A look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
Controversial English novelist, notorious for the explicitness of his writings. Writings include: Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Women in Love. Volume covers the period 1909-1931 (grouped by novels/poems)
When Ladies Go A-Thieving - Middle Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store
This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of consumption. Many succumbed, buying both what they needed and what they desired, but also stealing what seemed so readily available. Pitted against these middle-class women were the management, detectives, and clerks of the department stores. Abelson argues that in the interest of concealing this darker side of consumerism, women of the middle class, but not those of the working class, were allowed to shoplift and plead incapacitating illness--kleptomania.
Reform and Resistance - Formations of Female Subjectivity in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Culture
The early Middle Ages were a vibrant period rich with possibility for both men and women. Reform and Resistance explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies, centering mostly on competing perceptions of female subject formation in times of conversion, reform, and resistance. While women played an active role in the spread of Christianity during the Middle Ages, their freedoms were often restricted by the Church during periods of reform, when uniformity and conformity were important.
Danger and violence have always been part of Sue Dalston's East End upbringing. Unlovedby her mother, abused by her father, and brutalised throughout her entire marriage, she smashed her husband's skull with a claw hammer in a final act of desperation. All thatkeeps her sane is the knowledge that her four children are safe from harm. When she is celled up with the murderess Mathilda Enderby, their fates become inextricable linked and no-one, least of all Sue, could have predicted the consequences.
