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Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" to a performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking to the experience of breast cancer in a world ravaged and reshaped by AIDS. What unites Tendencies is a vision of a new queer politics and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive, writerly, physical, and sometimes giddily fun.
What is meant by the Puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of Puritan literature, as distinct from Puritan beliefs and practices, come into being? The answer is not straightforward. This volume addresses these questions by bringing together new research on a wide range of established and emerging literary subjects that help to articulate the Puritan literary tradition, including: political polemic and the performing arts; conversion and New-World narratives; individual and corporate life-writings; histories of exile and womens history; book history and the translation and circulation of Puritan literature abroad; Puritan epistolary networks; discourses of Puritan friendship; the ...
Award-winning culinary historian Anne Willan traces the origins of American cooking through profiles of influential women whose recipes and ideas changed the way we eat. Women in the Kitchen explores the lives and work of twelve cookbook authors, beginning with the early colonial days, through the still-popular works of Fannie Farmer, Irma Rombauer, Julia Child, Edna Lewis, Marcella Hazan, and up to Alice Waters working today Anne Willan offers a brief biography of each influential woman, highlighting her key contributions, seminal books, and representative dishes. Willan also includes fifty original recipes-as well as updated versions she has tested and modernized for the contemporary kitchen. Moving seamlessly through the centuries to help readers understand the ways cookbook writers inspire one another and owe their place in history to those who came before them, Women in the Kitchen is the story of the authors whose essential books forever changed the culinary landscape. Book jacket.
Be inspired by the world's most magnificent geometric designs! This collection of boldly rendered illustrations — adapted directly from the interiors of Spain's ancient Alhambra — explodes with imaginative, interlocking shapes. Add color to dancing hexagons, spinning stars, and revolving triangles. Then place near a bright light source and give these historic Arabesque motifs — customized by your choice of creative media — an amazing stained glass glow.
In small-town Alaska in the 1990s, high school senior Meri's determination to escape for a more exciting place wanes as she struggles with family, grief, friends, and hormones.
A No-Nonsense Guide to Caring for the Seriously Ill.
Though the functional beauty of the Arts and Crafts movement has long been a part of American culture, it is now revitalized by simplicity seekers trying to counteract the fast pace of contemporary living. The elegant simplicity of Craftsman ideals is time defying, as the rooms and furnishings of The Beautiful Necessity: Decorting With Arts and Crafts will reveal. From the traditional--Greene and Greene, Gustav Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright, and others--to the contemporary--Berkely Mills, Warren Hiles, East/West Furniture Design, and more--the Arts and Crafts movement is represented. All 140 exquisite photographs demonstrate how the Craftsman style has brought stunning warmth yet utilitarian ease to homes past and present.
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What was it like to be a woman when England was ruled by a queen, but women had almost no legal power? When marriage cost women their property rights? When the ideal woman was rarely seen and never heard in public? In other words, what was it like to be a woman in England between 1525 and 1675? Suzanne Hull, in Women According to Men answers these questions and more, taking fascinating look at how women were described, and prescribed to act, by men during that time. Hull, the first woman ever appointed as a Principal Officer at the Huntington Library as well as the author of Chaste, Silent and Obedient, uses her years of experience researching 16th- and 17th-century texts to provide you with an authentic look at the state of women during the Elizabethan era. Through an examination of texts written during that time about and for women, Hull elucidates what the rules for women were then, as well as discussing health habits, household remedies, theories on conception, the care of children, the making of food, fashion and more.