This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah (1901) is a collection of short stories by Indian writer, lawyer, and social reformer Cornelia Sorabji. Raised by Christian missionaries, Sorabji trained as a lawyer at Oxford University before returning to India to work with women and orphans across the country. Her fictional work illustrates a creative imagination and well-rounded sense of the diverse political and religious identities that make up the population of India. In her first published book, Sorabji spins tales of women and children from varied sociopolitical backgrounds. Writing on the Hindu purdahnashin—women cut off from the outside world—Sorabji drew on her experience as a litigator representing these oppressed figures in legal cases regarding property rights and other instances of oppression. Other stories in the collection follow Zoroastrian priestesses and the lives of orphaned children, character studies which serve as crucial catalysts for the discussion of child marriage, the practice of sati, and other controversial traditions prominent in India in the nineteenth century. Love and Life Behind the Purdah is a beautiful, informative meditation on the necessity of perseverance in the face of famine, disease, silence, and death. A lawyer at heart, Sorabji weaves powerful political commentary into her vibrant prose portraits of women and children down, but never out. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Cornelia Sorabji’s Love and Life Behind the Purdah is a classic work of Indian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah (1901) is a collection of short stories by Indian writer, lawyer, and social reformer Cornelia Sorabji. Raised by Christian missionaries, Sorabji trained as a lawyer at Oxford University before returning to India to work with women and orphans across the country. Her fictional work illustrates a creative imagination and well-rounded sense of the diverse political and religious identities that make up the population of India. In her first published book, Sorabji spins tales of women and children from varied sociopolitical backgrounds. Writing on the Hindu purdahnashin—women cut off from the outside world—Sorabji drew on her experience as a litigator representing these oppressed figures in legal cases regarding property rights and other instances of oppression. Other stories in the collection follow Zoroastrian priestesses and the lives of orphaned children, character studies which serve as crucial catalysts for the discussion of child marriage, the practice of sati, and other controversial traditions prominent in India in the nineteenth century. Love and Life Behind the Purdah is a beautiful, informative meditation on the necessity of perseverance in the face of famine, disease, silence, and death. A lawyer at heart, Sorabji weaves powerful political commentary into her vibrant prose portraits of women and children down, but never out. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Cornelia Sorabji’s Love and Life Behind the Purdah is a classic work of Indian literature reimagined for modern readers.
The voice of conscious weddings for almost thirty years, wedding folklorist and costume historian Cornelia Powell now creates an anthology for gay and lesbian couples. Here is "The Handkerchief Has Been Thrown Something Old & Something New for Same-Sex Couples Musings on Love, Weddings & Handkerchiefs." Historically, the handkerchief has long "represented the bond between lovers." So using it as her muse for this book, Cornelia wraps her stories with bits of wedding folklore, fashion fancy and ritual wisdom then moves us beyond romance and ceremony into ways that open hearts. In the author's unique way of storytelling, the book is full of tales like the seductive language of flowers and the princely charm of pocket squares, but it also shares the underlying magic of the wedding rite-of-passage. Plus... -it entices with stories of sensuous pre-wedding rituals of fragrant, healing baths in ancient Greece (and why today's brides and grooms should do the same) and what love-tokens you really ought to be tossing at your wedding reception; -it tells how romantics throughout history flirted with a well-placed hanky, yet offers endearing ways to use handkerchiefs at a wedding; -it explains why we have kings and troubadours to thank for our modern notion of "amour" as well as why surrendering to love is a sign of strength; -it even shares the benefits of taking deep, languid breaths because the more at ease a person's body, mind and spirit the more loving their relationships; -the book discloses how not to fall into the cookie-cutter, commercial-formula trap of mainstream weddings, but instead become a trailblazer in bringing intimacy back to wedding celebrations; -it reveals tips from "don't go down the aisle without a serviceable hanky" to the secrets of how to keep your heart open in a less than agreeable world; -and now that marriage is more available for same-sex couples, the book encourages devoted couples to be leaders in creating a new archetype of marriage-one of "spiritual partnership." In compiling this anthology-selecting bits from her books and blogs, favorite essays and articles, adding new insights and observations-Cornelia shares conversations about our currently changing social culture. She asks: "If marriage is said to add strength for the social good-yet is a social structure that's been deteriorating of late-why not include all couples in on re-building the viability of this institution?" As one reviewer commented: "Who knew something as practical as the handkerchief could be so thought-provoking, entertaining, mysterious-even sexy?"
The distant sisters Kerry and Khloe try to regain control of their lives, each at a crossroad that will define their future. After discovering that they share a similar abusive past by their father, the sisters vow to never leave each other's side. Attempting to heal past hurts, they are more determined than ever to reclaim their lives and chase their dreams. But, what happens when life tests their unbreakable bond?The Black Butterfly is a warm fiction that speaks a cold-hearted truth. That life is too short to not give it your all.
"Weihnachten in Finnland" informiert dar ber wie in Suomi, der Heimat des Weihnachtsmannes, die Weihnachtszeit begangen wird und welche H hepunkte es in der Adventszeit gibt. Das eBook enth lt zudem Rezepte f r finnische Weihnachtsspezialit ten und Texte von Weihnachtsliedern.
W hrend die meisten Menschen schon mal irgendetwas von Feng Shui geh rt haben, ist der Begriff Geomantie noch relativ unbekannt. Cornelia Wriedt vermittelt f r Neugierige und Einsteiger einen verst ndlichen Einblick in das alte, beinahe vergessene Wissen. Es geht dabei um gute Orte, Kraftpl tze und die Wirkung der Landschaft aus Sicht unserer abendl ndischen Tradition. Wer ein neues Haus oder eine andere Wohnung beziehen will, der erh lt praktische Tipps, worauf er bei der Suche achten sollte. Aber auch ohne geplanten Umzug wirst Du hier viel Interessantes und Wissenswertes findenHier erf hrst Du etwas ber: Die vier Elemente Das drei Welten-ModellKraftorteWas man von Pflanzen und Tieren "lernen" kannWas Geomantie und Feng Shui gemeinsam habenWas man auf alten Landkarten entdecken kannWas Ortsnamen und Sagen uns heute noch erz hlenWas es mit manchen Balken in den Fachwerkh usern so auf sich hatWozu dieses ganze Wissen n tze ist und vieles mehr Nach dem Lesen dieses Buches wirst Du Deine Umgebung mit ganz anderen Augen betrachten. Du wirst erkennen, warum Du Dich an manchen Orten wohlf hlst und an anderen nicht. Dein neues Wissen, kann Dir helfen Entscheidungen zu treffen, die ber Erfolg und Wohlbefinden in Deinem Leben bestimmen.
Nach der Auffassung der traditionellen chinesischen Medizin flie t unsere Lebensenergie in bestimmten Bahnen durch den K rper. Diese werden Meridiane genannt. Wer sich zum ersten Mal diesem Thema n hern will, findet hier einen guten Einstieg.
