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Author
Publisher
SAGE Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"With content organized around big questions about gender, Questioning Gender: A Sociological Exploration serves as a point-of-departure for conversations about gender, and as a resource for exploring answers to many of those questions. Rather than providing definitive answers, this unique book exposes readers to new material that will lead them to question their assumptions." --Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in gender studies. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading psychologists and other social commentators, reflect a variety of viewpoints and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework. Students will be exposed to a rich, exciting, and emotionally and politically charged body of theory, research, and...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty-hormones, reproduction, and development-but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being. Centering young people's experiences of pressures and joy, risk and reward, and confusion and discovery, there are chapters on body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography,...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Transformations presents a broad, comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding how the lives of all people, but particularly the lives of girls and women, are shaped by gender. Rather than conceiving gender as a collection of individual traits or attributes, this book presents gender as a social system that is used to categorize people and is linked to power and status. The gender system is analyzed throughout the book at three levels: sociocultural,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women-those with ADHD, autism, and other sensory processing differences-exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish As a successful, Harvard- and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted mother, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her "symptoms" that were only ever labeled as anxiety were considered autistic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"How does religion relate to bodies and sexualities? Many people would answer, simply, "through repression", but the relationship is much more complicated than that. While many religions draw boundaries between what they consider to be appropriate and inappropriate use of the human body, especially in the realm of sexuality, the same religions often celebrate human sexuality and even expect sexual partners to provide each other with sexual pleasure....
13) Sexuality, maternity, and (re)productive futures: women's speculative fiction in contemporary Japan
Author
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Neon Squid
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
IG 920L
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated guide to vaginas and vulvas from TikTok star Dr. Allison Rodgers"--
Do you have questions about your vagina or vulva? Education is important: knowing how your body works will empower you to make healthful decisions. Rodgers tackles all of the important issues: from puberty and pregnancy to consent and self-love. -- Adapted from back cover
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An experienced sex educator provides insightful information and advice to young adults on the issues of sex, STDs, ethics, teen pregnancy, the pleasures of intimacy and other sex-related topics, in an updated reissue of a useful and candid guide written specifically for teens.
Publisher
Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"One of the most pressing issues facing the evangelical church today involves dramatic shifts in our culture's perceptions regarding human sexuality. While homosexuality and same-sex marriage have been at the forefront, there is a new cultural awareness of sexual diversity and gender dysphoria. The transgender phenomenon has become a high-profile battleground issue in the culture wars. This book offers a full-scale dialogue on transgender identities...
Author
Publisher
J.E. Neiman
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sex Trafficking is an epidemic in America. Criminals have found that Sex Trafficking is more profitable than selling drugs or guns. The product is usually free, easy to obtain & replaceable. One out of three runaways end up being sex trafficked. Children who are captured into the sex industry suffer abuse, violence, rape & trauma. All children are vulnerable & easy to grab. The stories shared in this novel, are shocking & riveting. They are based...
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This book explores unplanned pregnancies and the steps teens can take when in this situation. The title examines birth control options, the symptoms of pregnancy, and how the decision to parent, put a child up for adoption, or abort may affect a teen's life. Features include a glossary, online resources, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing,...