ilość książek w kategorii: 4524
Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy Seal's Journey to Coming Out Transgender
ISBN: 9781935866428 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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157,28 zł |
Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415714426 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume, the authors expand this definition of asexuality to account for the complexities of gender, race, disability, and medical discourse. Together, these essays challenge the ways in which we imagine gender and sexuality in relation to desire and sexual practice. Asexualities provides a... What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality.... |
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767,58 zł |
Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man
ISBN: 9780061728969 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the New York Times bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man--the basis for the #1 box office smash--Steve Harvey gave millions of women around the globe insight into what men really think about love, intimacy, and commitment. In Straight Talk, No Chaser, he zeroes in on what motivates men and provides tips on how women can use that knowledge to get more of what they need out of their relationships, whether it's more help around the house or more money in the joint savings account. Harvey also shares invaluable information on: - How to minimize...In the New York Times bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man--the basis for the #1 box office smash--Steve Harvey gave mill... |
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51,70 zł |
Sugar My Bowl PB
ISBN: 9780062193223 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poet, novelist, and essayist, the legendary Erica Jong--whose novel Fear of Flying opened eyes and broke down walls--offers us a provocative collection of essays about sex from some of the most respected female authors writing today. "Real Women Write about Real Sex" in Sugar in My Bowl, as such marquee names as Gail Collins, Eve Ensler, Daphne Merken, Anne Roiphe, Liz Smith, Naomi Wolf, and Jennifer Weiner, to name but a few, join together to speak openly about female desire--what provokes it and what satisfies it. In the free, unfettered spirit of The Bitch in the...
Poet, novelist, and essayist, the legendary Erica Jong--whose novel Fear of Flying opened eyes and broke down walls--offers us a provocative ...
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77,64 zł |
Nasty Women
ISBN: 9780071410236 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The newest book in Dr. Carter's series discusses the communication breakdown that sometimes creates nasty behavior in women, covers the many ways women are perceived by spouses, coworkers, family, and friends, and shows ways to repair the damage caused by behaviors often characterized as "female," including:
Everyone knows a person who has been hurt, betrayed, or degraded by nasty... The newest book in Dr. Carter's series discusses the communication breakdown that sometimes creates nasty behavior in women, covers the many ways w... |
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56,10 zł |
How to Do Relationships: A Step-By-Step Guide to Nurturing Your Relationship and Making Love Last
ISBN: 9780091947996 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Relationships. What makes them work, what gets in the way and how do you create a lasting and meaningful relationship? Whatever background or culture you come from, we all need to feel loved and accepted. Starting at the early days of meeting 'the one' and progressing through moving in, meeting family and friends, marriage or civil partnerships, choosing whether to have children and growing old together, 'How to Do Relationships' will support you through your entire relationship journey.
Relationships. What makes them work, what gets in the way and how do you create a lasting and meaningful relationship? Whatever background or culture ...
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91,52 zł |
Is the Rectum a Grave?: And Other Essays
ISBN: 9780226043524 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, Is the Rectum a Grave? this volume charts the inspired connections Bersani has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. Over the course of these essays, Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel. Foucault and Freud recur as key figures, and although... Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together so... |
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436,31 zł |
Love in Africa
ISBN: 9780226113524 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS. "Love in Africa" seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it.... In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the Unit... |
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430,92 zł |
Mundane Heterosexualities: From Theory to Practices
ISBN: 9780230273474 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mundane Heterosexualities provides the reader with a critical overview of feminist thinking on the topic of heterosexuality. It argues that as a social rather than sexual category, heterosexuality can be seen as the organizing principle of our everyday lines.
Mundane Heterosexualities provides the reader with a critical overview of feminist thinking on the topic of heterosexuality. It argues that as a socia...
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195,42 zł |
Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, Hiv/Aids, and Nationalism
ISBN: 9780230340992 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies.
This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar ho...
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214,97 zł |
Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800
ISBN: 9780230546790 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gathers the most recent scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by the most original and widely respected thinkers in the field. By using the analytical tools of Queer Theory these interdisciplinary scholars have reconfigured the history of sexuality in radically altering how we think about sexuality and how we write history.
This book gathers the most recent scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by the most original and widely respected thinkers in the field. B...
