Contemporary feminist theorists have implied a special affinity between women and irony because of their ‘double’ relation to the prevailing order of things: both speak from within this order while remaining ‘other’ to it in some way. Irony can be regarded as the obvious mode in which a feminist might speak, as it reflects her relation to the patriarchal structure while refusing to validate the truth of the current sexual hierarchy. She Changes by Intrigue undertakes the first sustained analysis of the parallels between irony, femininity and feminism. By retracing the association of these terms through canonical and contemporary continental philosophy, the book seeks to illuminate a notion of sexual agency that has until now remained shadowy, in spite of its prevalence. Examining the recurrence of the ‘ironic feminine’ in texts by Kristeva, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Irigaray, Derrida and Kofman, it argues that a radical revaluation of the legacy of patriarchal thought in feminism is necessary before irony can be embraced as a feminist strategy. In this context, She Changes by Intrigue offers a new reading of what it means to write as a feminist ‘subject’. This volume will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of gender studies, continental philosophy and critical / cultural theory.

In a floundering 1980s papermill town, awkward widower Floyd Hoffman holds a secret that draws contempt from his teenage son. As tensions rise, Floyd retreats into the past, reliving his tumultuous marriage to Bonnie, a manically-depressed first love whose passion drew him out of his reclusiveness. When his son dies suddenly from the same environmental cancer that claimed Bonnie, Floyd's life falls apart. He loses himself in the pursuit of justice against the reckless papermill responsible for his family's demise. In the midst of his grief, destitute teenager Tammy King appears on his doorstep along with her baby, the result of a clandestine affair with Floyd's son. While Floyd dreams of family redemption through his grandson, Tammy forges separate plans for an independent future. The Last Hoffman is a story about the reverberation of family secrets. It will renew your faith in second chances.

Tyler Montague is, by anyone's estimation, successful: he's a young, handsome, and wealthy Wall Street investment banker living in Manhattan with his beautiful and ambitious girlfriend. So why is he so restless, so deeply discontented? When he finally admits that he's homesick for his birthplace-the mountains, the lake, and the serenity of southeastern Tennessee-Ty abandons his career, his girlfriend, and the frenzied atmosphere of New York and heads home. In Tennessee, Ty rejoins his mother to manage the family marina and soon encounters his first love, the high school sweetheart he left behind. But the tranquility and contentment he craves is soon shattered. A close friend becomes one of the victims in a series of brutal murders. Suspecting that the bullet may well have been meant for him and determined to clear his family's business of any involvement in the ongoing violence, Ty is compelled to help track the perpetrator of the heinous crimes. As the sniper continues to create mayhem in the community, using the mountain's natural contours to evade capture, Ty must summon his skill, courage, and knowledge of the terrain to stop the killer, save his family's reputation, and right the wrongs that are plaguing his own heart.

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One small, seemingly insignificant event turns the quiet, well-ordered life of Paul Brett upside down. His curiosity leads him to take dangerous chances while trying to find a missing man and solve a puzzling note. His powers of reason and his courage are tested on a number of occasions. His good fortune in teaming up with a very smart woman will ultimately bring successs to this very unusual adventure.

London, 1814 Lady Jane Langley values logic and reason over passion and emotion. Her intellect has given her value in the eyes of both her father and society. Logic gives way to terrible, icy fear when Jane finds herself in a devastating carriage accident... an accident in which she is helpless to do anything but watch as her aristocratic companion is murdered. But this was no mere accident. This was an assassination. Spy and grandson of Lord Landsdowne, Gerard Badeau is methodic in his dark, shadowy work, knowing that any display of emotion could get him killed. Something about the mysterious woman and her cool blue eyes stays Gerard's lethal hand. Now he has both a witness and a hostage. And if he doesn't kill Lady Jane Langley, he risks a fate that is far, far worse...falling in love with her. Each book in the Group of Eight series is STANDALONE: * Lord of Regrets * Lady of Intrigue

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Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women's bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior versions of the superior male body. This 'one-sex model' of the human body was replaced during the Enlightenment with a model of two opposite sexes. However, both models are inadequate for a theological or a secular understanding of the sexed body. In this innovative work, Adrian Thatcher envisages relations between women and men no longer blighted by long-term patriarchy, androcentrism and sexism in church and world, but redeemed from these structural sins by the grace of Jesus Christ. Dissected into two parts, Part One explains the legacy of both the one-sex and two-sex theories. It uncovers the one-sex theory and its assumptions, and indicates its presence in early Christian thought. It then describes what happened in our social, intellectual and theological history, which leaves us thinking that there are two sexes. In Part Two, Thatcher contributes to an emerging theology of gender in which women and men are fully and equally valued, and in which sexual difference (insofar as it exists at all), is capable of transformation into joyful communion, reflecting the very life of God the Holy Trinity. He exposes the reliance of much Church and theological teaching about sex and gender either on biblical proof texts or upon the language and nomenclature of late modernity, rather than upon considerations of Theology and Christology. Thatcher also indicates how Theology and Christology, in the area of gender, envisions the redemption of human relationships.

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