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Publisher: Monika Gorska
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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Embark on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery, empowerment, and enlightenment with Sexuality Unmasked. This comprehensive guide offers a refreshing perspective on sex education and relationships, providing invaluable insights and practical advice for individuals navigating the intricacies of their own sexuality and relationships. Written by a team of renowned experts in the field of human sexuality, Sexuality Unmasked is a groundbreaking book that throws aside the shame and stigma attached to discussing sex. It delves deep into the core issues surrounding sexuality, aiming to demystify and destigmatize the subject matter. This guide is an essential toolkit for individuals of all ages – from teenagers experiencing their first encounters with love and desire, to adults seeking to enhance their intimate relationships. Sexuality Unmasked addresses a wide range of topics, including understanding sexual orientation and gender identity, debunking prevailing myths and misconceptions, and providing comprehensive information on reproductive health. Sexuality Unmasked goes beyond just education – it explores the concept of empowered living. It encourages readers to embrace their unique identities, celebrate their desires, and establish healthy boundaries. With engaging activities and thought-provoking exercises, this book helps readers cultivate self-awareness and build the confidence necessary for empowered sexual expression. Whether you're seeking to engage in healthy relationships, explore personal desires, or simply broaden your knowledge on human sexuality, Sexuality Unmasked offers a refreshing and compassionate approach. With its balanced blend of scientific research and personal anecdotes, this guide provides a safe and inclusive space for readers to embark on their own transformative journey. Discover the power of knowledge, self-acceptance, and empowerment through Sexuality Unmasked. Break free from the confines of societal norms, embrace your authentic self, and build fulfilling relationships based on respect, consent, and open communication. Let this book be your ultimate guide to achieving a deeply satisfying and liberated understanding of your own sexuality.
Author: Jim Anderson
Publisher: Activity Books
ISBN: 9780982864203
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In an era in which sexual sin is destroying marriages and families, Unmasked is a book with revelation that could change our very culture.
Author: Katherine Borland
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816551154
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Masaya, a provincial capital of Nicaragua, cultivates an aggressively traditional identity that contrasts with Managua’s urban modernity. In 2001 the city was officially designated Capital of Nicaraguan Folklore, yet residents have engaged in a vibrant folk revival since at least the 1960s. This book documents the creative innovations of Masaya’s performing artists. The first extended study in English of Nicaraguan festival arts, Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival is an ethnographically and historically grounded inquiry into three festival enactments during the Somoza, Sandinista, and Neoliberal periods: the carnivalesque torovenado masquerades, the transvestite Negras marimba dances, and the wagon pilgrimage to Popoyuapa. Through a series of interlinked essays, Katherine Borland shows that these enactments constitute a people’s theater, articulating a range of perspectives on the homegrown and the global; on class, race, and ethnicity; on gender and sexuality; and on religious sensibilities. Borland’s book is a case study of how the oppositional power of popular culture resides in the process of cultural negotiation itself as communities deploy cherished traditions to assert their difference from the nation and the world. It addresses both the gendered dimensions of a particular festival masquerade and the ways in which sexuality is managed in traditional festival transvestism. It demonstrates how performativity and theatricality interact to negotiate certain crucial realities in a festival complex. By showing how one locale negotiates, incorporates, and resists globally circulating ideas, identities, and material objects, it makes a major contribution to studies of ritual and festival in Latin America.
Author: Emily Mendenhall
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826504531
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political failures, local negotiations among political and public health leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in Okoboji being declared a hotspot just before the Independence Day weekend, when an influx of half a million people visit the town. The story is both personal and political. Author Emily Mendenhall, an anthropologist at Georgetown University, grew up in Okoboji, and her family still lives there. As the events unfolded, Mendenhall was in Okoboji, where she spoke formally with over 100 people and observed a community that rejected public health guidance, revealing deep-seated mistrust in outsiders and strong commitments to local thinking. Unmasked is a fascinating and heartbreaking account of where people put their trust, and how isolationist popular beliefs can be in America's small communities. This book is the recipient of the 2022 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of art or medicine.
