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Masters of Sex

Autor: Thomas Maier

Número de Páginas: 492

Un excitante retrato del ginecólogo William Masters y la sexóloga Virginia Johnson, la pareja que cambió la forma en que todos pensamos y hablamos sobre el sexo. Las investigaciones del ginecólogo William Masters y la sexóloga Virginia Johnson supusieron toda una revolución en la década de los 60. A lo largo de más de cuarenta años, a través de la observación directa de miles de encuentros sexuales entre cientos de hombres y mujeres, analizaron y explicaron temas hasta entonces tabú como los secretos del orgasmo, la homosexualidad, la satisfacción emocional o la disfunción. En esta biografía de la pareja que captura tambiuén toda una época, Thomas Maier ofrece una mirada sin precedentes sobre la historia de las prácticas sexuales y el modo en que la sociedad moderna se libreró para hablar de ellas sin tapujos. Reseñas: «Un relato perspicaz y bien escrito sobre Masters y Johnson, quienes, en un sentido clínico, probablemente sabían más sobre el sexo y el amor conyugal que cualquier otra pareja en Estados Unidos». Gay Talese, autor de La mujer de tu prójimo «Narrada con paciencia y esmero... Maier escribe bien, y con humor». The New York Times...

Masters of sex

Autor: Thomas Maier

Número de Páginas: 0

Esqueça tudo o que você acha que sabe sobre sexo! Muito antes de surgirem Sex and the City e ViagraTM, dois pesquisadores da sexualidade e experts em amor e intimidade, William Masters e Virginia Johnson, ensinaram aos americanos tudo que eles precisavam saber sobre o que realmente acontece entre quatro paredes. Masters of Sex é baseado na história real desses dois norte-americanos que revelaram um universo prazeroso e desconhecido no que diz respeito a pensar, falar ou praticar o sexo.O aclamado biógrafo Thomas Maier mostra nesse livro por meio de entrevistas com o tímido William e a ambiciosa Virginia como essa dupla excêntrica mudou o modo como devemos entender o sexo e a sexualidade, enquanto o casal tentava descobrir como funcionava o próprio relacionamento. Divertido, revelador e muito bem escrito, Masters of Sex que foi adaptado para a televisão pelo canal HBO e já teve a segunda temporada confirmada no Brasil ilumina os eternos mistérios do desejo, da intimidade e da psique humana.

A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience

Autor: Dale Debakcsy

Número de Páginas: 329

Since virtually its first moments as an academic science, women have played a major role in the development of psychology, gaining from the outset research opportunities and academic positions that had been denied them for centuries in other branches of scientific investigation. Look wherever you will, in any branch of psychology or neuroscience in the last century and a half, and what you will find are a plethora of women whose discoveries fundamentally changed how we view the brain and its role in the formation of our perceptions and behaviors. A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience tells the story of 267 women whose work opened new doors in humanity's ongoing attempt to learn about its own nature, from Christine Ladd Franklin's late 19th century studies of how the brain perceives color to Virginia Johnson's pioneering studies of the human sexual response, and Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke's early association of neurological conditions with their underlying brain regions to May-Britt Moser's Nobel-winning discovery a century later of the grid cells that allow us to mentally model our surroundings. Here are the stories of when and how we learned how memories are formed,...

The Sexual Education of a Beauty Queen

Autor: Taylor Marsh

Número de Páginas: 246

A former Miss Missouri talks sex, politics, and sexual politics, and shares the wisdom she’s gained about men and women. The Sexual Education of a Beauty Queen is at once memoir, commentary, enlightenment, and a little dose of self-help. Taylor Marsh was Miss Missouri and performed on Broadway, hosted a radio show, and starred in a one-woman show. She was also a relationship consultant for the nation’s largest newsweekly, edited the web’s first megasuccessful women-owned and -operated soft-core pornography site, worked as a phone-sex actress, and studied sexuality and relationships for years. She’s been single, a girlfriend, a mistress, and a wife. She has the inside track to what men want, what women need, and how we all tend to muck it up. As a political commentator and popular writer, Taylor is intelligent and inspiring. She blends personal experience, pop culture, and the politics of sex in an entertaining, engaging, and inspiring read.

