![]() ![]() Although body snatching at the time was not explicitly illegal, as long as one took only the corpse and not any other items present in the coffin, which then became grave robbing, body snatching was dangerous. They usually targeted the poor, since their graves were less likely to be guarded, and Jewish graves, since it is a Jewish custom for people to be buried within twenty-four hours of death, limiting the amount of decomposition that occurred before the body could be taken. ![]() Body snatchers would dig up the graves of the recently deceased and sell the body to medical facilities to be used for research and education. As a result, body snatching became a lucrative business. Due to this restriction, there was an extreme shortage of available cadavers, especially as more students became drawn to the medical profession in the 18th and 19th centuries. Prior to 1832, in the United Kingdom it was only legal for medical schools and anatomists to perform dissections on the bodies of executed criminals. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Depending on the legal context and the interpretation of the reader, these categories can be understood as disabled, as transgender, as intersex, or as all three at one and the same moment. ![]() Androgynes, in contrast, trouble the legal boundaries of male and female. They can be born eunuchs (which is a category we would probably call intersex), or can become eunuchs later in life. The rabbis define eunuchs as people who lack procreative capabilities, but are legally male or female. My work centers gender variant bodies in Late Ancient Jewish legal literatures eunuchs and androgynes are found throughout the rabbinic corpus, and are invoked in connection with diverse legal issues. ![]() My research is shaped by the uneasy imbrication of queer bodies and religion. And yet the intimacy of this scene in the restroom-a charged space in queer, trans, and disabled communities-enables both the violence (of potential re-creation) and a rebellious intimacy. The pairing of queerphobia and religion is a familiar specter. Afterwards, Hillman addresses them both: “You and I have bodies that make people pray.” 1 This is an allusion to Hillman’s mother’s prayers, and more broadly her mother’s desire that she be “fixed.” These prayers enlist divine aid in (re-)creating queer bodies. She describes their inelegant struggle to undress this relative stranger. The scene takes place at a conference, where Hillman works together with another activist to support a disabled woman’s access to the restroom. In her memoir, intersex activist Thea Hillman describes an encounter in a bathroom. ![]() ![]() ![]() And I was not disappointed - considering this is the first in a planned series, it's a definite winner.Īs the story opens, detective Superintendent Lascano is assigned to look into a case of two bodies found on the riverside. ![]() As the book notes prior to the beginning of the novel, Ernesto Mallo was one of these "anti-Junta activists" who was "pursued by the dictatorship," so I realized right away this was going to be a readworthy novel: it is factually based from someone who actually lived through the terrors of the time. Anyone the government considers subversive is picked up and is either killed, imprisoned, or simply disappears. Needle in a Haystack is set in the late 1970s during Argentina's "dirty war," when a military junta has seized power and the regime is constantly on the lookout for anyone opposed to its rule. ![]() ![]() ![]() The accident, which is not elaborated on until the final pages, seems anticlimactic after being alluded to throughout the novel. ![]() ![]() Ellie’s bad habits follow her to Florida and result in irrevocable loss. The novel alternates between Ellie in 2011 and Maya in 2013, a before-and-after exploration of what tragedy and mistakes can do to families and friendships. Stephen’s patience is tried by Ben’s announcement that he's giving up his soccer scholarship and taking a break from college. Maya, an unmothered mother who coped with the pressures of parenting by reading, locking herself in her office, and running the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan for what seems like “half the day,” no longer sleeps with her husband. After years of Ellie using drugs, making mistakes, and sleeping with the wrong boys, Maya ships her away to Florida to care for an old friend’s child. As their children, Ellie and Ben, grow closer to adulthood, the family seems to hang by a thread. Strong’s debut novel traces a mother-daughter bond that must be rebuilt after a life-changing tragedy.Ĭollege professors Stephen and Maya Taylor have made a lovely life for themselves, commuting from tree-lined Brooklyn to teach philosophy and English at Columbia University. ![]() ![]() As he grew older, his insight faded, and with it the vivacity of his words. Whitman’s vision and his language were at their most powerful in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1855. (The first edition measures eight inches by eleven, and its lines seem to go on for miles.) Still, I think Whitman would have been touched at the prospect of being carried around in the breast or hip pockets of young men and women, intimately, close to the flesh.Ī few words about the text presented here. It is a miracle of a poem.īut a pocket edition? To shrink this expansive, world-swallowing language even to the size of a normal book is a bit absurd. ![]() ![]() At each rereading I feel exhilarated, as if for the first time, by its freshness and breadth of vision, its bodiliness, its high spirits, its astonishing empathy, by the freedom and goofiness and dignity of its language, and, not least, by its spiritual insight. “Song of Myself” is by far the greatest poem ever written by an American. