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Author: Shereen El Feki Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307907430 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms. As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men and women in Egypt and across the region. The result is an informative, insightful, and engaging account of a highly sensitive and still largely secret aspect of Arab society. Sex is entwined in religion, tradition, politics, economics, and culture, so it is the perfect lens through which to examine the complex social landscape of the Arab world. From pregnant virgins to desperate housewives, from fearless activists to religious firebrands, from sex work to same-sex relations, Sex and the Citadel takes a fresh look at the sexual history of the region and brings new voices to the debate over its future. This is no peep show or academic treatise but a highly personal and often humorous account of one woman’s journey to better understand Arab society at its most intimate and, in the process, to better understand her own origins. Rich with five years of groundbreaking research, Sex and the Citadel gives us a unique and timely understanding of everyday lives in a part of the world that is changing before our eyes.
Author: Shereen El Feki Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307907430 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms. As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men and women in Egypt and across the region. The result is an informative, insightful, and engaging account of a highly sensitive and still largely secret aspect of Arab society. Sex is entwined in religion, tradition, politics, economics, and culture, so it is the perfect lens through which to examine the complex social landscape of the Arab world. From pregnant virgins to desperate housewives, from fearless activists to religious firebrands, from sex work to same-sex relations, Sex and the Citadel takes a fresh look at the sexual history of the region and brings new voices to the debate over its future. This is no peep show or academic treatise but a highly personal and often humorous account of one woman’s journey to better understand Arab society at its most intimate and, in the process, to better understand her own origins. Rich with five years of groundbreaking research, Sex and the Citadel gives us a unique and timely understanding of everyday lives in a part of the world that is changing before our eyes.
Author: A. C. Grayling Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408837420 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 289
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There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake in the debate. This book thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments and associated considerations offered in support of religious belief, and does so in full consciousness of the reasons people have for subscribing to religion, and the needs they seek to satisfy by doing so. And because it takes account of all the issues, its solutions carry great weight. The God Argument is the definitive examination of the issue, and a statement of the humanist outlook that recommends itself as the ethics of the genuinely reflective person.
Author: Destiny Soria Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1683353854 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 464
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The author of Iron Cast delivers “a thrilling adventure story” in this YA fantasy novel of dangerous rebellion against rules with the power of prophecy (Kirkus). In the city of Eldra, people are ruled by ancient prophecies. For centuries, the high council has stayed in power by virtue of the prophecies of the elder seers. After the last infallible prophecy came to pass, growing unrest led to murders and an eventual rebellion that raged for more than a decade. Now Cassa, the orphaned daughter of rebels, is determined to fight back against the high council, which governs Eldra from behind the walls of the citadel. Her only allies are no-nonsense Alys, easygoing Evander, and perpetually underestimated Newt. As Cassa struggles to live up to her parents’ legacy, she and her friends try to uncover the mystery of the final infallible prophecy—before it’s too late to save the city.
Author: Wesley O. Hagood Publisher: Wesley Hagood ISBN: 9780806520070 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 340
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With profiles on Bill Clinton, Thomas Jefferson, FDR, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, and Eisenhower, this book describes the impact that freewheeling sexual behavior has had upon first families, election campaigns, political careers, and the nation itself.
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1324004126 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 315
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Finalist for the American Bar Association's 2022 Silver Gavel Award A groundbreaking exploration of sexual violence by one of our most celebrated experts in law and philosophy. In this essential philosophical and practical reckoning, Martha C. Nussbaum, renowned for her eloquence and clarity of moral vision, shows how sexual abuse and harassment derive from using people as things to one’s own benefit—like other forms of exploitation, they are rooted in the ugly emotion of pride. She exposes three “Citadels of Pride” and the men who hoard power at the apex of each. In the judiciary, the arts, and sports, Nussbaum analyzes how pride perpetuates systemic sexual abuse, narcissism, and toxic masculinity. The courage of many has brought about some reforms, but justice is still elusive—warped sometimes by money, power, or inertia; sometimes by a collective desire for revenge. By analyzing the effects of law and public policy on our ever-evolving definitions of sexual violence, Nussbaum clarifies how gaps in U.S. law allow this violence to proliferate; why criminal laws dealing with sexual assault and Title VII, the federal law that is the basis for sexual harassment doctrine, need to be complemented by an understanding of the distorted emotions that breed abuse; and why anger and vengeance rarely achieve lasting change. Citadels of Pride offers a damning indictment of the culture of male power that insulates high-profile abusers from accountability. Yet Nussbaum offers a hopeful way forward, envisioning a future in which, as survivors mobilize to tell their stories and institutions pursue fair and nuanced reform, we might fully recognize the equal dignity of all people.
Author: Dina Nayeri Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1594487057 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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"An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty years, as she transforms from confused immigrant to overachieving Westerner to sophisticated European transplant, daughter and father know each other only from their visits: four crucial visits over two decades, each in a different international city. The longer they are apart, the more their lives diverge, but also the more each comes to need the other's wisdom and, ultimately, rescue"--Amazon.com.
Author: Leil Lowndes Publisher: Citadel Press ISBN: 9780806527932 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 274
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Leil Lowndes offers a new way to look at male-female communication offering straightforward advice in a relaxed no-nonsense style on how to recognise and read the 26 most common female sex signals. Bestselling author and communications expert Leil Lowndes literally shows men what sex signals to look for with dozens of photos that illustrate women's non-verbal body language. Full of foolproof dating advice on everything from the best activity for a first date to how a guy should dress to impress, UNdercover Sex Signals can help even the most clueless men to dating success.
Author: Ken Byerly Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781482047233 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 246
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Can a Lutheran stockbroker from the Midwest and a Jewish financial headhunter from Great Neck find happiness? Well, maybe, if they climb New York State's biggest mountain together. We're talking Fire Island and the Hamptons and group summer houses and art parties on 57th Street. It's summer, 1972, two new World Trade Center towers reach for the sky and the Dow Jones Industrials bid to top 1000 for the first time. But people are people and problems are problems and Scott Lehmann and Jennifer Cohen encounter their share. Scott pictures himself, in the end, like Gary Cooper in High Noon, flinging his badge to the dust and striding away. But it's not that easy. There's the elusive Jennifer, and the glitter of Wall Street, and the yellow-green, ever-moving translucent numbers...
Author: Freda Warrington Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers ISBN: 9780671021900 Category : Languages : en Pages : 432
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Humans share the world with the shape-changing Bhahdradomen, who they defeated in war centuries ago, and the mysterious Aelyr, who keep apart but also consider the Bhahdradomen as enemies. Now, the shapechangers' wiles inflame a king's madness and lead to war and murder. Two sisters and two brothers from a quiet village are about to be dragged into the conflict, where they will find unlooked-for destinies.
Author: Gerald Schoenewolf Publisher: Citadel Press ISBN: 9780806520193 Category : Couples Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Couples' Guide to Erotic Games is an innovative approach to revitalizing relationships. Its premise is "As goes sex, so goes the relationship". Believing that sexual play is often the most effective way of working through pent-up feelings and ingrained attitudes that keep couples emotionally distant, Dr. Schoenewolf has created 71 therapeutic, fun-filled games, designed for specific types of couples. The games include "Nude Indoor Volleyball" and "Massage Poker", "Erotic Cinderella", "Sexual Battle", "Mystery Lover", "Psycho Surprise", and "Games to Restore Tenderness". The book even includes exercises for couples whose politics or religion gets in the way of their relationships. Also included, for the first time, are a series of warm-up games for couples to get used to before the more explicit exercises.