Sew Easy as Pie or Hostess

Sew Easy as Pie

Author: Chris Malon

With this book, you earn two creative, relaxing and satisfying outlets in one resource. Flavorful chapters will stir your imagination and appetite with 12+ easy-to-follow sewing designs, instructions for eight delicious pie recipes, and clever sidebars with stitching and baking tips. The coordinating projects and pies you will make include cherry appliquéd tea towels and Almond-Crust Cherry Pie, a cranberry and cream colored spoon and tool holder and Cranberry Cream Cheese Pie, a pot holder with pieced apple motif and Apple with Carmel Pie.

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Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity

Author: Tracy McNulty

The evolution of the idea of hospitality can be traced alongside the development of Western civilization. Etymologically, the host is the “master,” but this identity is established through expropriation and loss—the best host is the one who gives the most, ultimately relinquishing what defines him as master. In The Hostess, Tracy McNulty asks, What are the implications for personhood of sharing a person—a wife or daughter—as an act of hospitality? In many traditions, the hostess is viewed not as a subject but as the master’s property. A foreign presence that both sustains and undercuts him, the hostess embodies the interplay of self and other within the host’s own identity. Here McNulty combines critical readings of the Bible and Pierre Klossowski’s trilogy The Laws of Hospitality with analyses of exogamous marital exchange, theological works from the Talmud to Aquinas, the writings of Kant and Nietzsche, and the theory of femininity in the work of Freud and Lacan. Ultimately, she contends, hospitality involves the boundary between the proper and the improper, affecting the subject as well as interpersonal relations. Tracy McNulty is assistant professor of romance studies at Cornell University.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Uncanny Guest     vii
Israel, Divine Hostess     1
Cosmopolitan Hospitality and Secular Ethics: Kant Today     46
Under the Sign of the Hostess: Pierre Klossowski's Laws of Hospitality     87
Hospitality after the Death of God     134
Welcoming Dionysus, or the Subject as Corps Morcele     175
The Other Jouissance, a Gay Scavoir: Feminine Hospitality and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis     200
Notes     237
Index     269