![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History is an important contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding the feminine identity. Even common slang terms for the vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the reality of women's lived sexual experiences: slang offers a convenient distraction from something taboo. In our postmodern, porn-obsessed culture, vaginas appear to be everywhere, literally or symbolically but, crucially, they are as silenced as they are objectified. Rees investigates the evolution of this demonization: she considers how writers, artists and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of he vagina's puzzling 'covert visibility' and how the 'c-word' is an obscenity that both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. Buy The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History by Senior Lecturer Emma L. ![]() ![]() In The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, Emma L.E. From South Park to Kathy Acker, from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. ![]()
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She starts waking up at exactly midnight to a frozen blue world that belongs to her and four other teens, plus a horde of ancient monsters that seem to have it out for her. At first, Jessica is mainly concerned with fitting into her new high school – not sticking out, making friends, but soon she discovers that Bixby’s different. Jessica Day has just moved from Chicago to the small town of Bixby, Oklahoma. ![]() ![]() Mevlut’s school experience in Istanbul was a difficult one. In 1969, at the age of 12, Mevlut joined his father in Istanbul, went to school and learned the trade of selling yogurt in the streets by day and boza (popular fermented beverage) in the streets by night. ![]() Mevlut’s father had gone to Istanbul with his brother, Mevlut’s uncle, to make his fortune. Mevlut’s life began in 1957, in a small Turkish village where he lived with his mother and sisters. 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Now, on February 20, audiences across the country can share this inspiring and entertaining story of two worlds colliding as a young Amish woman seeks to find her birth mother for one-day-only. Based on the popular book series “The Heritage of Lancaster County” by New York Times best-selling author Beverly Lewis, the stage play boasts over 200,000 ticket sales since its premiere. Dan PosthumaNASHVILLE, TN, USA, Febru/ / - Blue Gate Musicals, UpTV Entertainment, and Fathom Events are partnering together to bring THE CONFESSION MUSICAL, with special performances by Chonda Pierce and John Schneider, to theaters nationwide on February 20. ![]() ![]() ![]() If one can with certainty learn little from Vidal’s fiction about such famous people as the Kennedys, readers can learn much about his major concern, the nature of Western civilization and the individual’s role within it. The unwary gossipmonger can easily fall into Vidal’s many traps. 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