In response to a world awash in sexual chaos and gender confusion, this book offers a bold and thoroughly biblical look at the meaning of the body, sex, gender, and marriage. Bestselling author, cultural commentator, and popular theologian Christopher West is one of the world's most recognized teachers of John Paul II's Theology of the Body. He specializes in making this teaching accessible to all Christians, with particular attention to evangelicals. As West explains, from beginning to end the Bible tells a story of marriage. It begins with the marriage of man and woman in an earthly paradise and ends with the marriage of Christ and the church in an eternal paradise. In our post-sexual-revolution world, we need to remember that our bodies tell a divine story and proclaim the gospel itself. As male and female and in the call to become "one flesh," our bodies reveal a "great mystery" that mirrors Christ's love for the church (Eph. 5:31-32). This book provides a redemptive rather than repressive approach to sexual purity, explores the true meaning of sex and marriage, and offers a compelling vision of what it means to be created male and female. Foreword by Eric Metaxas.

The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design explores the history of interior decorating and design from the late nineteenth century to the present, highlighting the careers and contributions of significant American female interior designers who were instrumental in the creation of the field of residential and commercial interior design in the United States. This book explores how interior design emerged as a distinct, paying occupation in the nineteenth century thanks to a growing middle class and an increase in available cheap household goods following the Industrial Revolution. Focusing primarily on the period from 1905 to 1960, it addresses the complex relationships among professionals in the design fields, the social dynamics of designer-client relationships, and how class, culture, and family influenced their lives and careers. The book emphasizes significant female interior decorators and writers on design including Candace Wheeler, Elsie de Wolfe, Edith Wharton, Nancy McClelland, Ruby Ross Wood, Dorothy Draper, Eleanor McMillen Brown, and Sister Parish, all of whom are underrepresented in the historical record, relating their stories within the context of the history of design and architecture. This book is an ideal and concise resource for students and faculty of interior design and women's history.

Since the 1968 publication of Nancy Friday's outspoken erotic masterpiece, My Secret Garden, women's sexual lives have undergone a revolution - and so have their fantasy lives. No longer ashamed to express the wild, exciting and sometimes outrageous thoughts that bring them so much sexual pleasure, the women who reveal their sexual fantasies in Forbidden Flowers are even more explicit than those in Nancy Friday's first international bestseller and iconic erotic book. Forbidden Flowers is a celebration of a new sexual and social freedom, where today's women rejoice in the awareness of their own inner erotic lives. Nancy Friday's ground-breaking work adds an exhilarating new freedom to the ever-changing relationship between the sexes; it is a revealing and empowering insight into female sexuality and psychology.

An irresistible interactive journal from the creators of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, designed to encourage readers of all ages to explore their rebel spirits! I Am a Rebel Girl: A Journal to Start Revolutions is filled with activities that challenge perspective, inspire thought, and prompt action. Readers can write love notes to their favorite body parts, draw themselves climbing a mountain, write a letter to an elected representative, and interact with the beautiful, original artwork throughout, which was developed by the same female and nonbinary artists who illustrated the iconic Rebel Girls books. I Am a Rebel Girl is the perfect companion to the book series. It is an action plan that creates space for BIG ideas and helps girls develop the tools they need to lead the revolution of our time. I Am a Rebel Girl includes full-color layouts that will turn the dreams of rebel girls around the world into inspired works of art. With a stunning cover that begs to be personalized, high quality interior printing, and fun stickers, I Am a Rebel Girl is sure to excite the millions of fans Rebel Girls has gained all around the world and welcome new audiences.

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an acrimonious strike. Against this backdrop of social unrest, the relationship between the two is tumultuous, and it takes further upheaval and tragedy for them to see each other in a different light. First serialized in Dickens's magazine Household Words in the same period as Hard Times, North and South shares its famous counterpart's concern with the inequality and hardship generated by the Industrial Revolution in northern England, while at the same time creating one of the nineteenth century's most memorable and engaging female protagonists in Margaret Hale.

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an acrimonious strike. Against this backdrop of social unrest, the relationship between the two is tumultuous, and it takes further upheaval and tragedy for them to see each other in a different light. First serialized in Dickens's magazine Household Words in the same period as Hard Times, North and South shares its famous counterpart's concern with the inequality and hardship generated by the Industrial Revolution in northern England, while at the same time creating one of the nineteenth century's most memorable and engaging female protagonists in Margaret Hale.

