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Dans ce livre, lauteur rvle les tonnantes conclusions de ses recherches sur la cause de linversion identitaire, et, partant, de la nature homosexuelle. Il propose de nous dmontrer cet aspect capital, pourtant largement insouponn, de la nature humaine : Que le corps et la personnalit sont deux composantes de ltre qui peuvent tre de genres opposs au sein dune mme personne. Les sujets de cette nature sont dsigns ici par le mot geis, signifiant personnes...
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This 1919 anthology of scholarly writings on sex, edited by a physician who struggled against the suppression of such knowledge, covers the topics of education, abstinence, marriage, abortion, divorce, prostitution, disease, rape, sexology, masturbation, obscenity, platonic love, eugenics, sexual ethics, frigidity, the psychology of sex, and other then-forbidden subjects.
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Summary, Analysis & Review of John Gray's Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by Instaread Preview: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by relationship expert Dr. John Gray is a self-help guide to understanding the opposite sex so that romantic relationships can be more fulfilling, healthy, and loving. The key to lasting, successful partnerships is understanding and appreciating gender differences by recognizing that men and women operate...
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This vintage book contains Edward Carpenter's ground-breaking study of homosexuality, "Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk - A Study In Social Evolution". It is a fascinating study of social evolution centered on the idea that there is a spectrum of 'types' of man and woman. The author postulates that there exists a range in sexuality, there being feminine bodies with masculine minds and vice versa. Expertly written in a manner that makes it readily...
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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....
46) 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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This 1917 guide by a pioneering physician, written at a time when ignorance was rife, addresses the need for up-to-date, frank sex knowledge for women and girls, the physiology and psychology of sex, anatomy, puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, the fetus, prenatal care, abortion, miscarriage, masturbation, menopause, venereal disease, contraception, advice on marriage, and more.
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Written for students of psychology, this 1922 work examines the values, motives, and impulses of the adult-and how these are related to "original nature." Along the way it calls into question contemporary theories of institutional repression and thwarting of expression, as espoused in "the dogmatic claims of evolutionists."
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Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their participants, or take gendered inequalities into account. Women in Global Science is the first book to consider systematically the challenges and opportunities...
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Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence? The work that goes into feeling safe goes largely unnoticed by the women doing it and by the wider world, and yet women and girls are the first to be blamed the inevitable times when it fails. We need to change the story on rape prevention and 'well-meaning' safety advice, because this makes it harder for women and girls to speak out, and hides the amount of work they...
51) Vitruvian Women
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This book is a tribute to life's eternal feminine. It is an acknowledgement of women, of all women, for being wonderful and for simply being women. It starts in an intense and delicate way with women tackling the topic of dignity, democracy with the face of a woman, and the violation of her rights. She is abused, beaten, and killed; her genitals are mutilated; her face and body are burned with acid; and she is paid less than man is for the same work....
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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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"Baby Steps in Sky High Heels" is a compilation of blogs written by CiCi for the SuddenlyFem(TM) website. CiCi has been writing monthly blogs about the transgender/crossdresser lifestyle since 2007. SuddenlyFem is a one-stop online shop for crossdressers, featuring dresses, shoes, lingerie, wigs and more for those born in a male body but who wish to dress as women.
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Addressing the relationship between the sexes in 1922-"we have made rather a mess of it!"-a pioneering feminist objects to the silence over sex in her time. She discusses the inequality of the sexes, friendship, divorce, marriage, the unmarried, chivalry, and other topics-in a tone that is at once spiritual and truly physical.
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Temas como el género y la sexualidad lograron una visibilidad tal en la agenda pública que sólo registramos su actualidad inmediata, como si no tuvieran historia o como si ella se remontara apenas a pocas décadas atrás. Esta obra recupera experiencias libertarias que hace más de un siglo desafiaron formas de la intimidad, el amor y la pareja afianzadas por el Estado o la Iglesia. Así, expone el ideario del anarquismo en la Argentina, que luchaba...
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The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women. Witnessing the loss of state support for their economic activity, the curtailing of their reproductive rights, and the rise of gender ideologies that value women primarily as mothers and wives rather than as active participants in the workforce, women across eastern and central Europe organized on a local level to resist these changes. Making Their...
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The relationship between gender and welfare states is of key importance in understanding welfare states and gender equality and inequality. Western welfare states of the post-war era were built on assumptions about gender difference: they treated men as breadwinners and women as carers. Now governments are committed in principle to gender equality. But how far have they come from male breadwinner assumptions to gender equality assumptions? How much...
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Y, a medida que pasan más años, más compromiso existe por estudiar de cerca la evolución de la participación política de las mujeres y su efecto en la sociedad. ¿El objetivo? Estar e influir. No solo estar. También influir. Y ser mejores, sobre todo mejores. Profundizar en el liderazgo, el discurso y la iconografía de las mujeres en política calma un deseo de saber responder a necesidades evidentes, abarca una cuestión social y ayuda a...
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