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Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renowned musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin provides Edna with a taste of the danger that comes with living outside of social convention. Trapped...
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"The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what...
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"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word."
Among his many books, perhaps none has sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous study of the life and...
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This pioneering 1859 deconstruction of capitalism and classical economics includes many of the ideas later incorporated into Marx's masterwork, Das Kapital. The preface introduces the author's economic theory of history: the idea that the way goods and services are produced determines the political and ideological nature of society.
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More than forty years after its initial publication, Man and Woman in Christ continues to be regarded by many as the most faithful and comprehensive study of biblical manhood and womanhood. Stephen B. Clark thoroughly lays out the authoritative teaching of the Old and New Testaments on the distinct roles of men and women, but he doesn't stop there. He goes on to trace the application of Scripture's teaching through the history of the Church, bringing...
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Trans Life Survivors by Walt Heyer powerfully portrays the human toll inflicted by so-called "gender experts", who push gender transition on people, who don't need it.
Experience for yourself the raw emotions and "aha" moments from 30 people, who were convinced gender change was the answer, but came to see it was not.
This one-of-a-kind book is packed with information:
• Emails from 30 transgender survivors
• The latest research and information
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8) More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church: Inquiry, Thought, and Expression
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This volume, like its companion, Voices of Our Times, collects essays drawn from a series of public conferences held in autumn 2011 entitled "More than a Monologue." The series was the fruit of collaboration among four institutions of higher learning: two Catholic universities and two nondenominational divinity schools. The conferences aimed to raise awareness of and advance informed, compassionate, and dialogical conversation about issues of sexual...
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The Second Vatican Council's landmark document Gaudium et spes called Catholics to cultivate robust, mutually enriching dialogue with the modern world by attentively and discerningly listening to the "voices of our times." This distinctive new publication, the first of two volumes that explore sexual diversity and the Catholic Church, gathers an important set of these voices: the testimonies and reflections of Catholic and former Catholic LGBTQ (lesbian,...
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Methodologically innovative in its use of mixed-media diary research, this timely book offers a focused sociological study of non-binary people's identities and experiences in the UK. From negotiating a sense of legitimacy when 'not feeling trans enough' to how identities can shift over time, it reveals important nuances of diverse gender identities, whilst offering crucial insights into trans-related healthcare inequalities. The findings of this...
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A discussion of pop culture messages about masculinity, their impact on boys, and the benefits of introducing more gender balance to boys lives.When most people think about gender stereotypes and children, they envision princesses, dolls, and pink clothing. Few consider the warriors, muscle-bound action figures, and T-shirts covered in graffiti and skulls that are assumed to signify masculinity. The pop culture environment that surrounds boys introduces...
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Este libro explora desde un enfoque original aspectos poco abordados del diseño e instrumentación de una política de salud pública dedicada a prevenir y atender la violencia contra las mujeres en el hogar. Pone en evidencia que las políticas públicas suelen ser el resultado, no de una planificación racional, sino de las presiones de los organismos internacionales, el contexto sociocultural de los actores y tomadores de decisiones y la sensibilidad,...
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For the past decade, the Maldives has experienced economic growth, mostly driven by tourism. As an archipelago comprised of small islands, the land area is limited and the resource base narrow, with low potential for agriculture and other industries and high vulnerability to climate change. Its small population is dispersed and fragmented, making delivery of services costly and difficult. With resources and services concentrated in the capital city...
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La juventud adulta de hoy en día ¿es rebelde respecto al género o está volviendo a la tradición? Barbara J. Risman nos revela las diversas estrategias que utiliza esta generación para negociar la revolución de género actual. Apoyándose en su teoría del género como estructura social, analiza las historias de vida de un conjunto diverso de "millennials" y sus identidades de género, sus ideologías y sus esperanzas y sueños para el futuro....
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The story of how a painful and traumatic childhood nearly ended in tragedy, the adult years of knowing he was different but unable to articulate the cause, even to himself, that he really was she, trapped inside the body of a man, the final cataclysmic disclosure to himself and then to his closest family, and finally the truly happy ending as he, now she, finds peace, happiness and contentment surrounded by family and friends who held her all through...
16) Gendered Spaces
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In hundreds of businesses, secretaries -- usually women -- do clerical work in "open floor" settings while managers -- usually men -- work and make decisions behind closed doors. According to Daphne Spain, this arrangement is but one example of the ways in which physical segregation has reinforced women's inequality. In this important new book, Spain shows how the physical and symbolic barriers that separate women and men in the office, at home,...
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En cuerpo y alma aborda la relación simbólica entre el estado dictatorial de Franco y el cuerpo alegórico femenino de la nación. Trata la utilización metafórica de las imágenes sexuadas o denominadas "de género" en el discurso político, desde el primer periodo autárquico de la década de los cuarenta hasta los años del "consumismo" y el "aperturismo" que habrían de sucederle a finales de los cincuenta y los sesenta.
18) The Laws of Sex
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The contents of this 1921 volume include "The Present Anarchy," "The History of Marriage," "The Dual Nature of Sex," and "The Ethical Aspects of Birth Control." Hooker took the position that the solution to the victimization of women through prostitution rested, as she put it in her introduction, "not upon the reform of women, but the reform of men."
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Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the political representation of women in the West and globally, highlighting how women public intellectuals now reflect much more social and cultural diversity....
20) Feminismos desde Abya Yala: Ideas y proposiciones de las mujeres de 607 pueblos en Nuestra América
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Feminismos desde Abya Yala reporta un diálogo preparado a lo largo de años con las mujeres que construyen, desde su realidad en diversas comunidades indígenas del continente, un pensamiento acerca de las formas del ser mujeres y el rol político, estético, cultural, ético y educativo de su ser social.
Se trata de un trabajo de campo feminista que resume elementos metodológicos de la filosofía, la Historia de las Ideas y la historia política...