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Free Download Goodbye Madame Butterfly: Sex, Marriage and the Modern Japanese Woman By Sumie Kawakami, Bruce Rutledge, Yuko Enomoto, Craig Mod
2007 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0974199532 | EPUB | 1 MB
Sumie Kawakami is an experienced and intelligent reporter who manages to get her subjects to bare their souls and share their anxieties in a book I found hard to put down. " —Jeff Kingston, The Japan Times"Kawakami presents a frank portrait of Japanese women today, via these compulsively readable, expertly crafted essays. Further kudos should go to Yuko Enomoto for her seamless translation." —Suzanne Kamata, author of Losing Kei“A tartly written, stereotype-blasting and beautifully made book." —Roland Kelts, author of Japanamerica“Refreshingly intense" —Colleen Mondor, Bookslut"Smart and lively and thoughtful and moving, like a good Studs Terkel without encyclopedic pretensions." —Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the best-selling A Series of Unfortunate Events“Full of rich details of contemporary Japan … in the end readers should understand why Madame Butterfly no longer exists. Or perhaps never existed at all." —Todd Shimoda author of The Fourth Treasure and 365 Views of Mt. Fuji"An eye-opening, detailed look at the private, intimate lives of Japanese women … This is an intelligent and authoritative work, covering everything from adultery to sex volunteers and the role of fortune tellers in Japanese romance. It is at once illuminating and entertaining, credible and so engrossing you will find it difficult to put down." — Robert Whiting, author of Tokyo Underworld, The Meaning of Ichiro and You Gotta Have WaSumie Kawakami’s Goodbye Madame Butterfly is an intimate look at the sex lives of Japanese people from a female perspective. This groundbreaking work of nonfiction will shatter the myth of the pliant, coy Japanese woman and replace her with a complex, erotic, sexually charged and fiercely independent woman who struggles to find her place in a male-dominated society.

Free Download Joseph Howard Tyson, "Madame Blavatsky Revisited"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0595414494 | EPUB | pages: 416 | 4.4 mb
If this work is of men it will come to nothing: but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it -Rabbi Gamaliel, Acts 5:38?39Was Theosophical Society founder Helena P. Blavatsky a prophetess or charlatan? Since the 1870’s detractors have lambasted both her character and ideas. Yet, H.P.B.’s reputation has continued to grow.Theosophy’s non-dogmatic and ecumenical approach to spirituality offers 21st Century seekers a viable alternative to religious fundamentalism.Today thousands of people on every continent belong to the Theosophical Society. All of Madame’s books and articles remain in print. The freshness and wit of her letters make them seem as if they were written yesterday. Though controversial, she’s withstood time’s test. Madame Blavatsky Revisited tells H.P.B.’s remarkable story in an entertaining manner.

Free Download The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime by Nicholas L. Syrett
English | October 31, 2023 | ISBN: 1620977451 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 12 MB
The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights

Free Download The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CG2M9RXC | 2023 | 10 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Nicholas L. Syrett
Narrator: Madeleine Maby
For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, "Madame Restell," the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth-control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. "Restellism" became the term her detractors used to indict her. Restell began practicing when abortion was largely unregulated in most of the United States, including New York. But as a sense of disquiet arose about single women flocking to the city for work, greater sexual freedoms, changing views of the roles of motherhood and childhood, and fewer children being born to white, married, middle-class women, Restell came to stand for everything that threatened the status quo. From 1829 onward, restrictions on abortion began to put Restell in legal jeopardy. For much of this period, she prevailed-until she didn’t. A story that is all too relevant to the current attempts to criminalize abortion in our own age, The Trials of Madame Restell paints an unforgettable picture of the changing society of nineteenth-century New York and brings Restell to the attention of a whole new generation of women whose fundamental rights are under siege.