San Antonio College Library

Based on extensive interviews with 25 women, some just starting relationships, some breaking up, others in stable partnerships, this book gives a fascinating insight into how heterosexual relationships really work.

"Featuring Females analyzes the portrayals of women in a variety of outlets, including reality television shows, films, print and electronic news programming, magazines, video games, and commercial advertising. A highly esteemed group of scholars and researchers provides informed, original psychological study, and their thought-provoking findings address the ways in which aging, race/ethnicity, body image, gender roles, sexual orientation and relationships,...

Each of us enters the workplace not only as a human being, but as a woman or a man. Each workday is a meeting of gender-different styles, modes of operating, and leadership skills. The corporation that utilizes the differences between men and women is the corporation that discovers significant competitive advantage. The corporation that helps both genders understand each other has committed to maximum success. This book weaves together Michael Gurian's...

This is an anthology of snippets from the famous and not so famous. No index. No discussion of homosexuality, as such, that I can find. Not very useful.--pt.

From the Publisher: In Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast observing 'the lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000.' From teenage sexual manners and mores to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience; from his legendary profile of William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker (first published in 1965), to a remarkable...

In 1973, three women and one man were held hostage in one of the largest banks in Stockholm by two ex-convicts. These two men threatened their lives, but also showed them kindness. Over the course of the long ordeal, the hostages came to identify with their captors, developing an emotional bond with them. They began to perceive the police, their prospective liberators, as their enemies, and their captors as their friends and a source of security....

"As a result of complex social, biological, and economic influences, men are a market in flux. In this eye-opening look at the factors shaping the new definition of man, the trio of future trend analysis show that being male is not what it used to be. "M-ness" means much more today than it ever has: it means power shifts and more freedom for men. And marketers, advertisers, and businesses across all industries - from automobiles to cosmetics - must...

Offers critical readings of five cases, showing the extent to which, in each instance, public discourse and media representations have served to reinforce dominant norms and constrain or "discipline" any behavior that blurs or subverts conventional gender boundaries.