Masters of sex

Número de Páginas: 632

You Play the Girl

Autor: Carina Chocano

Número de Páginas: 313

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner. “With dazzling clarity, [Chocano’s] commentary exposes the subliminal sexism on our pages and screens.”—O, The Oprah Magazine As a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused by the mixed messages all around her that told her who she could be—and who she couldn’t. She grappled with sexed up sidekicks, princesses waiting to be saved, and morally infallible angels who seemed to have no opinions of their own. It wasn’t until she spent five years as a movie critic, and was laid off just after her daughter was born, however, that she really came to understand how the stories the culture tells us about what it means to be a girl limit our lives and shape our destinies. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. Moving from Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, from Flashdance to Frozen, from the progressive ’70s through the backlash ’80s, the glib ’90s, and the pornified aughts—and at stops in between—she explains how growing up in the shadow of “the girl” taught her to think about herself and the world and what it means to raise a daughter in ...

Lies with a Straight Face

Autor: Wayne R. Besen

Número de Páginas: 498

Lies with a Straight Face tells the fascinating story of the precipitous rise and fall of the “ex-gay” conversion industry in a manner that is both enlightening and entertaining. This fast-moving, fact-based book is perfect for those who enjoy the marriage of politics, history and current events. The book features the riveting story of the 1998 Truth in Love ad campaign, where the Religious Right’s most prominent organizations joined forces to prove that LGBTQ people could be converted to heterosexuality through prayer and therapy. Their provocative national ad campaign created saturation media coverage, turned “ex-gay” into a household term and sparked innumerable water cooler conversations. In this book, you’ll find out the shocking results of the Truth in Love campaign and learn about what happened to their outspoken “ex-gay” poster boys and girls. Lies with a Straight Face also discusses the contemporary con artists in the “ex-gay” industry and offers tangible ways for today’s leaders to fight back. Lies with a Straight Face is a sequel published on the twenty-year anniversary of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay...

The Triangle

Autor: Kevin Deutsch

Número de Páginas: 217

The Linden Triangle: Linden Avenue and Linden Place, Hempstead, Long Island. At this blighted intersection, seemingly forgotten by the middle and upper class communities that surround it, the dream of suburban comfort and safety has devolved into a nightmare of flying bullets and bloodshed. Here, a war between the Bloods and Crips has torn a once-peaceful neighborhood apart. The book tells the true story of one year in the life of a suburban village-turned-war-zone. Written by Kevin Deutsch, award-winning criminal justice reporter for Newsday, it follows two warring gangs and the anti-violence activists and police desperate to stop them. As the body count climbs and conflict spreads to New York City, young men wielding military grade weaponry wage a prolonged battle over pride, respect, revenge and their legacies. Based on immersive reporting and more than 250 interviews with gang members, their families, drug addicts, police and others, The Triangle is the first insider account of a New York Bloods/Crips gang war from the only journalist ever given access to the crews’ secretive realm. Triangle is a chilling investigation of a world in which teenagers shoot their childhood...

The Social History of the American Family

Autor: Marilyn J. Coleman , Lawrence H. Ganong

Número de Páginas: 3575

The American family has come a long way from the days of the idealized family portrayed in iconic television shows of the 1950s and 1960s. The four volumes of The Social History of the American Family explore the vital role of the family as the fundamental social unit across the span of American history. Experiences of family life shape so much of an individual’s development and identity, yet the patterns of family structure, family life, and family transition vary across time, space, and socioeconomic contexts. Both the definition of who or what counts as family and representations of the "ideal" family have changed over time. Available in both digital and print formats, this carefully balanced academic work chronicles the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of American families from the colonial period to the present. Key themes include families and culture (including mass media), families and religion, families and the economy, families and social issues, families and social stratification and conflict, family structures (including marriage and divorce, gender roles, parenting and children, and mixed and non-modal family forms), and family law and policy....

