"I'll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his."
In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women's rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her "ruined," Pollard brought the man--and the hypocrisy of America's control of women's sexuality--to trial. And, surprisingly, she won.
Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard's hand--and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. But Pollard struck back, suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman, Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally.
Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, America is still obsessed with women's sexual morality. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, we've witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard. Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back.
With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction. The Corporeal Imagination is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological poetics of material substance in late ancient Christian texts. From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power. By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence. The book draws on a variety of contemporary theoretical models to elucidate the significance of all these materials in ancient religious life and imagination.
Автор: Miller Patricia Название: Joshua: Breaking Free ISBN: 1644385279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644385272 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4357.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Joshua: Breaking Free (Joshua Trilogy book 2), continues the story of two alien young adults, Joshua and Mani from the planet Theos, who manage to escape to Earth and create new lives for themselves by overcoming adversities, only to find a circle of friends more supportive than they ever imagined. But, their idyllic existence on Earth is shattered when they find that the Theosian government has sent a spy after them, to find, capture and return them home for prosecution. Joshua cannot allow this to happen Not only must he protect Mani and his friends, but he has also fallen in love with Emma, the Earthling love of his life, from whom he cannot bear to be apart.
This story about dreams, hard work, courage and taking risks, quickly becomes more than that. It becomes a story about finding the true meaning of both friendship and love. And Joshua learns that sometimes it takes bravely going back home, in order to truly BREAK FREE
This YA Science Fiction Romance, is book 2 in a Trilogy series. Book 1 is entitled: Joshua: Life After Theos.
