The Fantasy Factory explores the world of women on the other end of the phone sex lines advertised in magazines like Playboy and Hustler. The author's interviews with these women, as well as her own first-hand experiences as an operator, reveal the complex ways operators and callers negotiate the shifting borders between desire and disgust, fantasy and reality, deception and belief. The Fantasy Factory raises provocative questions about ...
Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett, who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on a rich, plausible, and well-informed knowledge of the past, and she asks her readers to consi ...
"An elegant, wise book of love in action."— Deepak Chopra HumanKind is the heartwarming, feel-good book that we all need right now. Brad Aronson's life changed in an instant when his wife, Mia, was diagnosed with leukemia. After her diagnosis, Brad spent most of the next two-and-a-half years either by her side as she received treatment or trying to shield their five-year-old son, Jack, from the worst of Mia's il ...
When MTV (Music Television channel) was established in 1981, an executive claimed that they had «integrated the most powerful forces in our two decades, TV and rock ‘n’ roll.» In fact, this problematic relationship began in the mid-1950s, when the advent of rock ‘n’ roll represented a musical and cultural revolution. The backlash against the music and the youth culture from which it emanated, described here as «rockaphobia,» was reflected in a p ...
The Rise of Weaponized Flak in the New Media Era presents the first book-length examination of flak as a form of political harassment, authored by a seasoned researcher on political discourse and mass media. Flak against news media was a component of the Edward Herman-Noam Chomsky seminal «Propaganda Model.» However, in the thirty years since the model was introduced, flak has become an increasingly significant and prevalent sociopolitical force ...
Это не просто книга. Это настоящий феминистический манифест. Нет ни одной женщины на свете, которая не подвергалась бы насилию со стороны мужчины. Пришла пора обществу дать женщинам те права, которые они заслужили. В книге "Феминизм" остро затронута тема домашнего и сексуального насилия. Не случайно в книге идет повествование двух мнений: мужского и женского. Два взгляда на феминизм, но оба приходят к единому результату. Женщины имеют право на п ...
