Rules Of Desire

Author : Dipika Mukherjee
Publisher : Buku Fixi
ISBN 13 : 9670954177
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RULES OF DESIRE written by Dipika Mukherjee and published by Buku Fixi. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rules of Desire, yearning becomes both dangerous and erotic, leading the readers into worlds where the unthinkable becomes possible. Dipika Mukherjee’s stories careen from urban Kuala Lumpur to cosmopolitan Shanghai, then small towns of India and the remote wilderness of America. Seventeen stories explore the realities of rapidly changing countries, where social mores are obscured by political and economic realities. They explore the essence of being human in a world that turns on the debts of desire. (Buku Fixi) (Fixi Novo)

Author : Shahla Haeri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law of Desire written by Shahla Haeri and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an Iranian Muslim woman and a granddaughter of a well-known ayatollah, Shahla Haeri was accepted into the communities where she conducted her fieldwork on mut'a, temporary marriage. Mut'a is legally sanctioned among the Twelver Shi'ites who live predominantly in Iran. Drawing on rich interviews that would have been denied a Western anthropologist, the author describes the concept of a temporary-marriage contract, in which a man and an unmarried woman (virgin, widow, or divorcee) decide how long they want to stay married to each other (from one hour to ninety-nine years) and how much money is to be given to the temporary wife. Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the regime has conduction an intensive campaign to revitalize this form of marriage, and Shi'i ulama (religious scholars) support it as positive, self-affirming, and cognizant of human needs. Challenged by secularly educated urban Iranian women, and men and by the West, the ulama have been called upon to address themselves to the implications of this custom for modern Iranian society, to respond to the changes that mut'a is legally equivalent to hire or lease, that it is abusive of women, and that it is in fact legalized prostitution. Law if Desire thus makes available previously untapped and undocumented data about an institution in which sexuality, morality, religious rules, secular laws, and cultural practices converge. This important work will be of interest to cultural anthropologist, religious scholars, scholars of the Middle East, and lawyers as well as to those interested in the role of women in Islamic society.

Author : Leah Brooke
Publisher : Siren Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781606017555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rules of Desire written by Leah Brooke and published by Siren Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Menage Amour: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Quatre Romance, F/M/M/M, Contemporary] Erin Robinson moved to Desire, Oklahoma to be with her pregnant sister, unprepared for the dynamics of her new home. Menage and Dom/sub relationships prevail in a town where the men protect their women at all costs. Men had always been more trouble than they were worth. Erin can't imagine trying to put up with any man. Three would be impossible! But the men in Desire are different than any she has ever known. How can she resist men who earn her respect and aren't the least bit intimidated by her temper? When someone tries to kill her, Jared, Duncan and Reese Preston scramble to protect her. At the same time, they're determined to show her just how good having three men in her bed can be. ** A Siren Erotic Romance

Author : Cate Haste
Publisher : Vintage Books
ISBN 13 : 9780099437956
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rules of Desire written by Cate Haste and published by Vintage Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Free Love Debate; the sex psychologists; the Bright Young Things; homosexual life in the Thirties; secret sex and World War II; the Sixties and the pill; gay rights; rape laws; the impact of AIDS; the declining ideal of marriage; the new emphasis on relationships and 'whole body sensuality'...Beginning with the Edwardian theorists, like Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis, Cate Haste tells the history of changing sexual attitudes in twentieth- century Britain. Intimate private experience is set against well-known cases -from Lady Chatterley to Profumo, Thorpe and Archer -and against the dictates of the churches, courts and media.

Author : Carole Maso
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582430632
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Break Every Rule written by Carole Maso and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2000-04-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Ever refusing to be marginalized or categorized by genre, Maso is an incisive, compassionate writer who deems herself daughter of William Carlos Williams, a pioneer in combining poetry and fiction with criticism, journalism, and the visual arts. She is daughter, too, of Allen Ginsberg, who also came from Paterson, New Jersey. Known for her audacity, whether exploring language and memory or the development of the artistic soul, Maso here gives us a form–challenging collection, intelligent, and persuasive.

Author : Cate Haste
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rules of Desire written by Cate Haste and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the history of the changing sexual attitudes of 20th-century Britain: the free love debate, the sex psychologists, the bright young things, homosexual life in the thirties, secret sex and World War II, the sixties and the pill, gay rights, rape laws, the impact of AIDS and whole body sensuality.

