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This book is a study of women’s involvement in occult practices in Weimar Germany. Women during the Weimar period experienced an unprecedented level of liberation.This included a greatly increased role in the work force as well as participation in other realms that were...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2021-03-23
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Second fiddle to love, fleeting and inauthentic, a disguise for sexual rivalry, a practice to be policed or, at most, a social mechanism aptly reinforcing traditional gender norms, female friendship did not always have a good reputation in canonical and didactic...
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NBN International
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2021-03-01
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Ellen Key (1849–1926) was one of Europe’s most influential thinkers on issues of motherhood and women’s sexuality during the early 1900s. This anthology maps how her ideas were reformulated in Europe’s five major language areas – English, German, French, Italian, and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-12-24
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Catholic Sexual Pathology and the Western Mind: The Ancient Era, Vol. 1 documents with historical and clinical data the correlation betweenCatholic sexual orthodoxy andCatholic sexual pathology. The Roman church government replaced the sex positive Hebrew Tradition,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-12-21
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Dangerous. Sexy. All-American—or rather All-World—Girl. Pin Up! The Subculture is the first book to explore the contemporary international subculture of pin up, women (and men) who embrace vintage style, but not vintage values.
Award-winning filmmaker and author...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-09-17
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En France comme en Grande-Bretagne, la fin du XIXe siècle semble hantée par les formes destructrices ou malveillantes de la féminité, que la figure de Salomé incarne d’une manière omniprésente et contradictoire. La danseuse fatale ne peut pourtant se comprendre que...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-07-23
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Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed by social movements such as COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-06-15
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This work traces the historical and legal developments surrounding the public awareness of sexual harassment in the United States. The book looks at the issue from a theoretical perspective, analyzes relevant Supreme Court decisions, and discusses the reactions to the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-03-06
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American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent ofAmerican women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and...
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Seal Press
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2020-02-04
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Women Writing War focuses on the life-writing of the moudjahidate, the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence (1954–1962). The author offers close readings of memoir, testimonial, poetry and drama by Jacqueline Guerroudj, Louisette Ighilahriz, Anna Gréki,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Constance Naden (1858–1889) is a unique voice in Victorian literature and science. This book, the first full-length critical account of her life and works, brings into focus the reciprocal nature of Naden’s poetry, philosophical essays and scientific studies. The...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2019-09-30
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The figure of the «Muslim» woman or girl performs a crucial role in far-reaching socio-political debates in Germany. Indeed, such figures challenge the boundaries of gender equality and secularism and contest notions of tolerance and integration.The (in)visibility of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2019-07-29
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A RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman . . . This is a book for all those times.Once upon a (very very) long time ago Jo Brand was what you might describe as 'a nice little girl'. Of course, that was...
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John Murray
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2018-10-18
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Selected for the Evening Standard present gift guide of the year'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews,...
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Brazen
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2018-03-08
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Forgotten Women
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An urgent testament to the trials of life for women living without a financial safety net Indie icon Michelle Tea -- whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts -- shares these fierce, honest, tender essays...
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Seal Press
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2018-02-27
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Live Girls
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Slutever is a call-to-arms, a confessional memoir, and a slut manifesto—and it's all thanks to a sex-radical hedonist in a pink PVC mini dress. "Slut" is a great word. It just sounds perfect-so sharp and clear and beautiful. It's one of...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2018-02-06
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WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN ESSAY PRIZEFROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'It's hard to overstate the pleasure and the comfort that such demystification provides . . . it does indeed make the world feel larger, more expansive, more alive to the touch'...
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Sceptre
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2017-11-16
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An urgent account of sexual politics, feminism, and the rules of power in America-and a potent vision for the way forward As a veteran feminist and agenda-setting sex educator, Jaclyn Friedman is on the frontlines of the war for equity between the sexes. In Unscrewed,...
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Seal Press
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2017-11-14
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The motif of the ‘identity quest’ features strongly in much contemporary French women’s writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot, Bouraoui persistently explores the question...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-25
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An NPR Best Book of 2017Celebrate the witchiest women writers with an inventive guidebook that pairs imaginative vignettes with whimsical, folkloric illustrations. Literary Witches reimagines visionary writers as witches: both are figures of formidable creativity,...
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Seal Press
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2017-10-10
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