Author: Alice Adams
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982134690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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The timeless coming-of-age novel about five young women who meet at Radcliffe College and together grow to maturity—through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages—from World War II to the 1980s. Lavinia, Peg, and Cathy seem to have little in common save for their freshman status. None of them could know that their destinies are about to inextricably intertwine. Across four decades, as time and events upend their expectations, these five women discover their sexuality, reveal their secrets, and struggle with independence—sometimes surrendering, sometimes making stunning choices. Now reissued thirty-five years after its original release, Alice Adams’s Superior Women, hailed as “a remarkable compression of time, memory, and sentiment—rather as if Hemingway had been turned loose on Proust” (San Francisco Chronicle), is a richly drawn, uncompromising novel about women’s intimate, interior lives for fans of Mary McCarthy’s The Group and Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything.
Author: David Deida
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427086680
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Deida explores the most important issues in men's lives--from career and family to women and intimacy to love and spirituality--to offer a practical guidebook for living a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom.
Author: Carin Rubenstein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416566872
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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"My husband is in charge of dinner only on Friday night. And every single Friday night, he calls me and says, 'What do you want me to order for dinner?' " -- Toni Sound familiar? You are not alone! This book can help you and your marriage! As women have risen in the work world, their marriages have been transformed, too. The wife has become the superior spouse; she is responsible for managing every aspect of the family's life, from financing the mortgage to picking what the kids wear to school. This book is for every wife who wonders why she's in charge of everything, while her husband lounges on the couch and watches the game. The Superior Wife Syndrome explains how she ended up like this and reveals how she can let go of her superiority and work her way back to marital equality. Bringing together personal stories of everyday couples and expert social analysis, psychologist Carin Rubenstein provides readers with an intelligent and groundbreaking look into a disturbing marital trend: In two out of three marriages, women are running the show while men take it easy. As a result, more and more women are rejecting marriage as a viable social institution. The Superior Wife Syndrome provides a look into the heart of modern marriage, as it reveals and explores: Six signs of superiority: from being the multitasker to being the decider Top twenty-six topics wives nag their husbands about, from A to Z Four types of modern marriage, from Captain and Mates to Even-Stevens Top ten sex wishes of husbands and wives Twenty-one ways to fix a superior wife marriage Filled with personal stories and packed with tips for breaking the pattern, The Superior Wife Syndrome gives women the tools they need to step down from their thrones, reconnect with their husbands, and have happier and healthier marriages.
Author: Jennifer C. Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198837925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Superior Women examines the claims of abbesses of the abbey of Sainte-Croix in medieval Poitiers to authority from the abbey's foundation to its 1520 reform. These women claimed to hold authority over their own community, over dependent chapters of male canons, and over extensive properties in Poitou; male officials such as the king of France and the pope repeatedly supported these claims. To secure this support, the abbesses relied on two strategies that the abbey's founder, the sixth-century Saint Radegund, established: they documented support from a network of allies made up of powerful secular and ecclesiastical officials, and they used artefacts left from Radegund's life to shape her cult and win new patrons and allies. Abbesses across the 900 years of this study routinely turned to these strategies successfully when faced with conflict from dependents, or more local officials such as the bishop of Poitiers. Sainte-Croix's nuns proved adept at tailoring these strategies to shifting historical contexts, turning from Frankish bishops to the kings of Frankia, then to the Pope and finally to the King of France as former allies became unavailable to them. The book demonstrates respectful cooperation between men and monastic women, and more extensive respect for female monastic authority than scholars typically recognize. Chapters focus on the cult's manuscripts, church decoration, procession, jurisdictions between cult institutions, reform, and rebellion.
Author: Susan Crain Bakos
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821745823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Take an erotic, earthy, riotous journey through the bodies and hearts of America with outspoken heroine Carolyn Steel. Millions of men and women read her monthly erotic advice column in Playhouse Magazine. But Carolyn's status as the Superlady of Sex proves dangerous when she receives death threats.
Author: Emmanuel Q -M Bruce-Adjei
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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God created men and women in His own image, so men and women are equal before God and they will always remain equal, however, women have superior characteristics, qualities and attributes. God created Eve to be a helpmeet, that is, a helpful partner, for Adam. It then logically follows that for Eve to be of any significant help to Adam, she must inexorably and invariably have superior characteristics, qualities and attributes. We are going to look at a few of those characteristics, qualities and attributes, which are determined by genetics, physiology, and anatomy. Men should not be disappointed if women are superior in many ways to them, because for women to be able to effectively and efficiently help them, women must be better in many ways than them. I have analyzed a compendium of research findings from teams of researchers and individuals and awarded points to men and women without weighting any of the findings. If the finding goes against Men, then a point is awarded to Women, and if the finding goes against Women, then the point is awarded to Men. This analysis is indisputably not scientific, but it clearly shows that women are by far superior to men!
Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Melvin Konner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039324654X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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“A sparkling, thought-provoking account of sexual differences. Whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll find his conclusions gripping.”—Jared Diamond There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is malformed and shrunken beyond recognition. The result is a shortened life span, higher mortality at all ages, an inability to reproduce, premature hair loss, and brain defects variously resulting in attention deficit, hyperactivity, conduct disorder, hypersexuality, and an enormous excess of both outward and self-directed aggression. It is called maleness. Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. With patience and wit he explores the knotty question of whether men are necessary in the biological destiny of the human race. He draws on multiple, colorful examples from the natural world—such as the mating habits of the octopus, black widow, angler fish, and jacana—and argues that maleness in humans is hardly necessary to the survival of the species. In characteristically humorous and engaging prose, Konner sheds light on our biologically different identities, while noting the poignant exceptions that challenge the male/female divide. We meet hunter-gatherers such as those in Botswana, whose culture gave women a prominent place, invented the working mother, and respected women’s voices around the fire. Recent human history has upset this balance, as a dense world of war fostered extreme male dominance. But our species has been recovering over the past two centuries, and an unstoppable move toward equality is afoot. It will not be the end of men, but it will be the end of male supremacy and a better, wiser world for women and men alike.
Author: Angela Saini
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807076910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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2019 Best-Of Lists: 10 Best Science Books of the Year (Smithsonian Magazine) · Best Science Books of the Year (NPR's Science Friday) · Best Science and Technology Books from 2019” (Library Journal) An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences. Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of intellectual racists and segregationists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s 1994 title The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races. If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas and considered race a social construct, it was an idea that still managed to somehow survive in the way scientists thought about human variation and genetics. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, most of whom claim to be just following the data, Angela Saini shows us how, again and again, even mainstream scientists cling to the idea that race is biologically real. As our understanding of complex traits like intelligence, and the effects of environmental and cultural influences on human beings, from the molecular level on up, grows, the hope of finding simple genetic differences between “races”—to explain differing rates of disease, to explain poverty or test scores, or to justify cultural assumptions—stubbornly persists. At a time when racialized nationalisms are a resurgent threat throughout the world, Superior is a rigorous, much-needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of race science—and a powerful reminder that, biologically, we are all far more alike than different.
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher: Arralin Books LLC
ISBN:
Category : Sex differences (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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