From the wandering womb of ancient Greece (the idea that a displaced uterus caused many of women’s illnesses) and the witch trials in medieval Europe, through the dawn of hysteria, to modern myths around menstruation, she lays bare the unbelievable and sometimes horrific treatment of women for millennia in the name of medicine. “Biological theories about female bodies were used to reinforce and uphold constraining social ideas about women.”Ĭleghorn’s new book, Unwell Women, enumerates a litany of ways in which women’s bodies and minds have been misunderstood and misdiagnosed through history. But even the author Elinor Cleghorn, who spent the past year immersed in the history of women’s relationship to medicine, was surprised by “just how conscious and insidious it was”, she told the Guardian. The history of medicine is every bit as social and cultural as it is scientific, and male dominance is cemented in its foundations.
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Harriet is unstoppable: she eats cake and egg creams in the afternoons, argues with grown-ups, climbs onto buildings and into dumbwaiters to spy, all while filled with that kind of youthful rage one can only find in children. With her matter-of-fact tone and acerbic humor, Harriet the Spy is the quintessential story of a tomboy-a queer heroine in childhood. Now Harriet’s author, Louise Fitzhugh, is the subject of a biography-Leslie Brody’s Sometimes You Have t o Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy, a succinct and readable portrait of the short-lived and charismatic lesbian writer and illustrator. Readers young and old, however, sixty years ago as much as today, find in Harriet a cathartic release and creative permission. As training for one day becoming a famous novelist, she ventures on a daily “spy route,” stalking a handful of brownstones on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, secretly watching her friends and neighbors, chronicling their business in a private notebook using a tone so deadpan and factual it borders on cruel. Welch, the titular character of Louise Fitzhugh’s iconic children’s book Harriet the Spy is eleven years old and determined to write everything down. The Creative Brilliance of Louise Fitzhugh: On Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody Riko is a Runner and professional thief who wakes up in a laboratory one day with months missing of her life. In a way, Necrotech is a throwback to the original cyberpunk novels of Case and Molly. Even so, I wrote my first cyberpunk novel with the cultured assassin of the super-rich rather than the penniless hacker on the ground. It took the War on Terror and the pear of 2020 to remind us the world was a scary place with violent chaos on one side along with the politicians as well as corporates willing to take advantage of it. Basically, the original cyberpunks grew up to become thirty something year old people who had to work for a living and were briefly deluded by the tech of Steve Jobs as well as the Clinton Administration into believing the world was getting better. I say this as a huge cyberpunk fan and someone who has often felt the genre has suffered since The Matrix. NECROTECH is probably the most entertaining novel I read in 2020 and is the best way I can finish off this year. But these are not so much its qualities as adjustments of man. Physicists describe the air as tasteless, odorless, and invisible. If actually removed from air, he dies immediately. If it moves too fast, he becomes a pitiable wind-swept creature, cowering in cellars and ditches. If it becomes overcharged with water-droplets, he gropes helplessly in fog. If traces of noxious gas mingle with it, he coughs and his complexion turns deathly gray. Man thinks of the crab as a water-animal illogically and curiously, he calls himself a creature of the land.Īs water environs the crab, so air surrounds, permeates, and vivifies the body of man. As a crab moves on the ocean-bottom, but is of the water, so man rests his feet upon the earth-but lives in the air. So what’s it about in a nutshell as this is a review of all three books? Meghan March writes hot and provocative and these books grabbed me from the very first page. So this series came at just the perfect time because I needed something fun and sexy. I’ve just sold 99% of women on going home with me. Honestly, I don’t need to say anything else. I’ve got a big dick and an even bigger bank account. Though with a blurb that started out like this for Dirty Billionaire (book 1 in the series) …it was SO hard to resist picking it up lol So I must admit that I waited for this series to come out all together so I could read at once and I am so glad that I did because I devoured it basically in one sitting. She’s mine, and if she thinks I’m going to let her run without tracking her down and bringing her back to where she belongs-with me-then she’s about to be introduced to a new reality.īecause I’ll fight dirty to give her the happily ever after she deserves.