Women And Weasels

Author : Maurizio Bettini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226044742

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Women and Weasels by Maurizio Bettini Pdf

If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who tricked the gods to ease Heracles’s birth—and was turned into a weasel by Hera as punishment. Following this story as it is retold over centuries in literature and art, Women and Weasels takes us on a journey through mythology and ancient belief, revising our understanding of myth, heroism, and the status of women and animals in Western culture. Maurizio Bettini recounts and analyzes a variety of key literary and visual moments that highlight the weasel’s many attributes. We learn of its legendary sexual and childbearing habits and symbolic association with witchcraft and midwifery, its role as a domestic pet favored by women, and its ability to slip in and out of tight spaces. The weasel, Bettini reveals, is present at many unexpected moments in human history, assisting women in labor and thwarting enemies who might plot their ruin. With a parade of symbolic associations between weasels and women—witches, prostitutes, midwives, sisters-in-law, brides, mothers, and heroes—Bettini brings to life one of the most venerable and enduring myths of Western culture.

Author : Maurizio Bettini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226039961

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Women and Weasels by Maurizio Bettini Pdf

If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who tricked the gods to ease Heracles’s birth—and was turned into a weasel by Hera as punishment. Following this story as it is retold over centuries in literature and art, Women and Weasels takes us on a journey through mythology and ancient belief, revising our understanding of myth, heroism, and the status of women and animals in Western culture. Maurizio Bettini recounts and analyzes a variety of key literary and visual moments that highlight the weasel’s many attributes. We learn of its legendary sexual and childbearing habits and symbolic association with witchcraft and midwifery, its role as a domestic pet favored by women, and its ability to slip in and out of tight spaces. The weasel, Bettini reveals, is present at many unexpected moments in human history, assisting women in labor and thwarting enemies who might plot their ruin. With a parade of symbolic associations between weasels and women—witches, prostitutes, midwives, sisters-in-law, brides, mothers, and heroes—Bettini brings to life one of the most venerable and enduring myths of Western culture.

Author : Bob E.J.H. Becking,Hans Barstad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004291133

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Prophecy and Prophets in Stories by Bob E.J.H. Becking,Hans Barstad Pdf

Much evidence on the phenomenon of prophecy has come down as part of stories and narratives. The essays in this volume search the role of prophets and prophecy in a variety of text, mainly from the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Edward Topsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136956577

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The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects by Edward Topsell Pdf

First Published in 1967. This is volume one of three of The History of Four- footed Beasts taken principally from the ‘ Historite Animalium’ of Conrad Gesner. During the first decade of the seventeenth century, when Topsell prepared his translation, zoology had just become a science. It has a unique place: It was the first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English; and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summarized sympathetically, before it was rendered a curiosity by the many new discoveries soon to come.

Author : Kia Vahland
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780762496426

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The Da Vinci Women by Kia Vahland Pdf

This new biographical look at Leonardo da Vinci explores the Renaissance master's groundbreaking portrayal of women which forever changed the way the female form is depicted. Leonardo da Vinci was a revolutionary thinker, artist, and inventor who has been written about and celebrated for centuries. Lesser known, however, is his revolutionary and empowering portrayal of the modern female centuries before the first women's liberation movements. Before da Vinci, portraits of women in Italy were still, impersonal, and mostly shown in profile. Leonardo pushed the boundaries of female depiction having several of his female subjects, including his Mona Lisa, gaze at the viewer, giving them an authority which was withheld from women at the time. Art historian and journalist Kia Vahland recounts Leonardo's entire life from April 15, 1452, as a child born out of wedlock in Vinci up through his death on May 2, 1519, in the French castle of von Cloux. Included throughout are 80 sketches and paintings showcasing Leonardo's approach to the female form (including anatomical sketches of birth) and other artwork as well as examples from other artists from the 15th and 16th centuries. Vahland explains how artists like Raphael, Giorgione, and the young Titan were influenced by da Vinci's women while Michelangelo, da Vinci's main rival, created masculine images of woman that counters Leonardo's depictions.