21st-Century TV Dramas

Autor: Amy M. Damico , Sara E. Quay

Número de Páginas: 241

In its exploration of some of the most influential, popular, or critically acclaimed television dramas since the year 2000, this book documents how modern television dramas reflect our society through their complex narratives about prevailing economic, political, security, and social issues. Television dramas have changed since the turn of the 21st century—for the good, many would say, as a result of changes in technology, the rise of cable networks, and increased creative freedom. This book approaches the new golden age of television dramas by examining the programs that define the first 15 years of the new century through their complex narratives, high production value, star power, popularity, and enthusiastic fan culture. After an introduction that sets the stage for the book's content, thematic sections present concise chapters that explore key connections between television dramas and elements of 21st-century culture. The authors explore Downton Abbey as a distraction from contemporary class struggles, patriarchy and the past in Game of Thrones and Mad Men, and portrayals of the "dark hero protagonist" in The Sopranos, Dexter, and Breaking Bad, as a few examples of the...

Family Values

Autor: Isabel Heinemann

Número de Páginas: 569

Clashes over the American family and its values have always implicitly or explicitly addressed issues of gender and highlighted the significance of present and future families to American society. This is the insight underpinning Isabel Heinemann’s groundbreaking study, which traces, over the course of the twentieth century, debates on the family and its role; the relationship between the individual and society; and individual decision-making rights as well as their denial or curtailment. Unpacking these issues in a vivid and innovative analysis, the book recounts the prehistory of current conflicts over the family and gender while illuminating the relationship between social change, normative shifts, and the counter-movements spawned in response to them.

How Sex Got Screwed Up: The Ghosts that Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure - Book Two

Autor: Jon Knowles

Número de Páginas: 1034

The ghosts that haunt our sexual pleasure were born in the Stone Age. Sex and gender taboos were used by tribes to differentiate themselves from one another. These taboos filtered into the lives of Bronze and Iron Age men and women who lived in city-states and empires. For the early Christians, all sex play was turned into sin, instilled with guilt, and punished severely. With the invention of sin came the construction of women as subordinate beings to men. Despite the birth of romance in the late middle ages, Renaissance churches held inquisitions to seek out and destroy sex sinners, all of whom it saw as heretics. The Age of Reason saw the demise of these inquisitions. But, it was doctors who would take over the roles of priests and ministers as sex became defined by discourses of crime, degeneracy, and sickness. The middle of the 20th century saw these medical and religious teachings challenged for the first time as activists, such as Alfred Kinsey and Margaret Sanger, sought to carve out a place for sexual freedom in society. However, strong opposition to their beliefs and the growing exploitation of sex by the media at the close of the century would ultimately shape 21st...

Amor impossibilis. Textos y pretextos de escritoras españolas (s.XX-XXI)

Autor: Aavv

Número de Páginas: 409

De autoras que escriben sobre mujeres, sobre sus relaciones, sus amores, sus pensamientos, sus ideas, sus miedos, sus dramas, sus risas y sus obras va este libro. Utilizadlo como un Gps para encontrar escritoras, a veces poco conocidas y otras invisibilizadas, que muestran una manera distinta de pensar y explicar el deseo entre mujeres. A través de estas autoras raras, muchas veces ocultas en las estanterías más elevadas e inalcanzables de las bibliotecas, podemos emprender un viaje literario por la idea lesbiana a lo largo del tiempo y saber cómo han vivido y a qué se han enfrentado en cada época y, así, reconstruir la historia sáfica, crear una genealogía y encontrar referentes que sirven para algo tan simple de entender como complicado de llevar a cabo: ser quienes queremos ser. No quienes quieren que seamos. En este libro la propuesta es conocer lo que han dicho sobre el lesbianismo y cómo lo han dicho escritoras de nuestro país que han transitado a lo largo del siglo XX, algunas, en épocas tan difíciles y oscuras como el franquismo, que se empeñó, a través de las leyes, la religión e incluso la medicina, en borrar a las mujeres raras del mapa. Ahí están...

