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Janet, My Mother, and Me
A deliciously idiosyncratic coming-of-age story that reads like "Auntie Mame"--Murray's winsome, affectionate memoir of being raised by his mother and her longtime lover, famed "New Yorker" journalist Janet Flanner. of photos.
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Gen?t
The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few yearsøbefore she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Gen?t. For half a century she described life on the Continent with matchless elegance.
Big Town
Big Town is a government green facility that invites obese people to lose all of their unwanted pounds in a week’s time; painlessly and effortlessly, and at no cost to them. Rose and Bruno, an overweight couple, answer the ad and discover that their energy creates electricity. Their fat is converted into an alternative bio-fuel while they sleep; but, things go wrong: people die, and three robots do a cover-up on their own.
The Practice of U.S. Women's History
In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. Among many other examples, they examine how conceptions of gender shaped government officials' attitudes towards East Asian immigrants; how race and gender inequality pervaded the welfare state; and how color and class shaped Mexican American women's mobilization for civil and labor rights.
The Man Inside
Amanda Effrem, nicknamed Effie, a young woman journalist, confused about her chosen career path, moves to the country on the Eastern Shore and becomes enamored with Mortimer Washington, a handsome idiot savant. She is determined to break through his shell to understand him and get closer to him. Gideon Faulk, a young missionary who has given up his post in an Asian Village, returns home and becomes enamored with her. Jealousy stimulates Mortimers desire to confess the truth of his real identity to Effie in a brutal way. Gideon tries to win her heart, while her shrink, Dr. Anthony Spagnola, tries to get her into his bed. She must choose between them.
Possession, Power and the New Age
This book provides a new sociological account of contemporary religious phenomena such as channelling, holistic healing, meditation and divination, which are usually classed as part of a New Age Movement. Drawing on his extensive ethnography carried out in the UK, alongside comparative studies in America and Europe, Matthew Wood criticises the view that such phenomena represent spirituality in which self-authority is paramount. Instead, he emphasises the role of social authority and the centrality of spirit possession, linking these to participants' class positions and experiences of secularisation. Informed by sociological and anthropological approaches to social power and practice, especially the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, Wood's study explores what he calls the nonformative regions of the religious field, and charts similarities and differences with pagan, spiritualist and Theosophical traditions.
