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Not just another princess story
After the king declares it's time for Princess Candi to get married, the math-loving princess decides to carry out a husband search on her own. Not knowing how to find such a creature, she turns to fairytales for inspiration and ends up using every method in the books, from kissing frogs to slaying monsters. But will she find her Prince Charming? Or just a bunch of duds who cheat, cry and make armpit noises?
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Quiz queens
\"In this high interest novel for middle readers, boy-crazy Kiara convinces studious Jane to create a questionnaire to help find her soulmate.
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The Return of the Native
The great Victorian novel of love, ambition, and shattered illusions set in Hardy's beloved, fictional English village of Egdon Heath.Eustacia Vye is as wild and beautiful as the landscape that surrounds her grandfather's house on Egdon Heath.
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The truest heart
Cory Feathering has abandoned the tooth fairy guild she was born into in favor of choosing her own path as a matchmaker, and now decides to fight for what she believes in by helping Mary Lambkin find true love.
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Social Dominance and Forceful Submission Fantasies: Feminine Pathology or Power?
This study addresses forceful submission fantasies in men and women. Although many approaches implicitly or explicitly cast women's force fantasies in a pathological light, this study seeks to explore the associations of such fantasy to female power. By adopting an evolutionary meta-theoretical perspective (and a resource control theory perspective), it was hypothesized that highly agentic, dominant women prefer forceful submission fantasies (more than subordinate women) as a means to connect them to agentic, dominant men. In addition, it is suggested that dominant women would ascribe a meaning to the object of the fantasy different from that assigned by subordinate women (i.e., \"warrior lover\" vs. \"white knight\"). Two studies were conducted with nearly 900 college students (men and women) from a large Midwestern university. Hypotheses were largely supported. Analysis of meaning supports theoretical perspectives proposing that forceful submission reflects desires for sexual power on behalf of the fantasist. Implications for evolutionary approaches to human mate preferences are discussed.
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Celestial bodies : Sayyidat al-qamar
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman live three sisters. Mayya Marries after a heartbreak. Asma marries from a sense of duty. Khawla rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. Celestial Bodies is the story of the history and people of modern Oman told through one family's losses and loves
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“Bankrupt in all but my good wishes”: Speculative Economics in Cleomelia; Or The Generous Mistress
This article explores Eliza Haywood’s Cleomelia; Or The Generous Mistress: Being the Secret History of a Lady Lately Arrived from Bengall (1727), an obscure tale preoccupied with the politics of British investment in exotic foreign trade and speculation. Against the Eastern backdrop of Bengali trading posts and the remote Spice Islands, Haywood examines the sanguine Whig attitude to the economic possibilities of foreign trade. Exploiting the associations between female sexuality and speculative investment that had emerged so powerfully after the South Sea Bubble incident in 1720, Haywood uses Cleomelia’s many marriages to illuminate an abstract notion of value. Cleomelia enters the contemporary socio-political discourse of credit and speculation with ambivalence; while Haywood appears to criticize the self-interest, exploitation and high level of risk involved in Whig overseas trade policy, she also explores these elements more sympathetically through the heroine’s astute manipulation of the marriage market.
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