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1933, a group called the German Christians ( Deutsche Christen) began to promote the nazification of German Protestantism through the creation of a pro-Nazi “Reich Church.” The German Christians wanted Protestantism to conform to Nazi ideology, and they pushed for the implementation of the state “Aryan laws” within the churches. Strongly influenced by nationalism and unsettled by the chaos of the Weimar years, many Protestant leaders and church members welcomed the rise of Nazism. With Hitler's ascent to power, Bonhoeffer's church-the German Evangelical Church-entered the most difficult phase in its history. ![]() The German Evangelical Church under National Socialism He also became active in the Protestant ecumenical movement, making international contacts that after 1933 would prove crucial for the Confessing Church and for his time in the German resistance. During that time he attended Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and became deeply interested in the issue of racial injustice. ![]() He studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1930–1931. After completing his theological studies, he served a German-speaking congregation in Barcelona, Spain, from 1928–1930. Born in Breslau on February 4, 1906, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was the sixth child of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The trouble is, though they’re attracted to each other, they have a hard time getting along or even communicating clearly. Yet they find themselves drawn together-first by curiosity about why the class paired them, then by an undeniable bond. Brody doesn’t lack female admirers, but Harper can't see herself with him. And ever since the senior class voted her and star quarterback Brody the “Perfect Couple That Never Was,” her friends have been pushing her to ask Brody out. Her parents’ bitter divorce left her wondering what a loving relationship looks like. But her own life is anything but picture perfect. ![]() As yearbook photographer, Harper is responsible for those candid moments that make high school memorable. In this second book in The Superlatives trilogy from Endless Summer author Jennifer Echols, Harper and Brody think they’re an unlikely match, but the senior class says they belong together. ![]() ![]() Phillip lives and writes in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife Rose, their son, Jack and their two border terriers, Whiskey and Raffles. When not writing, he works as a school teacher. He is represented by Vicki Marsdon at Wordlink literary agency. ![]() His first young adult novel, Rapture (Rapture Trilogy #1), was shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for best Youth novel in 2012. Before embarking on his writing career, he joined the army as an officer cadet, owned a comic shop and worked in recruitment in both the UK and Australia. He is currently working towards his Doctorate in Education, focusing on teaching children's creative writing. He received his undergraduate degree in Ancient History and Archaeology, his Masters (Hons) degree in Archaeology and his Masters (Hons) degree in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. ![]() His publishers include Macmillan, Penguin, Pearson, Cengage, Raintree and Oxford University Press. ![]() Simpson is the author of many novels, chapter books and other stories for children. ![]() ![]() We can feel a pressure to have the perfect home, the perfect job, and the perfect family - and to juggle them all without messing a single detail up. “How else are women supposed to ‘have it all’?” ![]() “I believe that women feel the pressure to be ‘superhuman’ or ‘supermoms’ because over time, we’ve been forced to adapt,” Lasan says. Are you afraid of letting someone in your life down? Are you afraid of letting yourself down? Are you afraid that if you give something up in order to rest, your life won’t be as rich? ![]() If you feel yourself bowing under the weight of that expectation on a regular basis, it might be helpful to journal to get to the heart of it. “So much of it stems from not wanting to be judged by others, perceived as ‘valuable’ or worthy of being loved.” The idea that women have to do it all is “an unspoken expectation – but an expectation nonetheless,” Lasan says. But even when you acknowledge your burnout, it’s difficult to give yourself grace in the moments you think you could be doing more. That’s especially important when feeling burnt out hurts our wellness, our joy, and ultimately the rest of our lives. ![]() Just like every area of life, the relationship between give and take, between serving others and self-care, is all about balance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hahn's Stepping on the Cracks, 1991, which probes much deeper into this issue). Norah develops a fervent crush on Andrew, a kind boy who (after he notices) preserves his friendly demeanor with admirable tact he even confides his horror of killing to Norah alone, so that his later decision to join up comes as a shock to her (cf. Of the nine cousins in the youngest generation, the one of greatest interest to Norah is Andrew, 19, a would-be actor whose family is pushing him into engineering school or the army (as an officer, of course class is taken for granted). ![]() The family's lifestyle (plus Pearson's depiction of it) is leisurely-boating, games, etc. The second in a trilogy (The Sky Is Falling, 1990)-about two English children sent to live in Canada during WW II-takes Norah (now 13) and little brother Gavin for a summer at the large lakeside establishment of the Drummond family, whose several generations come there also to join Norah's hostess, wealthy old Mrs. ![]() |