Author : Eric Berkowitz
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026465
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boundaries of Desire written by Eric Berkowitz and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another. Combining meticulous research and lively storytelling, The Boundaries of Desire traces the fast–moving bloodsport of sex law over the past century, and challenges our most cherished notions about family, power, gender, and identity. Starting when courts censored birth control information as pornography and let men rape their wives, and continuing through the "sexual revolution" and into the present day (when rape, gay rights, sex trafficking, and sex on the internet saturate the news), Berkowitz shows how the law has remained out of synch with the convulsive changes in sexual morality. By focusing on the stories of real people, Berkowitz adds a compelling human element to what might otherwise be faceless legal battles. The law is made by people, after all, and nothing sparks intolerance – on the left and right –– more than sex. Ultimately, Berkowitz shows the emptiness of sanctimonious condemnation, and argues that sexual questions are too subtle and volatile for simple, catch–all solutions.

Author : Madeline Hunter
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0440243947
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons of Desire written by Madeline Hunter and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsome, suave, and carnal as the devil, Lord Elliot Rothwell awaits readers in Lessons of Desire, bestselling author Madeline Hunter’s latest book in the Rothwell series and her most provocative novel to date. A man used to getting what he wants, Elliot is every woman’s most secret fantasy in the living flesh. He first appears beneath her prison window as her savior—a sinfully attractive man whose charm and connections have ensured her release from an unjust arrest. But author and publisher Phaedra Blair quickly learns that the price of her “freedom” is to be virtually bound to her irresistible rescuer. For Elliot Rothman didn’t come solely on a mission of goodwill. He came to extract a promise that Phaedra won’t publish a slanderous manuscript that could destroy his family’s name, and he’s not above bribery, threats, or bedding her to get his way. And with each erotic encounter raising the stakes between them, Elliot discovers he’s ever more reluctant to lose this sensual game…or the one woman who’s every bit his match.

Author : J.M. Redmann
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1602823618
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intersection of Law and Desire written by J.M. Redmann and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is fall in the steamy underworld of New Orleans, the seasons are changing, and so is tough detective Micky Knight’s life. Micky takes on the case of the daughter of a friend, who is believed to be sexually abused, not knowing that the investigation will lead her on a dangerous sexual odyssey. In Cissy’s sleepless nights, Micky sees echoes of her own past, and she becomes caught up in a world where young girls are treated as commodities. While doing battle with seedy thugs and struggling to hold on to her rocky relationship with Dr. Cordelia James, Micky travels between the uptown opulence of the Sans Parel Club, one of New Orleans’s exclusive private clubs, and a tawdry hole of a bar near the Desire Projects. Evil exists in both places, and the mystery culminates where law and desire intersect. The third book in the Micky Knight mystery series.

Author : Madhavi Menon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789354472145
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE LAW OF DESIRE RULINGS ON SEX AND SEXUALITY IN INDIA written by Madhavi Menon and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description Can a woman choose whom to marry if her father disapproves of the match? Does sex remain sex when it becomes work? Can a man become a woman because he feels like one? Is it the law's task to ensure heterosexuality? Does reproduction need to be regulated? The State attempts, with law as its instrument, to answer these questions for us, through legislation and, when contested, through court judgments. This brilliantly insightful and superbly argued book calls into serious question the wisdom-indeed, the intent-of our lawmakers and the judiciary. Though India's laws and courts claim to know what they mean when they declare an expression of desire immoral or criminal, obscene or unnatural, upon inquiry, they turn out to be building on very weak and often casteist and patriarchal assumptions. Thus we have the law struggling to 'rescue' 'fallen women', for sex work cannot be work, but a sign of immorality; a Supreme Court judge can exonerate the artist M.F. Husain on charges of obscenity, but also claim that 'obscenity lies in the eyes of the beholder', leaving us wondering how, then, the law can ever define what's obscene; and while a court may declare that the 'third gender' has fundamental rights, no one really knows what fundamental rights have to do with gender in the first place. Teacher and queer theorist Madhavi Menon-author of Infinite Variety, a celebrated study of desire in India-shows us the 'conundrums and paradoxes' that result when the law is entangled with sex and sexuality-and why we 'need to play with, rather than stay with, the Law of Desire'.