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Sex and Unisex

Author : Jo B. Paoletti

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 38,83 MB

Release : 2015-02-27

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0253016029

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Notorious as much for its fashion as for its music, the 1960s and 1970s produced provocative fashion trends that reflected the rising wave of gender politics and the sexual revolution. In an era when gender stereotypes were questioned and dismantled, and when the feminist and gay rights movements were gaining momentum and a voice, the fashion industry responded in kind. Designers from Paris to Hollywood imagined a future of equality and androgyny. The unisex movement affected all ages, with adult fashions trickling down to school-aged children and clothing for infants. Between 1965 and 1975, girls and women began wearing pants to school; boys enjoyed a brief "peacock revolution," sporting bold colors and patterns; and legal battles were fought over hair style and length. However, with the advent of Diane Von Furstenberg's wrap dress and the launch of Victoria's Secret, by the mid-1980s, unisex styles were nearly completely abandoned. Jo B. Paoletti traces the trajectory of unisex fashion against the backdrop of the popular issues of the day—from contraception access to girls' participation in sports. Combing mass-market catalogs, newspaper and magazine articles, cartoons, and trade publications for signs of the fashion debates, Paoletti provides a multigenerational study of the "white space" between (or beyond) masculine and feminine.



Sex and Unisex

Author : Jo B. Paoletti

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 50,96 MB

Release : 2015-02-27

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780253015969

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Notorious as much for its fashion as for its music, the 1960s and 1970s produced provocative fashion trends that reflected the rising wave of gender politics and the sexual revolution. In an era when gender stereotypes were questioned and dismantled, and when the feminist and gay rights movements were gaining momentum and a voice, the fashion industry responded in kind. Designers from Paris to Hollywood imagined a future of equality and androgyny. The unisex movement affected all ages, with adult fashions trickling down to school-aged children and clothing for infants. Between 1965 and 1975, girls and women began wearing pants to school; boys enjoyed a brief "peacock revolution," sporting bold colors and patterns; and legal battles were fought over hair style and length. However, with the advent of Diane Von Furstenberg's wrap dress and the launch of Victoria's Secret, by the mid-1980s, unisex styles were nearly completely abandoned. Jo B. Paoletti traces the trajectory of unisex fashion against the backdrop of the popular issues of the day—from contraception access to girls' participation in sports. Combing mass-market catalogs, newspaper and magazine articles, cartoons, and trade publications for signs of the fashion debates, Paoletti provides a multigenerational study of the "white space" between (or beyond) masculine and feminine.



Sex Differences

Author : Yves Christen

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 182 pages

File Size : 29,53 MB

Release : 2017-07-28

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1351491229

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Few people realize how much science can tell us about the differences between men and women. Yves Christen, provided the first comprehensive overview of research in this area when this classic book was first published in the1990s. He goes beyond simplistic biology is destiny arguments and constructs a convincing case for linking social and biological approaches in order to understand complex differences in behavior.Biologists agree that the sexes differ in brain and body structure. Christen links these differences in cerebral anatomy to differences in behavior and intellect. Taking his readers on a journey through psychology, endocrinology, demography, and many other fields, Christen shows that the biological and the social are not antagonistic. To the contrary, social factors tend to exaggerate the biological rather than neutralize it.This controversial work, Sex Differences, takes on traditional feminism for its refusal to confront the evidence on biologically determined sex differences. Christen argues for a feminism that sees traits common to women in a positive light, in the tradition of such early feminists as Clemence Royer and Margaret Sanger, as well as more contemporary feminist sociobiologists like Sarah Hrdy. We deny sex differences only at the price of scientific truth and our own self-respect.



Speaking of Sex

Author : Deborah L. Rhode

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 20,94 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Law

ISBN : 9780674831780

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Speaking of Sex explores a topic that frequently is absent from our discussions about sex: the persistence of sex-based inequality and the cultural forces that sustain it. On critical issues affecting women, most Americans deny either that gender inequality is a serious problem or that it is one which they have a personal or political responsibility to address. In tracing this "no problem" problem, Speaking of Sex examines the most fundamental causes of women's disadvantages and the inadequacy of current public policy to combat them.



Sex Educator

Author : Andrea Falcinelli

Publisher :

Page : 205 pages

File Size : 34,44 MB

Release : 2021-02-08

Category :

ISBN :

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"SEX EDUCATOR" will take you on a journey to discover your sexuality: creativity and imagination, freedom of expression and introspection; be single, soul mates, couples who have just joined or have been married for many years. Be lovers in a sexual friendship or participating in a group sex session. Because you are just as you are, without any discrimination of race or gender; you can identify yourself in every nuance of the infinite range of sexual personalities that the human being can manifest.We will relive my travels together to discover Southeast Asia, Italy and other nations of the world. I will tell you stories about magical places, about cultures and spirituality, about women, couples or groups; wonderful people met on the way.Extreme compulsivity or total absence are conditions that should make us think a little.The title of the serie is just provocative, because I would never want to claim the right to instruct you, or initiate you, into the art of sex and eroticism; at the most you will decide independently whether to take cues from my erotic and sometimes pornographic stories. I want to share with the whole world to bring down the wall of bigotry and censorship that in part the societies and the related religions impose on us. These closures lead to widespread and dangerous "sexual rudeness". I would be really happy if I could stimulate the innate imagination in each of you, maybe trigger a spark of passion in those who do not feel satisfied or able to honor the personal beauty, of the partner or partners.In this journey we will talk about sexuality as a union between two or more souls connected to each other. Because sex and eroticism are a fusion of energy fields that cooperate to create an experience of imponderable greatness. Release of chemicals that bring multiple benefits, a festival of emotions, sensations, erotic altruism and sharing, until the ultimate goal is reached: the orgasmic explosion, given to the other or even better, shared together.



