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Una mirada crítica a la ley contra la Violencia de Género.Las mujeres maltratadas recibieron un escudo necesario con la Ley Orgánica de Medidas de Protección Integral contra la Violencia de Género de 2004. En veinte años de vigencia, muchas se han salvado gracias a el, pero nadie ha querido mirar a esas otras mujeres que, fingiendose victimas, emplean el escudo como espada. La sociedad ha respondido siempre con un Esto no existe a cada denuncia falsa que estas mujeres han utilizado como arma arrojadiza.Hay quien dice que es mejor no hablar de esto. Pero no se hace daño diciendo la verdad, sino callando. Si ayer se callaba sobre la vida oculta y martirizante de las mujeres maltratadas y encerradas con un bestia, hoy se calla sobre la vida oculta y martirizante de los hombres enganchados en los resortes puntiagudos de un mecanismo de proteccion empleado como trampa mortal.Es un fracaso palmario de un pais en su lucha por la igualdad. Se ha tachado de negacionista a quien mencionaba este fenomeno y se ha impuesto una espiral de silencio. Este libro, donde todas las victimas tienen su lugar con independencia de su sexo, pretende contribuir a destruirla.Sobre NADIE SE VA A REIR se dijo: La literalidad achica el mundo, lo convierte en un claustro de gente cognitivamente plana y perezosa, insensible a la ironia y al humor. La critica de Soto Ivars a este mundo literal es su nuevo libro, Nadie se va a reir, publicado en Debate, en el que cuenta la extravagante historia de Anonimo Garcia, un artista que acabo enfrentandose a una pena de carcel por una satira y una critica que los medios y la sociedad española se tomaron de forma literal. Carlos Granes, The ObjectiveSobre LA CASA DEL AHORCADO se dijo: Soto Ivars desmonta la simpleza de los debates binarios y demuestra que el duelo a garrotazos de Goya es un fenomeno global. No contento con eso, reivindica el valor del pensamiento critico e individual frente a las obcecaciones grupales, ideologicas y casi ecumenicas como nuevas formas de persecucion y censura. Karina Sainz Borgo, VozpopuliSobre ARDEN LAS REDES se dijo: Soto Ivars toma la palabra y lleva a cabo, a fuerza de buen periodista, una investigacion encaminada a desvelar los entresijos del sucio asunto de los linchamientos digitales. Fernando AramburuSi has escrito tuits y los has borrado antes de publicarlos, Soto Ivars te explica el porque. Jordi Evole

La sexualidad es parte fundamental de la vida humana. Y, sin embargo, cuando se trata de personas con diversidad funcional, los estigmas, la invisibilidad y el paternalismo siguen marcando el relato. Las mismas caricias, los mismos besos nace para desmontar mitos, abrir espacios de reflexion y reivindicar el derecho universal al amor, el placer, la ternura y la autonomia.Coordinado por la Fundacion SIFU, el libro recoge historias en primera persona, experiencias de profesionales del ambito sociosanitario y propuestas que invitan a cambiar la mirada sobre la discapacidad. Una obra valiente y emotiva, que interpela tanto a especialistas como al gran publico, y que nos recuerda que no hay un unico modo de amar, ni de desear, ni de vivir el cuerpo.

Una respuesta frente a las tendencias parciales y reaccionarias que recurren al pasado para justificar la desigualdad.¿Y si la historia que nos contaron estaba incompleta? Bajo los cimientos de nuestras sociedades laten siglos de un desequilibrio milenario. La raiz del poder es un viaje revelador a traves del tiempo, desde las primeras civilizaciones hasta hoy, para comprender las profundas raices de la desigualdad entre hombres y mujeres. A partir del Neolitico, la autora examina mitos fundacionales, codigos, tradiciones, leyes, religiones y relatos que aun resuenan. Desde Lilith hasta la interpretacion cristiana, desde las leyes romanas hasta la educacion de nuestras abuelas o hijas, desde la tutela y las vestales hasta las noticias mas recientes que desvelan aun viejos patrones que nacieron hace miles de años.La raiz del poder es tambien una respuesta frente a las tendencias parciales y reaccionarias que usan el pasado clasico para justificar el sexismo o el racismo. Un libro para quienes buscan respuestas, pero tambien para quienes desean ser parte del cambio. Desde la documentacion historica y la narrativa humanista, esta obra es una brujula esencial para comprender por que la igualdad real es todavia un desafio y una deuda historica.

