books about: sexist     books:       Here Be Sexist Vampires (The Deep In Your Veins Series) Suzanne Wright, 2012 Sam Parker is a vampire with a gift so strong and substantial that she is invited to partake in a test for a place in the Grand High Master Vampire’s private army. She finds that not only has the army never included a woman, but it has never included a Sventé vampire; a breed that is regarded by the super strong Pagori breed and the hypnotically beautiful Keja breed to be too tame and human-like. Most refuse to take her seriously, especially ...             Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture Ariel Levy Free Press, 2006 Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig -- the new brand of "empowered woman" who embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. In her groundbreaking book, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy argues that, if male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women -- and of themselves. Irresistibly witty and wickedly intelligent, Female ...             Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center Bell Hooks South End Press, 2000 An Interview with bell hooks, author of Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics SOUTH END PRESS: Your work on radical black feminism has been an inspiration for many young feminists of color, and you yourself were in your early 20s when you wrote your first book, Ain't I a Woman . What differences do you see in the political and cultural climate that young progressive activists face today, compared to when you were formulating your ...             Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man HarperCollins e-books, 2009 “Harvey offers surprising insights into the male mentality and gives women strategies for taming that unruly beast.” — Philadelphia Inquirer “Women should listen to Steve Harvey when it comes to what a good man is about. Steve Harvey dispenses a lot of fabulous information about men.” —Aretha Franklin The #1 New York Times bestseller from the new guru of relationship advice, Steve Harvey’s Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man ...             The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster, 2003 Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an outstanding scholar ...             Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School C. J. Pascoe University of California Press, 2011 High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She ...             Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom bell hooks Routledge, 2009 In Teaching Critical Thinking , renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching ...             FROM ABOVE - A Novella Breakneck Media, 2011 Far in the future, the Earth is surrounded by a half-mile thick layer of space junk, some of it trash, some of it giant advertising billboards, some of it space-winni vacationers. But Priest, a sexist narcotics detective for The Authority is more interested in the terrorist group whose strange new weapon took a pot shot at his city and atomized everything inside its target area--including his arm. Priest finds himself partnered with the tough ...             Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Derald Wing Sue Wiley, 2010 Praise for Microaggressions in Everyday Life "In a very constructive way, Dr. Sue provides time-tested psychological suggestions to make our society free of microaggressions. It is a brilliant resource and ideal teaching tool for all those who wish to alter the forces that promote pain for people." — Melba J. T. Vasquez, PhD, ABPPPresident, American Psychological Association " Microaggressions in Everyday Life offers an insightful, ...             Bringing Up Boys James C. Dobson Tyndale Momentum, 2005 2002 Gold Medallion Award winner! Sensible advice and caring encouragement on raising boys from the nation's most trusted parenting expert, Dr.James Dobson. With so much confusion about the role of men in our society, it's no wonder so many parents and teachers are at a loss about how to bring up boys. Our culture has vilified masculinity and, as a result, boys are suffering. Parents, teachers, and others involved in shaping the character of ...             Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism Bell Hooks South End Press, 1999 A groundbreaking work of feminst history and theory analyzing the complex relations between various forms of oppression. Ain't I a Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the recent women's movement, and black women's involvement with feminsim.             Kaplan GMAT Verbal Foundations Kaplan Kaplan Publishing, 2013 Kaplan’s GMAT Verbal Foundations provides a back-to-basics, tutor-led approach to content review along with the skill-building practice you need to feel confident and improve your GMAT score. Best of all, unlike other English language review books,  Kaplan’s GMAT Verbal Foundations  covers only the specific grammar, style, and usage concepts you need to know in order to master the Verbal section of the GMAT.             Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women Anne Moir, David Jessel Delta, 1992 Why can't a woman be more like a man? What is this thing called "feminine intuition"? Why are men better at reading maps, and women at other people's characters? The answers lie in the basic biological differences between the male and female brain, which, say the authors, make it impossible for the sexes to share equal emotional or intellectual qualities.             He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know Jessica Valenti Seal Press, 2008 Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is supposed to both virginal and provocatively enticing at the same time? Isn’t it unfair that working moms are labeled “bad” for focusing on their ...             The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help Jackson Katz Sourcebooks, 2006 Praise for The Macho Paradox "An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful work that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations." --Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes "Jackson Katz is an American hero! With integrity and courage, he has taken his message--that the epidemic of violence against women is a men's issue--into athletic terms, the military and frat ...             The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn Diane Ravitch Vintage, 2004 If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job , a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister , an heiress aboard her yacht , or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out , Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary! Textbook publishers and state education agencies have sought to root out racist, sexist, and elitist language ...             Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Tom Robbins Bantam, 1995 When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there’s no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the ...             The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters Tricia Rose Basic Civitas Books, 2008 Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and ’hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip-hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States . In The Hip-Hop Wars , ...             Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity Julia Serano Seal Press, 2007 A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as ...             Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology Wiley-Blackwell, 2005 Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology addresses seven philosophically significant questions regarding feminism, its central concepts of sex and gender, and the project of centering women’s experience. Topics include the nature of sexist oppression, the sex/gender distinction, how gender-based norms influence conceptions of rationality, knowledge, and scientific objectivity, feminist ethics, feminst perspectives on self and ...              search for books anthology, bringing, chauvinist, critical, difference, everyday, femininity, feminism, feminist, foundations, language, masculinity, matters, microaggressions, orientation, pajamas, philosophical, practical, pressure, restrict, scapegoating, sexuality, shakespeare, standards, students, teaching, thinking, transsexual, vampires, whipping books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen Coleman Cable 5858 Polar/Solar 16/3 SJEO 50-Feet Trouble Light with Metal ... home  impressum - about us