The Riddle Of Gender

Author : Deborah Rudacille
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307490165
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riddle of Gender written by Deborah Rudacille and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles–historical, sociological, psychological, medical–Rudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new, that changing one’s gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years, and that gender identity, like sexual orientation, appears to be inborn, not learned, though in some people the sex of the body does not match the sex of the brain. Informed not only by meticulous research, but also by the author’s interviews with prominent members of the transgender community, The Riddle of Gender is a sympathetic and wise look at a sexual revolution that calls into question many of our most deeply held assumptions about what it means to be a man, a woman, and a human being.

Author : Tillie Olsen
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 9780440550105
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell Me a Riddle written by Tillie Olsen and published by Delta. This book was released on 1989 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, what Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell me a Riddle," had become an American classic. Since the title novella won the O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into thirteen languages, and - most important - once read, they abide in the hearts of their readers.

Author : Patricia Gherovici
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135276935
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Please Select Your Gender written by Patricia Gherovici and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles." Thus we meet Hera, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies the debate over transgenderism, rigorously dissected in Please Select Your Gender. Is it a mental disorder, as some would claim, or a matter of sexual identity? An orientation or a life choice? Despite differing opinions, transgenderism has lost much of its stigma over the past decade or so – though perhaps none of its shock value. Nevertheless, the door is open for a reformulation of the hysterical question, "Am I a man or a woman?" Utilizing rich clinical vignettes and elements of Lacanian theory, Patricia Gherovici demonstrates how the transgender discourse has both reoriented psychoanalytic practice and reframed debates about gender in American society at large. She traverses historical, theoretical, and clinical grounds to explore what has been termed the "democratizing of gender" – for what could be more democratic than the choice of one’s own gender, now able to be changed on demand? Arguing for the depathologization of transgenderism, Please Select Your Gender aims to revise current notions of human sexuality in general. In doing so, it challenges the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with questions typically addressed only indirectly, but which are themselves transforming how analysis is done, advancing new ideas for the clinic that can be extrapolated to social and intellectual contexts in an effort to engage the broader dialogues of gender and sexuality.

Author : Victoria F. Shaw, Ph.D.
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823932672
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coping With Sexual Harassment and Gender Bias written by Victoria F. Shaw, Ph.D. and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender equality is still a relevant issue despite many of the advancements that women have made. Sexual harassment and sexism still exist day to day in the lives of most girls and women. Shaw expertly discusses the emotional and legal impact of both gender bias and sexual harassment. In addition, she gives readers insightful and positive ideas on how to combat such inequality. Shaw empowers readers to strive for fairness, and in doing so provides us with an excellent book and resource.

Author : T. Fenster
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137079975
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Debate From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance written by T. Fenster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern scholarship generally treats the "debate about women" (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic authors like Chaucer but truly begun by Christine de Pizan (1364-1429), and therefore primarily of English and French origin. That emphasis has obscured the ways in which both writers were participating in a much wider, much older cultural phenomenon with varied and intractable roots. Articles in this collection explore how gender is put into debate in Anglo-Saxon, German, Spanish and Italian cultures, and they re-examine French and Middle English debate literature. The collection is carefully planned to be accessible to students seeking an idea of the debate's motifs and contours while maintaining the high level of issue involvement necessary to commanding a more seasoned audience. Contributors include Pamela Benson, Alcuin Blamires, Margaret Franklin, Roberta Krueger, Clare Lees and Gillian Overing, Ann Matter, Karen Pratt, Helen Solterer, Julian Weiss, and Barbara Weissberger.

Author : John Munder Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Male Paradox-- written by John Munder Ross and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted pshychologist explores the paradoxes of masculinity. This book examines men's hopes and fears, dreams and reality, love lives and work lives, as Ross unfolds a new theory of masculinity based on 20 years of clinical experience and research. Provocative reading for men--and for the women in their lives.

Author : Jennifer K. Bosson
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506331343
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Sex and Gender written by Jennifer K. Bosson and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychology of Sex and Gender meets the needs of gender science today, providing students with fresh, contemporary examples, balanced coverage of men and women, and a grounding in psychological science. The dynamic author team of Jennifer K. Bosson, Joseph A. Vandello, and Camille E. Buckner presents classic and cutting-edge research findings, historical contexts, examples from popular culture, cross-cultural universality and variation, and coverage of nonbinary identities, for a full, vibrant picture of the field. In keeping with the growing scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), the authors ask students in every chapter to identify and evaluate their own myths and misconceptions, participate in real-world debates on topics at the forefront of the field, and stop to think critically along the way. Students will be talking about this book long after they finish the course, carrying new skills forward into their lives and future careers.

Author : Irene Matthis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429912706
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues on Sexuality, Gender and Psychoanalysis written by Irene Matthis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There are more questions than answers in this book - questions that are important and will continue to intrigue us. This book will be needed to remind us of the different opinions and to help us create tomorrow's theories. Human experience cannot be reduced to sexuality, but there is sexuality in everything human.'- From the Introduction A challenging exploration of contemporary theories on femininity with cutting-edge papers from leading analysts, this volume presents a thought-provoking dialogue on femininity, sexuality, gender and masculinity. These key issues are analysed and discussed in new and stimulating ways, whilst familiar concepts are dissected and dismantled to bring forward fresh ideas. The diversity and developments currently advancing studies on femininity towards new understandings are shown clearly throughout. This rich and inspiring collection of papers grew from the "Sexuality and Gender" conference held in Sweden in 2002, organised by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. The conference was created with the conscious intent of bringing different ideas to bear upon each other in order to promote further research into this vital area.

Author : Britton J. Harwood
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208583
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class and Gender in Early English Literature written by Britton J. Harwood and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The essays] focus on class and gender not only sheds new light on old texts but also stretches the boundaries of the critical modus operandi which is often applied to such literature." --Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter These dramatic new readings of Old and Middle English texts explore the rich theoretical territory at the intersection of class and gender, and highlight the interplay of the critic, methodology, and the medieval text.

Author : Berkeley Anna Livia Visiting Assistant Professor of French University of California
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195343921
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pronoun Envy : Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender written by Berkeley Anna Livia Visiting Assistant Professor of French University of California and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000-11-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Most accounts do not extend beyond policy issues like the official institution of non-sexist language. In this volume, Anna Livia reveals continuities both before and after the sexist language refore movement and shows how the creative practices of pronoun use on the part of feminist writers had both aesthetic and political ends. Livia uses the term "pronoun envy" ironically to show that rather being a case of misguided envy, battles over gendered language are central to feminist concerns. Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating on those texts which problematize the traditional functioning of the linguistic gender system. They range from novels and prose poems to film scripts and personal testimonies, and in time from the 19th century to the present. Some withhold any indication of gender; others have non-gendered characters. Livia's goal is two-fold; to help bridge the divide between linguistic and literary analysis, and to show how careful study of the manipulation of linguistic gender in these texts informs larger concerns. This fresh and highly interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of several vital areas, including language and gender, sociolinguistics, and feminist literary analysis.