Author: Meg-John Barker
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785786547
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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'Sexuality delivers the goods, making the history and theory of sexuality downright sexy ... I learned more in one session with this book than I've figured out in a lifetime.' Christine Burns MBE, author of Trans Britain They're back! Writer Meg-John Barker and artist Jules Scheele once again team up in this cheeky and informative comic-book follow-up to Queer and Gender. Sex is everywhere. It's in the stories we love - and the stories we fear. It defines who we are and our place in society ... at least we're told it ought to. Sex and sexuality can seem like a house of horrors, full of monsters and potential pitfalls. We often live with fear, shame and frustration when it comes to our own sexuality, and with judgement when it comes to others'. Sex advice manuals, debates over sex work and stories of sexual "dysfunction" only add to our anxiety. With compassion, humour, erudition and a touch of the erotic, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele shine a light through the darkness and unmask the monsters. 'The art introduces a set of reoccurring characters, tongue-in-cheek references to the Scooby-Doo gang, who journey through a haunted house confronting and unmasking the villains: patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and capitalism personified ... The sum: accessible, compassionate reading for readers wanting to think more deeply about sex, society, and how they intersect.' Publishers Weekly
Author: Evelyne Accad
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814706150
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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In this text, the author explores what she argues is an indissoluble link between war and sexuality. She explores the connections among sexuality, war, nationalism, pacifism, violence, love and power as they relate to the body, the partner, the family, political ideologies and religion.
Author: LAMBERT; ARNAUD F.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524906429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Will Brooker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623567521
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Over the sixty years of his existence, Batman has encountered an impressive array of cultural icons and has gradually become one himself. This acclaimed book examines what Batman means and has meant to the various audiences, groups and communities who have tried to control and interpret him over the decades. Brooker reveals the struggles over Batman's meaning by shining a light on the cultural issues of the day that impacted on the development of the character. They include: patriotic propaganda of the Second World War; the accusation that Batman was corrupting the youth of America by appearing to promote a homosexual lifestyle to the fans of his comics; Batman becoming a camp, pop culture icon through the ABC TV series of the sixties; fans' interpretation of Batman in response to the comics and the Warner Bros. franchise of films.
Author: Jane Ward
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479825174
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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A different look at heterosexuality in the twenty-first century A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight—her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: there’s fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other’s penises and stick fingers up their fellow members’ anuses; online personal ads, where straight men seek other straight men to masturbate with; and, last but not least, the long and clandestine history of straight men frequenting public restrooms for sexual encounters with other men. For Jane Ward, these sexual practices reveal a unique social space where straight white men can—and do—have sex with other straight white men; in fact, she argues, to do so reaffirms rather than challenges their gender and racial identity. Ward illustrates that sex between straight white men allows them to leverage whiteness and masculinity to authenticate their heterosexuality in the context of sex with men. By understanding their same-sex sexual practice as meaningless, accidental, or even necessary, straight white men can perform homosexual contact in heterosexual ways. These sex acts are not slippages into a queer way of being or expressions of a desired but unarticulated gay identity. Instead, Ward argues, they reveal the fluidity and complexity that characterizes all human sexual desire. In the end, Ward’s analysis offers a new way to think about heterosexuality—not as the opposite or absence of homosexuality, but as its own unique mode of engaging in homosexual sex, a mode characterized by pretense, dis-identification and racial and heterosexual privilege. Daring, insightful, and brimming with wit, Not Gay is a fascinating new take on the complexities of heterosexuality in the modern era.
Author: Philip G. Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781890626204
Category : Feminist spirituality
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Provides the first critical evaluation by a qualified scholar of the theological, anthropological, and historical claims of the "Goddess" movement, the most influential form of radical feminist spirituality, As its acolytes both within and without traditional churches grow in number, Goddess spirituality is one of the striking religious success stories of our day. Yet few have examined its purported ancient pedigree or its promises of sexual justice and social harmony, claims now exposed as a ridiculous but dangerous sham.
