Author: Nikki Crescent
Publisher: Princess Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Mitch just can’t catch any luck with the ladies. It all started when his high-school sweetheart left him for a barrel-chested gym rat with big muscles. He can’t help but wonder: is that what all girls want? Wanting changes in his life, he decides to sign up for a membership at his local gym. The gym is a bit unorthodox in its methods, and his orientation starts with a chat that feels more like a therapy session. But the gym’s administrator ensures him that it’s important to understand every client on a deeper level before pairing them with a personal trainer. Mitch isn’t quite so sure he made the right decision when he meets his trainer: a petite, young, beautiful blonde named Samantha. Samantha doesn’t seem to be pushing Mitch into building big muscles. She has other plans in her head, but keeps ensuring him that he’s on the right track. He’s not so certain she knows what she’s doing, but he signed the contract and agreed to pay for a year of personal training.
Bigger than You: Feminized and Emasculated by the Personal Trainer
Author: Nikki Crescent
Publisher: Princess Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Mitch just can’t catch any luck with the ladies. It all started when his high-school sweetheart left him for a barrel-chested gym rat with big muscles. He can’t help but wonder: is that what all girls want? Wanting changes in his life, he decides to sign up for a membership at his local gym. The gym is a bit unorthodox in its methods, and his orientation starts with a chat that feels more like a therapy session. But the gym’s administrator ensures him that it’s important to understand every client on a deeper level before pairing them with a personal trainer. Mitch isn’t quite so sure he made the right decision when he meets his trainer: a petite, young, beautiful blonde named Samantha. Samantha doesn’t seem to be pushing Mitch into building big muscles. She has other plans in her head, but keeps ensuring him that he’s on the right track. He’s not so certain she knows what she’s doing, but he signed the contract and agreed to pay for a year of personal training.
Publisher: Princess Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Mitch just can’t catch any luck with the ladies. It all started when his high-school sweetheart left him for a barrel-chested gym rat with big muscles. He can’t help but wonder: is that what all girls want? Wanting changes in his life, he decides to sign up for a membership at his local gym. The gym is a bit unorthodox in its methods, and his orientation starts with a chat that feels more like a therapy session. But the gym’s administrator ensures him that it’s important to understand every client on a deeper level before pairing them with a personal trainer. Mitch isn’t quite so sure he made the right decision when he meets his trainer: a petite, young, beautiful blonde named Samantha. Samantha doesn’t seem to be pushing Mitch into building big muscles. She has other plans in her head, but keeps ensuring him that he’s on the right track. He’s not so certain she knows what she’s doing, but he signed the contract and agreed to pay for a year of personal training.
Warriors and Worriers
Author: Joyce F. Benenson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199972230
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In Warriors and Worriers, psychologist Joyce Benenson presents a new theory of sex differences, based on thirty years of research with young children and primates around the world. In this exciting exploration of human nature, Benenson thus turns upside down the familiar wisdom that women are more sociable than men and that men are more competitive than women.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199972230
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In Warriors and Worriers, psychologist Joyce Benenson presents a new theory of sex differences, based on thirty years of research with young children and primates around the world. In this exciting exploration of human nature, Benenson thus turns upside down the familiar wisdom that women are more sociable than men and that men are more competitive than women.
The Politics of Manhood
Author: Michael Kimmel
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781439901465
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A much-needed, often startling debate on the personal and political dimensions of masculinity.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781439901465
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A much-needed, often startling debate on the personal and political dimensions of masculinity.
