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Unmentionable

Author : Therese Oneill

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 44,4 MB

Release : 2016-10-25

Category : History

ISBN : 9780316357913

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.) UNMENTIONABLE is your hilarious, illustrated, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood, giving you detailed advice on: ~ What to wear ~ Where to relieve yourself ~ How to conceal your loathsome addiction to menstruating ~ What to expect on your wedding night ~ How to be the perfect Victorian wife ~ Why masturbating will kill you ~ And more Irresistibly charming, laugh-out-loud funny, and featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, UNMENTIONABLE will inspire a whole new level of respect for Elizabeth Bennett, Scarlet O'Hara, Jane Eyre, and all of our great, great grandmothers. (And it just might leave you feeling ecstatically grateful to live in an age of pants, super absorbency tampons, epidurals, anti-depressants, and not-dying-of-the-syphilis-your-husband-brought-home.)



Unmentionables

Author : David Greene

Publisher : David Greene

Page : 562 pages

File Size : 32,21 MB

Release : 2011-11-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1453721355

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Unmentionables is the epic story of two couples in the Civil War south. One couple is straight, white and wealthy; the other is gay, black and enslaved. Field hand Jimmy meets Cato, a house servant from a nearby plantation. Over time, Jimmy's fascination with Cato grows into romantic love. Winner Book of the Year award for Gay fiction



On the Subject of Unmentionable Things

Author : Julia Walton

Publisher : Ember

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 27,14 MB

Release : 2023-08-22

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0593310608

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In this Amazon Best Book of the Month--with a very timely theme around girls and their bodies--a teen rewrites sex education, one viral post at a time. Phoebe Townsend is a rule follower . . . or so everyone thinks. She’s an A student who writes for her small-town school newspaper. But what no one knows is that Phoebe is also Pom—the anonymous teen who’s rewriting sex education on her blog and social media. Phoebe is not a pervert. No, really. Her unconventional hobby is just a research obsession. And sex should not be a secret. As long as Phoebe stays undercover, she’s sure she’ll fly through junior year unnoticed. . . . That is, until Pom goes viral, courtesy of mayoral candidate Lydia Brookhurst. The former beauty queen labels Phoebe’s work an “assault on morality,” riling up her supporters and calling on Pom to reveal her identity. But Phoebe is not backing down. With her anonymity on the line, is it all worth the fight? Julia Walton delivers a brutally honest novel about sex, social media, and the courage to pursue truth when misinformation is rife. Who knew truth could be so scandalous?



Unmentionable Cuisine

Author : Calvin W. Schwabe

Publisher : University of Virginia Press

Page : 492 pages

File Size : 46,59 MB

Release : 1979

Category : Cooking

ISBN : 9780813911625

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Includes recipes for cooking horse meat, goats, dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, hares, squirrels, turtles, snakes, eels, sharks, frogs, and insects, among other unusual food sources.



Unmentionables

Author : Elaine Benson

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 11,9 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Lingerie

ISBN : 9780684822662

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In ancient Greece, women strapped lengths of cloth across their breasts and then covered them with tunics. These bosom protectors were the antecedents of the brassiere, which didn't come along until the 20th century. With the use of fine art, photography, film stills, cartoons, and ads, Unmentionables describes the social history of a subject that holds a powerful fascination for us all. 120 full color and b&w illustrations.



Unmentionables: Poems

Author : Beth Ann Fennelly

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 12,85 MB

Release : 2008-04-17

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0393069842

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A new collection by a poet declared "one of the most exciting poets of her generation" (Harvard Review). With elegant wordplay and her usual subversive wit, Beth Ann Fennelly explores the "unmentionable"—not only what is considered too bold but also what can't be said because words are insufficient. In sections of short narratives, she questions our everyday human foibles. Three longer sequences display her admirable reach and fierce intelligence: One, "The Kudzu Chronicles," is a rollicking piece about the transplanted weed. Another, "Bertha Morisot: Retrospective," conjures up a complex life portrait of the French impressionist painter. The third presents fifteen dream songs that virtually out-Berryman Berryman.



The Unmentionable History of the West

Author : Nancy Millar

Publisher : Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer Press

Page : 164 pages

File Size : 37,31 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Design

ISBN :

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The Unmentionable History of the West is a fond romp through the underwear that men and women wore in days gone by. Think of corsets, navy blue bloomers, long underwear with its trap door and brassieres that could kill. Think also of the other unmentionables that came along with being sexual beings. Women had to hide their pregnancies, talk of birth control was illegal, seduction was a crime, prostitution likewise. There were so many silences, so many secrets about the private lives of men and women. Then along came the 1960s and the social revolution known as the women's movement. Suddenly, underwear was out, girdles were gone and women began wearing pants. What came first then . . . the women's movement or pants? The removal of restrictive underwear or the force that was Gloria Steinem? The Unmentionable History of the West tackles these questions seriously, but with a good dose of humour.



Sweet Nothings

Author : Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 29,1 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781600593833

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Venus tanga, sugarplum, lemon drop, morning sunshine, hello yellow, beaded bliss, Eve, raspberrys wirl, Amelie, polka dot bloomers, skirt flirt, calla lily, Scarlet, heartbreaker, cupcake cami, Trixie, narcissus, sassafras, girlesque, gardenia, cosmo bustier, blush garter, sugarberry, stargazer.



Ungovernable

Author : Therese Oneill

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 10,34 MB

Release : 2019-04-16

Category : History

ISBN : 0316481890

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From the author of the "hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating"* New York Times bestseller Unmentionable, a hilarious illustrated guide to the secrets of Victorian child-rearing [*Jenny Lawson] Feminist historian Therese Oneill is back, to educate you on what to expect when you're expecting . . . a Victorian baby! In Ungovernable, Oneill conducts an unforgettable tour through the backwards, pseudoscientific, downright bizarre parenting fashions of the Victorians, advising us on: - How to be sure you're not too ugly, sickly, or stupid to breed - What positions and room decor will help you conceive a son - How much beer, wine, cyanide and heroin to consume while pregnant - How to select the best peasant teat for your child - Which foods won't turn your children into sexual deviants - And so much more Endlessly surprising, wickedly funny, and filled with juicy historical tidbits and images, Ungovernable provides much-needed perspective on -- and comic relief from -- the age-old struggle to bring up baby.



Mentioning the Unmentionables

Author : Chris Heaton

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 155 pages

File Size : 17,7 MB

Release : 2023-12-06

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1666789720

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We have a pornography crisis in the church. This book, however, does not take a deep dive on the statistics or how our brains are being rewired by the internet. This is not a book about the pornography business. This is a book about root causes, root teachings, and then root solutions. Mentioning the Unmentionables seeks to answer the question “How did we get here?” It calls attention to the dire problem of pornography, but then offers a faithful response in the context of the church: to mention the unmentionables.