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Author : Luisa Passerini,Liliana Ellena,Alexander C.T. Geppert
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459765

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New Dangerous Liaisons by Luisa Passerini,Liliana Ellena,Alexander C.T. Geppert Pdf

In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume trace historical links and analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the distinctions made between the public and private, the political and personal. In doing so, this volume develops an innovative historiography that includes such resources as autobiographies, love letters, and cinematic representations, and takes issue with the exclusivity of Eurocentrism. Its contributors put forth hypotheses about the historical pre-eminence of emotions and consider this history as a basis for a non-Eurocentric understanding of new possible European identities.

Author : Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C005061630

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos Pdf

Author : Eric Brandt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1565844556

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Dangerous Liaisons by Eric Brandt Pdf

Dangerous Liaisons provides a platform for the leading minds of both communities - including thinkers who straddle both worlds - to debate the volatile subject of the relationship between African Americans and homosexuals. It includes writing on minority relations by well-known historians, political analysts, activists, writers, and philosophers. They address such timely issues as recent high-profile hate crimes against blacks and gays: racism in gay and lesbian rights organizations; homophobia in the black church; the shift in highest rate-of-infection of HIV from the gay community to the black community; and stereotypes in books and films.

Author : Anne McClintock,Aamir Mufti,Ella Shohat
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816626499

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Dangerous Liaisons by Anne McClintock,Aamir Mufti,Ella Shohat Pdf

The first collection to emphasize the complex interaction between gender and postcoloniality. Most people in the world, from Africa to Asia and beyond, live in the aftermath of colonialism. Their day-to-day lives are defined by their past history as colonized peoples, often in ways that are subtle or hard to define. In Dangerous Liaisons, eminent contributors address the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, considering nationhood, history, gender, and identity from an inter-disciplinary perspective. Among the questions they address are: What are the boundaries of race and ethnicity in a diasporic world? How have women been so effectively excluded from national power? What have been the historical aftermaths of different forms of colonialism? What are the cultural and political consequences of colonial partitions of the nation-state? Representing an essential intervention, Dangerous Liaisons is a crucial guidebook for those concerned with understanding postcoloniality at the moment when it is becoming more and more widely discussed.

Author : Harold Koda,Andrew Bolton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 9780300107142

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Dangerous Liaisons by Harold Koda,Andrew Bolton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

An alluring look at the relationship of clothing and interior design in 18th-century France

Author : Cinzia Arruzza
Publisher : Resistance Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 0850366445

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Dangerous Liaisons by Cinzia Arruzza Pdf

An accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers' movement and the women's movement, this book investigates the questions "Why does gender inequality exist?" and "How does it relate to capitalism? "Historical examples range from the mid-19th century to the 1970s and include events, debates, and key personalities from China, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Spain, and Britain. It shows time and again the controversial, often difficult relationship between feminism and Marxism. The theoretical questions discussed include the origins of women's oppression, domestic labor, dual systems theory, performativity, and differentialism. Women's oppression is a structural element of the division of labor and one of the direct factors through which capitalism not only reinforces its ideological domination but also organizes the exploitation and reproduction of labor. The integration of patriarchal relations and capitalism has led to their radical transformation--in the family, in terms of women's place in production, in sexual relations, and with respect to sexual identity. Marxism needs to probe complex processes: ongoing transformations and crises, a global context creating an increasingly feminized workforce, and changing relations between men and women. The book maintains that it is a mistake to submerge gender into class or to believe that freedom from exploitation automatically brings about women's liberation and the ending of sexual roles; it is equally wrong is to think the class question can be removed and gender made the main enemy.

Author : Claudia Moscovici
Publisher : Hamilton Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761855705

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Dangerous Liaisons by Claudia Moscovici Pdf

What do Scott Peterson, Neil Entwistle and timeless literary seducers epitomized by Don Juan and Casanova have in common? They are charismatic, glib and seductive men who also embody the most dangerous human qualities: a breathtaking callousness, shallowness of emotion and the incapacity to love. In other words, these men are psychopaths. Unfortunately, most psychopaths don’t advertise themselves as heartless social predators. They come across as charming, intelligent, romantic and kind. Through their believable “mask of sanity,” they lure many of us into their dangerous nets. Dangerous Liaisons explains clearly what psychopaths are, why they act the way they do, how they attract us and whom they tend to target. Above all, this book helps victims find the strength to end their toxic relationships with psychopaths and move on, stronger and wiser, with the rest of their lives.

Author : Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : 0140624481

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Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos Pdf

For the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont seduction is a game - the former lovers relish manipulating others to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While Valmont is determined to succeed in his conquest of a virtuous married woman, Merteuil challenges him to seduce an innocent convent girl who it to be married to her former lover. As their intrigues become increasingly duplicitous and they find their human pawns responding in ways they could not have predicted, the consequences prove to be more serious, and deadly, than the two conspirators could have guessed. Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons (1782) is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature.

