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The Kindness of Women Information
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The Kindness of Women is a 1991 novel by British author J.G. Ballard. It is the sequel to his 1984 novel Empire of the...


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Women's Feature Service
Women of Another Kind
05/20/2003: 908 words, approx. 3 pages
Bangkok, (WFS) -- Meet Wan, a stunningly beautiful, 18-year-old girl. But she is not really a girl in the conventional sense of the word, so for want of an appropriate English word, the Thai translation - 'Woman of another kind' - will have to...
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The Washington Post
A Win for the `Wrong Kind of Women'
09/29/1993: 826 words, approx. 3 pages
If you were to put a title on the story of Clare Dalton, you could call it "The Case of the Wrong Kind of Woman." With this column, let us welcome Dalton's phrase into discussions about gender, for it describes the kind of sophisticated,...
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Men's Fitness
Julian McMahon
7/18/2007: 506 words, approx. 2 pages
MF: Between Dr. Troy in Nip/Tuck and Dr. Doom in the Fantastic Four franchise, you spend a lot of time playing narcissistic egomaniacs. Coincidence? JM: Yeah. [Laughs] I don’t know what the problem is. I never considered myself to be one; I just play one...
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AP Features
Stigma over breast cancer in the Gulf hinders treatment
10/24/2007: 912 words, approx. 3 pages
One Saudi woman ignored the cancer growing in her breast because she didn't want to risk a referral to a male doctor. Another was divorced by her husband on the mere suspicion she had the disease, while a third was dragged away from a mammogram...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Roger Luckhurst
7,774 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Luckhurst examines the interrelationship between Ballard's fiction and autobiography, as evident in Empire of the Sun and The Kindness of Women. According to Luckhurst, the numerous retellings, inversions, and variations of key events in Ballard's fiction and autobiography further problematize interpretation of Ballard's oeuvre, rather than serving as a mechanism for “decoding” or “decrypting” his work.
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Critical Review by Nick Kimberley
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In the following review, Kimberley offers a positive assessment of The Kindness of Women.
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Critical Review by David Montrose
697 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review of The Kindness of Women, Montrose finds shortcomings in Ballard's “lacklustre” autobiographical novel.


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