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Sword of Stone: The Sword of Rhiannon: Book Three: the Sword of Rhiannon: Book Three

Sword of Stone: The Sword of Rhiannon: Book Three: the Sword of Rhiannon: Book Three

Melissa E. Beckwith

Melissa E. Beckwith
2018
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From the ashes of tragedy, hope is reborn but quickly stolen away. Can Rhiannon survive her harrowing journey to reclaim that which is most precious to her? Rhiannon has settled into the life she thought she wanted but it has left her restless and she has still been unable to produce the all-important heir to Ventra. When tragedy strikes, Rhiannon is pushed to her limit. She becomes afraid and unsure of herself. Flath has also suffered much and though he has tried to be a good king for Beaynid, he's made a horrible decision that he has grown to regret. To deal with his problems, he takes on a different persona and tries to make things right, but how long does he have before his charade is discovered? Baobh has put her plan into action and patiently awaits her day when she will have her revenge upon the Empress of Ventra. Hiding in plain sight, she will not give up until the day when she will be back in Castle Sona Tuath, one way or another. A new threat emerges from a mystical land in the south, far across the Desert Sea. The mysterious Lord Rull lures Flath and Rhiannon south into the vast desert, across a pirate-infested ocean, and deep into the jungles of the land of Dar' Ven. The Emperor of the Ynny' dagh is obsessed and deadly and will leave Rhiannon with a scar that she will bear for the rest of her life. Get lost in this striking epic fantasy today and buy The Sword of Stone: The Sword of Rhiannon: Book Three.
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War of the Gypsy: The Sword of Rhiannon: Book Two: The Sword of Rhiannon: Book Two

War of the Gypsy: The Sword of Rhiannon: Book Two: The Sword of Rhiannon: Book Two

Melissa E. Beckwith

Melissa E. Beckwith
2017
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Can Rhiannon give up everything she's always wanted for a destiny she never asked for? Rhiannon is facing insurmountable challenges. In addition to gaining the trust of her mighty nation to accept her as their new empress, she must also convince them to get involved in a civil war they care nothing about. Baobh will not be dissuaded from seeking Rhiannon's blood. Rhiannon might be cloistered within the marble walls of M rrach, but that won't stop her. She will end the new empress's life and prove the prophecy false. The throne of Beaynid is hers by right and no one will take it from her Flath is besieged with self-doubt. The rebellion is all but wiped out and he cannot count on the Archigos aid in their war. When a long-kept family secret is finally revealed, it changes everything In book two of The Sword of Rhiannon Series, Rhiannon and Flath are forced to make decisions that will change their destinies forever. Baobh must be stopped, but is the cost too high?
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Tree of Bone and Mist: The Sword of Rhiannon: Book One

Tree of Bone and Mist: The Sword of Rhiannon: Book One

Melissa E. Beckwith

Melissa E. Beckwith
2017
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Looking for clues to a past she cannot remember, Rhiannon stumbles into a dangerous new world. Can she survive the evil that hunts her long enough to fulfill her destiny? Suffering from vivid nightmares, Rhiannon Kossi is sure that she's been lied to about her childhood. Seeking the answers to long-forgotten questions, she is mysteriously taken from her quiet, simple life on a Montana cattle ranch and thrust into a new, violent world where she is forced to either fight or die. In her quest for answers to her past Rhiannon must accept hard truths that will forever change the course of her life...that is, if she can stay alive. Get lost in this fantastic journey through a breathtaking world of legendary battles, dangerous quests, an ancient prophecy, forbidden love, and brutal self-discovery in book one of the new page-turning epic fantasy series, The Sword of Rhiannon: Tree of Bone and Mist.
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Erotic Subjects

