Author: Ayn Rand File Type: pdf When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rands daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special afterword by Rands literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rands own notes on the making of The Fountainhead. As fresh today as it was then, here is a novel about a heroand about those who try to destroy him. **

Author: Himika Bhattacharya File Type: epub Narrating Love and Violence is an ethnographic exploration of womens stories from the Himalayan valley of Lahaul, in the region of Himachal Pradesh, India, focusing on how both, love and violence emerge (or function) at the intersection of gender, tribe, caste, and the state in India. Himika Bhattacharya privileges the everyday lives of women marginalized by caste and tribe to show how state and community discourses about gendered violence serve as proxy for caste in India, thus not only upholding these social hierarchies, but also enabling violence. The women in this book tell their stories through love, articulated as rejection, redefinition and reproduction of notions of violence and solidarity. Himika Bhattacharya centers the womens narratives as a site of knowledgebeyond love and beyond violence. This book shows how women on the margins of tribe and caste know both, love and violence, as agents wishing to re-shape discourses of caste, tribe and community. **Review In Narrating Love and Violence, Himika Bhattacharya recenters power through writing practices that blur the rigid conceptual divisions between lives, relationships, and narratives. The book exemplifies how theoretically informed storytelling and politically aware methodology can be interwoven to produce possibilities of justice, dignity and recognition. (Richa Nagar author of Muddying the Waters Co-authoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism) A smart, elegantly written book, Narrating Love and Violence explores the complex lives of Lahauli women negotiating the intricacies of castetribestate violence with fierce courage, humor, and deep love. Bhattacharyas timely and original ethnography challenges conventional feminist understandings of gendered violence, enacting an inspiring praxis of solidarity and love. This book belongs on the bookshelves of all transnational feminist scholar-activists. (Chandra Talpade Mohanty author of Feminism Beyond Borders Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity) About the Author HIMIKA BHATTACHARYA is an assistant professor in the department of womens and gender studies at Syracuse University in New York.

Author: Mary E. Fissell File Type: pdf Making babies was a mysterious process in early modern England. Mary Fissell employs a wealth of popular sources - ballads, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, Prayer Books, popular medical manuals - to produce the first account of womens reproductive bodies in early-modern cheap print. Since littlewas certain about the mysteries of reproduction, the topic lent itself to a rich array of theories. The insides of womens reproductive bodies provided a kind of open interpretive space, a place where many different models of reproductive processes might be plausible. These models were profoundlyshaped by cultural concerns they afforded many ways to discuss and make sense of social, political, and economic changes such as the Protestant Reformation and the Civil War. They gave ordinary people ways of thinking about the changing relations between men and women that characterized theselarger social shifts. Fissell offers a new way to think about the history of the body by focusing on womens bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about gender relations and thus all relations of power. Where other histories of the body have focused on learnedtexts and male bodies, this study looks at the small books and pamphlets that ordinary people read and listened to - and provides new ways to understand how such people experienced political conflicts and social change.

Author: Pascal Bruckner File Type: epub The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought--birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, womens massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of homosexuality. But as Pascal Bruckner, one of Frances leading writers, argues in this lively and provocative reflection on the contradictions of modern love, our new freedoms have also brought new burdens and rules--without, however, wiping out the old rules, emotions, desires, and arrangements the couple, marriage, jealousy, the demand for fidelity, the war between constancy and inconstancy. It is no wonder that love, sex, and relationships today are so confusing, so difficult, and so paradoxical. Drawing on history, politics, psychology, literature, pop culture, and current events, this book--a best seller in France--exposes and dissects these paradoxes. With his customary brilliance and wit, Bruckner traces the roots of sexual liberation back to the Enlightenment in order to explain loves supreme paradox, epitomized by the 1960s oxymoron of free love the tension between freedom, which separates, and love, which attaches. Ashamed that our sex lives fail to live up to such liberated ideals, we have traded neuroses of repression for neuroses of inadequacy, and we overcompensate Our parents lied about their morality, Bruckner writes, but we lie about our immorality. Mixing irony and optimism, Bruckner argues that, when it comes to love, we should side neither with the revolutionaries nor the reactionaries. Rather, taking love and ourselves as we are, we should realize that love makes no progress and that its messiness, surprises, and paradoxes are not merely the sources of its pain--but also of its pleasure and glory.**