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Becoming Lesbian
A landmark analysis of how a marginalized subculture used modern media to transform public attitudes toward sexual desire. In Becoming Lesbian, historian Tamara Chaplin argues that the history of female same-sex intimacy is central to understanding the struggle to control the public sphere. This monumental study draws on undiscovered sources culled from cabaret culture, sexology, police files, radio, TV, photography, the Minitel (an early form of internet), and private letters, as well as over one hundred interviews filmed by the author. Becoming Lesbian demonstrates how women of diverse classes and races came to define themselves as lesbian and used public spaces and public media to exert c...
Carmen and the Staging of Spain
Georges Bizet's Carmen and its staging of an exoticized Spain was progressively reimagined between its 1875 Paris premiere and 1915. This book explores Carmen's dynamic interaction with Spanishness in this cosmopolitan age of spectacle, across operatic productions, parodies, and theatrical adaptations from Spain to Paris, London, and New York.
The Once Upon a Time World
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Gay Life Stories
This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from all walks of life. It includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, activists and artists. Alongside such celebrated figures as Michelangelo, Frederick the Great and Harvey Milk are lesser-known but no less surprising individuals: Dong Xian and the Chinese emperor Ai, whose passion flourished in the 1st century BC; the unfortunate Robert De Péronne, first to be burned at the stake for sodomy; Katharine Philips, writing proto-lesbian poetry in seventeenth-century England; and 'Aimee' and 'Jaguar', whose love defied the death camps of wartime Germany. With many striking illustrations, Gay Life Stories will entertain, give pause for thought, and ultimately celebrate the diversity of human history.
Camus, a Romance
A woman’s passion for the Nobel Prize winner yields “a rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir” (The Washington Post). Elizabeth Hawes was a college sophomore in the 1950s when she became transfixed and transformed by Albert Camus. The author of such revered works as The Fall, The Plague, and The Stranger, he was best known for his contribution to twentieth-century literature. But who was he, beneath the trappings of fame? A French-Algerian of humble birth; the TB-stricken exile editing the war resistance newspaper Combat; the pied noir in anguish over the Algerian War; and the Don Juan who loved a multitude of women. Above all, he was a man who wa...
Consuelo de Saint Exupéry
Entre la Première et la Dexième Guerre mondiale, tout le monde parlait de Consuelo comme d'un volcan projetant ses étincelles sur les toits de Paris. Un volcan qui embrasa le coeur d'Antoine de Saint Exupéry... Partie du Salvador, où elle naît en 1901, Consuelo Suncin Sandoval traverse un siècle riche et troublé. Sculpteur, peintre et écrivain, surnommée la Shéhérazade des Tropiques pour ses talents de conteuse et sa voix enchanteresse, elle sera la muse des hommes célèbres, artistes ou politiques, qui feront le renom des «années folles» : Breton, Balthus, Derain, Maeterlink, Poincaré, D'Annunzio... C'est en 1930 à Buenos Aires qu'elle rencontre Saint Exupéry. Rencontre d...
Un long voyage ou L'empreinte d'une vie Tome 33
Une belle journée s'annonce, pas de visiteurs en vue, Louis va pouvoir se consacrer tout entier à ses travaux après sa promenade matinale avec ses chiens... Mais le téléphone l'interrompt : une voix de femme : «Venez vite, votre maman est au plus mal !». Impossible d'en savoir davantage, son interlocutrice a raccroché, et Germaine ne l'a pas. Cela fait une éternité, lui semble-t-il, qu'il n'est pas allé à Albi. Et si elle mourait ? Il se prépare en hâte. D'abord prévenir Pauline à son cabinet. Veut-il qu'elle l'accompagne ? Non, ça le retarderait. Vers 17 heures, quand la tour rose de la cathédrale et le ruban azur de la rivière se dessinent au loin, il se dit que ses alar...
Glamour
Glamour is one of the tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive. This book captures the excitement and sex appeal of glamour while exposing its mechanisms and exploring its sleazy and sometimes tragic underside.
Escreva muito e sem medo
Em 1944, na noide do dia D, um dos maiores autores do século XX e uma das grandes atrizes do teatro francês iniciam um caso amoroso. Inédito no Brasil, Escreva muito e sem medo é a coletânea da intensa troca de cartas de Albert Camus e Maria Casarès, um testemunho da busca de dois amantes pela verdadeira experiência do amor. Em 19 de março de 1944, Albert Camus e Maria Casarès se conhecem na casa de Michel Leiris. A ex-aluna do Conservatório de Arte Dramática de Paris, nascida em Corunha e filha de um político espanhol forçado ao exílio, tem apenas 21 anos. Ela havia começado a carreira em 1942, no Théâtre des Mathurins, mesmo ano em que Camus publicara O estrangeiro pela Ga...
Antoine de Saint Exupéry - tome 1 La soif d'exister (1900-1936)
Comment faire le portrait de l'auteur du Petit Prince, de Terre des hommes et de Vol de nuit ? Du héros de l'Aéropostale, aventurier séducteur, l'un des hommes les plus complets du XXe siècle, dont son ami Léon Werth disait qu'" en lui, tout était lié : maths, biologie, poésie des espaces, d'un tableau de bord ou d'un drôle de bistrot, amour de Pascal, tours de cartes " ?Homme d'action, prisonnier d'une carcasse qu'il n'aimait pas et qui lui valut le surnom de " Pique-la-Lune ", Saint Exupéry fut d'abord un enfant surprotégé par un aréopage féminin dans la propriété de Saint-Maurice de Rémens, au sud de Lyon. Toute sa vie, il recherchera la compagnie des femmes : amies, aman...
