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Evans, Harriet

Literary

Harpercollins

A gorgeous reissue of the warm and enchanting bestselling novel. Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. It is her most endearing characteristic, yet consistently leads her into trouble. Friends and family look on with amused tolerance -- until Laura's inability to tell reality from romantic dreams causes betrayal and a broken heart. Taking refuge in Norfolk, Laura is bitterly aware that her rose-tinted glasses have to go. She swears off men, and all things romantic, for good -- until she meets Nick, the estate manager of a huge stately home. But Nick has a secret too. And it's one that Laura, however much she tries, can't get past her prejudice about. Just as she was stubbornly a die-hard romantic, so Laura is stubborn about there being no future for her and Nick. But will he manage to change her mind?

A Hopeless Romantic

Contemporary

Harper

The Love of Her Life

A compelling and heartbreaking tale of lost love, family secrets and those little moments that can change your life for ever. Natasha Kapoor's life is at a turning point. Leaving London for the magical Cornish coast to attend the funeral of her beloved grandmother, this trip will reunite her with her large and complicated family. As she and her family sort through her grandmother's possessions and prepare to sell Summercove, the idyllic coastal home that has been in their family for decades, Natasha is given the long-lost diary of her aunt Cecily, who died in a tragic accident at the age of fifteen. Returning to her home in London's trendy Shoreditch, Natasha must get back to normality -- to her job as a jewellery designer and to her soon-to-be ex-husband. But how can she forget the tragic tale of love, rivalry and heartbreak that emerged from the pages of Cecily's diary? And will Cecily's words, though written forty years ago, inspire Natasha to take a chance on love?

Love Always

Romance

Not Without You

From internationally bestselling author Harriet Evans comes an intriguing and fresh new novel about a famous modern-day actress whose fate becomes intertwined with a glamorous movie star from the 1950s who vanished many years earlier. HOW CAN THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW YOU WHEN YOU HARDLY KNOW YOURSELF? Sophie Leigh’s real name is Sophie Sykes. But she hasn’t been called that for years, not since she became an A-list movie star. Living in Los Angeles, she can forget all about the life she left behind in England. But she’s lost something of herself in the process, too. Glamorous 1950s starlet Eve Noel had none of Sophie’s modern self-confidence. She didn’t choose her name. A Hollywood producer did. In fact, he made all her decisions—what to wear, when to smile, who to love. Right up until the day she simply vanished from the spotlight. No one knows where she went, or why. As Sophie’s perfect-on-the-outside world begins to crumble, her present collides with Eve’s past. She must unravel the mystery around her idol’s disappearance before it’s too late for them both.

Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Asian Voices)

Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity but one that has been overlooked in research on gender and family in China. In The Subject of Gender, Harriet Evans reflects on how women in urban China make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices. Based on the memories and experiences of educated and professional women of different ages, this book discusses the mother-daughter relationship through various themes: separation, communication, domestic/public boundaries, male privilege, the sexed body, reproduction, and filial responsibilities. This fascinating work draws on feminist and critical theory and on anthropological and historical research to analyze the changing articulations of gender subjectivity that emerge from the links between discursive shifts, generational difference, and individual experiences of the mother-daughter relationship.

The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Asian Voices)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity but one that has been overlooked in research on gender and family in China. In The Subject of Gender, Harriet Evans reflects on how women in urban China make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices. Based on the memories and experiences of educated and professional women of different ages, this book discusses the mother-daughter relationship through various themes: separation, communication, domestic/public boundaries, male privilege, the sexed body, reproduction, and filial responsibilities. This fascinating work draws on feminist and critical theory and on anthropological and historical research to analyze the changing articulations of gender subjectivity that emerge from the links between discursive shifts, generational difference, and individual experiences of the mother-daughter relationship.

Women and Sexuality in China

Self-Help

Since the early 1980s sex and sexuality have become prominent themes of public debate in China after three decades during which discourses on sexuality were subject to stringent ideological controls This book analyses the ways in which sex and sexuality have been discussed in The People s Republic of China since 1949 It examines a wide range of materials the official and popular press women s magazines sex education publications self help guides and medical advice pamphlets and compares and contrasts the various discourses of sexuality and the meanings associated with woman that emerge from them It considers the role of the state in matters of sexuality and argues that women s sexuality has been consistently targeted as a site for the regulation of general standards of sexual and social conduct This is a highly original contribution to the growing body of literature on women and gender in China It will appeal to students and scholars of modern and contemporary China and to all those engaged in current debates about sexuality and gender in international feminist scholarship

Women and Sexuality in China: Dominant Discourses of Female Sexuality and Gender Since 1949

History

Asia

Polity

This book analyzes major Chinese governmental publications that deal with sexuality in 1950, when the new Marriage Law was enacted, and 1980, with the Second Marriage Law. Evans (Chinese, Univ. of Westminster) is well grounded in both feminist and Chinese studies, which allows her to deepen her analysis with references to China's present-day pop culture and conversations she has had with Chinese colleagues. Her major finding is that Chinese discourses consistently use medical and/or scientific explanations of gender differences to, essentially, denigrate women. Evans's analysis is consistent with much that has been written on China's political system?that it cannot survive without maintaining order and stability. However, she assumes that the audience is fluent in postmodernist language.

Bloomsbury Academic

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Going Home

A Hopeless Romantic

The Love of Her Life

Love Always

Not Without You

The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Asian Voices)

Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Asian Voices)

Women and Sexuality in China

Women and Sexuality in China: Dominant Discourses of Female Sexuality and Gender Since 1949

Women and Sexuality in China