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  • Why are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?

    Teaching and Learning at a Women's College

    by Madeleine Kahn ...
    Why Are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape? raises feminist issues in a way that reminds people why they matter. We eavesdrop on the vivid student characters in their hilarious, frustrating, and thought-provoking efforts to create strong and flexible selves against the background of representations of women in contemporary and classical Western literature. Young women working together in a group ... Read more

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  • You Just Don't Understand

    Women and Men in Conversation

    by Deborah Tannen ...
    From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic on interpersonal relations draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words.Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words.Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including ... Read more

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  • The Dance of Deception

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  • The Philosophy of Childing

    Unlocking Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason through the Wisdom of Our Youngest

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, The Philosophy of Childing takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks arete-all-around excellence-when we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our ... Read more

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  • Growing Up Trans

    In Our Own Words

    What does it mean to be young and transgender today?Growing Up Trans shares stories, essays, art and poetry created by trans youth aged 11 to 18. In their own words, the works illustrate the trans experience through childhood, family and daily life, school, their bodies and mental health. Together the collection is a story of the challenges, big and small, of being a young trans person. At the ... Read more

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  • A Child at Heart

    Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, A Child at Heart takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks of old call arete-all-around excellence-when we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our ... Read more

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  • Jealousy and Envy

    by Nancy Friday ...
    A "fascinating [and] evocative" analysis of these powerful emotions by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of My Mother/My Self ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).What is jealousy, and how does it undermine our closest relationships? Renowned journalist and author Nancy Friday tackles this difficult topic with compelling honesty and depth of insight. Here, Friday explores the feeling of fear ... Read more

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  • Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings

    The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life

    by Mari Ruti ...
    Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti’s autotheoretical commentary fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism. She focuses on the emphasis on good performance, high ... Read more

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  • Father Figure

    How to Be a Feminist Dad

    by Jordan Shapiro ...
    A thoughtful and "utterly mind-blowing" exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in the 21st century (New York Times).There are hundreds of books on parenting, and with good reason—becoming a parent is scary, difficult, and life-changing. But when it comes to books about parenting identity, rather than the nuts and bolts of raising children, nearly all are about what it's like to be a mother ... Read more

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  • A Return to Modesty

    Discovering the Lost Virtue

    by Wendy Shalit ...
    Updated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty.When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion about the possibility of innocence and romantic idealism. Wendy Shalit was the first to systematically ... Read more

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  • Sex before Sex

    Figuring the Act in Early Modern England

    Edited by James M. Bromley, Will Stockton ...
    What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the past and expect them to be true for the people who were then reading literature and watching plays. The contributors confront ... Read more

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