Author : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191560439

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Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Pdf

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. This new translation gives Laclos a modern voice, and readers will be able a judge whether the novel is as `diabolical' and `infamous' as its critics have claimed, or whether it has much to tell us about the kind of world we ourselves live in. David Coward's introduction explodes myths about Laclos's own life and puts the book in its literary and cultural context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Carole Seymour-Jones
Publisher : Random House
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448134977

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A Dangerous Liaison by Carole Seymour-Jones Pdf

A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate and sometimes painful story of how these two brilliant free-thinkers - and rivals - came to a share a relationship that was to last over fifty years. Moving from the corridors of the Sorbonne and the chestnut groves in the Limousin, to the cafes of Paris's Left Bank, we discover how the strikingly beautiful and gifted young Simone came to fall in love with the squinting, arrogant, hard-drinking Jean-Paul. Seymour-Jones describes that first summer of 1929: the heated debates that went on long into the night, the sexual rivalry and betrayal, the dangerous ideas that led people to experiment with new ways of behaving and the deep love that this perhaps unlikely couple shared. We hear how Sartre clandestinely compromised with the Nazis and fell into a Soviet honey-trap. And, thanks to recently discovered letters written by de Beauvoir, the darker, more dangerous side to their philosophy of free love is revealed, including Simone's lesbianism and her pimping for younger girls for Jean-Paul, in order to keep his love. This is a compelling and fascinating account of what lay behind the legend that this brilliant, tempestuous couple had created.

Author : Norman C. Ellstrand
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0801881900

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Dangerous Liaisons? by Norman C. Ellstrand Pdf

With the advent of genetic engineering, "designer" crops might interbreed with natural populations. Could such romances lead to the evolution of "superweeds", as some have suggested? But haven't crops had sex with wild plants in the past? Has such gene swapping occurred without consequences? And if consequences have indeed occurred, what lessons can be gleaned for engineered crops? In Dangerous Liaisons? Norman Ellstrand examines these and other questions. He begins with basic information about the natural hybridization process. He then describes what we now know about hybridization between the world's most important crops—such as wheat, rice, maize, and soybeans—and their wild relatives. Such hybridization, Ellstrand explains, is not rare, and has occasionally had a substantial impact. In some cases, the result was problematic weeds. In others, crop genes have diluted natural diversity to the point that wild populations of certain rare species were absorbed into the gene pool of the more common crop, essentially bringing the wild species to the brink of extinction. Ellstrand concludes with a look to the future. Will engineered crops pose a greater threat than traditional crops? If so, can gene flow and hybridization be managed to control the escape of engineered genes? This book will appeal to academics, policy makers, students, and all with an interest in environmental issues.

Author : Laura A. McNamara,Robert A. Rubinstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : National security
ISBN : 1934691496

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Dangerous Liaisons by Laura A. McNamara,Robert A. Rubinstein Pdf

Dangerous Liaisons is a book about intersections. It is a product of two year's worth of discussion among a group of ethnographers from four different countries studying war, violence, the military, and the state. Throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century, anthropologists have watched with both interest and concern as government agencies--particularly those with military and intelligence functions--have sought their professional assistance in understanding terrorists' motivations, stabilizing nascent wartime governments, and countering insurgencies.

Author : Peter Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868613

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Dangerous Liaisons by Peter Davies Pdf

The Nazi regime in Germany was terrible enough without even accounting for the policy of collaboration. So what extra does collaboration say about Hitler and his plans for Europe? Peter Davies explores the mindset and political attitudes of Hitler and also many other controversial pro-Nazi leaders in Western Europe, Scandanavia, Central and Eastern Europe, and also beyond. Delving into four different "types" of collaboration: political, financial, the Holocaust, and collaboration at a social level, he asks some difficult questions. The story of collaboration is brought up to date, assessing both the legacy and its contemporary parallels.

Author : Andrew Cockburn,Leslie Cockburn
Publisher : Stoddart
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : 0773725229

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Dangerous Liaison by Andrew Cockburn,Leslie Cockburn Pdf

Author : Maggie Price
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459217485

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Dangerous Liaisons by Maggie Price Pdf

A MATCH MADE IN MURDER A dance marked their first meeting. A slow, sensuous waltz amid wedding revelers, though they'd felt alone…and entirely too intimate. Because homicide sergeant Jake Ford had given up women, and Nicole Taylor knew the darkly handsome, intensely shuttered cop was far from her perfect match. Murder marked their second encounter—the victim, a client of Nicole's dating service. Without doubt, she knew Jake wouldn't be going away. Nor would her blazing desire for this man who'd awakened feelings both reckless and raw. Feelings she saw mirrored in eyes that contained hidden pain. Though her head warned her that Jake was all wrong, why did her heart scream that loving him was so very right?