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Author : John Van der Zee
Release : 1974
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Greatest Men's Party on Earth by : John Van der Zee
Download or read book The Greatest Men's Party on Earth written by John Van der Zee. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Powell
Release : 2014-11-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 89X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Afternoon Men by : Anthony Powell
Download or read book Afternoon Men written by Anthony Powell. This book was released on 2014-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social comedy about "a company of giddyheads" and their wanderings in London's Bohemia.
Author : G. William Domhoff
Release : 1975
Genre : Elite (Social sciences)
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Book Rating : 954/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats by : G. William Domhoff
Download or read book The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats written by G. William Domhoff. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Release : 2014-04-14
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 571/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Men Explain Things to Me by : Rebecca Solnit
Download or read book Men Explain Things to Me written by Rebecca Solnit. This book was released on 2014-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect “antidote to mansplaining” (The Stranger). In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note— because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, “He’s trying to kill me!” This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women. “In this series of personal but unsentimental essays, Solnit gives succinct shorthand to a familiar female experience that before had gone unarticulated, perhaps even unrecognized.” —The New York Times “Essential feminist reading.” —The New Republic “This slim book hums with power and wit.” —Boston Globe “Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these accessible essays. Honest and full of wit, this is an integral read that furthers the conversation on feminism and contemporary society.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Essential.” —Marketplace “Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions.” —Salon
Author : Roy F. Baumeister
Release : 2010-08-12
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 917/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Is There Anything Good About Men? by : Roy F. Baumeister
Download or read book Is There Anything Good About Men? written by Roy F. Baumeister. This book was released on 2010-08-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and women really been erased? Have men now become unnecessary? Are they good for anything at all? In Is There Anything Good About Men?, Roy Baumeister offers provocative answers to these and many other questions about the current state of manhood in America. Baumeister argues that relations between men and women are now and have always been more cooperative than antagonistic, that men and women are different in basic ways, and that successful cultures capitalize on these differences to outperform rival cultures. Amongst our ancestors---as with many other species--only the alpha males were able to reproduce, leading them to take more risks and to exhibit more aggressive and protective behaviors than women, whose evolutionary strategies required a different set of behaviors. Whereas women favor and excel at one-to-one intimate relationships, men compete with one another and build larger organizations and social networks from which culture grows. But cultures in turn exploit men by insisting that their role is to achieve and produce, to provide for others, and if necessary to sacrifice themselves. Baumeister shows that while men have greatly benefited from the culture they have created, they have also suffered because of it. Men may dominate the upper echelons of business and politics, but far more men than women die in work-related accidents, are incarcerated, or are killed in battle--facts nearly always left out of current gender debates. Engagingly written, brilliantly argued, and based on evidence from a wide range of disciplines, Is There Anything Good About Men? offers a new and far more balanced view of gender relations.
