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The Stone Maiden
Author | : Pamela Townley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780450421358 |
The Stone Maiden
Author | : Susan King |
Publisher | : Signet Book |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780451199706 |
In this first part of a trilogy inspired by great Scottish legends, Alainna MacLaren is the last hope of her Highland clan. To save her people, she must wed a man willing to adopt her name. A knight agrees to help her, but has no intention of forsaking his name to marry her.
The Stone Maiden
Author | : Velda Johnston |
Publisher | : G K Hall & Company |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780816133109 |
Before agreeing to marry the man she loves, Katherine Derwith is determined to discover who her real parents are, why they abandoned her, and whether her suspicions toward a newsman supposedly helping her are correct
The Stone Maiden
Author | : Alexandra Manners |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780860000082 |
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
Author | : Matthew H. Sommer |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2024-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231560206 |
In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, and clergy left behind normative gender roles defined by family and procreation. “Stone maidens”—women deemed physically incapable of vaginal intercourse—might depart from families or marriages to become Buddhist or Daoist nuns. Anatomical males who presented as women sometimes took a conventionally female occupation such as midwife, faith healer, or even medium to a fox spirit. Yet they were often punished harshly for the crime of “masquerading in women’s attire,” suspected of sexual predation, even when they had lived peacefully in their communities for many years. Exploring these histories and many more, this book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing. He considers a range of transgender experiences, illuminating how certain forms of gender transgression were sanctioned in particular social contexts and penalized in others. Sommer scrutinizes the ways Qing legal authorities and literati writers represented and understood gender-nonconforming people and practices, contrasting official ideology with popular mentalities. An unprecedented account of China’s transgender histories, this book also sheds new light on a range of themes in Ming and Qing law, religion, medicine, literature, and culture.
The Stone Maiden
Author | : Howard Clark Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Man-woman relationships |
ISBN | : |
The Stone and the Maiden
Author | : Dennis Jones |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Science fiction, Canadian |
ISBN | : 9780006485087 |
Dennis Jones is a brilliant new voice in fantasy fiction. The Stone and the Maiden, his first foray into the genre, has been enthusiastically received in Canada and the US, and readers of this first book in The House of the Pandragore trilogy can't wait for the next instalment. It's easy to see why: The Stone and the Maiden is a spellbinding tale of peril, passion, sorcery and high adventure. There is the legend of the Signata, a mysterious sacred treasure that appears as suddenly as it vanishes, yet it is the only hope in the lands of the Ascendancy, a world menaced by an ancient and merciless evil. That evil is the force known as Deep Magic, a power long ago banished from the world, but brought back by Erkai the Chain, a master of the dreaded Black Craft. It is up to Mandine Dascaris, heiress to the throne of the Ascendancy, and to the young soldier Key Mec Brander, to find the Signata. To fail means the annihilation of their world. To succeed may mean the loss of their own lives. An unforgettable tale of high adventure, The Stone and the Maiden is ultimately the thrilling story of two lovers who, haunted by their passion and their joint fate, must overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. Epic fantasy at its most richly imagined best, it is a wonderfully entertaining read.
The Stone Maiden
Author | : Anna Careless |
Publisher | : Notl, Ont. : Petpeswick Press |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Boys |
ISBN | : 9780968799505 |