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195,42 zł |
Global Masculinities and Manhood
ISBN: 9780252036514 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together an array of interdisciplinary voices, "Global Masculinities and Manhood" examines the concept of masculinity from the perspectives of cultures around the world. In the era of globalization, masculinity continues to be studied in a Western-centric context. Contributors to this volume, however, deconstruct the history and politics of masculinities within the contexts of the cultures from which they have been developed, examining what makes a man who he is within his own culture. Highlighting manifestations of masculinity in countries including Jamaica, Turkey, Peru, Kenya,... Bringing together an array of interdisciplinary voices, "Global Masculinities and Manhood" examines the concept of masculinity from the perspective... |
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533,26 zł |
Bisexual Imaginary: Representation, Identity, and Desire
ISBN: 9780304337453 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays focuses on historical and contemporary representations of bisexuality - both "real" and "imagined" - in literature, film and the visual arts. They ask questions concerning what it means to desire both men and women and explores the role of bisexuality in the construction of every person's sexual identity. This collection of essays focuses on historical and contemporary representations of bisexuality - both "real" and "imagined" - in literature, film ... |
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511,72 zł |
Hysteria
ISBN: 9780415220330 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hysteria has disappeared from contemporary culture only insofar as it has been subjected to a repression through the popular diagnosis of 'borderline personality disorder'.
In Hysteria the distinguished psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversion; over-identification with the other - into the hysteric form. Through a rereading of Freud, Bollas argues that sexuality in itself is traumatic to all children, as it 'destroys' the relation to the... Hysteria has disappeared from contemporary culture only insofar as it has been subjected to a repression through the popular diagnosis of 'borderline ...
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163,70 zł |
The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade
ISBN: 9780415412339 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates the importance of the global sex industry to the field of international politics, exploring the development of the industry and its wider social implications. In recent decades, prostitution has moved from a local concern connected with criminal networks to an industrialized and globalized phenomenon. Sheila Jeffreys, international expert on gender, sexuality and queer studies, identifies the forces involved in creating this global industry such as the normalization of prostitution through the sexual revolution, the legalization of brothel prostitution, new...
This book demonstrates the importance of the global sex industry to the field of international politics, exploring the development of the industry and...
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194,40 zł |
The Ethics of Sex and Alzheimer's
ISBN: 9780415641654 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A growing epidemic, Alzheimer's punishes not only its victims but also those married to them. This book analyzes how Alzheimer's is quietly transforming the way we think about love today. Without meaning to become rebels, many people who find themselves "married to Alzheimer's" deflate the predominant notion of a conventional marriage. By falling in love again before their ill spouse dies, those married to Alzheimer's come into conflict with central values of Western civilization - personal, sexual, familial, religious, and political. Those who wait sadly for a spouse's death must sometimes...
A growing epidemic, Alzheimer's punishes not only its victims but also those married to them. This book analyzes how Alzheimer's is quietly transformi...
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219,99 zł |
Street Sex Workers' Discourse: Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice
ISBN: 9780415887076 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Incorporating the voices and insights of street sex workers through personal interviews, this monograph argues that the material conditions of many street workers - the physical environments they live in and their effects on the workers' bodies, identities, and spirits - are represented, reproduced, and entrenched in the language surrounding their work.
Incorporating the voices and insights of street sex workers through personal interviews, this monograph argues that the material conditions of many st...
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741,99 zł |
Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose
ISBN: 9780415951876 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Falling in Love is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how and why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us why we fall for the people we do, and argues convincingly that we love neither by chance nor by accident. She offers sound advice for making the right choices when it comes to this complicated emotion. Packed with helpful suggestions for those seeking love and those already in it, this book is about love's many puzzles. The second edition furthers the work of the popular and successful first edition. With expanded research, theory, and... Falling in Love is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how and why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us why w... |
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184,17 zł |
Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
ISBN: 9780520205710 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens? In her unique study of American love in the twentieth century, Eva Illouz unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of "true" love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. Illouz studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of cliches and...
To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect r...
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156,21 zł |
The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance
ISBN: 9780521749503 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the French invaded Italy in 1494, they were shocked by the frank sexuality expressed in Italian cities. By 1600, the French were widely considered to be the most highly sexualized nation in Christendom. What caused this transformation? This book examines how, as Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge rippled outward from Italy, the sexual landscape and French notions of masculinity, sexual agency, and procreation were fundamentally changed. Exploring the use of astrology, the infusion of Neoplatonism, the critique of Petrarchan love poetry, and the monarchy's sexual...
When the French invaded Italy in 1494, they were shocked by the frank sexuality expressed in Italian cities. By 1600, the French were widely considere...
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102,29 zł |