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Misogyny: the male malady is a comprehensive historical and anthropological survey of woman-hating that casts new light on this age-old bias. The turmoil of masculinity and the ugliness of misogyny have been well documented in different cultures, but Gilmore's synoptic approach that identifies misogyny in a variety of human experiences outside of sex and marriage is a fresh and enlightening contribution toward understanding this phenomenon. Gilmore...
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Research suggests that the average girl's self-esteem peaks at the age of 9 and then plummets. This leaves girls susceptible to poor academic performance, depression, eating disorders, bullying, risky sexual behavior and more. 9 Ways is a revolutionary guide to helping parents, and anyone who cares about the well-being of girls, understand the root causes of the self-esteem crisis, the ways we are unknowingly contributing to it, and what we can do...
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The many faces of cybersexism: Why misogyny flourishes online -- Types of cybersexism: What online harassment really looks like -- Don't feed the trolls: Why advice about cybersexism fails -- The effects of cybersexism: Professional, psychological, and personal -- Misogynist movements: Men's rights activists and Gamergate -- Dealing with cybersexism: Current solutions -- Fighting back: Remixing cyberfeminism and strategizing to reduce cybersexism...
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'Down Girl' is a broad, original and far ranging analysis of what misogyny really is, how it works, its purpose, and how to fight it. The philosopher Kate Manne argues that modern society's failure to recognize women's full humanity and autonomy is not actually the problem. She argues instead that it is women's manifestations of human capacities - autonomy, agency, political engagement - is what engenders misogynist hostility.
"Down Girl is an exploration...
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"While Aristotle's writings on biology are considered to be among his best, the comments he makes about females in these works are widely regarded as the nadir of his philosophical oeuvre. Among many claims, Aristotle is said to have declared that females contribute nothing substantial to generation; that they have fewer teeth than males; that they are less spirited than males; and that women are analogous to eunuchs. In The Female in Aristotle's...
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"An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl, which Rebecca Traister called 'jaw-droppingly brilliant.' In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from the Kavanaugh hearings and 'Cat Person' to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren, Manne shows how...
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"Gendertrolling arises out of the same misogyny that fuels other "real life" forms of harassment and abuse of women. This book explains this phenomenon, the way it can impact women's lives, and how it can be stopped. Designed to educate the general public on a popular and brutal form of harassment against women, Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral provides key insight into this Internet phenomenon. The book not only differentiates this violent...
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"More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...
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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
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Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, " and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" are full of graphic depictions of violence against women, including stalking, sexual harassment, child abuse, rape, incest, serial murder, sexual slavery, and sex trafficking, committed by vile individual men and by corrupt,...
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During the Great War, D. H. Lawrence changed from an optimistic socialist revolutionary to a misanthropic elitist preaching leadership. Cornelia Nixon shows that this change has a private sexual dimension that is always reflected in his subsequent political thinking. Whereas earlier works including The Rainbow) glorify sex, procreation, and the female, little-known essays contemporaneous with Women in Love (and to some extent that novel itself) favor...
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This study is divided into four sections, whose general topics trace various manifestations of misogyny in nineteenthand twentieth-century drama. Recent attempts to dismantle and expose relations between gender and spectacle receive attention in a volume that suggests exciting possibilities for a revision of theater.
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