The Quest for the Inner Human

Autor: Steven H. Propp

Número de Páginas: 532

Psychology means the study of the soul; it is the social science concerned with investigating who we are, why we have certain feelings, and why we do the things we do. Are we no more than a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules? Is biology (our genetic inheritance) destiny, or does social upbringing play a crucial role? What are the roles played by Nature and by Nurture? Are we purely physical beings, or is there an aspect that can be called spiritual? This thought-provoking novel takes you on a journey of intellectual and emotional exploration, considering along the way questions that weve all asked ourselves, such as: Is it true that we only use 10% of our brains? Does playing classical music for infants increase their intelligence? Do crime rates go up during a full moon? Can hypnosis, or post-hypnotic suggestions, make us do something we wouldnt normally do? Does subliminal advertising influence us to buy products? Are our memories stored indelibly, almost like a tape recorder? What causes memory lapses as we age? Can repressed traumatic memories be recovered through hypnosis? Do some people have multiple personalities? How can I tell if someone has a...

Dictionnaire des séries télévisées - Nouvelle édition

Autor: Nils Ahl , Benjamin Fau

Número de Páginas: 1710

Au cours des années 2000, les séries télévisées ont acquis leurs lettres de noblesse, et certaines font jeu égal avec les meilleures productions cinématographiques. Cette deuxième édition du Dictionnaire des séries télévisées entend offrir aux lecteurs débutants, amateurs ou éclairés, un regard d'ensemble – autant descriptif que critique – sur la production télévisée de ces quatre-vingts dernières années. Chaque notice présente ainsi les informations techniques indispensables (créateur, acteurs, production, diffusion...), une note d'appréciation, un " pitch " de départ, et l'opinion de son auteur. Environ 4 200 entrées – plus de 900 nouvelles et des centaines actualisées – traitent de la totalité des séries diffusées en France depuis l'origine de la télévision. Se côtoient ainsi Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir, Dr House, Thierry la Fronde, Les Experts, Dallas, Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, Sur écoute, Mad Men, Falco, True Blood, House of Cards, Derrick, Downton Abbey, Friends, Les Soprano, Game of Thrones, Columbo ou encore Breaking Bad, époques et genres confondus. À ce corpus s'ajoutent un glossaire du jargon sériephile, une bibliographie ...

A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences

Autor: Jacinthe Flore

Número de Páginas: 186

This book offers a genealogy of the medicalisation of sexual appetite in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century. Histories of sexuality have predominantly focused on the emergence of sexual identities and categories of desire. They have marginalised questions of excess and lack, the appearance of a libido that dwindles or intensifies, which became a pathological object in Europe by the nineteenth century. Through a genealogical approach that draws on the writings of Michel Foucault, A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences examines key ‘moments’ in the pathologisation of sexuality and demonstrates how medical techniques assumed critical roles in shaping modern understandings of the problem of appetite. It examines how techniques of the patient case history, elixirs and devices, measurement, diagnostic manuals and pharmaceuticals were central to the medicalisation of sexual appetite. Jacinthe Flore argues that these techniques are significant for understanding how a concern with ‘how much?’ has transformed medical knowledge of sexuality since the nineteenth century. The questions of ‘how much?’, ‘how often?’ and ‘how...

Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States

Autor: Sarah B. Rodriguez

Número de Páginas: 294

In 'Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States', Sarah Rodriguez presents an engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing how medical views of the female body and female sexuality have changed, and in some cases not changed, throughout the last century and a half.