Author : Miranda Bliss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101206423

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Dead Men Don't Get the Munchies by Miranda Bliss Pdf

Cooking class is back in session for best friends—and sometime sleuths—Annie and Eve. But this time, Annie finds herself on the teacher’s side of the cutting board, and her best friend Eve in more hot water than ever. Bar food. You wouldn’t think it requires any special talent. But the newly redesigned Bellywasher’s, featuring simple, delicious fare, is D.C.’s latest hotspot. There’s something about its down-home ambience that draws people. The owner, Annie’s boyfriend Jim, is offering a six-week bar food cooking class, and Annie is rolling up her sleeves to help. She knows Jim’s food is good—but she’s about to learn that it’s to die for. When one of the students, Brad Peterson, is murdered, Eve becomes the primary suspect. The whole class heard her say she wanted to kill him. She had good reason, too: Brad was the former boss who had her fired when she spurned his advances. But now, to prove Eve’s innocence, she and Annie must make sure all their ducks á l’orange are in a row.

Author : Carolyn Dinshaw,David Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521796385

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing by Carolyn Dinshaw,David Wallace Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women s Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses dead to the world , and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1650 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780485113938

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A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature by Gordon Williams Pdf

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

Author : Rhart Girls Notebook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1708807055

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Never Underestimate A Woman Who Loves Weasels by Rhart Girls Notebook Pdf

Never Underestimate A Woman Who Loves Weasels. Weasels Lovers Girl Women Gift Journal Lined Notebook 6x9 120 Pages

Author : Marc A. Bringman
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412030694

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Swapping Lies! by Marc A. Bringman Pdf

In a world where business ethics have taken a back seat to the pursuit of wealth and power and movements like political correctness have muzzled the fair exchange of ideas, is it any wonder that the average employee views the workplace with suspicion and consequently checks their loyalties at the office door? Dishonesty has crept into the workplace and undermined organizational performance. Navigating this environment is a difficult task for employees and managers alike. Swapping Lies! takes the issue of deception in the workplace head on. In a powerful blend of academic research, common sense business advice, and home spun tales, the author presents a case for change. In doing so, he offers more than 80 "Tips" designed to help the reader navigate today's complex work environment. In a refreshing change in presentation and style this author provides a third dimension in his footnotes. In addition to a comprehensive list of references, the author uses the footnote as a running commentary on the main text. Much like an alter ego, each footnote adds a deeper insight to both the subject at hand and the author himself. All in all, Swapping Lies! is a real world view of today's organization and a no-nonsense approach to effective organizational management.

Author : Rebecca Jones
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 0805430911

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Does Christianity Squash Women? by Rebecca Jones Pdf

A provocative look at how the Bible should define the identity of a woman and her choices about femininity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000727409J

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Bazaar Exchange and Mart, and Journal of the Household by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr Alena Rada, PhD
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781925908633

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Imposed Morality by Dr Alena Rada, PhD Pdf

The book “Imposed Morality” is written from a multidisciplinary perspective and in this sense is totally different from other books dealing with human sexuality and particularly homosexuality. While other books usually present only one point of view such as medical, psychiatric, psychological, social or legal this book present a total and multidisciplinary view. It also includes a discussion of the present views of homosexuality both in the western countries as compared to some non-western societies which do not seem to take the many important aspects of this practice recently discussed and evaluated by western scientists in consideration, and continue to criminalize homosexuality leading to death sentences and executions of gay people or them being stoned publicly to death.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2546 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104236049

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : James F. Fleming
Publisher : James Fleming
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1418493457

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The Secret of the Forest by James F. Fleming Pdf

The Secret of the forest is revealed in the first chapter when a rescue is mounted by our hero. In the warren all of the rabbits were always frightened. Josua was the head of the warren council and he was at a loss on how they could go out and forage for food with all the dangers that have come to the forest.