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A Cup of Comfort Stories for Christmas
F+W Media 2011; US$ 2.99A Cup of Comfort brings the holiday cheer to readers with this wonderful selection of Christmas stories to celebrate the holidays. As you read these personal accounts of Christmases past, you can reflect on your own holiday memories and get into the spirit of the season. Merry Christmas and enjoy! more...
Thinking Through the Skin
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 62.95This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - already written upon but open to endless re-inscription.... more...
Thank You, Sarah
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers 2011; Not AvailableFrom the author of Speak and Fever, 1793, comes the never-before-told tale of Sarah Josepha Hale, the extraordinary "lady editor" who made Thanksgiving a national holiday! Thanksgiving might have started with a jubilant feast on Plymouth's shore. But by the 1800s America's observance was waning. None of the presidents nor Congress sought to revive... more...
Bodywork - Dress as Cultural Tool
BRILL 2004; US$ 85.00This book describes how style of dress influences the body?s demeanour and habit. In describing dress practices in three West African communities - Muslim, Animist and Christian ? it considers the role played by dress in the enculturation of the body. more...
Women's Bodies
Continuum International Publishing 1999; US$ 140.00The articles in this volume consider the prevailing standards of feminine decorum, and how these are being played with and challenged by various media. This is a collection of essays which focuses on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures. It discusses recent books on the subject, and compares the two different... more...
Thanksgiving
University of New Hampshire Press 2010; US$ 25.99The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holiday more...
Nudity
Bloomsbury Publishing 2004; US$ 109.95Nudity features regularly in all major media. So why is it illegal to appear naked in public? Nudity has always been paradoxical. In modern consumer culture, it is actively encouraged in some contexts, but criminal or deviant in others. Images of nud ity are everywhere. Advertising uses nudity to sell everything from housing loans to appliances, perfume... more...
The Official Guide to Christmas in the South
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99No place celebrates Christmas like Dixie, and with this charming, humorous guide, anyone can learn how to deck the halls, Southern style It's the one time of the year when both the divine and debutantes take center stage in a perfect storm of hot glue and cheese grits: Christmas. But successfully navigating through the holiday season can be... more...
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Jingle Bell Christmas
Portable Press 2012; US$ 12.95It?s beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . again! Uncle John?s follow-up to his wildly successful Christmas Collection unwraps even more treasures of holidays past and present. Packed with more fun than an elf?s goodie bag, this anthology includes all the legends, lore, trivia, and history we didn?t have room for in the first Christmas collection.... more...
The Body
Bloomsbury Publishing 2008; US$ 99.95Our changing understanding of the body challenges the ways we conceive power, ideology, subjectivity and social and cultural process. This title highlights and analyses the debates which make the body central to sociological, psychological, cultural and feminist thinking. more...