She's Racing for the Win, But Who's Taking Pole Position in Her Heart? -- Revolution Racing has its first all female team. Rookie Savannah Hart is ready to prove herself. Even though Savi grew up on a ranch in Wyoming , she's happiest on the racetrack Her secret relationship with country music star Jesse Motalvo could ruin everything. Can she stay focused and win the championship ? Enter Marco De Luca : an all-star driver and a hopeless romantic . He agrees to fake-date Savi to keep the press off her famous boyfriend's trail. But falling for her for real was not part of the plan. When things go wrong with Jesse, Marco is there to steer her right. Will Savi see that she and Marco make a winning team on and off the track? Tropes : Fake dating Secret relationship Sports romance He falls first Workplace romance

She's Racing for the Win, But Who's Taking Pole Position in Her Heart? -- Revolution Racing has its first all female team. Rookie Savannah Hart is ready to prove herself. Even though Savi grew up on a ranch in Wyoming , she's happiest on the racetrack Her secret relationship with country music star Jesse Motalvo could ruin everything. Can she stay focused and win the championship ? Enter Marco De Luca : an all-star driver and a hopeless romantic . He agrees to fake-date Savi to keep the press off her famous boyfriend's trail. But falling for her for real was not part of the plan. When things go wrong with Jesse, Marco is there to steer her right. Will Savi see that she and Marco make a winning team on and off the track? Tropes : Fake dating Secret relationship Sports romance He falls first Workplace romance

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 BY THE WASHINGTON POST NAMED ONE OF THE 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2025 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2025 BY ELLE ONE OF CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2025 Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow-only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America. The Soviet women she had known growing up-doctors, engineers, scientists-seemed to have been replaced by women desperate to marry rich and become stay-at-home moms. How had Russia gone from portraying itself as the vanguard of world feminism to becoming a bastion of conservative Christian values? In Motherland, Ioffe turns modern Russian history on its head, telling it exclusively through the stories of its women. From her own physician great-grandmothers to Lenin's lover, a feminist revolutionary; from the hundreds of thousands of Soviet girls who fought in World War II to the millions of single mothers who rebuilt and repopulated a devastated country; from the members of Pussy Riot to Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, Ioffe chronicles one of the most audacious social experiments in history and documents how it failed the very women it was meant to liberate-and how that failure paved the way for the revanche of Vladimir Putin. Part memoir, part journalistic exploration, part history, Motherland paints a portrait of modern Russia through the women who shaped it. With deep emotion, Ioffe reveals what it means to live through the cataclysms of revolution, war, idealism, and heartbreak-and how the story of Russia today is inextricably tied to the sacrifices of its women. This meticulously researched history interweaves the personal and the political to explore: The Russian Revolution: Discover the forgotten women who started the revolution, from textile workers on strike to feminist revolutionaries like Alexandra Kollontai. A Grand Social Experiment: Trace the audacious Soviet attempt to emancipate women-and document how its failure paved the way for Vladimir Putin. World War II Through Women's Eyes: Meet the hundreds of thousands of Soviet girls who served as snipers, medics, and fighter pilots in all-female squadrons during the war. Four Generations of a Family: Follow the author's own remarkable family history, from her great-grandmothers-pioneering female physicians-to her own journey from Soviet refugee to acclaimed journalist. Modern Russia's Matriarchs: From the members of Pussy Riot to Yulia Navalnaya, understand the present through the women shaping Russia's turbulent political landscape today.

A collection of Sojourner Truth's iconic words, including her famous speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and upended them. Now Penguin brings you a new set of the acclaimed Great Ideas, a curated library of selections from the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed from antiquity until the eighteenth century, and replaced metaphysics with psychology and even physiology as the basis for the subject. Burke's theory of beauty encompasses the female form, nature, art, and poetry, and he analyses our delight in sublime effects that thrill and excite us. His revolution in method continues to have repercussions in the aesthetic theories of today, and his revolution in sensibility has paved the way for literary and artistic movements from the Gothic novel through Romanticism, twentieth-century painting, and beyond. In this new edition Paul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke's Enquiry, focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from Kant and Schiller to Ruskin and Nietzsche. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

A collection of Sojourner Truth's iconic words, including her famous speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and upended them. Now Penguin brings you a new set of the acclaimed Great Ideas, a curated library of selections from the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed from antiquity until the eighteenth century, and replaced metaphysics with psychology and even physiology as the basis for the subject. Burke's theory of beauty encompasses the female form, nature, art, and poetry, and he analyses our delight in sublime effects that thrill and excite us. His revolution in method continues to have repercussions in the aesthetic theories of today, and his revolution in sensibility has paved the way for literary and artistic movements from the Gothic novel through Romanticism, twentieth-century painting, and beyond. In this new edition Paul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke's Enquiry, focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from Kant and Schiller to Ruskin and Nietzsche. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

In this provocative, pioneering, and wholly engrossing cultural history, noted scholar Marilyn Yalom explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and perceptions of the female breast--in religion, psychology, politics, society, and the arts. Through the centuries, the breast has been laden with hugely powerful and contradictory meanings. There is the "good breast" of reverence and life, the breast that nourishes infants and entire communities, as depicted in ancient idols, fifteenth-century Italian Madonnas, and representations of equality in the French Revolution. Then there is the "bad breast" of Ezekiel's wanton harlots, Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, and the torpedo-breasted dominatrix, symbolizing enticement and aggression. Yalom examines these contradictions--and illuminates the implications behind them. A fascinating, astute, and richly allusive journey from Paleolithic goddesses to modern day feminists, A History of the Breast is full of insight and surprises. As Yalom says, "I intend to make you think about women's breasts as you never have before." In this, she succeeds brilliantly.

