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The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It...
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A provocative, personal, and useful look at boyhood, and a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love
“Surprising . . . [Black’s] tone is so lovely, his empathy so clear . . . Black’s writing is modest, clear, conversational . . . corny, maybe. But helpful. Like a dad.”—The New York Times Book Review
With hope and with humor, Michael Ian Black skillfully...
“Surprising . . . [Black’s] tone is so lovely, his empathy so clear . . . Black’s writing is modest, clear, conversational . . . corny, maybe. But helpful. Like a dad.”—The New York Times Book Review
With hope and with humor, Michael Ian Black skillfully...
3) Tokyo idols
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KimStim
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2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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日本語
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This festival favorite documentary gets at the heart of a cultural phenomenon driven by an obsession with young female sexuality and internet popularity. This ever growing phenom is told through Rio, a bona fide "Tokyo Idol" who takes us on her journey to fame. We meet her "brothers", a group of adult middle aged male super fans who devote their lives to following her--in the virtual world and in real life. With her provocative look into the Japanese...
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Fifty years after Betty Friedan unveiled The Feminine Mystique, relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional. If women are more liberated than ever before, why aren't they happier? In this shocking, funny, and bluntly honest tour of today's gender discontents, Andrea Tantaros, one of Fox News' most popular and outspoken stars, exposes how the rightful feminist pursuit of equality went too far, and how the unintended...
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More than forty years after its initial publication, Man and Woman in Christ continues to be regarded by many as the most faithful and comprehensive study of biblical manhood and womanhood. Stephen B. Clark thoroughly lays out the authoritative teaching of the Old and New Testaments on the distinct roles of men and women, but he doesn't stop there. He goes on to trace the application of Scripture's teaching through the history of the Church, bringing...
7) More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church: Inquiry, Thought, and Expression
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This volume, like its companion, Voices of Our Times, collects essays drawn from a series of public conferences held in autumn 2011 entitled "More than a Monologue." The series was the fruit of collaboration among four institutions of higher learning: two Catholic universities and two nondenominational divinity schools. The conferences aimed to raise awareness of and advance informed, compassionate, and dialogical conversation about issues of sexual...
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The Second Vatican Council's landmark document Gaudium et spes called Catholics to cultivate robust, mutually enriching dialogue with the modern world by attentively and discerningly listening to the "voices of our times." This distinctive new publication, the first of two volumes that explore sexual diversity and the Catholic Church, gathers an important set of these voices: the testimonies and reflections of Catholic and former Catholic LGBTQ (lesbian,...
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Trans Life Survivors by Walt Heyer powerfully portrays the human toll inflicted by so-called "gender experts", who push gender transition on people, who don't need it.
Experience for yourself the raw emotions and "aha" moments from 30 people, who were convinced gender change was the answer, but came to see it was not.
This one-of-a-kind book is packed with information:
• Emails from 30 transgender survivors
• The latest research and information
•...
10) A Courtship
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Passion River Productions
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2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Amy Kohn’s fascinating documentary offers a peek into the practice of Christian courtship, wherein a woman hands over the responsibility of finding a husband to her parents and the will of God. Such is the path for Kelly, who after growing up happily in a secular family is prompted to alter the course of her own life after her parents’ divorce. Enter Ron and Dawn Wright, a Christian couple who offer to serve as Kelly’s adopted spiritual-family...
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Hybrid Entertainment
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2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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As one of the many women who faced fertility challenges at a young age, Dr. Jennifer Mercier shares a safer alternative to the suggested controversial procedure, in vitro fertilization (IVF).. FERTILITY exposes hidden truths about IVF, as well as an insightful new method that is safer and healthier for women who are trying to conceive. IVF has become increasingly popular and glamorized by the media. But the dangers of IVF are seldom revealed. For...
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Java Films
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2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Breast cancer kills. But are blanket screening programmes that screen all women, rather than those with symptoms, doing more harm than good? Controversially, studies into the effects of these programmes show they do not reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer. ..Healthy women are receiving unnecessary diagnoses of pre-cancerous conditions that are unlikely to develop and many are harmed by unnecessary treatment. We follow four women around the...
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Frameline
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2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Recipient of the Frameline30 Audience Award for Best Documentary and of a 2005 Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund grant, The Believers is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, gender, and religion. Built around the world's first transgender gospel choir, the film portrays the choir's dilemma: how to reconcile their gender identity with a widespread belief that changing one's gender goes against the word of...
14) Big Dream
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Collective Eye Films
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2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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This film follows the intimate stories of seven young women who are breaking barriers and overcoming personal challenges to follow their passion in science, math, computing & engineering (STEM) fields. Through video diaries and verite moments, each of these girls defy the stereotype of what it means to be an over achieving woman in the fields of technology. From small town Iowa to the busy streets of the Middle East, Big Dream immerses viewers in...
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Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their participants, or take gendered inequalities into account. Women in Global Science is the first book to consider systematically the challenges and opportunities...
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Este libro explora desde un enfoque original aspectos poco abordados del diseño e instrumentación de una política de salud pública dedicada a prevenir y atender la violencia contra las mujeres en el hogar. Pone en evidencia que las políticas públicas suelen ser el resultado, no de una planificación racional, sino de las presiones de los organismos internacionales, el contexto sociocultural de los actores y tomadores de decisiones y la sensibilidad,...
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A non-fiction best-seller that intertwines the principles of social anarchism with an extension of politics to interpersonal relationships.
This «relationship anarchy» endeavors to be a real revolution sparked from our affections, rooting not only in the long tradition of anarchism but also in contributions from the most recent sociology, anthropology, feminism, queer theory, and non-monogamous activisms. At a time when revolutionary perspectives...
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La violencia familiar es una de las principales manifestaciones de la violencia de género. Para las mujeres representa una fuente de sufrimiento y padecimiento, y origina diversos problemas de salud.
A partir del impacto que provoca, requiere la formulación de políticas y la organización de prácticas y servicios para su abordaje. Este libro encuadra algunos aspectos como la oferta de atención, cuidados y apoyo destinados a mujeres en situación...
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From dour old women to buzzkills who can't take a joke, the stereotype of the humorless feminist has repeatedly been deployed to derail and delegitimize the women's rights movement. This collection skips the tired debates that ask whether feminists can be funny, we know the answer to this already to, instead investigate contemporary expressions and functions of humor within international feminist movements and communities. This interdisciplinary volume...
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Why do words fail men when they need them most? Why is the subject of what men want emotionally, shrouded in silence? This is a book that attempts, in the style of Blake Morrison and Richard Rayner, to put men's experience of Love into words. 'A slim, elegantly written account, packed with quotations from poetry, fiction, cinema, items from newspapers, popular culture and personal anecdote, which argues that silence in the face of emotion is the predominant...
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