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The followers
\"On the bleak, windswept moors of northern England, a small religious cult has cut itself off from society, believing they have found meaning in a purposeless world. Led by their prophet Nathaniel, they eagerly await the end times. But when the prophet brings in a new recruit, Stephanie, along with her rebellious daughter Judith, the group's delicate dynamic is disturbed. Judith is determined to escape, but her feelings are complicated by a growing friendship with another of the children, the naèive and trusting Moses, who has never experienced the outside world. Meanwhile, another member is starting to have doubts of his own, unleashing a horrifying chain of events that will destroy the followers' lives. In the aftermath, the survivors struggle to adjust to the real world, haunted by the same questions: if you've been persuaded to surrender your individual will, are you still responsible for your actions? And is there any way back?\"-- Google Books.
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Understanding Romance Fraud: Insights From Domestic Violence Research
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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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Bad romance
\"When Grace and Gavin fall in love, Grace is sure it's too good to be true. She has no idea their relationship will become a prison she's unable to escape\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The boarding school testimony of Charlotte Brontë
PurposeCharlotte Brontë integrated her own and her sisters' traumatic boarding school experiences into her novel, Jane Eyre (1847) as a way of expressing her anger through autobiographical fiction. The aim is to link contemporary research into boarding school trauma to the relevant events, thereby identifying what she wrote as a testimony contributing to the long history of the problematic nature of boarding schools.Design/methodology/approachAutobiographical fiction is discussed as a form of testimony, placing Jane Eyre in that category. Recent research into the traumatic experiences of those whose parents chose to send them to boarding school is presented, leading to an argument that educational historians need to analyse experience rather than limiting their work to structure and planning. The traumatic events the Brontë sisters experienced at the Clergy Daughters' School are outlined as the basis for what is included in Jane Eyre at the fictional Lowood School. Specific traumatic events in the novel are then identified and contemporary research into boarding school trauma applied.FindingsThe findings reveal Charlotte's remarkable insight into the psychological impact on children being sent away to board at a time when understandings about trauma and boarding school trauma did not exist. An outcome of the analysis is that it places the novel within the field of the history of education as a testimony of boarding school life.Originality/valueThis is the first application of boarding school trauma research to the novel.
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Invisible as air : a novel
\"Sylvie Snow knows the pressures of expectations: a woman is supposed to work hard, but never be tired; age gracefully, but always be beautiful; fix the family problems, but always be carefree. Sylvie does the grocery shopping, the laundry, the scheduling, the schlepping and the PTA-ing, while planning her son's Bar Mitzvah and cheerfully tending her husband, Paul, who's been lying on the sofa with a broken ankle. She's also secretly addicted to the Oxycontin intended for her husband. For three years, Sylvie has repressed her grief about the heartbreaking stillbirth of her newborn daughter, Delilah. On the morning of the anniversary of her death, when she just can't face doing one...more...thing: she takes one--just one--of her husband's discarded pain pills. And suddenly she feels patient, kinder, and miraculously relaxed. She tells herself that the pills are temporary, just a gift, and that when the supply runs out she'll go back to her regularly scheduled programming. But days turn into weeks, and Sylvie slips slowly into a nightmare. At first, Paul and Teddy are completely unaware, but this changes quickly as her desperate choices reveal her desperate state. As the Bar Mitzvah nears, all three of them must face the void within themselves, both alone and together\"--Page 4 of cover.
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we inter are
This not-quite poem is a bricolage of citations. Barring stanza three, it is composed almost entirely of the words of US feminists: Adrienne Rich (1986 [1984]), Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (1981), Donna Haraway (1988), Chela Sandoval (1991), Toni Cade Bambara (1980, 1983 [1981]). The ideas they express emerge from, and intervene in, several interrelated histories—colonial, racial, ethnic, class, gendered, sexual, bodily. To follow their logic is to parse dominant ideas into ensembles of contingent facts. The challenge to the so-called universal held a dual promise: a decolonisation of mind and a reimagination of freedom. The insistent eruption of the diversity of experiences, perspectives, myths, metaphors, visions was never an end in itself (though the market did strive where it could to domesticate it as a species of variety). It was above all an interpretive summons: a call to rethink and re-vision pasts presents futures. To re-examine experience, to specify it. The call to arms was a call for complexity. Specification as a first step towards rethinking the interrelations that constitute the social-ecological whole. The forms of expression reflected this impulse. Testimonials. Fiction. Historical excavation. Memoir. Oral history. Poetry. Ceremonies. Fantasy. Biomythography. Theory. The inter of relations refracted in the imploding of timelines, concepts and domains, in the trans-creation of literary genres, the visual arts and theatre. The material-nonmaterial, analytical-spectral, psychic-spiritual, ideological-poetic combining in new ways to speak—to, from, for, with, of, near—beauty, desire, justice, history, law and love. Binaries were inverted, subverted, on occasion subtended. In the exuberance of the moment, structure/subject, individual/community, history/agency, nature/culture, body/mind, subject/object all appeared poised to slough off the weight of history and point to terra incognita.
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The light jar
Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a long-ago treasure hunt turns up.
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The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself
Boy built a wall to keep himself safe. Behind it he felt strong and more protected. Then Someone Kind came along. She bounced a ball, sang and painted on the other side of the wall, and Boy began to wonder if life on the other side might be better after all. Written for children aged 4 to 9, this gentle full-colour picture book uses a simple metaphor to explain how children who have had painful or traumatic experiences can build barriers between themselves and other people. It will help children explore their feelings and encourage communication.
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Sweethearts : a novel
After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected return dredges up memories that cause both social and emotional turmoil.
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Rape, silence and disembodiment in Anne Hebert's 'Les Fous de Bassan'
Theories of rape suggest that rape is commonly represented in texts by silence, a silence that stands in for the violated body; analysing narrative representations of rape means by implication tracing how its impact is deflected and restoring focus to the body. This article rethinks the relation between rape, narrative and the body through a study of the French-Canadian writer Anne Hebert's 'Les Fous de Bassan' (1982). In this novel, sexual violation is inscribed and concealed via bodily mutilation and textual silence, so that rape is given voice through a \"language of disarticulation\" (a term drawn from the feminist critic Elissa Marder) that finds its roots in disembodiment, rather than the body. The article proposes an alternative approach to representations of rape that explores how sexual violence is figured through images of disembodiment that both displace and inscribe rape.
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