Women Against Feminism
Author: Jeanne Jaskiewicz Fleming
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The War Against Boys
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126585
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic—now more relevant than ever—argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs. Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation’s schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. Now, after two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, women have made massive strides in education. Today they outperform men in nearly every measure of social, academic, and vocational well-being. Christina Hoff Sommers contends that it’s time to take a hard look at present-day realities and recognize that boys need help. Called “provocative and controversial...impassioned and articulate” (The Christian Science Monitor), this edition of The War Against Boys offers a new preface and six radically revised chapters, plus updates on the current status of boys throughout the book. Sommers argues that the problem of male underachievement is persistent and worsening. Among the new topics Sommers tackles: how the war against boys is harming our economic future, and how boy-averse trends such as the decline of recess and zero-tolerance disciplinary policies have turned our schools into hostile environments for boys. As our schools become more feelings-centered, risk-averse, competition-free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic needs of boys. She offers realistic, achievable solutions to these problems that include boy-friendly pedagogy, character and vocational education, and the choice of single-sex classrooms. The War Against Boys is an incisive, rigorous, and heartfelt argument in favor of recognizing and confronting a new reality: boys are languishing in education and the price of continued neglect is economically and socially prohibitive.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126585
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic—now more relevant than ever—argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs. Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation’s schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. Now, after two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, women have made massive strides in education. Today they outperform men in nearly every measure of social, academic, and vocational well-being. Christina Hoff Sommers contends that it’s time to take a hard look at present-day realities and recognize that boys need help. Called “provocative and controversial...impassioned and articulate” (The Christian Science Monitor), this edition of The War Against Boys offers a new preface and six radically revised chapters, plus updates on the current status of boys throughout the book. Sommers argues that the problem of male underachievement is persistent and worsening. Among the new topics Sommers tackles: how the war against boys is harming our economic future, and how boy-averse trends such as the decline of recess and zero-tolerance disciplinary policies have turned our schools into hostile environments for boys. As our schools become more feelings-centered, risk-averse, competition-free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic needs of boys. She offers realistic, achievable solutions to these problems that include boy-friendly pedagogy, character and vocational education, and the choice of single-sex classrooms. The War Against Boys is an incisive, rigorous, and heartfelt argument in favor of recognizing and confronting a new reality: boys are languishing in education and the price of continued neglect is economically and socially prohibitive.
The Transgender Phenomenon
Author: Richard Ekins
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1847877265
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field. The book brings together a brilliant synthesis of history, case studies, ideas and positions as they have emerged over the past thirty years, and brings together a rich but always grounded account of this field, providing a state of the art of critical concepts and ideas to take this field further during the twenty first century." - Ken Plummer, University of Essex "An outstanding survey of the evolution of trans phenomena, splendidly written, highly informative, scholarly at its best, yet easy to read even for those neither trans nor sociologist. Ekins and King, experts in the field, unroll the panoramas of sex, gender, and transgendering that have evloved during the last decades. For everyone wanting to understand the interaction of women and men and of those who cannot or will not identify with either of these two cataegories, reading this book is a must, and a real pleasure." - Friedmann Pfaefflin, University of ULM This groundbreaking study sets out a framework for exploring transgender diversity for the new millennium. It sets forth an original and comprehensive research and provides a wealth of vivid illustrative material. Based on two decades of fieldwork, life history work, qualitative analysis, archival work and contact with several thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers around the world, the authors distinguish a number of contemporary transgendering ′stories′ to illustrate: The binary male/female divide The interrelations betwen sex, sexuality and gender The interrelations between the main sub-processes of transgendering. Wonderfully insightful, The Transgender Phenomenon develops an original and innovative conceptual framkework for understanding the full range of the transgender experience.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1847877265
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field. The book brings together a brilliant synthesis of history, case studies, ideas and positions as they have emerged over the past thirty years, and brings together a rich but always grounded account of this field, providing a state of the art of critical concepts and ideas to take this field further during the twenty first century." - Ken Plummer, University of Essex "An outstanding survey of the evolution of trans phenomena, splendidly written, highly informative, scholarly at its best, yet easy to read even for those neither trans nor sociologist. Ekins and King, experts in the field, unroll the panoramas of sex, gender, and transgendering that have evloved during the last decades. For everyone wanting to understand the interaction of women and men and of those who cannot or will not identify with either of these two cataegories, reading this book is a must, and a real pleasure." - Friedmann Pfaefflin, University of ULM This groundbreaking study sets out a framework for exploring transgender diversity for the new millennium. It sets forth an original and comprehensive research and provides a wealth of vivid illustrative material. Based on two decades of fieldwork, life history work, qualitative analysis, archival work and contact with several thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers around the world, the authors distinguish a number of contemporary transgendering ′stories′ to illustrate: The binary male/female divide The interrelations betwen sex, sexuality and gender The interrelations between the main sub-processes of transgendering. Wonderfully insightful, The Transgender Phenomenon develops an original and innovative conceptual framkework for understanding the full range of the transgender experience.
