The Inlander
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Total Pages | : 132 |
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Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : lady Rosalind Northcote |
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Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Herbs |
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Author | : Samuel Johnson |
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Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 1827 |
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Author | : Cope's Tobacco Plant |
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Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Smoking |
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Author | : abbé Barruel |
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Total Pages | : 894 |
Release | : 1797 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Anderson Galleries, Inc |
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Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1905-03 |
Genre | : Art |
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Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : John M. Riddle |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1999-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674266676 |
In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve’s Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times? Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs and shows how the new intellectual, religious, and legal climate of the early modern period tended to cast suspicion on women who employed “secret knowledge” to terminate or prevent pregnancy. Knowledge of the menstrual-regulating qualities of rue, pennyroyal, and other herbs was widespread through succeeding centuries among herbalists, apothecaries, doctors, and laywomen themselves, even as theologians and legal scholars began advancing the idea that the fetus was fully human from the moment of conception. Drawing on previously unavailable material, Riddle reaches a startling conclusion: while it did not persist in a form that was available to most women, ancient knowledge about herbs was not lost in modern times but survived in coded form. Persecuted as “witchcraft” in centuries past and prosecuted as a crime in our own time, the control of fertility by “Eve’s herbs” has been practiced by Western women since ancient times.
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Total Pages | : 904 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Transportation, Automotive |
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Author | : Margaret Heady |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780820476100 |
Marvelous Journeys explores the transition from a modernist to a postmodernist consciousness in twentieth-century Caribbean writings on identity that is reflected through a corresponding evolution in the use of the marvelous as a literary tool. For the three novelists who are the focus of this study - Jacques-Stephen Alexis, Alejo Carpentier, and Simone Schwarz-Bart - the discourse of the marvelous offers a uniquely Caribbean vehicle for capturing an elusive Caribbean «essence» as well as for coming to terms with the seemingly contradictory demands of a Parisian intellectual formation and an authentic Caribbean sensibility. This book engages with recent debates in criticism and theory and will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers interested in Francophone literature, Caribbean studies, and literary and postcolonial theory. It contributes to the burgeoning field of Caribbean literary studies by adopting a transcultural approach to a neglected but increasingly important area of study: the circulation of ideas and influences among the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean islands and the African and European continents.