These are the words used by the individuals concerned and sociologists have implicitly approached the problem from the same point of view. This is doubtless because the definition of divorce and its sociological significance are taken for granted divorce means the breakdown and failure of marriage. Studies devoted to divorce in the past have presented it as the sum of individual divorce situations, they have not defined it (e.g. Translated by Diana Leonard.Īll the books in our Feminist Classics series are 40% off until October 2nd. A foundational work of materialist feminism, Christine Delphy's Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression is out now in a new edition as part of Verso's Feminist Classics series.īelow, we present Delphy's "Continuities and Discontinuities in Marriage and Divorce," first published in the 1976 anthology Sexual Divisions and Society: Process and Change, edited by D.
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Wendy’s Twenty Reasons by Shelley Shepard Gray She has to give up something, and Micah worries that it will be their faith. They bond over their love of music, but soon it appears that Priscilla’s dreams of fame just might be coming true. As the community comes together to build a new schoolhouse, Priscilla and Micah are thrown together. Micah Glick recently moved there as well to put the past behind him. Now, she’s moving in with her cousin, Hiram, in Birch Creek to be a schoolteacher. Priscilla Miller left her Amish community twelve years ago to pursue her dream of being a country singer, but she’s missed her faith and her family. Will Laurel and Glen push through the obstacles and fight for love? Now she can’t bear to think of leaving Glen and her beloved students, but she’s beginning to feel like she’s out of options. However, she never intended to stay in Colorado, and his family doesn’t approve of her outgoing ways. She stays with handsome Glen Troyer’s family, and they become close. From three bestselling authors of Amish fiction come three charming stories of new school years and new romance.Īdventurous Laurel Weaver leaves Pennsylvania to answer a newspaper ad for a teaching position in Colorado. When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of pranks, sabotage, and all-out emotional warfare.īut with the countdown looming to the wedding that may or may not come to pass, Naomi finds her resolve slipping. Naomi wants out, but there’s a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him. They’re preparing for their lavish wedding that’s three months away. Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. When your nemesis also happens to be your fiancé, happily ever after becomes a lot more complicated in this wickedly funny, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy debut. Let’s just get into this review because I need to gush! But I FINALLY read this book and it was just as brilliant as everyone said it would be and !!!! Hello and welcome my beautiful friends, how are we on this fine day?Īpologies for this belated review, life has been crazy and I haven’t had the time to put it together. First serial to Cosmopolitan and New Age Journal BOMC, QPB, Nature Book Study and National Wildlife Federation selections audio rights to Recorded Books and Books on Tape. About the author (2010) Jeffrey Masson graduated from the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and was briefly Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. ``If we wish to learn about other animals, they must be taken on their own terms, which includes their feelings,'' stress the authors, who make a compelling case for animals' having feelings to begin with. Most human emotions can be observed in other animals-grief, anger, dominance, jealousy, compassion, altruism, gratitude the book offers examples. The authors are sharply critical of animal research in psychology, which they liken to torture. They argue that scientists use a double standard, depending on whether the behavior is human or nonhuman (``a cheetah is not frightened by a lion it shows flight behavior''). This subject is avoided by many behavioral scientists for fear that they will be accused of anthropomorphism the authors look carefully at that issue. Title: When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals Author Name: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson ISBN Number: 0385314256 ISBN-13: 9780385314251 Location. With science writer McCarthy, he shows that animals of all kinds lead complex emotional lives. So the psychoanalyst turned his attention and analysis to these other species. When Masson searched modern scientific literature on the subject of emotions in nonhuman animals, he found very little. (At least, I don’t think it is.) Content warning: the novel deals with racism, violence, death, grief, and mental illness. It’s moving, topically and thematically relevant to life in Canada in 2021, beautifully written, and although serious, not completely bleak. It’s an excellent piece of literature, but as we know, that doesn’t always mean it’ll be a good teaching text…however, this one is both. Students really engaged with it and produced good