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1) Three women
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2019.
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English
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An account based on nearly a decade of reporting examines the sex lives of three American women, exploring the complexity and fragility of female desire.
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English
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A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, journalist Peggy Orenstein pulls back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her...
7) Pure: inside the Evangelical movement that shamed a generation of young women and how I broke free
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In Pure, Linda Kay Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to take us "inside religious purity culture as only one who grew up in it can" (Gloria Steinem) and reveals the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's views on female sexuality has had on a generation of young women.
In the 1990s, a "purity industry" emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity...
In the 1990s, a "purity industry" emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"From one of the most popular and bestselling authors of our time, a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex, love, and identity on the frontlines of America's culture wars. Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-olddivorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the...
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