Erotic Subjects

Melissa E. Sanchez

Oxford University Press Inc
2014
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Treating sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as part of English political history, Erotic Subjects traces some surprising implications of two early modern commonplaces: first, that love is the basis of political consent and obedience, and second, that suffering is an intrinsic part of love. Rather than dismiss such assumptions as mere conventions, Melissa Sanchez uncovers the political import of early modern literature's fascination with eroticized violence. Focusing on representations of masochism, sexual assault, and cross-gendered identification, Sanchez re-examines the work of politically active writers from Philip Sidney to John Milton. She argues that political allegiance and consent appear far less conscious and deliberate than traditional historical narratives allow when Sidney depicts abjection as a source of both moral authority and sexual arousal; when Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare make it hard to distinguish between rape and seduction; when Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish depict women who adore treacherous or abusive lovers; when court masques stress the pleasures of enslavement; or when Milton insists that even Edenic marriage is hopelessly pervaded by aggression and self-loathing. Sanchez shows that this literature constitutes an alternate tradition of political theory that acknowledges the irrational and perverse components of power and thereby disrupts more conventional accounts of politics as driven by self-interest, false consciousness, or brute force. Erotic Subjects will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern literary and political history, as well as those interested in the histories of gender, sexuality, and affect more generally.
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Erotic Subjects

Erotic Subjects

Melissa E. Sanchez

Oxford University Press Inc
2011
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Erotic Subjects demonstrates that if we treat sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as part of English political history, both fields of study will look rather different. In this important new book, Sanchez traces some surprising implications of two early modern commonplaces: first, that love is the basis of political consent and obedience, and second, that suffering is an intrinsic part of love. Rather than dismiss such commonplaces as mere convention, Sanchez uncovers the political import of early modern literature's fascination with erotic violence. Focusing on representations of masochism, sexual assault, and cross-gendered identification, Sanchez re-examines the work of politically active writers from Philip Sidney to John Milton. She argues that political allegiance and consent appear far less conscious and deliberate than traditional historical narratives allow when Sidney depicts abjection as a source of both moral authority and sexual arousal; when Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare make it hard to distinguish between rape and seduction; when Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish depict women who adore treacherous or abusive lovers; when court masques stress the pleasures of enslavement; or when Milton insists that even Edenic marriage is hopelessly pervaded by aggression and self-loathing. Sanchez shows that this literature constitutes an alternate tradition of political theory that acknowledges the irrational and perverse components of power and thereby disrupts more conventional accounts of politics as driven by self-interest, false consciousness, or brute force. Erotic Subjects will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern literary and political history, as well as those interested in the histories of gender, sexuality, and affect more generally.
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American Women's History

American Women's History

Melissa E. Blair; Vanessa M. Holden; Maeve Kane

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
2023
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Offers a nuanced account of the multiple aspects of women’s lives and their roles in American society American Women's History presents a comprehensive survey of women's experience in the U.S. and North America from pre-European contact to the present. Centering women of color and incorporating issues of sexuality and gender, this student-friendly textbook draws from cutting-edge scholarship to provide a more inclusive and complicated perspective on the conventional narrative of U.S. women’s history. Throughout the text, the authors highlight diverse voices such as Matoaka (Pocahontas), Hilletie van Olinda, Margaret Sanger, and Annelle Ponder. Arranged chronologically, American Women's History explores the major turning points in American women’s history while exploring various contexts surrounding race, work, politics, activism, and the construction of self. Concise chapters cover a uniquely wide range of topics, such as the roles of Indigenous women in North American cultures, the ways women participated in the American Revolution, the lives of women of color in the antebellum South and their experiences with slave resistance and rebellion, the radical transformation brought on by Black women during Reconstruction, the activism of women before and after suffrage was won, and more. Discusses how Indigenous women navigated cross-cultural contact and resisted assimilation efforts after the arrival of EuropeansConsiders the construction of Black female bodies and the implications of the slave trade in the AmericasAddresses the cultural shifts, demographic changes, and women’s rights movements of the early twentieth centuryHighlights women’s participation in movements for civil rights, workplace justice, and equal educational opportunitiesExplores the feminist movement and its accomplishments, the rise of anti-feminism, and women’s influence on the modern political landscapeDesigned for both one- and two-semester U.S. history courses, American Women's History is an ideal resource for instructors looking for a streamlined textbook that will complement existing primary sources that work well in their classes. Due to its focus on women of color, it is particularly valuable for community colleges and other institutions with diverse student populations.
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In the Face of Inequality