Desde la perspectiva de la izquierda crítica que no deja de crecer en la Cuba actual, el sociólogo cubano Frank García Hernández encara una obra monumental y necesaria: historiar la Revolución cubana desde el levantamiento que le dio origen hasta la actualidad. Lejos de la hagiografia y de la diatriba antirrevolucionaria, este libro permite recorrer las diferentes etapas, procesos, marchas y contramarchas de la Cuba socialista. La Revolucion cubana es un mito y, se sabe, los mitos no se avienen a ser historiados. Garcia Hernandez, formado en la Cuba revolucionaria, logra taladrar esa estructura mitica y desarma creencias arraigadas. Con numerosas fuentes, muchas de ellas ineditas, censuradas o poco conocidas fuera de la isla, indaga temas sensibles como la adscripcion comunista del primer Fidel Castro, los motivos del alejamiento del gobierno revolucionario del Che Guevara, las causas de la radicalizacion politica ininterrumpida del castrismo o la historia detras de la Reforma Agraria. ¿Como vivio Cuba el fin de la Union Sovietica? ¿Como sobrevivio al "Periodo Especial"? ¿En que momento Cuba comenzo a seguir el modelo chino? ¿Se encamina la isla hacia un capitalismo amparado en simbolos socialistas? Este ensayo reconstruye como la Revolucion cubana promesa de libertad y socialismo desemboco en la crisis politica que sacude hoy a la isla, sin borrar su camino heroico. Es imprescindible para comprender la verdadera complejidad historica de Cuba y sus revoluciones, con profundidad y compromiso intelectual.

New to Twitter and feeling a little confused? On first glance, all those half-conversations and unfamiliar symbols may look like gobbledegook. But its really very simple and this useful book is here to help.In straightforward, chatty text accompanied by amusing illustrations, popular tweeter and blogger Lynn C Schreiber helps you get the most out of Twitter. She demystifies the jargon (hashtags? Follow Friday? DMs? All explained here) and gives easy ways to find friends, gain followers, and have fun! The book also provides an insight into the all-important rules of Twitter etiquette, and the various applications you can use with Twitter to enhance your experience even more. Armed with the information in this book, youll become an assured and expert tweeter - in super-quick time!

In volume 1, Professor Verdon sought to identify what crippled social anthropologys original project, that of understanding sociocultural variability. He found its cause in a universal, Aristotelian cosmology that renders groups ontologically variable to their principles of social organization, by defining them in terms of behaviour regulation. In this second volume, he develops a cure to that cosmological malaise: to define groups outside all behaviour regulation, and to define a separate group for every type of activity (unifunctional groups). From these two new cosmological requirements he sets out to define all the main concepts of social anthropology in what he calls an operational language (defined with respect to anthropologys aims, not as entities with intrinsic anthropological attributes): groups, corporations, descent, territoriality, lineages, segmentation, sovereignty and so on.He then applies this language to translate classical ethnographies operationally. He first chose the most famous ethnographies of so-called segmentary lineage societies, the Nuer (Sudan), Tallensi (Ghana) and Tiv (Nigeria), and then added the Berbers from the Rif (Morocco), the Yao (Malawi) and Australian Aborigines. All those societies were described as having descent groups. Translated operationally, ONLY ONE of them retains descent groups (the Tallensi). This leads him radically to transform the ethnographic landscape of social anthropology. Where all ethnographers saw descent groups almost everywhere, he finds them to be rare occurrences, now replaced with clientelistic social formations.Overall, setting out to define a set of etic (objective) concepts, he discovers that this language actually yields much better emic approaches to social organization (an approach closer to the actors subjective experience).

Bridgerton is the runaway Netflix success that has captured the hearts and imaginations of its biggest ever global audience. Producers Chris Van Dusen and Shonda Rhimes have ripped up the Regency drama rulebook to create a series that speaks to a modern audience. Apart from the intense sexual chemistry, inspired casting and a lavish costume budget, what sets Bridgerton apart is the extensive use of location shooting. Step forward Bath: the Georgian architectural jewel gets to play many different parts of fashionable London. Bridgertons Bath takes you on a tour of all these locations from No.1 The Royal Crescent (the Featheringtons house on Grosvenor Square) to Abbey Green (Covent Garden) and the Abbey Deli (Modiste couturier) on Abbey Street. Bridgerton intersects with Jane Austens world at the Assembly Rooms where one of the early balls takes place, while the 18th-century Bath Guildhall also gets a place on the series dance card. A key character in the drama is Lady Danbury, played by Adjoa Andoh, and her grand mansion is Baths former Sydney Hotel, today the Holburne Museum. Gunters Tea Room was a celebrated London patisserie and in Bridgerton it can be found on Trim Street. Many Bath streets feature regularly, including Beauford Square, a place for regular carriage trips and the Royal Crescent, which in Series One, reverberated to the sound of galloping hooves as our heroine (or her stunt double) raced to stop a duel. The book includes a feature on how the series was filmed in the city, and includes a detailed map so you can follow your own Bridgerton Walking Tour of this beautiful city, which has more to offer besides.

