Author : Alex London
Publisher : Philomel Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399257764
"Privileged Knox and and his proxy, Syd, are thrown together to overthrow the system"--
Author : Herbert A. Schreier
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 1993-05-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780898621211
This book offers a comprehensive, detailed examination of MBPS. Written by leading authorities, it covers all known clinical, medical, psychological, social and legal aspects of the disorder, including detection, dynamics, treatment, and clinical management. Based on their own experiences evaluating and treating these patients, the authors present an innovative theory of the disorder as a form of imposturing. Detailed psychological test data on a group of MBPS mothers are presented for the first time to enhance our understanding of the cognitive and psychological makeup of parents who fabricate illness in their children. The text also contains a thoughtful discussion of the larger social context of women in our society and in our medical institutions--a discussion crucial to our understanding of why MBPS is predominantly a disorder of women.
Author : Alex Fogel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 132980130X
Kyle Mason's contented existence is tested when a secret woman professes her interest in him. Fearing the intensity of the feelings she has harbored for so long, she decides to keep her identity a mystery until her "Sisters" have had a chance to meet him and provide her with their individual assessments. Over the next several weeks, Kyle must endure the companionship of five beautiful women who are intent on testing him, training him, and trusting him as the one true love of their 'Sister'. Kyle fears that the memory of the girl next door, whose repeated rejections of his friendship over the years will haunt him forever. His fears, combined with him not knowing what he ever did to warrant the rejection of his dream girl, have left Kyle with little confidence that he wouldn't unintentionally hurt another woman. Can courting five women allow Kyle to forget the one woman that he judges all others by?
Author : Gérard Pommier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2024-10-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1040129730
What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often unrecognised psychic bisexuality. Everyone chooses a gender by repressing another gender, which becomes the site of both an attraction and a conflict, a 'war of the sexes', the contingencies of which animate desire. Gérard Pommier explores phantasy, desire and perversion and their role in 'sexual machinery', before considering the question of orgasm. Pommier’s work demonstrates that the analysis of orgasm brings out a political dimension and that aspects of both social and personal life are illuminated by the study of how we think – consciously and unconsciously – about orgasm and the role we ascribe to it. This book makes valuable contributions to the study of sexuality and will be of interest to all psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalysis, as well as those in the fields of gender studies, anthropology and psychology.
Author : Jennifer S. Hirsch
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Companionate marriage
ISBN : 9780472099597
Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world
Author : Mathieu Lindon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584351861
A memoir of a friendship with Michel Foucault that changed the author's life. “I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest embitterment or exasperation when it came to him. … I was intensely close to Michel for a full six years, until his death, and I lived in his apartment for close to a year. Today I see that time as the period that changed my life, my cut-off from a fate leading to the precipice. In no specific way I'm grateful to Michel, without knowing for exactly what, for a better life." —from Learning What Love Means In 1978, Mathieu Lindon met Michel Foucault. Lindon was twenty-three years old, part of a small group of jaded but innocent, brilliant, and sexually ambivalent friends who came to know Foucault. At first the nominal caretakers of Foucault's apartment on rue de Vaugirard when he was away, these young friends eventually shared their time, drugs, ambitions, and writings with the older Foucault. Lindon's friend, the late Herve Guibert, was a key figure within this group. The son of the renowned founder of Editions de Minuit, Lindon grew up with Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Samuel Beckett as family friends. Much was expected of him. But, as he writes in this remarkable spiritual autobiography, it was through his friendship with Foucault—who was neither lover nor father but an older friend—that he found the direction that would influence the rest of his life. As Bruce Benderson writes in his introduction, “The book is a collage of free-associated episodes and interpretatons that together compose for the reader a kind of manual about how to love. … As he runs from apartment to apartment, job to job, or lover to lover, the book becomes a story of conversion testifying to an author's radical change of viewpoint, which leads to his invitation into the social world through lessons about love.” A brilliant meditation on friendship, Learning What Loves Means provides an insight into a part of Foucault's life and work that until now, remained unkown. The book won the prestigious Prix Médicis in 2011 when it was published in French.
Author : David Benatar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0470674466
While the manifestation of sexism against women is widely acknowledged, few people take seriously the idea that males are also the victims of many and quite serious forms of sex discrimination. So unrecognized is this form of sexism that the mere mention of it will be laughable to some. Yet women are typically exempt from military conscription even where men are forced into battle and risk injury, emotional repercussions, and death. Males are more often victims of violent crime, as well as of legalized violence such as corporal punishment. Sexual assault of males is often taken less seriously. Fathers are less likely to win custody of their children following divorce. In this book, philosophy professor David Benatar provides details of these and other examples of what he calls the “second sexism.” He discusses what sexism is, responds to the objections of those who would deny that there is a second sexism, and shows how ignorance of or flippancy about discrimination against males undermines the fight against sex discrimination more generally.
Author : Thomas Power O'Connor
Publisher :
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Jenny M. Jones
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0760342792
DIVWhether contending with nihilists, botching a kidnapping pay-off, watching as his beloved rug is micturated upon, or simply bowling and drinking Caucasians, the Dude—or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing—abides. As embodied by Jeff Bridges, the main character of the 1998 Coen brothers’ film The Big Lebowski is a modern hero who has inspired festivals, burlesque interpretations, and even a religion (Dudeism). In time for the fifteenth anniversary of The Big Lebowski, film author and curator Jenny M. Jones tells the full story of the Dude, from how the Coen brothers came up with the idea for a modern LA noir to never-been-told anecdotes about the film’s production, its critical and commercial reception, and, finally, how it came to be such an international cult hit. Achievers, as Lebowski fans call themselves, will discover many hidden truths, including why it is that Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) is so obsessed with Vietnam, what makes Theodore Donald “Donny� Kerabatsos (Steve Buscemi) so confused all the time, how the film defies genre, and what unexpected surprise Bridges got during filming of the Gutterballs dream sequence. (Hint: it involved curly wigs and a gurney.) Interspersed throughout are sidebars, interviews with members of the film’s cast and crew, scene breakdowns, guest essays by prominent experts on Lebowski language, music, filmmaking techniques, and more, and hundreds of photographs—including many of artwork inspired by the film./div
Author : Robert L. Perkins
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780865546851
"To claim that Works of Love is an important philosophical essay is to assume hazardous burden of proof. The book's title is an allusion to the Bible's injunction that we should love our neighbor as we love ourselves, a far cry, far instance, from Diotoma's ladder of erotic desire up which we climb from the love of bodies until we catch a vision of that "single sea of beauty," beauty itself (Plato, Symposium). This contrast, given that some of some of our neighbors may not be particularly likable or one may even be a determined enemy, suggests immediately to some that a book with such an obviously religious title must be excessively moralistic and, at best, full of sermon helps for the harried clergy or, at worst, laden with rules for the unlearned laity. A casual perusal of a few paragraphs, however, shows these "put-down" views of the book to be unfounded"--
