Intimate Strangers

Author : Lillian B. Rubin
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060911348
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Strangers written by Lillian B. Rubin and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1990-06-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Strangers is a book for every man and woman who has ever yearned for an intimate relationship and wondered why it seemed so elusive. Drawing on years of research, writing, and counseling about marriage and the family, interviews with more than two hundred couples, and her own experiences, Lillian Rubin explains not just how the differences between women and men arise but how they affect such critical issues as intimacy, sexuality, dependency, work, and parenting. Candid, compassionate, and insightful, Rubin's lucid examination should aid each of us in our struggle for greater personal and emotional satisfaction.

Author : Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537913
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Strangers written by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of the American context. In an effort to convince their audiences they were American enough, these thinkers deployed deft rhetorical strategies that made their cosmopolitanism feel acceptable, inspiring radical new approaches to longstanding problems in American politics. Speaking like natives, they also exploited their foreignness to entice listeners to embrace alternative modes of thought. Intimate Strangers unpacks this "stranger ethos," a blend of detachment and involvement that manifested in the persona of a prophet for Solzhenitsyn, an impartial observer for Arendt, a mentor for Marcuse, and a victim for Said. Yet despite its many successes, the stranger ethos did alienate many audiences, and critics continue to dismiss these thinkers not for their positions but because of their foreign point of view. This book encourages readers to reject this kind of critical xenophobia, throwing support behind a political discourse that accounts for the ideals of citizens and noncitizens alike.

Author : Vanessa Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139788620
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Strangers written by Vanessa Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania.

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Strangers written by Richard Schickel and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In trying to understand the power of celebrity in modern life, Schickel offers examples of how celebrity shapes the world, and offers a chilling warning about the consequences of obsession with celebrity.

Author : Carmen Ho
Publisher : Signal 8 Press
ISBN 13 : 9789887794943
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Strangers written by Carmen Ho and published by Signal 8 Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family, love, friendship, acceptance-none of these pillars of happiness are certainties for LGBTQ+ people. Intimate Strangers showcases the nonfiction work of writers living life on their own authentic terms.

Author : Susan Lewis
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409008754
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Strangers written by Susan Lewis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative journalist, Laurie Forbes, is planning her wedding to Elliot Russell, when she receives a tip-off that a group of illegally smuggled women is being held somewhere in the East End of London. During her search unexpected and devastating events begin throwing her own life into chaos, so fellow journalist, Sherry MacElvoy steps in to help. Taking on undercover roles to get to the heart of the ruthless gang of human-traffickers, neither reporter can even begin to imagine what dangers they are about to face. Neela is one of the helpless Indian girls being held in captivity. Her fear is not only for herself, but her six-year-old niece, Shaila. A disfiguring birthmark has so far saved Neela from the abuse, but she knows it is only a matter of time before she is sent for - and worse, before Shaila is taken. Her desperate bids to seek outside help are constantly thwarted, until finally she, and the women with her, agree there is only one way out ...

Author : Nayan Shah
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950402
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stranger Intimacy written by Nayan Shah and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations—dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess nonwhite races. Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Bill Zehme
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 9780385333740
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Strangers written by Bill Zehme and published by Delta. This book was released on 2002 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the acclaimed biography "Lost in the Funhouse" comes an audacious collection of celebrity/pop cultural profiles written for "Esquire, Rolling Stone, " and more.

Author : Kobi Israel
Publisher : Bruno Gmuender GMBH
ISBN 13 : 9783861876953
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Strangers written by Kobi Israel and published by Bruno Gmuender GMBH. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning photographer Kobi Israel returns,with a vibrant, unconventional body of work,sharing his intimate encounters in the melting pot,of 21st century London. He uncovers that in the,urban mosaic of Soho everyone comes from another,continent, another country or another city. It's a,medley of foreigners where everyone is a stranger,just waiting to be discovered. In a provocative,snapshot style he shares his personal search for,the secret, most secluded moments of day-to-day,life and the divine that is hidden in all of us.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
ISBN 13 : 9781847495662
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intimate Strangers and Other Stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll in North Carolina and the other during the First World War, when he was a soldier about to go to battle. When, years later and after the death of her husband, Cedric contacts her out of the blue, Sara finds herself eager to see him again - against the wishes of her in-laws - and to find out the secret of this man she loves yet knows so little about. A poignant tale of thwarted love, 'The Intimate Strangers' explores many of Fitzgerald's favourite themes, such as the constraints of society on romance and the American fascination for Old Europe. This volume also includes other lesser-known stories he wrote from the mid-1930s until the end of his life, revealing new facets to the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.