Catharine

A short novel, like Catharine, is typical, as it embodies those codes in gruesome form, yet also reveals how obviously women's sexuality is both "up for sale" and firmly taboo — stolen from them and replayed back in perverse form: it is their worst power and their only power, so much so that one wonders how an unmarried or unattractive woman in her culture is ever fed.

'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

Professor at the University of Illinois; my sister, Catharine, is arguably the finest elementary school teacher in Virginia.

J. Michael Bishop - Autobiography 1990

It was at about that moment that his Grace of Andover was ushered into the already crowded card-room of my Lord Avon's house in Catharine Place, and was greeted with ribald cries of "Oho, Belmanoir!", and "Where's the lady, Devil?"

The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century 1921

World War II called Catharine's brothers; Tom enlisted in the Army and John in the Marine Corps.

Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2009

32 We see this same pattern rehearsed in Catharine Maria

Notes on 'Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper' 2006

This leads to the second broad subcategory of questionable expenditures, which might be titled the Catharine MacKinnon Omnibus Obsession Act. And here the money really begins to flow: $610 million for spousal-violence prevention, $960 million to address crimes against women, $195 million for rape-prevention education, $20 million for safe campuses for women, $30 million to combat rural domestic violence, $30 million to reduce the sexual abuse of runaway homeless children.

Crime Bill Garbage Barge 2008

The mass was abolished in Wittenberg, and soon afterwards throughout Saxony; the images were thrown down, monks and nuns left their cloisters, and, a few years later, Luther married a nun called Catharine von Bora.

The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks

"You would call her Catharine!" burst out Mary Connynge.

The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890

"You called her Catharine!" broke out the woman once more in her ungovernable rage.

The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890

From this dilemma Catharine, who was in the camp, relieved him.

Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877