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Can a person truly be 'trapped' in the wrong body? Can modern medicine really 'reassign' sex? What should our law say on these issues? Anderson offers a balanced approach to the policy issues, a nuanced vision of human embodiment, and a sober and honest survey of the human costs of getting human nature wrong. In doing so, he examines the grim contrast between the media's sunny depiction and the often sad realities of gender-identity struggles. He...
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Written for the general reader, this 1922 collection by the pioneering sex researcher clearly and cleanly introduces ideas from his major works, and applies them to daily life. Includes "Children and Parents," "The Meaning of Purity," "The Objects of Marriage," "Husbands and Wives," "The Love-Rights of Women," "The Play-Function of Sex," and "The Individual and the Race."
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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...
5) 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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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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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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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.
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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....
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A man, now, well sure enough, one of those you can forget; but a child is forever.' Kate Byrne For No Man's Land, first published in 1972, Tony Parker persuaded six young unmarried mothers to talk frankly about their lives, their hopes, and their problems. As ever Parker didn't impose himself upon the text: the women speak as and for themselves. As such No Man's Land is a precious sociological portrait of a Britain in which many believed that motherhood...
11) Análisis y actuaciones en diferentes contextos de intervención (salud y sexualidad, educación, oc
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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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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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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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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What does it mean to be a man? When a culture fails to answer that properly, the results can be disastrous. For men it can lead to broken identity, overcrowded prisons, spousal abuse, gang violence, chemical addiction and aggressive, anti-social tendencies that wreak havoc all over the world. For women it can mean living in a suppressed environment where involvement is, marginalized. Using medieval chivalry as a springboard, this book leads the reader...
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The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. In recent years the Saudi government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater roles for women in society. Implicit in these calls for reform, however, is an assumption that the only "real" society is male society. Little consideration has been given to the rapidly evolving activities within women's spaces. This book joins young urban women in their daily...
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Why do words fail men when they need them most? Why is the subject of what men want emotionally, shrouded in silence? This is a book that attempts, in the style of Blake Morrison and Richard Rayner, to put men's experience of Love into words. 'A slim, elegantly written account, packed with quotations from poetry, fiction, cinema, items from newspapers, popular culture and personal anecdote, which argues that silence in the face of emotion is the predominant...
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We're well into the twenty-first century, yet we continue to struggle with the same problems that have plagued us for centuries. Violence. Poverty. Inequality. Toxic relationships. As hopeless as it seems, however, real change is possible. The first step is to understand the driving force behind all the turmoil in the world.
In Feminine Masculine Balance, Jacqueline McLeod explains how masculine and feminine energies are unbalanced on a global scale....
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This edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women's identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world. The book discusses the experiences and positions of women, and particular groups of women, to understand patterns of religiosity and religious change. It also addresses the current and future challenges posed by women's changes to religion in different parts...
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La violencia familiar es una de las principales manifestaciones de la violencia de género. Para las mujeres representa una fuente de sufrimiento y padecimiento, y origina diversos problemas de salud.
A partir del impacto que provoca, requiere la formulación de políticas y la organización de prácticas y servicios para su abordaje. Este libro encuadra algunos aspectos como la oferta de atención, cuidados y apoyo destinados a mujeres en situación...
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