Haz el papel de chica

Autor: Carina Chocano

Número de Páginas: 349

Un análisis del rol de la mujer en el cine, la literatura y los medios de comunicación. Premio Nacional de la Crítica 2017 en Estados Unidos. ¿Quién es «la chica»? En Hollywood veremos que casi siempre representa el mismo papel: sostiene la mano del héroe; lo molesta, o lo frustra, o sigue junto al gran hombre que se ocupa de su encantadora perdedora. Sin embargo, una «chica» así no es una persona. No es más que un complemento. Y teniendo un ideal tan deshumanizado de la mujer, ¿cómo se comportan las propias mujeres frente a los hombres? ¿Cómo se forma su idea de quiénes son y de lo que pueden llegar a ser? Desde Bugs Bunny hasta las conejitas de Playboy, pasando por Frozen y Flashdance. Carina Chocano combina historias personales con un análisis perspicaz y emotivo. Muestra cómo crecer bajo la sombra de «la chica» le enseñó a pensar en sí misma y en el mundo, y en lo que significaba criar a una hija frente a una sociedad machista. Haz el papel de chica ha ganado el Premio Nacional de la Crítica 2017 en Estados Unidos y fue finalista del Premio PEN/ Diamondstein-Spielvogel.

The Gender of Sexuality

Autor: Virginia Rutter , Pepper Schwartz

Número de Páginas: 327

The Gender of Sexuality serves as a fun and informative guide on how to approach the topics of gender and sexuality—two areas fraught with stereotypes and misinformation. The second edition of this book features significant new material on the changing status of gender, same sex marriage, and transgender. After introducing key concepts in gender and sexuality, the authors explore topics such as sexual desire, the role of biology, sexual behavior, uncommitted sexual relationships and “hooking up,” marriage and cohabitation, and the politics of sexuality. Examples from popular culture, film, and media invite readers to engage with key concepts. This is an ideal book for courses on gender, sexuality, marriage and family, or social problems.

Féminin/masculin : Réflexions sur le genre dans le cinéma et les séries anglophones

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 263

Cet ouvrage collectif propose de traiter quelques aspects de la question du genre dans une sélection de films et séries anglophones sous différents angles incluant la critique post-mulveyienne, la déconstruction des normes genrées, la masculinité, les films de genre et la réception des œuvres. Il répond à l’intérêt toujours croissant du monde universitaire et du public pour ce domaine en constante évolution, permettant l’analyse de films de différentes époques, des années 1930 à aujourd’hui, sous un jour nouveau. Les films et séries ont de tout temps traité des relations genrées comme le miroir d’une époque, d’un climat socio-politique, d’une ère culturelle ou de mutations sociétales, devenant le terreau d’un champ d’étude foisonnant dont cet ouvrage donne un aperçu

Padres y madres en serie

Autor: Visa Barbosa, Mariona (coord.)

Número de Páginas: 222

La tercera edad de oro de la ficción televisiva ha favorecido la proliferación de series de gran despliegue técnico y a la vez de narrativas que describen la intimidad y la rutina cotidiana de los protagonistas. Son obras que nos presentan personajes alejados de la heroicidad, representados a menudo dentro del espacio doméstico, que ha pasado a ser un lugar clave para la descripción y evolución de los personajes. Partiendo de la premisa que la ficción televisiva desarrolla una clara función de referencia y legitimación social, creando estereotipos y modelos en los que los espectadores se identifican, este libro analiza veinte de las series contemporáneas más populares, reflexionando sobre el rol paternal y maternal de sus protagonistas. En algunas series se encuentran ejemplos que se alejan de la descripción de la familia patriarcal convencional. Destacamos así la pluralidad de discursos que se están ofreciendo, aunque también observamos que muchas de ellas, a pesar de un envoltorio transgresor, siguen reproduciendo roles que alimentan los valores familiares tradicionales.

Sociology of Sexualities

Autor: Kathleen J. Fitzgerald , Kandice L. Grossman

Número de Páginas: 361

Sociology of Sexualities by Kathleen J. Fitzgerald and Kandice L. Grossman is the first comprehensive text to approach the study of sexuality from a sociological perspective. Drawing on the most up-to-date social scientific research on sexuality, it discusses fundamental concepts in the field and helps students integrate knowledge about sexuality into their larger understanding of society. Topics covered include the emergence of sexual identities, inequalities and discrimination faced by sexual and gender minorities, heterosexual and cisgender privilege, activism and mobilization to challenge such discrimination, the commodification of sexuality, and the ways sexuality operates in and through various institutions. Throughout the text, the authors show how sexuality intersects with other statuses and identities.

Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy: A Contexts Reader

Autor: Jodi O'brien , Arlene Stein

Número de Páginas: 361

This new anthology brings together over 90 recent readings on gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships from Contexts, the award-winning magazine published by the ASA. Each contributor is a contemporary sociologist writing in the clear, concise, and jargon-free style that has made Contexts the “public face” of sociology. The editors have chosen pieces that are timely, thought-provoking, and especially suitable for classroom use; written introductions that frame each of the books three main sections; and provided questions for discussion.

Manhood in America

Autor: Michael S. Kimmel

Número de Páginas: 395

For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Fourth Edition, author Michael Kimmel argues that it is time for men to rediscover their own evolution. Drawing on a myriad of sources, he demonstrates that American men have been eternally frustrated by their efforts to keep up with constantly changing standards. Kimmel contends that men must follow the lead of the women's movement; it is only by mining their past for its best qualities and worst excesses that men will free themselves from the constraints of the masculine ideal.

Alternative Healing in American History

Autor: Michael Shally-jensen

Número de Páginas: 431

This book examines alternative healing practices in American popular culture. From traditional folk approaches to more recent developments, it discusses the rise and fall of more than 100 popular approaches to addressing both physical ailments and mental health needs. Offering insightful accounts of everything from aging prevention to voodoo & Santería, Alternative Healing in American History: An Encyclopedia from Acupuncture to Yoga situates each popular approach in the history and culture of health and wellness in America. Moreover, the book shows that "orthodox" medicine and unconventional approaches may have more in common than many people think, because both are subject to the changing nature of the medical understanding and the strength of their appeal to consumers. While the main focus is on remedies lying outside the medical mainstream, the book also highlights how many widely accepted therapeutic treatments of the past—for example, "the water cure" (hydrotherapy) or lobotomy (psychosurgery)—fell out of favor and were quickly forgotten. Besides examining popular healing techniques, the book also explores the changing nature of the medical marketplace and how...

Girl Boner

Autor: August Mclaughlin

Número de Páginas: 279

In a culture where female empowerment is used to sell everything from sex toys to soap, most sex education continues to bypass pleasure. The results are stark; we've grown accustomed to slut- and prude-shaming and allowed others to dictate how a "good girl" is meant to feel, act, and look. In Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment, August McLaughlin offers an inclusive, unfiltered blend of personal narrative and practical tips on relationships, solo play, journaling, gender issues, and more. From the perks of "Jilling off" to the 7 types of 'gasms, Girl Boner will "empower you to own your sexual self and enjoy ... your whole life a great deal more."

Encyclopedia of Television Shows

Autor: Vincent Terrace

Número de Páginas: 229

This is a supplement to the author's Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010. It covers 1,612 series broadcast between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2016. Major networks--ABC, CBS, the CW, Fox and NBC--are covered along with many cable channels, such as AMC, Disney, Nickelodeon, Bravo, Lifetime, Discovery, TNT, Comedy Central and History Channel. Alphabetical entries provide storylines, casts, networks and running dates. A performer index is included.

Gay and Lesbian St. Louis

Autor: Steven Louis Brawley , St. Louis Lgbt History Project

Número de Páginas: 128

In the late 19th century, St. Louis--America's fourth-largest city--was a hub of robust commerce and risqué entertainment. It provided an oasis for those who lived "in the shadows." Since 1764, the Gateway to the West's LGBT community has experienced countless struggles and successes, including protests, arrests, murders, celebrations, and parades. St. Louis had its own version of Stonewall in October 1969 and is the hometown of icons such as Tennessee Williams and Josephine Baker. A colorful array of activists, drag queens, leather men, artists, academics, business leaders, and everyday folks have contributed to the rich fabric of the lesbian and gay community in St. Louis.