Sex and World Peace

Author : Valerie M. Hudson

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 205 pages

File Size : 37,51 MB

Release : 2023-05-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0231555687

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Sex and World Peace is a groundbreaking demonstration that the security of women is a vital factor in the occurrence of conflict and war, unsettling a wide range of assumptions in political and security discourse. Harnessing an immense amount of data, it relates microlevel violence against women and macrolevel state peacefulness across global settings. The authors find that the treatment of women informs human interaction at all levels of society. They call attention to the adverse effects on state security of sex-based inequities such as sex ratios favoring males, the practice of polygamy, and lax enforcement of national laws protecting women. Their research challenges conventional definitions of security and democracy and common understandings of the causes of world events. The book considers a range of ways to remedy these injustices, including top-down and bottom-up approaches to redressing violence against women and the lack of sex parity in decision-making. Advocating a state responsibility to protect women, the authors campaign against women’s systemic insecurity, which threatens the security of all. Sex and World Peace has been a go-to book for instructors, advocates, and policy makers since its publication in 2012. Since then, there have been major changes in world affairs, including the #MeToo movement, as well as advances in both theoretical and empirical literature surrounding the subject. This second edition, which adds coauthors Rose McDermott and Donna Lee Bowen alongside Valerie M. Hudson and Mary Caprioli, revises and updates the book for a new generation. The book retains its foundational overview of the relationship between women’s oppression and war, enhanced by fresh data and new material covering recent developments for global women’s rights and analysis of additional examples of gender and conflict throughout the world.



Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Author : Cordelia Fine

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 22,87 MB

Release : 2011-08-08

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0393340244

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Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it's our brains.



Pink and Blue

Author : Jo Barraclough Paoletti

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 22,55 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Design

ISBN : 025300117X

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Jo B. Paoletti's journey through the history of children's clothing began when she posed the question, "When did we start dressing girls in pink and boys in blue?" To uncover the answer, she looks at advertising, catalogs, dolls, baby books, mommy blogs and discussion forums, and other popular media to examine the surprising shifts in attitudes toward color as a mark of gender in American children's clothing. She chronicles the decline of the white dress for both boys and girls, the introduction of rompers in the early 20th century, the gendering of pink and blue, the resurgence of unisex fashions, and the origins of today's highly gender-specific baby and toddler clothing.



Sex Itself

Author : Sarah S. Richardson

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 16,79 MB

Release : 2013-12-13

Category : Science

ISBN : 022608471X

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Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical—with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking about sex represented by the unalterable, simple, and visually compelling binary of the X and Y chromosomes, Sex Itself examines the interaction between cultural gender norms and genetic theories of sex from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, postgenomic age. Using methods from history, philosophy, and gender studies of science, Sarah S. Richardson uncovers how gender has helped to shape the research practices, questions asked, theories and models, and descriptive language used in sex chromosome research. From the earliest theories of chromosomal sex determination, to the mid-century hypothesis of the aggressive XYY supermale, to the debate about Y chromosome degeneration, to the recent claim that male and female genomes are more different than those of humans and chimpanzees, Richardson shows how cultural gender conceptions influence the genetic science of sex. Richardson shows how sexual science of the past continues to resonate, in ways both subtle and explicit, in contemporary research on the genetics of sex and gender. With the completion of the Human Genome Project, genes and chromosomes are moving to the center of the biology of sex. Sex Itself offers a compelling argument for the importance of ongoing critical dialogue on how cultural conceptions of gender operate within the science of sex.



GenderSell

Author : Lee E. Robert

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 176 pages

File Size : 34,78 MB

Release : 1999-04-02

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0743204824

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GenderSell is the first and only book to offer specific techniques on overcoming the single greatest barrier to effective sales -- selling to the opposite sex. Despite a decade of important research on how differences between the sexes affect personal and workplace relationships, until now virtually every book on selling has ignored these differences. And despite the fact that women make approximately 85 percent of the purchasing decisions on most products and services and now constitute more than 25 percent of today's sales force, nearly all relevant books have been written by men for men in sales about selling to men. Tom Peters, Ken Blanchard, and other management experts have proposed that companies must learn how to market, sell, and advertise differently to men and women in order to stay competitive. Now at long last, psychologist and workplace communication expert Judith Tingley and veteran sales professional Lee E. Robert bring you this essential guide. Based on research, including the authors' Sales Preference Survey, conducted with more than 600 participants, Tingley and Robert provide detailed examples, specific techniques, and provocative case studies that will help sales professionals increase their success, their revenues, and their profits. The authors answer many important questions: When should you focus more on the interpersonal process and when on the product? What quality do customers say they like most about men in sales? What characteristic do they think is strongest in female sales professionals? Is the timing of the close different with male and female clients? The industry buzz has begun: In response to articles on the Gendersell topic that have appeared in trade publications and to training seminars offered by the authors, executives from a wide range of industries -- high tech to automobile dealerships, insurance companies to home builders and health care delivery services -- have been clamoring for GenderSell to make it an integral part of their worldwide sales strategies.