190 Results for : respectability
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 561min
Huck Finn is a homeless rebel who loves freedom more than respectability. He isn't above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle with his conscience when he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim. Jim is trying to escape to a free state in the North while his owner wants to sell him to a slave trader down river. Huck knows that helping Jim will bring trouble, but can he turn in a man who only wants to be free? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000956/bk_blak_000956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery & Arsenic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 779min
In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. The ‘Maybrick Mystery’ had all the makings of a sensation and cracked the varnish of Victorian respectability. Florence’s fate was fiercely debated on the front pages of the newspapers and in parlours and backyards across the country. Historian Kate Colquhoun recounts an utterly absorbing tale that keeps you asking to the very last minute, did she kill him? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maggie Mash. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000534/bk_oakh_000534_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lady of Pleasure: School of Gallantry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min
Educating one's self in the art of love takes time. Lady Caroline Arabella Sterling has been in love with her older brother's friend, Lord Caldwell, since she was 13. Unfortunately, too many things get in the way of proving her love. Her four younger sisters, her mother, her brother, all of society, and the man she loves himself. But where there is a will, there is a way, and Caroline is about to redefine not only respectability but true love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Delilah Marvelle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051060/bk_acx0_051060_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Governess , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 483min
When Harriet Unwin takes the position of governess in the well-to-do Thackerton household, it would seem that fortune has smiled on her at last. That is until William Thackerton is found stabbed and Harriet is accused of murder.... In a desperate attempt to prove her innocence, she embarks on a daring scheme to save herself from the gallows. In doing so she uncovers the dark secrets which the family is trying to hide behind a veneer of Victorian respectability. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sheila Mitchell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006186/bk_bbcw_006186_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mobilizing Zanzibari Women
Mobilizing Zanzibari Women ab 117.49 € als pdf eBook: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften,- Shop: hugendubel
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Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Respectable Capers'
Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Respectable Capers' ab 117.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Class Respectability and the Savoy Operas 1877-1909. 1st ed. 2016. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Kunst & Musik,- Shop: hugendubel
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Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses during World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 493min
Throughout World War II, when Saturday nights came around, servicemen and hostesses happily forgot the war for a little while as they danced together in USO clubs, which served as havens of stability in a time of social, moral, and geographic upheaval. Meghan Winchell demonstrates that in addition to boosting soldier morale, the USO acted as an architect of the gender roles and sexual codes that shaped the "greatest generation". Combining archival research with extensive firsthand accounts from among the hundreds of thousands of female USO volunteers, Winchell shows how the organization both reflected and shaped 1940s American society at large. The USO had hoped that respectable feminine companionship would limit venereal disease rates in the military. To that end, Winchell explains, USO recruitment practices characterized white middle-class women as sexually respectable, thus implying that the sexual behavior of working-class women and women of color was suspicious. In response, women of color sought to redefine the USO's definition of beauty and respectability, challenging the USO's vision of a home front that was free of racial, gender, and sexual conflict. Despite clashes over class and racial ideologies of sex and respectability, Winchell finds that most hostesses benefited from the USO's chaste image. In exploring the USO's treatment of female volunteers, Winchell not only brings the hostesses' stories to light but also supplies a crucial missing piece for understanding the complex ways in which the war both destabilized and restored certain versions of social order. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015590/bk_adbl_015590_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 854min
From Susan Ronald, author of The Pirate Queen, comes a revealing new audiobook biography. With each sensational chapter, A Dangerous Woman documents the life of Florence Gould, a fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid her dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940s Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris, aged 11. Believing that only money brought respectability and happiness, she became the third wife of Frank Jay Gould, son of the railway millionaire Jay Gould. She guided Frank's millions into hotels and casinos, creating a luxury hotel and casino empire. She entertained Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Kennedy, and many Hollywood stars, like Charlie Chaplin, who became her lover. While the party ended for most Americans after the Crash of 1929, Frank and Florence refused to go home. During the Occupation, Florence took several German lovers and hosted a controversial salon. As the Allies closed in, the unscrupulous Florence became embroiled in a notorious money laundering operation for fleeing high-ranking Nazis. Yet after the war, not only did she avoid prosecution, but her vast fortune bought her respectability as a significant contributor to the Metropolitan Museum, New York University, and Cornell Medical School, among many others. It also earned her friends like Estée Lauder who obligingly looked the other way. A seductive and utterly amoral woman who loved to say "money doesn't care who owns it", Florence's life proved a strong argument that perhaps money can buy happiness after all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carol Monda. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003319/bk_aren_003319_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Deception & Debauchery: A Pride and Prejudice Variation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min
George Wickham, a widower with a penchant for gambling, women, and alcohol, has recently gained his freedom and fortune. In an effort to gain respectability, he intends to acquire a country estate in Hertfordshire. He soon finds himself enamored with Elizabeth Bennet and developing a friendship with Charles Bingley, two people who are very important to his childhood rival, Fitzwilliam Darcy. When Darcy discovers that Wickham is worming his way into the lives of those in Hertfordshire, he will go to shocking lengths to protect them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Megan Green. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162806/bk_acx0_162806_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Respectable (eBook, ePUB)
The making of a culture of Black male respectability at Morehouse that underlines conservative notions of gender and class-by a former Spelman student who was once "Miss Morehouse." How does it feel to be groomed as the "solution" to a national Black male "problem"? This is the guiding paradox of Respectable, an in-depth examination of graduates of Morehouse College, the nation's only historically Black college for men. While Black male collegians are often culturally fetishized for "beating the odds," the image of Black male success that Morehouse assiduously promotes and celebrates is belied by many of the realities that challenge the students on this campus. Saida Grundy offers a unique insider perspective: a graduate of Spelman college and a former "Miss Morehouse," Grundy crafts an incisive feminist and sociological account informed by her personal insights and scholarly expertise. Respectable gathers the experiences of former students and others connected to Morehouse to illustrate the narrow, conservative vision of masculinity molded at a competitive Black institution. The thirty-two men interviewed unveil a culture that forges confining ideas of respectable Black manhood within a context of relentless peer competition and sexual violence, measured against unattainable archetypes of idealized racial leadership. Grundy underlines the high costs of making these men-the experiences of low-income students who navigate class issues at Morehouse, the widespread homophobia laced throughout the college's notions of Black male respectability, and the crushingly conformist expectations of a college that sees itself as making "good" Black men. As Morehouse's problems continue to pour out into national newsfeeds, this book contextualizes these issues not as a defect of Black masculinity, but as a critique of what happens when an institution services an imagination of what Black men should be, at the expense of more fully understanding the many ways these young people see themselves.- Shop: buecher
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