The Search for Domestic Bliss

Autor: Ian Dowbiggin

Número de Páginas: 262

Why are Americans so bad at marriage? It's certainly not for lack of trying. By the early 21st century Americans were spending billions on marriage and family counseling, seeking advice and guidance from some 50,000 experts. And yet, the divorce rate suggests that all of this therapeutic intervention isn't making couples happier or marriages more durable. Quite the contrary, Ian Dowbiggin tells us in this thought-provoking book: the "caring industry" is part of the problem. Under the influence of therapeutic reformers, marital and familial dynamics in this country have shifted from mores and commitment to love and companionship. This movement toward a "me marriage," as the New York Times has termed it, with its attendant soaring expectations and acute dissatisfactions, is rooted as much in the twists and turns of 20th-century history as it is in the realities in the hearts and minds of modern Americans, Dowbiggin argues; and his book reveals how effectively those changes have been encouraged and orchestrated by a small but resourceful group of social reformers with ties to eugenics, birth control, population control, and sex education. In The Search for Domestic Bliss, Dowbiggin...

Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture

Autor: Eleonora Ravizza

Número de Páginas: 234

In this book, Eleonora Ravizza analyzes how contemporary American popular culture has represented and reproduced the fifties. By investigating the cultural work of films and TV series from the last two decades, the book uncovers the inherent limitations of a ‘revisionist’ take on the fifties. Ravizza argues that, due to the visual nature of the fifties—crystallized in American consciousness through the widespread influence of television—most contemporary attempts to rework and rewrite the regressive gender, queer, and racial politics fall short of such a revisionist reevaluation. ​

Doris Day Confidential

Autor: Tamar Jeffers Mcdonald

Número de Páginas: 272

Doris Day was a major star during the 1950s and 60s. Even now, many years after her final film and years since her last regular television appearances, the star's name retains currency: she is often invoked as shorthand for a kind of sexuality now felt outmoded, with virginity firmly maintained until marriage. Although this assumption is widespread, close attention to the facts of Day's own life challenges it, and the majority of her film roles also prove otherwise, with Day most frequently portraying a woman of maturely sexual desires. Redressing a surprisingly meagre body of work on Doris Day, this book investigates why the rigid view of Day's maintained virginity should have arisen and become so fixed to the star, even now. Taking a twofold approach, Tamar Jeffers McDonald both closely examines Day's film roles and performances and explores material from other popular media for the source of the virgin myth. Day featured continuously in public discourse, and media stories were often devoted to her personal life: it was widely known that she had been married three times and had a son. Why then did the pejorative label, 'the-forty-year-old virgin', arise, and why has it stuck so...

Inconspicuously Christian Film Criticism

Autor: Kenneth R. Morefield

Número de Páginas: 145

This collection presents essays that lay out the author’s Christian approach to film criticism and reviews that exemplify this critic at his most perceptive. Including interviews with award-winning actors and directors, this volume draws heavily on the author’s academic expertise and his decade of experience as an acclaimed film journalist. Whether examining the latest Hollywood blockbuster, a topical documentary, or an indie festival favorite, the book subtly, but carefully, draws attention to how films can speak to Christians and how Christian voices can enrich the conversations around their meaning and relevance.

El destape

Autor: Natalia Milanesio

Número de Páginas: 332

El destape fue el fenómeno sociocultural más importante y explosivo en el regreso de la democracia en la Argentina. En los años ochenta, una avalancha de imágenes y narrativas sexuales explícitas que la dictadura militar había censurado y prohibido por considerarlas vulgares, inmorales y peligrosas se multiplicaron en los medios, la cultura y las conversaciones cotidianas. Las películas porno soft encabezaron las listas anuales de los films más taquilleros, las novelas eróticas y los manuales de sexología fueron los libros más vendidos, y el contenido erótico, el doble sentido y los desnudos inundaron los programas de televisión. ¿Qué significó realmente el destape? ¿Cuánto tuvo de verdadera liberación y reconocimiento de derechos (al placer, a conocer el propio cuerpo y decidir sobre él) y cuánto de exitosa estrategia comercial que reproducía estereotipos de género y pautas de la moral tradicional, como la exaltación de la heterosexualidad? Natalia Milanesio reconstruye magistralmente, y desde una perspectiva originalísima, los años intensos de la transición democrática. Y revela que hubo muchos destapes: una transformación profunda que se manifestó...

