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The Islanders. Vol. 3, Claire gets caught ; and, What Zoey saw
Claire tries to catch the eye of her crush, Jake, while on a snowy weekend ski trip in New Hampshire, even though Jake and Claire's friend Zoey seem to be getting closer together.
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The Islanders. Vol. 4, Lucas gets hurt ; and, Aisha goes wild
Lucas is miserable when his girlfriend, Zoey, goes back to her ex Jake when her family falls apart, while Aisha becomes torn between her new flame, Christopher, and her first love, Jeff.
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I'm not your manic pixie dream girl
\"After her boyfriend breaks up with her for another girl, Bea reinvents herself as a manic pixie dream girl to win him back\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Interreligious Love in Contemporary German Film and Literature
One of the most influential analyses of German Jewish relations before the Holocaust is Gershom Scholem’s 1966 essay “Jews and Germans.” Scholem, who had been born into an assimilated German Jewish family but became a Zionist and in 1923 immigrated to Palestine, delivers there a trenchant critique of what he calls the “false start” of German Jewish relations in the modern age. He argues against the idea that the process of Jewish emancipation and acculturation, which began in the late eighteenth century, had created something like a “dialogue” between Jews and non-Jews. In his view this dialogue had always been
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The Islanders. Vol. 1, Zoey fools around ; and, Jake finds out
A story of passion and heartbreak is told with the alternating perspectives of Jake, whose brother died in an accident three years before, and Zoey, who falls for the boy responsible for the accident.
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Understanding Romance Fraud: Insights From Domestic Violence Research
Abstract
Romance fraud affects thousands of victims globally, yet few scholars have studied it. The dynamics of relationships between victims and offenders are not well understood, and the effects are rarely discussed. This article adapts the concept of psychological abuse from studies of domestic violence to better understand romance fraud. Using interviews with 21 Australian romance fraud victims, we show how offenders use non-violent tactics to ensure compliance with ongoing demands for money. This article identifies similarities and differences between domestic violence and romance fraud. We argue that thinking through domestic violence and romance fraud together offers potential benefits to both bodies of research.
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The Islanders. Vol. 2, Nina won't tell and Ben's in love
A love story between Nina and her sister's former boyfriend Ben is told with the alternating perspectives of Nina and Ben.
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The Glass Slipper
Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism, traditional ideas and messages about romantic love still hold sway and, in our \"postfeminist\" age, are more popular than ever. Increasingly, we have become a culture of romance: stories of all kinds shape the terms of love. Women, in particular, love a love story.
The Glass Slipperis about the persistence of a familiar Anglo-American love story into the digital age. Comparing influential classics to their current counterparts, Susan Ostrov Weisser relates in highly amusing prose how these stories are shaped and defined by and for women, the main consumers of romantic texts. Following a trajectory that begins with Jane Austen and concludes with Internet dating sites, Weisser shows the many ways in which nineteenth-century views of women's nature and the Victorian idea of romance have survived the feminist critique of the 1970s and continue in new and more ambiguous forms in today's media, with profound implications for women.
More than a book about romance in fiction and media,The Glass Slipperillustrates how traditional stories about women's sexuality, femininity, and romantic love have survived as seemingly protective elements in a more modern, feminist, sexually open society, confusing the picture for women themselves. Weisser compares diverse narratives-historical and contemporary from high literature and \"low\" genres-discussing novels by Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, Victorian women's magazines, and D. H. Lawrence'sLady Chatterley's Lover; Disney movies; popular Harlequin romance novels; masochistic love in films; pornography and its relationship to romance; and reality TV and Internet ads as romantic stories.
Ultimately, Weisser shows that the narrative versions of the Glass Slipper should be taken as seriously as the Glass Ceiling as we see how these representations of romantic love are meant to inform women's beliefs and goals. In this book, Weisser's goal is not to shatter the Glass Slipper, but to see through it.
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