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Unmentionables
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Author : Ralph Keyes
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-09-16
Unmentionables written by Ralph Keyes and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-16 with History categories.
We say a lot about ourselves by what we don't say. Words and phrases like 'collateral damage', 'wardrobe malfunction', 'vertically challenged', and old favourites like 'unmentionables' (trousers, apparently) or 'lady of the night' - all are ways of not using particular words. UNMENTIONABLES is a rollicking exploration of the history of euphemistic usage, looking at how taboos connected to sex, death, religion, war, politics, business and matters of status have produced an extraordinary linguistic creativity, and how euphemistic speech has changed over the centuries. It looks at how euphemisms are born, and how they die (or 'experience a negative outcome') and it explores why it is that we create euphemisms, and the different purposes - from the benign to the sinister - that they serve. (Is 'euphemism' a euphemism for lying?) Lively, entertaining, and crammed with fascinating nuggets of information, UNMENTIONABLES is a celebration of the richness of language. Why have just one word for something when you can have ten other words instead?
Unmentionables
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Author : Stacy Fahrenthold
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2024-12-03
Unmentionables written by Stacy Fahrenthold and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-03 with History categories.
As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced—silk, linen, and cotton; lace and embroidery; undergarments and ready-wear clothing—moved along steamship routes from Beirut through Marseille and Madeira to New York City, New England, and Veracruz. As migrants and merchants crisscrossed the Atlantic in pursuit of work, Syrian textile manufacturing expanded across the hemisphere. Unmentionables offers a history of the global textile industry and the Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians who worked in it. Stacy Fahrenthold examines how Arab workers navigated processes of racialization, immigration restriction, and labor contestation. She writes women workers—the majority of Syrian garment workers—back into US labor history. She also situates the rise of Syrian American industrial elites, who exerted supply chain power to combat labor uprisings, resist unionization, and stake claim to the global textile industry. Critiquing the hegemony of the Syrian peddler in histories of this diaspora, Unmentionables introduces alternative narrators: union activists who led street demonstrations, women garment workers who shut down kimono factories, child laborers who threw snowballs at police, and the diasporic merchant capitalists who contended with all of them.
Mentioning The Unmentionables
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Author : Chris Heaton
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-12-06
Mentioning The Unmentionables written by Chris Heaton and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-06 with Religion categories.
We have a pornography crisis in the church. This book, however, does not take a deep dive on the statistics or how our brains are being rewired by the internet. This is not a book about the pornography business. This is a book about root causes, root teachings, and then root solutions. Mentioning the Unmentionables seeks to answer the question “How did we get here?” It calls attention to the dire problem of pornography, but then offers a faithful response in the context of the church: to mention the unmentionables.
Unmentionables
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Author : David Greene
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011-01-22
Unmentionables written by David Greene and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-22 with Fiction categories.
Unmentionables is about two pairs of lovers in the Civil War south. One couple is straight, white, and wealthy. The other couple is gay, black, and enslaved. Field hand Jimmy meets Cato, a house servant from a nearby plantation. Jimmy, who despises whites, mistakes Cato for a white man. But soon he learns that Cato is only half white. Cato is the illegitimate son of plantation owner Augustus Askew. With time, Jimmy's fascination with Cato grows into romantic love. Unmentionables is also the story of Dorothy Holland, whose parents own Jimmy. Dorothy does not want any man to control her life. When she falls in love with Cato's half-brother, William Askew, she must persuade him to agree to her terms, and to betray his role as a Confederate army officer.
Unmentionables
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Author : Katherine T. Durack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Unmentionables written by Katherine T. Durack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Unmentionables
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Author : Robert Cortes Holliday
language : en
Publisher: New York : R. Long & R. R. Smith
Release Date : 1933
Unmentionables written by Robert Cortes Holliday and has been published by New York : R. Long & R. R. Smith this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Lingerie categories.
Unmentionables And Other Euphemisms
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Author : Jeremy Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: G. T. Foulis & Company Limited
Release Date : 1973
Unmentionables And Other Euphemisms written by Jeremy Lawrence and has been published by G. T. Foulis & Company Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Unmentionables
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Author : Elaine Benson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Unmentionables written by Elaine Benson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Lingerie categories.
In ancient Greece, women strapped lengths of cloth across their breasts and then covered them with tunics. These bosom protectors were the antecedents of the brassiere, which didn't come along until the 20th century. With the use of fine art, photography, film stills, cartoons, and ads, Unmentionables describes the social history of a subject that holds a powerful fascination for us all. 120 full color and b&w illustrations.
Lost For Words
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Author : Lynda Mugglestone
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Lost For Words written by Lynda Mugglestone and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with History categories.
Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.
The Unmentionable History Of The West
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Author : Nancy Millar
language : en
Publisher: Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer Press
Release Date : 2006
The Unmentionable History Of The West written by Nancy Millar and has been published by Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Design categories.
The Unmentionable History of the West is a fond romp through the underwear that men and women wore in days gone by. Think of corsets, navy blue bloomers, long underwear with its trap door and brassieres that could kill. Think also of the other unmentionables that came along with being sexual beings. Women had to hide their pregnancies, talk of birth control was illegal, seduction was a crime, prostitution likewise. There were so many silences, so many secrets about the private lives of men and women. Then along came the 1960s and the social revolution known as the women's movement. Suddenly, underwear was out, girdles were gone and women began wearing pants. What came first then . . . the women's movement or pants? The removal of restrictive underwear or the force that was Gloria Steinem? The Unmentionable History of the West tackles these questions seriously, but with a good dose of humour.