Are we destined to merge with the machines weve created? What if the Singularity the moment of merger already happened? How would we know?The King and the Swarm argues that we already have. We did so via an always-on and increasingly omnipresent mesh of digital sensing points that spans the world, and of which you almost certainly have one in your pocket. The global transformation this has wrought reaches far beyond economics, reshaping politics, culture, sex, family, and even consciousness itself.

An evocative and inspiring exploration of the lives of women who refuse to be tied indoors by domesticity. The Hard Way is a powerful manifesto for women who long to walk alone - and safely - in the countryside Dr Sharon Blackie, author of If Women Rose Rooted Why is it radical for women to walk alone in the countryside, when men have been doing so for centuries? The Hard Way is a powerful and illuminating book about addressing this imbalance, reclaiming fearlessness and diving into the history of the landscape from a womans point of view.Setting off to follow the oldest paths in England, the Ridgeway and the Harrow Way, Susannah Walker comes across artillery fire, concern from passing policemen and her own innate fear of lone figures in the distance: a landscape shaped by men, from prehistoric earthworks to todays army bases.But along the way, Susannah finds Edwardian feminists, rebellious widows, forgotten writers and artists, as well as all their anonymous sisters who stayed at home throughout history. They become her companions over 135 miles of walking, revealing how much, or how little, has changed for women now.

In this bold and intimate semi-autobiographical novel, La Maison, Emma Becker transports the reader behind the closed doors of a Berlin brothel, where she worked for two years not only to earn a living, but to immerse herself in a world she wanted to understand and to write about with unflinching honesty. What emerges is a deeply personal, unsentimental, and often surprising account of life inside the brothel, where Becker explores not just the physical aspects of sex work, but the emotional, psychological, and social complexities that shape it.With frankness and literary insight, she recounts her encounters with clients, her growing self-awareness, and, most poignantly, the friendships and solidarity she finds among the other women who work there. Far from reducing sex work to cliche or voyeurism, Becker gives space to the quiet routines, shared laughter, private pain, and hard-won dignity of a profession often misunderstood and rarely written about from the inside.Part memoir, part sociological study, and wholly literary, La Maison challenges preconceptions about sex, agency, and femininity, offering a provocative and compassionate exploration of what it means to inhabit multiple identitiesas worker, writer, woman, and witness.

Marshall McLuhan, a pioneering media theorist, explored how media shape perception, society, and culture. His concepts, like the medium is the message and the global village, emphasize media as extensions of human senses that profoundly influence communication and social structures. He analyzed transitions from oral to print culture and the impact of electronic media on thought and interaction. This volume seeks global contributions applying McLuhans theories to AI, digital media, knowledge, creativity, and body-mind relations in todays networked world.In this volume, edited by Lars C. Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan and Tobias Held, scholars from diverse fieldsmedia theory, philosophy, sociology, art, game studies, and moreare examining McLuhans enduring relevance in analyzing contemporary technological and cultural transformations.

Online und offline sicher und gesundElternsein gleicht heute oft einem Kampf gegen Windmuhlen. Die digitale Ubermacht durchdringt jeden Lebensbereich unserer Kinder und fuhrt zu einer zunehmenden Abhangigkeit von sozialen Medien und wachsenden psychischen Problemen. Nur wie kann ein gesunder und ausgewogener Umgang mit den modernen Technologien gelingen? In diesem pragnanten Handbuch zeigt die renommierte Psycholgin Jean Twenge, wie Eltern die Gefahren der digitalen Welt minimieren und ihren Kindern zugleich wichtige Lebenskompetenzen mit auf den Weg geben, um sie auf ein selbstbestimmtes Erwachsenenleben vorzubereiten.

