Importance of Qurʾānic Assumptions in the ...
Energy and water, and related agencies appropriations, ...

Energy and water, and related agencies appropriations, ...

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MOHAN KELKAR, The University ofTulsa, on behalf of the Association of U.S. Petroleum Engineering Department Heads: DR. SAM AMERI, West Virginia University DR. BOB CHASE, Marietta College DR. SHARI DUNN-NORMAN, University ...
Shari'a implementation in Nigeria: issues & challenges on ...

Shari'a implementation in Nigeria: issues & challenges on ...

Abiola Akiyode Afolabi

The phrase, "in the absence of doubt", in the new act simply clarifies that pregnancy of an unmarried woman is not an absolute proof of zina. The precedents do not clear that point. In his essay5, Abdel Salam Sidahmed analysed three cases of ...
Overcoming Tradition And Modernity: The Search For Islamic ...

Overcoming Tradition And Modernity: The Search For Islamic ...

Robert D. Lee

Robert D. Lee explores these compelling questions by presenting four contemporary Muslim writers—Muhammad Iqbal, Sayyid Qutb, ‘Ali Shari‘ati, and Mohammed Arkoun—all of whom have refused to bow to such a dichotomy of modernity and ...
The Shari'a and Islamic Criminal Justice in Time of War and ...

The Shari'a and Islamic Criminal Justice in Time of War and ...

M. Cherif Bassiouni

M. Cherif Bassiouni, Freedom of Religion in Egypt: The Baha'is' Case, in CRIMINOLOGIA Y DERECHO PENAL AL SERVICIO DE LA PERSONA (Jose Luis de la Cuesta, Inaki Dendaluze 81 Enrique Echebunia eds., San Sebastian, Spain: ...

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