ĭirty Together is the final book in The Dirty Billionaire Trilogy and should be read following Dirty Billionaire and Dirty Pleasures. Posted on 21 January, 2016 by momsread in Meghan March, Review / 1 comment Subscribe Series Review: The Dirty Billionaire Trilogy by Meghan March Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications of new posts by email. He warns of gift shortages due to the Great Depression. From the North Pole, Father Christmas writes to the children in response to their letters. The letters display a consistent yet imaginative storyline. Some parents find it hard to share passions with their children not J.R.R. These letters begin in 1920 and continue uninterrupted until 1943, at which time his oldest child left home. As a professor, he was a busy man, but took the time to convey fun annually to his children as they aged. I am most impressed with how much obvious joy Tolkien takes in the art of parenting. His daughter-in-law Baillie posthumously collected these writings into this compilation. He wrote little publicized letters to his children every year at Christmastime by posing as Father Christmas (the equivalent of Santa Claus), replete with this trademark imagination and with drawings and paintings. He was also an Oxford don (in the field of Anglo-Saxon literature) and a family man who was widely adored for his overactive imagination. Tolkien is most well known as the author behind the famed series The Lord of the Rings. As a result they must actively seek ways to engage in forms of resistance that promote counter narratives and protect themselves from denigration while minimizing the risk of severe consequence. In these distinct environments, people of color experience an unequal distribution of emotional labor as a result of negotiating both everyday racial micro-aggressions and dismissive dominant ideologies that deny the relevance of race and racism. Based on in-depth qualitative data combined from two individual studies, we illustrate the processes by which white institutional spaces create a complex environment where people of color must navigate racial narratives, ideologies, and discourses, while simultaneously attempting to achieve institutional success to reap the material rewards of these elite institutional settings. This article explores the connections between white institutional spaces, emotional labor, and resistance by illuminating the shared experiences of people of color in elite law schools and the commercial aviation industry. until the fleet of the mysterious Black Kings appears in their harbor, bringing envoys who inform the residents of White Gryphon that their newfound home lies on the northern perimeter of lands claimed by this powerful kingdom. Now Urthro's peoples-human and non-human alike live in a terraced city carved into the face of a gleaming white cliff on the edge of the Western Ocean. It has been ten years since the magical Cataclysm, which destroyed the twin strongholds of the two world's most powerful Mages, killing Urtho, creator of the gryphons, and sending his forces into exile. I can handle unsympathetic characters lacking in empathy. But Veronica’s cool attitude toward others doesn’t signify strength to me. Not her problem. I realize that Raybourn intends to characterize Veronica as a strong female. If she inadvertently shocks the Victorian sensibilities of those around her, well, that’s unfortunate. Veronica is an independent, opinionated, sexually-liberated female who abhors the concept of motherhood and marriage. I don’t write historical fiction but if I did, Raybourn would be a novelist to study. That’s apparently hard to do many historical novels insert these details awkwardly or overload the narrative with interesting but irrelevant historical facts. She works in time period details extremely well. Deanna Raybourn is obviously an experienced and accomplished novelist, and it shows in the confident style, dynamic characterizations, and momentum of the plot. Before the kindly baron can tell Veronica why she’s in danger, he is murdered. The stranger, a German baron, insists that she is in grave danger and places her in the care of his bad-tempered (but gorgeous) natural historian friend Stoker. But when an intruder attempts to abduct her, a stranger rescues her. She also plans to have a few sexual flings along the way, as she has in the past. Summary: When Victorian orphan Veronica Speedwell buries her aunt, she is determined to indulge her passion for scientific inquiry and explore the world. A Curious Beginning, by Deanna Raybourn, historical mystery. I'm helping out at a creative writing workshop for uhhh i think 10-12s? 10-14s? idk. and i bet a lot of even seemingly grounded analysis slides off what the creator meant to convey all the time, but that doesnt mean it cant still be something interesting. i think sometimes people just connect some dots because its fun. i dont think someone writing a longish post like 'whoa did you guys notice this thing recurring across episodes, heres why i think it's relevant' needs to be seen as op's assertion that the source material is the deepest thing ever. but its a bit of a downer the perception that trying to find symbols in things or piece together non explicitly stated meaning is solely a pretentious intellectual authoritative exercise only befitting certain deservedly intellectual pieces when really i think its something humans do because its fun. obviously there will be people who assert things that are a bit sillay, & not all attempts to interpret something will seem founded by what the source material actually appears to be giving. I dont think something needs to be 'that deep' for people to analyze it is the thing. |