discussion and writing. So far, one class has finished it and I think it was a success. I have two sections of Provincial Upgrading English (basically, an equivalent to Grade 12 English for adults). This is the first semester I’ve used David Chariandy’s novel Brother as a teaching text. “I thought it was an interesting story that Miriam had written, presenting a reason to die that I hadn't read before,” McGowan tells Final Draft when asked about why he was drawn to adapting the material. The sisters understand the depths of mental illness well since leaving the Mennonite community after their father unexpectedly killed himself. Yoli is a writer going through a tough divorce while her sister Elf is a well-known concert pianist whose ongoing bout with depression now threatens to consume her. The film, which premiered at TIFF in 2021, follows two Mennonite sisters, Yoli (Alison Pill) and Elf (Sarah Gadon). A ll My Puny Sorrows, a heart-wrenching drama written, produced, and directed by Michael McGowan, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, examines both the lightness and darkness that comes with depression. The authors have played critical roles in the modern rediscovery of entheogens, and The Road to Eleusis presents an authoritative exposition of their views. Although controversial when first published in 1978, the book’s hypothesis has become more widely accepted in recent years, as knowledge of ethnobotany has deepened. The authors then expand the discussion to show that natural psychedelic agents have been used in spiritual rituals across history and cultures. In this groundbreaking work, three experts-a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian-argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the ritual contained a psychoactive entheogen. The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions ".one of the two best kept secrets in history, and this book is the most successful attempt I know to unlock it. They had the house to themselves it was Saturday and Dad was out to lunch with the Chief of Police Rodney Caplan and Officer Rookie to talk shop. However, a conundrum now presented itself: stop while they still could, or keep on going into the strange, unknown land of Putting Hands Under Clothes for a Nice Time. Nick thought they’d gotten this making-out thing down pat. Seth’s cheeks were flushed, his lips swollen since Nick had been attacking them for the last twenty minutes. His sweater was rucked-up, revealing a sliver of pale skin. Seth’s glasses were crooked, his bow tie partially undone, his dark hair a mess of curls. Sweat dripped down the back of his neck as he shifted above Seth, who was lying on Nick’s bed. Hearing his name come from Seth’s mouth in that way was apparently enough to fry all the remaining circuits in Nicholas Bell’s brain. Granted, he’d also never been more turned-on, and he couldn’t quite focus because all the blood had left his brain and traveled south, but still. “Nicky, yes,” Seth Gray groaned, and Nick had never been prouder of himself in his entire life. He states that “the trend toward using telling narration throughout a film threatens the future of our art” (McKee, 1997, p344) and goes on to condemn “fine directors” who “indulge in this indolent practice” (McKee, 1997, p344), repeatedly reciting the screenwriting mantra “show, don’t tell” as justification for his viewpoint. In his screenwriting bible, Story, Robert McKee forever demonized the use of voice-over narration as a screenwriting device in the space of just two pages. Robert McKee (played by Brian Cox) in Adaptation You must present the internal conflicts of your character in action.” Any idiot can write voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character. God help you! It’s flaccid, sloppy writing. “… and God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. But Green’s latest book, “Turtles All the Way Down,” is somehow far darker, not so much because of the subject matter - though that’s dark too - but because of how he chooses to write about it. There are few subjects more upsetting than young people with cancer. “ The Fault in Our Stars,” which was simultaneously an implacable tragedy and a screwball comedy about two teenage cancer patients, was of a piece with everything Green has ever done. People die and disappear a lot in his books, and his adolescent characters spend a lot of time channeling their inner philosophers, trying to make sense of love and suffering. Death, parting, existential questions about what it all means - they’re never far from Green’s mind. (Among the festive topics they discuss: geography, astronomy, the hermeneutics of Star Wars.) As always, one of the girls is a tornado of enthusiasm and high drama, prone to announcements like, “I have a crisis,” when really it’s a fun crisis she’s having.Īnd there’s loss. (Green does Aaron Sorkin better than Aaron Sorkin does Aaron Sorkin.) They’re irrepressible nerds. It features a small cast of tenderhearted, manically articulate teenagers. John Green has written a new young adult novel, his first since “The Fault in Our Stars” (2012), and in some ways it is very much a John Green production. |