Gender / Sexuality / Relationships

After many waves of feminism, where are we? Are young women really either massive sluts or helpless dolls? And anyway, what's the definition of a slut? Young women have a lot of questions. In Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice a revised young adult edition of her book Princesses and Pornstars, Emily Maguire ignites discussion on issues relevant to teenagers. Drawing on her adolescence and the experiences faced by teens today, Maguire looks for answers and a way forward. This personal and illuminating book is a bridg... read more

If you can transplant a face, then why not a penis? Why doesn't Viagra help women or, for that matter, pandas? Does an orgasm boost fertility? Cure hiccups? Do the earlobes swell during sex? Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Can Kegeling cure erectile dysfunction? Can Broadway musicals cause it? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? The study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leona... read more

"A well-mammered history of those who have sought to make marriage a better thing. the questions he raises...as just as compelling today as they were a century ago" Lesley White, Sunday Times

The study of sexuality is both important and controversial. It permeates most aspects of everyday life and is both a hot topic and a taboo subject at the same time. The 'Virgin in a condom' art work that attracted protests wherever it was exhibited features in the book's final essay and many more mundane aspects of sexualtity are also covered: teenage motherhood, sexuality in advertising, sexuality and Pacific peoples, homosexual law reform, the difference between sex and rape, prostitution, the impact of viagra, and lesbian doctor... read more

Parents and teachers will find this a breakthrough book which changes their outlook on boys forever.Everyone who has boys today is concerned for them. Everywhere we look, boys are having trouble with their lives. Parents want to understand better what makes boys tick, and how to help them be happy, loving, and capable.In Raising Boys, Steve Biddulph looks at the most important issue in boys' development from birth to manhood - and discusses the warm, strong parenting and guidance that boys need. He brings his humour, honesty, an... read more

Welcome Goddess! You have just entered the quintessential feminine zone - the realm of the 21st-century goddess - where the new world is waiting. Know who you are and want to go to the next level? This book will show you how using techniques including astrology, energy clearing and numerology.

A new, empowering philosophy for young women — presented colourfully and simply. To become a girlosopher, all you need is... an open heart and mind, a direct and honest approach, a strong vulnerability, an ornate simplicity, a ruthless compassion, the relentless pursuit of excellence, the courage to fail and to try again, and an understanding of the spirit within.

Love by Vatsyayana encapsulates the thinking of a time-honoured thinker. Writing in India in the fourth century AD, the Hindu sage Vatsyayana composed the Kama Sutra (or 'Rules of Love'), and this masterwork of sexual etiquette has since become both notorious and admired. With a brief outline of his life and achievements, this entertaining selection of short extracts from Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra presents his wisdom in an easily digestible form that is ideal for today's reader. Love will inform, delight and stimulate. In the quest f... read more

Growing up, Noelle Howey hardly spoke to her distant, bad-tempered father. 'After coming home, he'd mix up a twelve-consonant vodka and orange juice and then sleep, watch TV, drink, and sleep again. Occasionally, he'd shake up the routine by eating a salad.' Instead Noelle drew all her comfort from her wonderful, tomboyish mother. Then, at fourteen, Noelle finally discovered her father's secret: Dick Howey liked to wear women's clothing. In fact, he wanted to be a woman. With his secret out, everything changed. Noelle, used to b... read more

This is a witty and provocative exploration of the female condition in the twenty-first century.With 'the gleeful, viperish with of Dorothy Parker' (Slate), Kipnis offers a fresh and provocative look at the female condition in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. For every advance towards sexual equality on the part of women in recent years, she argues, some new impediment just 'seems' to appear. Ironically, feminism has run up against an unanticipated opponent: the inner woman. An ambitious and original reasse... read more

We may be the last generation to inhabit bodies not routinely reconstructed by surgical enhancements. Over the last decades, our body has become an individual statement and a crucial personal responsibility. For many of us, it is the source of terrible difficulty, while for others it is an expensive commodity...In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Breast enhancement is a sweet sixteen birthday present in the suburbs of America, while eating problems - from bulimia to obesity - a... read more

As a champion of trusting, loving relationships, this groundbreaking book advocates mutual respect and tenderness between lovers. A bestseller since it was first published in 1972, Alex Comfort's classic work celebrated human physical intimacy with such authority and clarity that a whole generation felt empowered to enjoy sex. No other book has come close in providing such an imaginative, uninhibited, and entertaining guide to lovemaking. The reasons for unfulfilling sexual relations today are different to those of Alex Comfort's o... read more

From the back cover - A fascinating and thought provoking exploration of the powerful relationship between sex and the human spirit in different cultures from the ancient times to the present day. Includes superb pictures from around the world showing art, artefacts, architecture and erotic carvings, as well as photographs of rituals and practices. Elucidates key subjects such as fertility, virgninity, androgeny, phallic worship, rites and ceremonies, erotica and pornography, tabo, initiation and love. 184 pages.

Why do women excel at bitching? And are there ways to do it well? In this unique and entertaining book, Kate Figes explores girltalk, the way bitching erupts amongst teenage girls, the tenacity of female stereotypes as well as essential guidance on being the best kind of bitch - strong and self-assured rather than the bitch that needs to put other women down to feel stronger. Packed with witty anecdote, etiquette, interviews and contributions from strong bitches such as Kathy Lette, Wendy Holden and Virginia Ironside this is a must... read more

"Turned on by something unusual? Interview subjects required for ultra-confidential research into fetishes. Call Sandra." Straight girl Stephanie Clifford-Smith was fascinated by fetishes. Were sexual fetishes widespread throughout the community, or are they only the domain of a kinky minority? And how has kinkdom changed over time? So Stephanie assumes an identity, puts an ad in the local paper, and sets off to find out for herself. She infiltrates the scene, goes to bondage parties and watches grown men suck dummies as ... read more

From the enlightened smile of the Holy Buddha to the lewd leer of the seventeenth century Dutch chicken groper, from the sociological to the scatological, Angus Trumble presents a uniquely readable and erudite insight into the cultural, physiological, artistic and literary history of that most universal of human expressions, the smile. Since the dawn of civilisation, the smile has carried a bewildering range of meanings, from the supreme enlightenment of the Holy Buddha to the chilly rictus of the television news reader. Yet ev... read more

"The Little Big Book of Love "is the most adorable, chunky, ramance-packed valentine there is. Now back in print with an updated jacket design and additional content, this anthology of love and romance is so complete, timeless, and delightful, and is designed in the beautiful and playful format of the much-loved Little Big book series. This great big resource comes in a tiny package and is chock-full of the best of everything, including: - Stories and excerpts from novels and plays by such favorite authors as Jane Austen, e. e. cu... read more

In this expos of how young girls are sexualized in today's media, the author uses examples from popular TV shows, magazines, movies, and Web sites to show for the first time all the ways in which sexuality is defined in media--often in ways detrimental to girls' healthy development.

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Secrets and Mysteries will give you a profound understanding of what it means to be a woman. Full of passion, mysticism, and practical information, it will tap the source of your power at the depths of your soul. Through her own extraordinary life experience and her knowledge of native cultures around the world, Denise Linn reveals how you can activate ancient wisdom to become the magnificent embodiment of strength and grace -- in other words, how you can become a Glorious Woman!