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Author | : Jalaja Bonheim |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1997-06-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1439134995 |
An intimate look at the transformative power of women's sexual experiences. Based on the stories of ordinary American women, Aphrodite’s Daughters explores the central role of sexuality in women's spiritual journey. Witty, wise, entertaining, and compassionate, Aphrodite's Daughters quickly became an underground classic, and has changed the lives of thousands of women.
Author | : Maureen Honey |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-08-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813570808 |
The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women—Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery—who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite’s Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery’s published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.
Author | : Sue Hubbell |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000-05-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780618056842 |
In this fascinating book, Hubbell journeys into the remarkable lives of the little-known creatures that really run the world--the animals without backbones, including one of the most elusive and enigmatic of all, "Aphrodite" the sea mouse.
Author | : Becky Gould Gibson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
From villages in Crete to Carolina farms to San Francisco pavement, the women in these poems struggle to live by their own lights, despite pressure for them to serve as mere appendages to men. Aphrodite's Daughter tells stories of women in myth, history, art, and contemporary life. The goddess's daughter, fed up with her role in her mother's story, says to her: "i'm leaving--i'm walking out/of your myth finally--i need a mother not a love goddess. . . . " This volume springs from the sense that, as Adrienne Rich reminds us, under patriarchy women often feel "wildly unmothered."
Author | : Julie Kenner |
Publisher | : Dorchester Publishing |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2011-07-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781428511644 |
A sexy superhero vows to win back the love of his life at any cost.
Author | : Kaitlin Bevis |
Publisher | : Imajinn Books |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781611946765 |
Aphrodite, determined to prove she is more than just a pretty face, investigates the mysterious disappearance of demigods from cruise ships.
Author | : Konstantinos Kapparis |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2017-10-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110557959 |
Prostitution in the ancient Greek world was widespread, legal, and acceptable as a fact of life and an unavoidable necessity. The state regulated the industry and treated prostitution as any other trade. Almost every prominent man in the ancient world has been truly or falsely associated with some famous hetaira. These women, who sold their affections to the richest and most influential men of their time, have become legends in their own right. They pushed the boundaries of female empowerment in their quest for self-promotion and notoriety, and continue to fascinate us. Prostitution remains a complex phenomenon linked to issues of gender, culture, law, civic ideology, education, social control, and economic forces. This is why its study is of paramount importance for our understanding of the culture, outlook and institutions of the ancient world, and in turn it can shed new light and introduce new perspectives to the challenging debate of our times on prostitution and contemporary sexual morality. The main purpose of this book is to provide the primary historical study of the topic with emphasis upon the separation of facts from the mythology surrounding the countless references to prostitution in Greek literary sources.
Author | : Rosemary Barrow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108583865 |
Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both original context and modern experience, while directly addressing the question of continuity in gender and body issues from antiquity to the early modern period through a discussion of the sculpture of Bernini. Accessible and fully illustrated, her book features new translations of ancient sources and a glossary of Greek and Latin terms. It will be an invaluable resource and focus for debate for a wide range of readers interested in ancient art, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and art history and gender and body studies more broadly.
Author | : Gerald Lalonde |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2019-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004416390 |
In Athena Itonia Gerald V. Lalonde offers a comparative study of the social, political and military aspects of the cult of Athena Itonia and its propagation among the four regions of ancient Greece where major evidence has come to light.
Author | : Lorrie Gray |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2019-08-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781687043023 |
Lots of people are talking about self-love and having a positive body image. Few are sharing exactly how to get there if we are currently living in a place of self-loathing and hating our body. For author, Lorrie Gray, concepts like self-love and a positive body-image didn't seem attainable until she met Aphrodite.Join her through her struggles with diet and weight, poor body image, multiple eating disorders, and a physical disability along a surprising path full of vulnerability, humor, and hope. Discover how she, in a final effort to overcome a lifetime of hate, used one simple question to find her way to genuine self-love.Out of one woman's inspiring story comes a delightfully unconventional and refreshingly simple method that any woman can follow on her own journey to genuine self-love.