Sex Object

Author : Jessica Valenti
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062435101

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Sex Object by Jessica Valenti Pdf

New York Times Bestseller - An NPR Best Book of the Year “Sharp and prescient… The appeal of Valenti’s memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it…Sex Object is an antidote to the fun and flirty feminism of selfies and self-help.” — New Republic Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential. Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence and young adulthood in New York City, revealing a much shakier inner life than the confident persona she has cultivated as one of the most recognizable feminists of her generation. In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, this literary memoir is sure to shock those already familiar with Valenti’s work and enthrall those who are just finding it.

Author : Jessica Valenti
Publisher : Dey Street Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0062565656

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Sex Object by Jessica Valenti Pdf

“Who would I be if I lived in a world that didn’t hate women?” Hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the most visible and successful feminists of her generation,” Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a memoir that Publishers Weekly calls “bold and unflinching,” Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes on women’s lives, from the everyday to the existential. In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, Sex Object is a profoundly moving tour de force that is bound to shock those already familiar with Valenti’s work, and enthrall those who are just finding it.

Author : Thomas B. Hess,Linda Nochlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Erotic art
ISBN : 0882250574

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Woman as Sex Object by Thomas B. Hess,Linda Nochlin Pdf

Author : Jennifer Doyle
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816645264

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Sex Objects by Jennifer Doyle Pdf

The declaration that a work of art is “about sex” is often announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a conversation when instead it should begin a new one. Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship, Jennifer Doyle shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life: exciting, ordinary, emotional, traumatic, embarrassing, funny, even profoundly boring. Sex Objects examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized images, words, and performances. In chapters on the “boring parts” of Moby-Dick, the scandals that dogged the painter Thomas Eakins, the role of women in Andy Warhol's Factory films, “bad sex” and Tracey Emin's crudely evocative line drawings, and L.A. artist Vaginal Davis's pornographic parodies of Vanessa Beecroft's performances, Sex Objects challenges simplistic readings of sexualized art and instead investigates what such works can tell us about the nature of desire. In Sex Objects, Doyle offers a creative and original exploration of how and where art and sex connect, arguing that to proclaim a piece of art “about sex” reveals surprisingly little about the work, the artist, or the spectator. Deftly interweaving anecdotal and personal writing with critical, feminist, and queer theory, she reimagines the relationship between sex and art in order to better understand how the two meet-and why it matters. Jennifer Doyle is associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is coeditor, with Jonathan Flatley and Jos Esteban Muoz, of Pop Out: Queer Warhol.

Author : Eric Kroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Massage parlors
ISBN : 0891690166

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Sex Objects by Eric Kroll Pdf

Author : Jessica Valenti
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781458766755

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The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti Pdf

The United States is obsessed with virginity - from the media to schools to government agencies. This panic is ensuring that young women's ability to be moral agents is absolutely dependent on their sexuality. Jessica Valenti, executive editor of Feministing.com and author of Full Frontal Feminism and Yes Means Yes, addresses this poignant issue in her latest book, The Purity Myth. Valenti argues that the country's intense focus on chastity is extremely damaging to young women. Through in depth analysis of cultural stereotypes and media messages, Valenti reveals that powerful messages - ranging from abstinence curriculum to ''Girls Gone Wild'' commercials - place a young woman's worth entirely on her sexuality. Morals are therefore linked purely to sexual behavior, as opposed to values like honesty, kindness, and altruism. Valenti approaches the topic head-on, shedding light on chastity in a historical context, abstinence-only education, pornography, and public punishments for those who dare to have sex, among other critical issues. She also offers solutions that pave the way for a future without a damaging emphasis on virginity, including a call to rethink male sexuality and reframing the idea of ''losing it.'' With Valenti's usual balance of intelligence and wit, The Purity Myth presents a powerful and revolutionary argument that girls and women, even in this day and age, are overly valued for their sexuality, and that this needs to stop.

Author : Mary McCoy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534485051

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Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy Pdf

In the city of Memphis, eighteen-year-old Lee and her boyfriend Vincent make a popular podcast on artists in love, but Lee learns that stories of happily-ever-after love do not always mirror real life.

Author : Paula Kane,Christopher Chandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : NWU:35556004652541

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Sex Objects in the Sky by Paula Kane,Christopher Chandler Pdf

Monographic study of the working conditions and trade unionisation of woman worker airline flight attendants in the USA - covers job satisfaction, management attitudes, occupational safety, occupational health, passenger safety, etc.

Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780679724513

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Le Deuxième Sexe by Simone de Beauvoir Pdf

The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

Author : Lincoln Peirce
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781449402327

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Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce Pdf

Big Nate, a.k.a. middle schooler Nate Wright, is eleven years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the wunderkind creation of cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Nate is also the star of six novelized books to be published by HarperCollins, the first of which debuted on the New York Times children's best-seller list. This Big Nate Collection collects Peirce's Big Nate strips, originally published only in newspapers. For those not familiar with Big Nate, think Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Calvin and Hobbes. Nate is a self-described genius and a sixth-grade Renaissance man equipped with only a #2 pencil and the unshakable belief that he is destined for greatness (a fortune cookie told him so). He fights a daily battle against overzealous teachers, undercooked cafeteria food, and all-around conventionality. He's the original rebel without a clue, alternately abrasive and endearing to classmates and teachers alike. Throughout Peirce's Big Nate Collection, Nate blazes an unforgettable trail through the sixth grade at P.S. 38, earning straight As in laughs (and numerous detentions) along the way.

Author : Christian McLaughlin
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015061469972

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Sex Toys of the Gods by Christian McLaughlin Pdf

Jackie Collins meets Armistead Maupin in this wickedly funny satire of life in Hollywood by the author of the bestselling 'Glamourpuss'.

Author : Jessica Valenti
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781580055727

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Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti Pdf

Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism is a book that continues to embody the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagated as founder of the popular website, Feministing.com. Full Frontal Feminism is a smart and relatable guide to the issues that matter to today’s young women. This edition includes a new foreword by Valenti, reflecting upon what’s happened in the seven years since Full Frontal Feminism was originally published. With new openers from Valenti in every chapter, the book covers a range of topics, including pop culture, health, reproductive rights, violence, education, relationships, and more. Chapters include: You’re a Hardcore Feminist. I Swear. Feminists Do It Better (and Other Sex Tips) Pop Culture Gone Wild The Blame (and Shame) Game If These Uterine Walls Could Talk Material World My Big Fat Unnecessary Wedding and Other Dating Diseases “Real” Women Have Babies I Promise I Won’t Say “Herstory” Boys Do Cry Beauty Cult Sex and the City Voters, My Ass A Quick Academic Aside Get to It Since its original publication, Full Frontal Feminism has reassured readers—yeah, you're feminists, and that's actually pretty cool.

Author : Mandy Merck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136128929

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The Sexual Subject by Mandy Merck Pdf

The Sexual Subject brings together writing on sexuality which has appeared in ^Screen> over the past two decades. It reflects the journal's continuing engagement with questions of sexuality and signification in the cinema, an engagement which has had a profound influence on the development of the academic study of film and on alternative film and video practice. The collection opens with Laura Mulvey's classic "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" with its conjunction of semiotics and psychoanalysis, the critical approach which is most closely associated with Screen's rise to international prominence. The reader then goes on to explore the particular questions and debates which that conjuction provoked: arguments around pornography and the represenation of the body: questions of the representation of femininity and masculinity, of the female spectator, and of the social subject. Many of the writings in this Reader have become indispensable texts within the study of film. The purpose of the Reader is not only to make the articles available to a wider readership, and to a new generation, but also to pose new conjunctions, making connections in one volume between debates and inquiries which spanned two crucial decades of film theory. The Sexual Subject is intended not only for all those with a particular interest in film and film theory, but for anyone with a serious commitment to cultural theory, theories of representation, and questions of sexuality and gender.

Author : David E. Scharff
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : CORNELL:31924067931497

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The Sexual Relationship by David E. Scharff Pdf

Dr. David Scharff explores the role of sexuality in human relationships by combining his extensive experience in individual, marital, family, and sex therapy with theoretical contributions from object relations theory and child development.

Author : Morris Nitsun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135446055

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The Group as an Object of Desire by Morris Nitsun Pdf

Why do people find it so difficult to talk openly about sex? In this original and ground-breaking book, Morris Nitsun argues that desire and sexuality are key components of human experience that have been marginalized in the group psychotherapy literature. Drawing on theory from psychoanalysis, developmental psychology and sociology, while keeping the group firmly in focus, he creates a picture of the potential in group therapy for the most intimate narrative. Highlighting current concerns about sexual identity, boundary transgression and what constitutes effective psychotherapy, detailed clinical illustrations cover areas such as: The erotic connection The dissociation of desire The group as witness Erotic transference and counter-transference Psychotherapists and all those interested in sexual development and diversity will value the challenging approach to sexuality this book offers.