1) notes, most children’s books indirectly or openly promote heteronormativity through the presence of heterosexuality as the sexual identity of a vast majority of characters and their families. Similarly, Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley (2004, p. ix) claim that according to the dominant ...
But as with all things Sedaris, I really enjoyed it – his observations of people and the world around him are fantastic, this book made me want to journal again, I haven’t but it made me at least think about it. Gold Coast by Nelson Demille I borrowed this book from my parents whi...
For, as Matthiesen writes, "sectarian identity is most salient when political powers instrumentalize it" and it's the interaction of doctrinal and political tensions that leads to conflict. Read expert recommendations Buy now Listen now Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking ...
The genesis of the project is lost in the files of Paramount Studios, but apparently Polan Banks, one of Paramount’s screenwriters with a few novels to his credit, concocted the idea of having a team of popular novelists of the time collaborating on a novel that would both be serialized ...
This book opens January’s eyes to the life she could have had, to a life elsewhere, to the truth of her father’s departures and Mr. Locke’s nature. This book shapes January’s identity in such beautiful and heartbreaking ways. As each piece of the puzzle fell into place via these...
role in childcare. But all is not well, and when Rékia dies suddenly and violently, the tragedy exposes cracks in the family that threaten Emilienne’s very existence, plunging her into an identity crisis, and forcing her to confront the prejudices, inequalities and values underpinning her life...
Surprised by Doubt makes the case that doubt does not have to mean the end of Christian identity. Surely it doesn’t have to end in radical reconversion. I like that they use the clear-headed metaphor from C.S. Lewis that Christianity is like a house and they invite us to move behind...
which explores topics such as Southern society in the fiction ofWilliam Faulkner, sexual identity in the work of French writerAndré Gide, and the films of Swedish directorIngmar Bergman. The theme of Black-white relations in the United States was central to his novelAnother Country(1962), which...
Today, the termChicanois an essential component of the community’s revitalization and renewed sense of hope and pride. Regaining and regenerating the termChicano, and havingChicanismo(an identity embracing the politicalconsciousnessof the Mexicans’ history in the United States), was the first step...
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