The Rise of the Anti-Heroine in TV's Third Golden Age

Autor: Margaret Tally

Número de Páginas: 134

This volume offers a stimulating perspective on the status of representations of a new kind of female character who emerged on the scene on US television in the mid-2000s, that of the anti-heroine. This new figure rivaled her earlier counterpart, the anti-hero, in terms of her complexity, and was multi-layered and morally flawed. Looking at the cable channels Showtime and HBO, as well as Netflix and ABC Television, this volume examines a range of recent television women and shows, including Homeland, Weeds, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, Veep, Girls, and Orange is the New Black as well as a host of other nighttime programs to demonstrate just how dominant the anti-heroine has become on US television. It examines how the figure has arisen within the larger context of the turn towards “Quality Television”, that has itself been viewed as part of the post-network era or the “Third Golden Age” of television where new forms of broadcast delivery have created a marketing incentive to deliver more compelling characters to niche audiences. By including an exploration of the historical circumstances, as well as the industrial context in which the anti-heroine became the...

Faith, Hope, and Love in the Kingdom of God

Autor: Robert Hernan Cubillos

Número de Páginas: 465

We live in a world full of challenges. The three graces can almost be seen as motors for Christian life in today's world, but the words faith, hope, and love have so many everyday uses that their technical, theological meanings are, for many, difficult to appreciate. Modern life also leaves many yearning for authenticity and meaning. Many religions have answered that need by calling to mind the image of a path. Always profound progressions, religious paths tend to be motivated either by practices (the act of walking the path) or focal points. Christianity has a focal point, an object, and it sees the three graces as distinctively content filled. The heart of this book is about helping people find the Christian path and their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual balance--an equilibrium that is sustained by a strong personal faith, an enduring hope for the future, and genuine love that will withstand the worst of times. It contributes to the category of Christian literature that provides a pattern for Christian living without surrendering the intellect to the more popular side of this genre.

The Anatomy of the Clitoris

Autor: Anne Zachary

Número de Páginas: 121

In the long and passionate debate within psychoanalysis over the theory of female sexuality, which has spanned more than a century and reached no definitive conclusion, a pattern of non-acceptance of ideas, their disappearance and then re-emergence later is a continually repeating one. The Anatomy of the Clitoris shows how this happens, using a comprehensive guide to the literature. The time is right culturally to explore this further usingclinical material as illustration. The central aim of this book is to introduce recent innovative redrawing of female anatomy appearing in the scientific literature to psychoanalysis.

Newsweek

Número de Páginas: 636

Sex Scene

Autor: Eric Schaefer

Número de Páginas: 515

Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media—film and television, recorded sound, and publishing—that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay pornography, the use of multimedia in sex education, and the sexual innuendo of The Love Boat. Scholars of cultural studies, history, and media studies, the contributors bring shared concerns to their diverse topics. They highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private, the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures, and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights. The provocative surveys and case studies in this nuanced cultural history reframe the "sexual revolution" as the mass sexualization of our mediated world. Contributors. Joseph Lam Duong, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin M. Flanagan,...

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Autor: Katherine Angel

Número de Páginas: 161

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that women’s desire is often slow to emerge. And men are keen to insist that they know what women—and their bodies—want. Meanwhile, sexual violence abounds. How can women, in this environment, possibly know what they want? And why do we expect them to? In this elegant, searching book—spanning science and popular culture; pornography and literature; debates on Me-Too, consent and feminism—Katherine Angel challenges our assumptions about women’s desire. Why, she asks, should they be expected to know their desires? And how do we take sexual violence seriously, when not knowing what we want is key to both eroticism and personhood? In today’s crucial moment of renewed attention to violence and power, Angel urges that we remake our thinking about sex, pleasure, and autonomy without any illusions about perfect self-knowledge. Only then will we fulfil Michel Foucault’s teasing promise, in 1976, that “tomorrow sex will be good ...