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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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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...
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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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Este estudio, riguroso y audaz, hace balance de las cristologías feministas y de sus principales modelos; al mismo tiempo, se adentra en terrenos inexplorados, ofreciendo hipótesis innovadoras. Este doble enfoque evita dos riesgos: la ingenuidad de escribir sobre el tema como si se fuera el primero en hacerlo y, por otro lado, el agotamiento en reconstrucciones y bibliografías como si no se pudiera avanzar ni un paso más. Las dos autoras, trabajando...
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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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"A courageous analysis of Arab writers, addressing the connections between masculinity, violence, and nationalism."
-;Robin Morgan, Ms..
"Rarely have sexuality and war been treated with such poignancy and historical concreteness .... The force of these often intertwined phenomena endemic to the human condition are considered with incisive and wrenching specificity from within one of the most baneful convergences of sexuality and war in recent history."...
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An illuminating follow-up to Kathleen Barry's powerful landmark book, Female Sexual Slavery, that assesses the landscape of abuse prostitution 15 years later
In 1979, Kathleen Barry's landmark book, Female Sexual Slavery, pulled back the curtain on a world of abuse prostitution that shocked the world. Documenting in devastating detail the lives of street prostitutes and the international traffic in women, Barry's work was called "powerful and compassionate"...
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Get the Summary of Lynne Olson's Empress of the Nile in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, a pioneering French Egyptologist, was raised in an intellectually stimulating environment that fostered her curiosity and led her to study Egyptology. Under the mentorship of Étienne Drioton at the Louvre, she became a project manager at a young age, cataloging Egyptian objects. Despite the political...
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Mein Buch befasst sich mit der Transgenderidologie und ihre Auswirkungen auf Frauen und Kinder. Es ist eine detaillierte Untersuchung dieses Phänomens in westlichen Ländern (USA, UK, Europa etc). Ich arbeite seit über 40 Jahren zu diesem Thema und bin die Autorin von The Transsexual Empire, dass das erste feministische Buch zu diesem Thema war (1979).
Ich stelle viele Fragen wie zum Beispiel: wissen Leute, die Transgenderideologie befürworten,...
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The autobiography of the first known recipient of gender-affirming surgery, a story adapted into the feature film The Danish Girl.
An inspirational and moving account of the transformation of the painter Einar Wegener into Lili Elbe, compiled from Lili's own letters and manuscripts.
Lili Elbe was, in 1931, the first transsexual to receive a male-to female sex change. This remarkable book-a sensation when first published over eighty years ago-shows...
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What role did sexual assault play in the conquest of America? How did American attitudes toward female sexuality evolve, and how was sexuality regulated in the early Republic?
Sex and sexuality have always been the subject of much attention, both scholarly and popular. Yet, accounts of the early years of the United States tend to overlook the importance of their influence on the shaping of American culture. Sex and Sexuality in Early America addresses...
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Get the Summary of John Lovell's The Warrior Poet Way in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. John Lovell's "The Warrior Poet Way" explores the natural combativeness in boys, advocating for its cultivation into a protective instinct for families and communities. He laments the loss of traditional male role models and calls for a re-embrace of the warrior ethos. Lovell teaches tactical skills to awaken men's dormant warrior...
14) Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States
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At a moment when "freedom of religion" rhetoric fuels public debate, it is easy to assume that sex and religion have faced each other in pitched battle throughout modern U.S. history. Yet, by tracking the nation's changing religious and sexual landscapes over the twentieth century, this book challenges that zero-sum account of sexuality locked in a struggle with religion. It shows that religion played a central role in the history of sexuality in...
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In this fascinating new inquiry into contemporary culture, Charles Pickstone, a priest, argues that the pervasiveness of sex in our society mirrors religion's former glory. Indeed, according to Pickstone, sex has usurped religion's position on the spiritual pedestal. In this time of increasing secularization, our traditional views of sex have fallen by the wayside. The religious right bemoans our so-called hedonism as a retreat from religion and values....
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An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.
In Gender and the Abjection of Blackness, Sabine Broeck argues that gender studies as a mostly white field has taken insufficient account of Black contributions, and that more than being an ethnocentric limitation or blind spot, this has represented a structural anti-Blackness in the field. Engaging with the work of Black feminist authors Sylvia Wynter, Hortense Spillers, and Saidiya Hartman,...
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The surprising true story of Mexico's hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer
For three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of whom had been strangled in their homes with a stethoscope by someone posing as a government nurse. When Juana Barraza Samperio, a female professional wrestler known...
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An intimate analysis of the first time
Nervous, inexperienced, confused. For most, losing your virginity is one of life's most significant moments, always to be remembered. Of course, experiences vary, but Laura Carpenter asks: Is there an ideal way to lose it? What would constitute a "positive" experience? What often compels the big step? And, further, what does "going all the way" really mean for young gays and lesbians?
In this first comprehensive...
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Sexual beliefs, behaviors and identities are interwoven throughout our lives, from childhood to old age. An edited collection of original empirical contributions united through its use of a distinctive, cutting-edge theoretical framework, Sex for Life critically examines sexuality across the entire lifespan. Rooted in diverse disciplines and employing a wide range of research methods, the chapters explore the sexual and social transitions that typically...
20) God Loves Gays
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Are you a member of the LGBTQIA community and curious about becoming a Christian?
Do you have a gay friend or family member that you'd like to share your Christian faith with?
Do you have questions about Christianity?
Are you ready for a new, unique take on Christianity?
Dean Holbrook tackles the issue of homosexuality in the Bible and shares his own unique perspective on it.
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