The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women—Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery—who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite’s Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery’s published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.
Creating Rosie the Riveter examines advertisements and fiction published in the Saturday Evening Post and True Story in order to show how propaganda was used to encourage women to enter the work force.
Honey is complex in flavour, texture and aroma and this collection of recipes is honey as you have never experienced it before. Here is a guide to honey, and a collection of over 80 creative recipes, which bring out the pure and natural flavours. Included are some traditional recipes and also many new ones to delight and challenge your taste perception. Also included are tasting notes to introduce the reader to the characteristics of different varieties, hints for cooking with honey, notes on storage and an introduction to honey bees, their history and the health benefits of honey.Maureen Maxwell is a qualified and creative chef and sommelier who has been in the wine and food industry for 27 years. Aged 19 in 1976 with her bother and two family friends, she formed the Matua Valley Wines partnership, and at 24 created the very successful Hunting Lodge Restaurant. The new millenium sees her establishing the eco-friendly BeesOnline Honey Centre and Cafe, combining her culinary skills with sustainable beekeeping.
It is the tail end of the sixties in Los Angeles, in that seemingly split second of time when all hell broke loose and the conformity of the "Leave it to Beaver" fifties would forever be shed. That's when Maureen Tadlock hit the streets, her mother divorced for the forth time, with no rules or constraints, twelve years old saying she was fifteen, cruising the boulevards, dropping acid, in an endless carnival of parties and characters that were both innocent and outrageous. But as "the Fates" would have it the law would soon intervene and reset her course on an odyssey of greater meaning and further adventure while continuing to ride the wave of a cultural revolution. In her search for home, family and love in a world that from the beginning felt alien, Maureen Tadlock explores the borderlands of inner experience, creative expression and the transcendent, mythical meaning of her life as a young woman. "The Weakness of Gravity is a magic carpet ride of imagination and adventure, bikers, barrio boys, hippie houses and harrowing cross-country trips. Securely moored in the unwavering and addictive voice of Maureen Tadlock, the memoir tells a tale of fearlessness and uncompromising creative expression during a time when the country flared with hope and revolution. A must read that may very well change your life." Suzanne Kingsbury, author of The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me and The Gospel According to Gracey. "A superbly written memoir, The Weakness of Gravity is a moving, haunting account of Maureen Tadlock's coming of age and emerging consciousness of self in relation to place, home, love, community and creative expression in her life. It is told with genuine humor and an evenly hovering attention that recreates scenes, places, and moments in history with spare but telling details. She recounts experiences of non-ordinary states of consciousness in such a way that they are compelling, intriguing, and just part of the story so that they are not jarring to the reader, but linger as vivid and beautiful images in the reader's mind." James Sparrell Ph.D. "There is a magical quality to Maureen's writing that allows the personal and temporal incidences of her life that she invokes to become transparent and reveal something larger and timeless." Francis X. Charet Ph.D.
Bees play a vital and irreplaceable role in pollinating our flowers, fruits and vegetables. The more bees in your garden the healthier, more productive and more pleasant a place it will be. Yet bees are declining rapidly and many people, even if they do not wish to keep bees themselves, are asking what can be done on an individual basis to help the bee. This book is a response to that request. It will demonstrate in one accessible volume how each of us can play our part in providing a bee-friendly environment, no matter how much gardening space and/or time we may have. It includes: * How bees forage, what bees you can expect to find in your garden and what plants are best for them. * Why honey bees are so important; what they need to thrive and how they detect and access those requirements; and what varieties of plants are best suited to provide those needs. * How the gardener can offer and maintain a bee-friendly garden, followed by a season-by-season account of what beefriendly plants are in flower and when, and what jobs the gardener can be doing during these times to help bees thrive. * A gazetteer of selected bee-friendly plants, arranged by type of plant in seasonal sub-sections. * Illustrative, practical planting plans, including a culinary herb garden, a potager, a wild flower garden, and a 3 seasons traditional border.
Abstract: Suggestions for improved nutrition and tasty, easy-to-prepare snacks are presented in this cookbook advocating the use of natural ingredients and the avoidance of refined sugar, artificial colorings, imitation flavorings, and chemical preservatives. Types of snack recipes include bars and squares, cakes and cheesecakes, candies, cookies, creams and custards, dessert breads, muffins, pies and pastries, sauces and spreads, and "soft" drinks. Nutrition advice includes suggestions to 1) avoid food additives (e.g. artificial colors and flavors, preservatives), 2) use honey rather than refined sugar, 3) use whole grain flours, bran, and high protein powders, 4) use cold-pressed oils or butter rather than margarine, and 5) make peanut butter and mayonnaise at home rather that buy commercial brands. An index is included for quick reference. (aj).
At thirty-three Maddy O'Toole is stranded on Cold Comfort Farm, deep in rural Ireland, with a monosyllabic husband, two children, and her mother. The only bright spot in her day in the American television soap she's addicted to. Then she discovers that her long-lost sister Gloria is living in Hollywood. No sooner has Gloria invited her than Maddy's on the plane. But what she envisages as a short break ends up changing her life. For when she arrives at Gloria's hopelessly luxurious Bel Air home she falls helplessly in lust with her sister's gorgeous and gentle actor boyfriend, Carlos, none other than the star of her favourite soap. It's not going to endear her to her sister, but Maddy can't bring herself to contemplate going home...
Meet 12 adventurous Victorian era women—a beekeeper who is afraid of bees, a music teacher whose dog has dug up a treasure, a baker who enters a faux courtship, and six more—along with the men they encounter while making summertime memories. Will these loves sown during summer be strengthened by faith and able to endure a lifetime?
An outcast shunned by proper folks, single mother Dulcie McDaniel falls for a handsome drifter working on her farm for his keep, until she discovers his involvement in her late husband's death.
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