Le Deuxième Sexe

Le Deuxième Sexe
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 791
Release: 1989
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0679724516

The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

Du Sort de la Femme dans les Temps Anciens Et Modernes (Classic Reprint)

Du Sort de la Femme dans les Temps Anciens Et Modernes (Classic Reprint)
Author: Henri Guillaume Philippe Moke
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017-10-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780266346180

Excerpt from Du Sort de la Femme dans les Temps Anciens Et Modernes La raison et la conscience nous le di sent mais malgre leur temoignage, etat de la civilisation a offert jusqu'ici a la mise en pratique de ce principe d'egalite tant d'obstacles difi'iciles a vaincre que sarealisation a paru longtemps impossible. La comparaison attentive des faits com plete cependant la certitude de cette loi. Ils prouvent que la liberte de la femme a tou jours ete pour elle un element de progres moral et pour la societe une garantie d'or dre et d'union, qui s'afi'ermit encore a mesure que la situation de l'epouse se re leve chez les peuples les plus avances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Century of Artists Books

A Century of Artists Books
Author: Riva Castleman
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Total Pages: 263
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780870701511

Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
Author: Emily Croy Barker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 741
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101585579

An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It’s almost too good to be true. Then the elegant veneer shatters. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally—and a reluctant one at that—is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student—and learning magic herself—to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her “real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic. For lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).

Français Interactif

Français Interactif
Author: Karen Kelton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2016
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781937963040

This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.

Criticism and Truth

Criticism and Truth
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2007-02-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441151893

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include Mythologies and Camera Lucida. Criticism and Truth is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural, linguistic and intellectual challenge to those who believe in the clarity, flexibility and neutrality of language, couched in Barthes' own inimitable and provocative style.

Distinction

Distinction
Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113587316X

Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.

Painted Love

Painted Love
Author: Hollis Clayson
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003-10-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892367296

In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.

The Genius of Architecture, Or, The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations

The Genius of Architecture, Or, The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations
Author: Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1992
Genre: Aesthetics, French
ISBN: 9780892362356

This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.