Courting Desire

Download or read book Courting Desire written by Rama Srinivasan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen’s engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, community,and kinship spaces, the author outlines the transformations in material culture and political economy that have led to renewed negotiations on the institution of marriage in North India, especially in legal spaces. Tracing organically evolving notions of sexual consent and legal subjectivity, Courting Desire underlines how non-normative decisions regarding marriage become possible in a region otherwise known for high instances of honor killings and rigid kinship structures. Aspirations for consensual relationships have led to a tentative attempt to forge relationships that are non-normative but grudgingly approved after state intervention. The book traces this nascent and under-explored trend in the North Indian landscape.

Download or read book Building Successful Online Communities written by Robert E. Kraut and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities. Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook, there is a moribund Friendster—not to mention the scores of smaller social networking sites that never attracted enough members to be viable. This book offers lessons from theory and empirical research in the social sciences that can help improve the design of online communities. The authors draw on the literature in psychology, economics, and other social sciences, as well as their own research, translating general findings into useful design claims. They explain, for example, how to encourage information contributions based on the theory of public goods, and how to build members' commitment based on theories of interpersonal bond formation. For each design claim, they offer supporting evidence from theory, experiments, or observational studies.

Download or read book Courting Failure written by Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson and published by Law, Politics, and Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past twenty years, the law and literature movement has been gaining ground. More recently, a feminist perspective has enriched the field. With Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature, Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson adds a compelling voice to the discussion. Courting Failure critically explores the representation of women, fictional and historical, in conflict with the law. Macpherson focuses on the judicial system and the staging of women's guilt, examining both the female suspect and the female victim in a wide variety of media, including novels like Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, theatrical plays, movies such as I Want to Live! and Legally Blonde, and the television series Ally McBeal. In these texts and others, canonical or popular, Macpherson exposes the court as an arena in which women often fail, or succeed only by subverting the system. Combining feminist literary theory with the discourse of the law and literature movement, Courting Failure is a highly readable and analytically rigorous study of justice and gender on the page and screen.

Download or read book A Texan Comes Courting written by Lass Small and published by Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Desire 90s. This book was released on 1999-11-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Texan Comes Courting by Lass Small released on Nov 24, 1999 is available now for purchase.

Download or read book Beautiful TV written by Greg M. Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a different approach to analyzing television series. Starting from the premise that much of television is "drop-dead gorgeous" and that TV should be studied for its formal qualities as well as its social impact, this work analyzes "Ally McBeal" in terms of its aesthetic principles and narrative construction.

Download or read book The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitrè written by Giuseppe Pitrè and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Courting Miss Adelaide written by Janet Dean and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "orphan train" seemed like small-town spinster Adelaide Crum's last chance to know the simple joys of family life. So many lost children, every one of them dreaming only of a caring home—the home she longed to offer. And yet the narrow-minded town elders refused to entrust even the most desperate child to a woman alone…. Newspaperman Charles Graves believed his heart was closed forever, but he swore to stand by this lovely, lonely woman who was fighting for the right to take some motherless child into her heart. And her gentle soul and unwavering faith made him wonder if even he could overcome the bitter lessons of the past, and somehow find the courage to love….