Freya Indias writing is compassionate, gripping, and deeply psychological Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious GenerationComing of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil, especially for girls. But today girls have to contend with those worries in a world of AR filters, TikTok plastic surgeons, dating apps, hook up culture, online porn, modern sex-positivity, profit-driven online therapy apps, direct-to-door medication and even fully customisable AI girlfriends. All personalised by algorithms to play on their innermost fears and insecurities. It is an onslaught of advertising, it is on portable platforms designed to be maximally addictive, and it is far beyond what any previous generation of girls have ever faced.Girls teases out and traces both technological and cultural shifts in the last decadefrom social media to shifting family structures, waning religious attachment and the collapse of communal spaces. And Girls exposes the sinister and rapid intensification and ruthless commercialisation of the inner lives of girls and young women which leads to the loss of their authentic selvesa loss that corporations are all too ready to exploit.Girls is a personal journey and intimate portrait of girls today, in all their mystery and torment: one that captures the soul of the most complex and misunderstood generation so far, and that empowers them to see their lives through a different lens.

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for anyone interested in the foundations, structures and growth of these art scenes. It also functions as an anthology of what is now considered established in the Arab world, with contributions covering all aspects of the subjectboth from across the region and from a Western perspective.

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for anyone interested in the foundations, structures and growth of these art scenes. It also functions as an anthology of what is now considered established in the Arab world, with contributions covering all aspects of the subjectboth from across the region and from a Western perspective.

United in Grace, Beyond DebateConversations about abortion often center on the question: Are you pro-life or pro-choice? But what if thats the wrong question? Drawing upon the life and teachings of Jesus, Becoming ProGrace invites Christians to ask new questions, such as: What if conversations about abortion didnt have to feel so tense, divided, or dehumanizing? What does it mean to affirm the image of God in every person involved? How do we navigate tension we may feel when our deepest Christian values seem to conflict? What would it take for Christian communities to become spaces of empathy, listening, and grace? Including insights and personal stories from Christians of diverse denominational backgrounds and political perspectives, Becoming ProGrace articulates a uniquely Christian response to abortion that calls us to take on the character of Christ rather than trying to change others, offering a much-needed message of hope for our divided world.Jesus led with grace. As we reimagine our approach to the abortion conversation, so can we.

Em Fazer justiça, Elsa Deck Marsault parte das lutas contra as violências sexistas para propor uma reflexão que alcança toda a sociedade. A autora examina como o desejo legítimo de responsabilização

Are we seeing history repeat itself?An urgent, surprising and altogether persuasive read, Repeat: A Warning from History will open your eyes.We live in an age that seems eerily familiar. A time of dictators, populists, organised lying, European wars, grabs for territory, ideological extremism and antisemitism. A time when things are falling apart and the centre is struggling to hold. The insurrection on the Capitol in January 2021 evoked chilling memories of the calamity of Hitler in the 1920s and 30s. The world needs to learn the lessons of these decades, and fast. Dennis Glover retells the story of the interwar years in a series of lessons drawn from unfolding events and the unheeded omens of those who spoke out but were ignored.

Scotlands Stone of Destiny is the most famous symbol of both Scottish nationhood and the British monarchy. Nick Aitchison has produced a fully updated, researched and illustrated study of its history, mythology and cultural significance.Having first traced the origin, evolution and function of myths surrounding the Stone and the ancient prophecy that gives the Stone its name, Aitchison examines the Stone itself its appearance, geology and source and reveals the Stones original function and the origins of its symbolic sanctity. Scotlands Stone of Destiny discusses the much-disputed issue of authenticity, and finally places it in a wider context with reference to the Stones significance to the creation of the Scottish parliament and the destiny of the Scots.

O que significa deixar tudo o que nos é familiar para recomeçar em um lugar onde nunca havíamos imaginado viver?Em Outro lugar de mim, Fabiano F. revisita seu passado na tentativa de compreender os caminhos que o levaram a sair do Brasil e reconstruir a vida em outro pais.Da infancia marcada por traumas e privaçes a conquista de uma vida mais estavel, ele nos conduz sem disfarces por suas crises, que o impulsionaram a buscar um novo lugar no mundo.No ano em que completa uma decada nos Estados Unidos, o autor relembra experiencias marcantes dessas "duas vidas" que se entrelaçam, levando-o a repensar crenças, comportamentos e valores. No se trata de um livro para exaltar conquistas; pelo contrario, Fabiano compartilha seus erros e o que restou deles.Este relato tocara profundamente todos que ja quiseram (ou ainda querem) mudar o rumo da propria historia. As vezes, recomeçar e a unica forma de continuar.