In 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States. Not since slavery had so many U.S. residents held so few political rights. Many strove tirelessly to belong. Others turned to their homelands for hope. What explains their clashing strategies of inclusion? And how does gender play into these fights? Undocumented Politics offers a gripping inquiry into migrant communities’ struggles for rights and resources across the U.S.-Mexico divide. For twenty-one months, Abigail Andrews lived with two groups of migrants and their families in the mountains of Mexico and in the barrios of Southern California. Her nuanced comparison reveals how local laws and power dynamics shape migrants’ agency. Andrews also exposes how arbitrary policing abets gendered violence. Yet she insists that the process does not begin or end in the United States. Rather, migrants interpret their destinations in light of the hometowns they leave behind. Their counterparts in Mexico must also come to grips with migrant globalization. And on both sides of the border, men and women transform patriarchy through their battles to belong. Ambitious and intimate, Undocumented Politics reveals how the excluded find space for political voice.
The Social Life of Gender provides a comprehensive approach to gender as an organizing social relation and presents a critical sociology based on the unique insights gleaned from the study of gender.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What becomes of men the U.S. locks up and kicks out? From 2009 to 2020, the U.S. deported more than five million people—over 90 percent of them men. In Banished Men, Abigail Andrews and her students tell 186 of their stories. How, they ask, does expulsion shape men's lives and sense of themselves? The book uncovers a harrowing carceral system that weaves together policing, prison, detention, removal, and border militarization to undermine migrants as men. Guards and gangs beat them down, till they feel like cockroaches, pigs, or dogs. Many lose ties with family. They do not go "home." Instead, they end up in limbo: stripped of their very humanity. Against the odds, they fight for new ways to belong. At once devastating and humane, Banished Men offers a clear-eyed critique of the violence of deportation.
The Carrie White Erotic Diaries are a series of short sensual adventures from Carrie's point of view. Each story in the Volume Two is a stand alone experience but they are linked through her friends and her work. This volume tells how Carrie went on vacation to Spain and enjoyed every moment.Carrie sets off on her vacation in Spain. She meets up with a handsome stranger on the train, the plane and at the hotel. Will she finish up sharing his bed? Carrie meets a couple enjoying a vacation in the sun. Elise is wheelchair bound and unable to give her husband the sexual enjoyment they shared before her accident. Has Carrie a solution to their problem? Tim is Carrie's friend with benefits back in London. AS soon as he discovers she has left for vacation without him, he jumps the next flight to be with her. Will she be pleased to see him or angry that he's turned up. Will she fuck him or chuck him? Carrie and Tim bump into a couple who are members of the same London based Sex Club. They are invited to a sex party the following day with a dozen others. See how they relish the orgy that follows in the sun-drenched deserted cove. Carrie gifts Tim an attractive young receptionist at the hotel where they stay and they enjoy a threesome sex romp that leaves Tim exhausted but very happy. This story should be read in private and best shared with your favourite person with scented candles.
The continuing story, an episode from the diary of Carrie White who is a sexually liberated girl. Carrie takes a two week break in Spain, where she often enjoys weekend breaks during the rest of the year for sun top-up and to relax. A stranger coincidentally enters her life as she flies on vacation. Will Carrie enjoy an erotic liason with this stranger. Contains graphic descriptions.
Carrie continues her two week July holiday in Spain when she meets a couple with a particular need that would satisfy her sexual addiction. Carrie came to London for excitement and to make money. With no qualifications she was drawn into the sex industry. She was a camgirl, enteraining mainly guys on her website where they paid her to give erotic shows and where she could have private shows with just on guy and make much more money. She went on to some promotional work selling all manner of products at major exhibitions and where she was led astray by the Manager on the stand at one exhibition. She was involved in escort work which is varied and gave her a buzz. She is continuing with these various activities but now she is away on vacation.Arriving in Spain alone she just wants sun and sand to top up her tan but before long she is on her first sexual adventure with a guy called Dave who is a DJ at the Spanish resort.That was the first two days. Now, on the third day she meets a couple staying at the same hotel, a couple in their fifties. Elise, the wife is wheelchair bound and Roger has not had any phyical love since his wife's accident, four years ago. Carrie spends a day with them driving out into the countryside. What develops when they return to the hotel will keep you hot as you read. Best read alone or with your favourite person in bed with the lights low and scented candles flickering. This short story contains graphic descriptions of a sexual nature and are not suitable for those under 18 years or who might be offended by the content. Otherwise enjoy.
“A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life.” —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to “Miss Adorable,” the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the most significant correspondence—and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships—in American history. As a pivotal player in the American Revolution and the early republic, John had a front-row seat at critical moments in the creation of the United States, from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to negotiating peace with Great Britain to serving as the first vice president and second president under the U.S. Constitution. Separated more often than they were together during this founding era, John and Abigail shared their lives through letters that each addressed to “My Dearest Friend,” debating ideas and commenting on current events while attending to the concerns of raising their children (including a future president). Full of keen observations and articulate commentary on world events, these letters are also remarkably intimate. This new collection—including some letters never before published—invites readers to experience the founding of a nation and the partnership of two strong individuals, in their own words. This is history at its most authentic and most engaging.
The correspondence of a Founding Father and his brilliant wife The Letters of John and Abigail Adams provides an insightful record of American life before, during, and after the Revolution; the letters also reveal the intellectually and emotionally fulfilling relationship between John and Abigail that lasted fifty-four years and withstood historical upheavals, long periods apart, and personal tragedies. Covering key moments in American history - the Continental Congress, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and John Adams's diplomatic missions to Europe - the letters reveal the concerns of a couple living during a period of explosive change, from smallpox and British warships to raising children, paying taxes, the state of women, and the emerging concepts of American democracy. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introdutions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Abigail and John Adams exchanged more than 1,000 letters. Their lively correspondence offers fascinating insights into domestic and public life in colonial and post-Revolutionary America"--
Includes 430 letters—many published for the first time—to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others. Including her famous call to “Remember the Ladies,” letters from the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on the home front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor while her roles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the very heart of the nation’s founding. Also included are a chronology of Adams’s life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees. This volume is published simultaneously with John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826, the third and final volume in the Library of America John Adams edition. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Natasha, an overseas student at university speaks perfect English but her written work is not so good. Can she get extra tuition from her professor tutors? She is slim and attractive. Will they set out a deal that takes advantage of her alluring assets? Read on and enjoy. Best read alone in a hot scented bath.EXTRACT: But they never went further and talked about their activities until one Thursday when one student came in with a few guys. She smiled across as they all went to the bar. The two smiled back."She's got great breasts under that sweater" John said.Bill looked at him with questioning look. "You've seen them?" he asked.John hesitated "Well actually . . ." and his voice trailed off."I have too" Bill cut in. "She is incredible" he added.It transpired that they had both enjoyed her during the year. She'd given John a blow-job and Bill had her. It didn't take many more chats before they decided that they'd like to enjoy a girl together. Make her into a hot tasty sandwich. John was first in finding a suitable girl . . .
THE STORY: As the words drawn from their letters, diaries and books reveal, John and Abigail Adams were singular people: proud, loving, articulate and filled with the dedication and spirit required to share in the forging of a nation. Through their
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