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Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (Abridged, no footnotes)

8 best books like Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (Abridged, no footnotes) (Lawrence Stone): Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, The Elements of Style, Notes to Self: Essays, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, Queer: A Graphic History, Killing with Confetti

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
AuthorAlison Bechdel
ISBN0618871713
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.

Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had...
The Elements of Style
AuthorWilliam Strunk Jr.
ISBN0205313426
This book is good for the following things:

1. Propping up a short table leg

2. Lining a bird cage

3. Building a fire

4. Using as a coaster for cold drinks



I devoted some of my grammar thesis to criticizing this book, and it was time well spent.


Geoff...
Notes to Self: Essays
AuthorEmilie Pine
ISBN1999700848
`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, the first non- fiction book published by Tramp Press, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in society. Tackling...
The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined
AuthorGeorges Duby
ISBN0226167720
In The Three Orders, prominent Annales historian Georges Duby offers a tripartite construct of medieval French society, a construct which depicts men separating themselves hierarchically into those who pray, those who fight, and those who work. He considers how this medieval theory of orders originated,...
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
AuthorHerculine Barbin
ISBN0394508211
With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls & the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening...
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
AuthorMircea Eliade
In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive...
Queer: A Graphic History
AuthorMeg-John Barker
ISBN1785780719
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.

From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender...
Killing with Confetti
AuthorPeter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey, MWA Grand Master and titan of the English detective novel, returns readers to Bath with the eighteenth mystery in his critically acclaimed Peter Diamond series.

As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline, the daughter of notorious...
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