Jesus and Other Men
Author: Susanna Asikainen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900436109X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In Jesus and Other Men, Susanna Asikainen explores the masculinities of Jesus and other male characters and the ideal femininities in the Synoptic Gospels.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900436109X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In Jesus and Other Men, Susanna Asikainen explores the masculinities of Jesus and other male characters and the ideal femininities in the Synoptic Gospels.
Men, Masculinities and the Modern Career
Author: Kadri Aavik
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110647869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book focuses on the multiple and diverse masculinities ‘at work’. Spanning both historical approaches to the rise of ‘profession’ as a marker of masculinity, and critical approaches to the current structures of management, employment and workplace hierarchy, the book questions what role masculinity plays in cultural understandings, affective experiences and mediatised representations of a professional ‘career’.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110647869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book focuses on the multiple and diverse masculinities ‘at work’. Spanning both historical approaches to the rise of ‘profession’ as a marker of masculinity, and critical approaches to the current structures of management, employment and workplace hierarchy, the book questions what role masculinity plays in cultural understandings, affective experiences and mediatised representations of a professional ‘career’.
The Stigma of Mental Illness - End of the Story?
Author: Wolfgang Gaebel
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319278398
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This book makes a highly innovative contribution to overcoming the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness – still the heaviest burden both for those afflicted and those caring for them. The scene is set by the presentation of different fundamental perspectives on the problem of stigma and discrimination by researchers, consumers, families, and human rights experts. Current knowledge and practice used in reducing stigma are then described, with information on the programmes adopted across the world and their utility, feasibility, and effectiveness. The core of the volume comprises descriptions of new approaches and innovative programmes specifically designed to overcome stigma and discrimination. In the closing part of the book, the editors – all respected experts in the field – summarize some of the most important evidence- and experience-based recommendations for future action to successfully rewrite the long and burdensome ‘story’ of mental illness stigma and discrimination.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319278398
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This book makes a highly innovative contribution to overcoming the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness – still the heaviest burden both for those afflicted and those caring for them. The scene is set by the presentation of different fundamental perspectives on the problem of stigma and discrimination by researchers, consumers, families, and human rights experts. Current knowledge and practice used in reducing stigma are then described, with information on the programmes adopted across the world and their utility, feasibility, and effectiveness. The core of the volume comprises descriptions of new approaches and innovative programmes specifically designed to overcome stigma and discrimination. In the closing part of the book, the editors – all respected experts in the field – summarize some of the most important evidence- and experience-based recommendations for future action to successfully rewrite the long and burdensome ‘story’ of mental illness stigma and discrimination.
Theorizing Masculinities
Author: Harry Brod
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0803949049
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A new field of inquiry and growing interdisciplinary area, men's studies, is just now beginning to develop its own distinctive methodologies and perspectives as demonstrated in the pages of Theorizing Masculinities. This first major compilation of new theoretical work on men begins by presenting ideas borrowed from the disciplines that have fostered the study of masculinities: sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality. The following chapters explore many issues central to the study of men such as power, ethnicity, feminism, and homophobia. The contributors also provide theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men, such as the military, sports, and the men's movement. The contributors to this volume come from disciplines as diverse as sociology, political science, industrial relations, philosophy, education, anthropology, gender studies, and literature. Together, they make this benchmark volume the guiding set of theories on masculinities. Theorizing Masculinities is a comprehensive volume that will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars, especially those interested in gender, sociology, social theory, family studies, counseling, and psychology.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0803949049
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A new field of inquiry and growing interdisciplinary area, men's studies, is just now beginning to develop its own distinctive methodologies and perspectives as demonstrated in the pages of Theorizing Masculinities. This first major compilation of new theoretical work on men begins by presenting ideas borrowed from the disciplines that have fostered the study of masculinities: sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality. The following chapters explore many issues central to the study of men such as power, ethnicity, feminism, and homophobia. The contributors also provide theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men, such as the military, sports, and the men's movement. The contributors to this volume come from disciplines as diverse as sociology, political science, industrial relations, philosophy, education, anthropology, gender studies, and literature. Together, they make this benchmark volume the guiding set of theories on masculinities. Theorizing Masculinities is a comprehensive volume that will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars, especially those interested in gender, sociology, social theory, family studies, counseling, and psychology.