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The Weight of the Heart
Set in contemporary Spain, Susana Aikin’s latest novel is a colorful, beautifully written examination of memory, romance, and the intricacies of family duty. On a sweltering August day in Madrid, Anna, Julia, and Marion return to their childhood home. The once grand mansion, furnished with exotic objects and art that reflected the cultures of their English father and Spanish mother, once bustled with visitors. But since their father’s death, all three sisters have been reluctant to go back, still feeling the weight of his domineering influence. Julia believes that before the house can sell, it needs to be cleared of negative energy, and she has planned a limpieza, or cleaning ritual. Mar...
We Shall See the Sky Sparkling
Winner of the 2019 American Fiction Award for Best Historical Fiction Set in London and Russia at the turn of the century, Susana Aikin’s debut introduces a vibrant young woman determined to defy convention and shape an extraordinary future. Like other well-bred young women in Edwardian England, Lily Throop is expected to think of little beyond marriage and motherhood. Passionate about the stage, Lily has very different ambitions. To her father’s dismay, she secures an apprenticeship at London’s famous Imperial Theatre. Soon, her talent and beauty bring coveted roles and devoted admirers. Yet to most of society, the line between actress and harlot is whisper-thin. With her reputation t...
Digging Up the Salt Mines
DIGGING UP THE SALT MINES is a filmmaking memoir recounting the author´s experience in shooting her first documentary film. In the early 1980´s when New York City swarmed with a diversity of homeless populations, two young filmmakers encounter a community of homeless Latino drag queens living in abandoned garbage trucks by the Hudson River in the so called Salt Mines, an area where the Sanitation Department kept the salt deposits used in winter to melt the snow. The filmmakers set out to shoot a film depicting their lifestyle of drugs, prostitution and community living in a garbage dump, as well as exploring the boundaries of sexual identity and social tolerance.
Nadine
Cuando tu mundo se derrumba, ¿puedes encontrar en tu pasado las claves de tu futuro? Dos hermanas, Nadine y Alexandra, cuyo estilo de vida diferente las ha mantenido separadas desde hace años, se reencuentran: Nadine es una poeta reprimida que se refugia en un mundo conservador y superficial; Alexandra es una actriz pasional e impredecible que lo ha arriesgado todo por los escenarios. Pero detrás de estas fachadas dispares subyace el mismo secreto familiar, un secreto inquietante que ha permanecido enterrado durante décadas en la memoria de ambas. Y ahora precisamente ha llegado el momento de descubrirlo y de hacerlo cuando la vida de las hermanas hace aguas: Nadine ha visto hundirse su matrimonio y ha perdido su trabajo y su casa; Alexandra tiene un cáncer terminal y ha ido a parar al hospital donde, finalmente, la encuentra su hermana.
Queer Religiosities
Queer Religiosities is the first comprehensive, comparative, and globally focused introduction to queer and transgender studies in religion. Addressing sophisticated topics in clear and accessible language, award-winning teacher and scholar Melissa M. Wilcox brings her engaging lecture style into conversation with the work of scholars around the globe to welcome students into these rapidly growing fields. Following an introduction to key concepts in religious studies, queer studies, and transgender studies and an overview of the history of transgender and queer studies in religion, thematic chapters address the topics of stories, conversations, practices, identities, communities, and politics and power. This inherently comparative organization helps readers to understand the details and complexities of religions, genders, and sexualities as they are lived out around the world. Additional resources include study questions, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a glossary, an annotated filmography, and a selected bibliography to encourage further study.
Crip Theory
A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as “normal” or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other. Drawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization, Robert McRuer articulates the central...
Vital Sensation Manual Unit 1 Casetaking
The Vital Sensation Manual is a series of five units for homeopaths to learn how to apply and take homeopathic cases using the Sensation Method. The manual is an interesting read for non-homeopaths but is not meant to be used by lay-people who are not formally trained in homeopathy. This first unit focusses on casetaking using the Sensation Method. The in-depth course provides a comprehensive understanding of the methods used to prescribe and treat patients homeopathically based on Dr. Rajan Sankaran's theories, research, teaching and practice. The Sensation Method developed by the Bombay Group led by Dr. Rajan Sankaran improves your self confidence because there are clear indications of how...
Translocas
Argues for the political potential of drag and trans performance in Puerto Rico and its diaspora
Law, Literature and Political Philosophy in the Spanish Golden Age
This collection of articles, thoroughly documented, analyses particular aspects of the Spanish 16th and 17th centuries. It discusses a range of topics, including the Catholic reason of state, anti-Machiavellianism, and royal power and its limits, from the point of view of Golden Age authors. This is a work where literature, law theory and political philosophy combine their efforts to offer an unusual portrait of power in Spanish society during a time of deep change.
New York's Newsboys
""New York Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the Founding of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) investigates Brace's visionary anti-poverty work among New York's vagrant children in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Taking as its central focus the CAS's flagship program-the Newsboys' Lodging House, which opened in 1854-this book examines its experiment in incentive-based youth engagement, its connection with other CAS branches, and its overall place in a continuum of child care. Brace forged new methods based on voluntary participation, a alternative to child asylums which policed the poor. Straddling periods dubbed antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age, CAS took ...