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor;” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

With expertise spanning more than 25 years, mother of three Annabel Karmel has pioneered the way families all over the world feed their babies and children. Credited with starting a food revolution with her trusty recipes and methods, Annabel has become the UK's number-one children's cookbook author and best-selling international author with 43 cookbooks. With the sole mission of raising the standards of children's diets, Annabel is a sought-after media commentator on food-related issues, and she regularly undertakes consulting work for major daycare chains, leisure resorts, restaurants, and hotels worldwide. Coupled with a vast digital following at annabelkarmel.com, recipe apps, and cookbook-inspired supermarket food lines, Annabel has become the trusted name in feeding. In 2006, Annabel became a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours for her outstanding work in the field of child nutrition, and she is also recognized as one of the UK's leading female entrepreneurs.

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor;” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

The writer has attempted to describe, explain and interpret seven Tigrinya novels in the light of a feminist analysis of the historical conditions in which they were produced in order to find the major organization of ideas and values relating to power hierarchy of gender evident in economic, political, linguistic, sexual, cultural and social life of the patriarchal classification of the society. All the novels, written by both male and female novelists, except one, are found to be progressive by the explicate comments they offer and by their stylistic design. The gradual demolition of patriarchal ideology within the novels can be regarded as the symptom of the improvement of the negative stereotypical attitude towards women. The novels could be regarded as vital tools for the interpellation of the individuals into the feminist ideology with a naturalness, spontaneity and experiential immediacy. Such novelistic writing, consumption and criticism can also further promote social revolution and the social transformation of gender power hierarchy parallel to the progress of history.

Irgendwo in Ger(wo)many. Die Terroristinnen-Zelle „Female Liberation Army“ (FLA) bereitet den Umsturz des Patriarchats und die Installation einer neuen weiblichen Weltordnung vor. Dazu hat ihre Anführerin Big Mother eine Gruppe von acht schwer erziehbaren Mädchen um sich gesammelt, die sie gemeinsam mit ihren Kameradinnen auf einem abgelegenen Landgut ausbildet. Nach außen hin ist das Anwesen als katholische Internatsschule getarnt. Um die Revolution zu finanzieren und die eigene Ideologie zu verbreiten, drehen die Frauen feministische Pornographie. Doch als eines der Mädchen einen verletzten linksradikalen Soldaten im Wald entdeckt und heimlich in den Keller des Anwesens bringt, um ihn gesund zu pflegen, droht die strikte Hausordnung aus den Fugen zu geraten. Der neue Film des kanadischen Kultregisseurs Bruce LaBruce („Otto; or, Up with Dead People“, „Geron“) funktioniert als Fortsetzung seiner berüchtigten Propaganda-Porno-Satire „The Raspberry Reich“ (2005). Nicht ohne Grund mögen manche bei der Geschichte an den jüngsten Film von Sofia Coppola denken: Wie „Die Verführten“ (2017) ist DIE MISANDRISTINNEN ein Remake des Bürgerkriegsmelodram „Betrogen“ (1971). Sein ungleich geringeres Budget kompensiert LaBruce mit der Besetzung von queeren Underground-Stars (Susanne Sachße, Kembra Pfahler) und radikalen Regieeinfällen, die die Grenzen des guten Geschmacks bis aufs Äußerste ausreizen. Pressezitate: - „Ein filmischer Molotowcocktail!“ - (ArtForum) - „Einer der großartigsten lesbischen Filme aller Zeiten!“ - (Indiewire) - „Camp besiegt die Plotlogik!“ - (L-Mag) - „Ein programmatisch gescheitertes Experiment.“ - (Filmdienst) - „Die Misandristinnen schlagen die Maskulisten. Ehre sei der Mutter und der Tochter und der heiligen Möse.“ - (Konkret)

The writer has attempted to describe, explain and interpret seven Tigrinya novels in the light of a feminist analysis of the historical conditions in which they were produced in order to find the major organization of ideas and values relating to power hierarchy of gender evident in economic, political, linguistic, sexual, cultural and social life of the patriarchal classification of the society. All the novels, written by both male and female novelists, except one, are found to be progressive by the explicate comments they offer and by their stylistic design. The gradual demolition of patriarchal ideology within the novels can be regarded as the symptom of the improvement of the negative stereotypical attitude towards women. The novels could be regarded as vital tools for the interpellation of the individuals into the feminist ideology with a naturalness, spontaneity and experiential immediacy. Such novelistic writing, consumption and criticism can also further promote social revolution and the social transformation of gender power hierarchy parallel to the progress of history.