In the Face of Inequality

Melissa E. Wooten

State University of New York Press
2016
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First comparative historical analysis of the organizational growth of black colleges.A quarter of black Americans earn college degrees from black colleges, yet questions about the necessity of black colleges abound. In the Face of Inequality dissects the ways in which race and racism combined to shape the experiences of America's black colleges in the mid-twentieth century. In a novel approach to this topic, Melissa E. Wooten combines historical data with a sociological approach. Drawing on extensive quantitative and qualitative historical data, Wooten argues that for much of America's history, educational and social policy was explicitly designed to limit black colleges' organizational development. As an alternative to questioning the modern day relevance of these schools, Wooten asks readers to consider how race and racism precludes black colleges from acquiring the resources and respect worthy of them.
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Shakespeare and Queer Theory

Shakespeare and Queer Theory

Melissa E. Sanchez

The Arden Shakespeare
2019
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Shakespeare and Queer Theory is an indispensable guide on the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the central ideas of the theory, the field’s historical emergence from feminist and gay and lesbian studies within the academy, and political activism related to the AIDS crisis beyond it, it also illuminates current debates about historicism and embodiment.Through a series of original readings of texts including Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Venus and Adonis, as well as film adaptations of early modern drama including Derek Jarman’s The Tempest and Edward II, Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, and Julie Taymor's Titus, it illustrates the value of queer theory to Shakespeare scholarship, and the value of Shakespearean texts to queer theory.
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Shakespeare and Queer Theory

Shakespeare and Queer Theory

Melissa E. Sanchez

The Arden Shakespeare
2020
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Shakespeare and Queer Theory is an indispensable guide on the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the central ideas of the theory, the field’s historical emergence from feminist and gay and lesbian studies within the academy, and political activism related to the AIDS crisis beyond it, it also illuminates current debates about historicism and embodiment.Through a series of original readings of texts including Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Venus and Adonis, as well as film adaptations of early modern drama including Derek Jarman’s The Tempest and Edward II, Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, and Julie Taymor's Titus, it illustrates the value of queer theory to Shakespeare scholarship, and the value of Shakespearean texts to queer theory.
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Queer Faith

Queer Faith

Melissa E. Sanchez

New York University Press
2019
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Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of "history and tradition" suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? Queer Faith examines key works of the prehistory of monogamy—from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare—to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberation are themselves attached to nascent racial and economic hierarchies. Because discourses of fidelity and freedom are also discourses on racial and sexual positionality, excavating the complex historical entanglement of faith, race, and eroticism is urgent to contemporary queer debates about normativity, agency, and relationality. Deliberately unfaithful to disciplinary norms and national boundaries, this book assembles new conceptual frameworks at the juncture of secular and religious thought, political and aesthetic form. It thereby enlarges the contexts, objects, and authorized genealogies of queer scholarship. Retracing a history that did not have to be, Sanchez recovers writing that inscribes radical queer insights at the premodern foundations of conservative and heteronormative culture.
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Queer Faith

Queer Faith

Melissa E. Sanchez

New York University Press
2019
sidottu
Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of "history and tradition" suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? Queer Faith examines key works of the prehistory of monogamy—from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare—to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberation are themselves attached to nascent racial and economic hierarchies. Because discourses of fidelity and freedom are also discourses on racial and sexual positionality, excavating the complex historical entanglement of faith, race, and eroticism is urgent to contemporary queer debates about normativity, agency, and relationality. Deliberately unfaithful to disciplinary norms and national boundaries, this book assembles new conceptual frameworks at the juncture of secular and religious thought, political and aesthetic form. It thereby enlarges the contexts, objects, and authorized genealogies of queer scholarship. Retracing a history that did not have to be, Sanchez recovers writing that inscribes radical queer insights at the premodern foundations of conservative and heteronormative culture.
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Collective of Love

Collective of Love

Melissa E. Costa

Extasy Books
2021
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Maidoa life is never easy. They mate in pods of three, but first they must survive, then once they find each other, it's love at first sight. Naidon and Alooma lose their meeraid-the third part of a maidoa pod. Naidon has his eye set on a new meeraid to join their fold. But Sade has other plans, and his rejection could have life or death consequences.
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