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The new ruling elite in the west the ultra-wealthy tech magnates, financial wizards and corporate bosses that wield enormous power over us embrace extremely progressive political ideas. What explains this apparent paradox?In this scintillating critique of these new radical plutocrats, conservative commentator Ed West argues that the luxury beliefs of the new Brahmin caste are perfectly consistent with their accumulation of ever greater wealth. Ultra-liberalism, with its inherent bias towards valorising autonomy, freedom, and cosmopolitanism, is a creed that inherently benefits the rich. Examining how this new elite allies itself with both younger, poorer knowledge workers and immigrants against the more culturally conservative working classes, he argues that the rise of identity politics allows the wealthy to pose as social justice warriors in a way that poses no threat to their own privilege and power.A must-read for both conservatives and traditional leftists, Brahmins is a razor-sharp diagnosis of a culture that is combining the worst element of capitalism and progressivism.

What does it mean to be a lesbian now? Has the quest for lesbian liberation stalled, and if so, why?Part-autobiography, part frontline reportage and part cultural commentary, Julie Bindel examines what defines lesbian culture, love, friendship and happiness today. She distinguishes the particular challenges facing lesbians from the very different experiences of gay men, and asks: why do lesbians so often seem to face particular hostility? Comparing past attitudes to today, she argues that lesbians continue to suffer from bigotry and discrimination because sexism and enforced gendered roles are still left unchallenged. She explores why many of the biggest assaults on lesbian freedom and wellbeing around the world now come, not just from conservatives, but also from so-called progressives, who are often antagonistic to lesbians organising and socialising autonomously.Rooted in her own remarkable story, this personal and passionate book is a testament as much to the peculiar joy of being a lesbian as much to the obstacles to lesbian flourishing. It is a much-needed contribution to the debate in the era of progressive misogyny and gender theory.

Rarely has there been a more confusing time to be a man. This uncertainty has spawned an array of bizarre and harmful underground subcultures, collectively known as the manosphere, as men search for new forms of belonging. In Lost Boys, James Bloodworth delves into these underground worlds and asks where have they come from? Why are so many men susceptible to the sinister beliefs these groups promote? What does the emergence of these communities say about Western society? And what can we do about it? In the course of his journey he meets incels, enlists on a bootcamp for so-called alpha males, and speaks to modern day Hugh Hefners using social media to broadcast their jet set lifestyles to millions of followers. Combining compulsive memoir with powerful reporting, fascinating international case studies, data, cultural analysis and history, Lost Boys is an essential guide to the crisis in contemporary masculinity.

Why is it that despite the worlds richest countries adopting wide-reaching gender equality laws men still hold the majority of leadership roles? And why do men remain overrepresented in the computer and mathematical sciences and as engineers, priests and plumbers, while most registered nurses, childcare workers and receptionists are women? To many, it is clear that our contemporary gendered division of labour is both cause and consequence of the sex-based hierarchy of power over resources, a.k.a. the patriarchy. For others there are inherent evolutionary differences between men and women that make us better suited to particular roles in society. Surveying social and cultural history and drawing on statistics and ideas from science, business, psychology and social justice, Cordelia Fine shows how such simple and incendiary explanations are pushing mainstream feminism in increasingly unthreatening and ineffective directions, how the gender hierarchy continues to perpetuate and enforce patriarchal norms, and what needs to be done to get back on track. Unflinching and groundbreaking, Patriarchy Inc. provides a radical new interpretation of men and womens work and offers a new vision for gender equality.

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Family life has changed dramatically over the past 60 years.Increased opportunities for women, greater freedom and autonomy, and a more equal domestic sphere have brought great gains for human freedom. However, argues David Goodhart, there have been losses too: our greater freedoms have produced negative consequences in family breakdown, childrens declining mental health, and the undervaluing of the traditionally female domains of care. Sharply falling birthrates also present major economic and social challenges.For many people, especially in the bottom half of the income spectrum, the costs now outweigh the benefits. The Care Dilemma argues that we need a new policy settlement that supports gender equality while also recognising the importance of stable families and community life, and that sees having children as a public as well as private good.

Nesta interpretação inédita, Jessé Souza surpreende ao indicar que o racismo – e não o ganho econômico nem a pauta dos costumes – está na raiz da virada moralista que catapultou a extrema direita no

Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally published in 1942, as war still raged between Finland and Soviet Union. Its writer was a Finnish woman who emigrated to Russia in the 1930s, convinced the new egalitarian state and workers paradise would be a better life for her and her young son, hopeful once settled she could send for him. What followed was very different to what was promised: a life in constant fear, under intense government scrutiny, of purges and Great Wraths, good people imprisoned and shot; and state-run propaganda that spun a web of lies around its people. The author eventually escaped, defying the odds when so many of her friends and loved ones did not, and recorded her memories under a pseudonym in what became the second most censored book from Finnish libraries after the war. This is the first English translation of this important memoir, whose original preface states: I simply want to provide an honest account of what my friends and I had to live through under the "Stalinist sun".

De la mano de Alexsinos exploraremos la cultura popular de las dos primeras décadas de los 2000 para divertirnos al revivirlas y recordarlasDe la mano del creador de contenido Alexsinos, nos internaremos en las dos primeras decadas de los 2000. Para ello, entraremos en Guadalix de la Sierra, asistiremos a una gala de Operacion Triunfo, veremos Salvame, chatearemos por Messenger, jugaremos a la serpiente, y repasaremos peliculas, series y un monton de musica. Tambien seremos influencers, comeremos las uvas, recordaremos los exitos de la Roja y seremos protagonistas de algun que otro casting o talent show, bien vestidas para la ocasion.La historia de la cultura popular de los dos mil como nunca te la han contado. Una historia con un sinfin de capitulos que aun estan sin escribir

Llamamos «malismo» al antiintuitivo mecanismo propagandístico que consiste en la ostentación pública de acciones o deseos tradicionalmente reprobables con la finalidad de conseguir un beneficio socia

Unviajeúnico, através de un centenar deobjetos, quenostransporta amultiples,fascinantes y a menudoignoradashazañasfemeninas.«Caprichoso, divertido e ingenioso. El libro de Annabelle Hirsch escomo una

Explora un mundo de curiosidades y despierta tu mente con cada página de este libro lleno de sorpresas y conocimientos. ¡Cultura en pequeñas dosis!  ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué los cruasane

Zaida Muxí repassa neste livro o papel histórico das mulheres na produção e no pensamento da arquitetura e do urbanismo. E reflete sobre como essa presença – e sobretudo, a ausência recorrente da per

Un testimonio personal de la periodista queer Laura Terciado acerca de su experiencia de vida como lesbiana y defensora de los derechos del colectivo LGBT.Seguramente alguna vez hayas sentido que todos son normales menos tu.Yo naci y creci en Avila pensando que era la unica lesbiana de la ciudad yestando segura de que el Diablo vendria a por mi.Me sentia sola, rara, atrapada en una "fase" que se eternizaba y dentro de un armario con tantas puertas que creia que jamas seria capaz de salir de el.Odiaba el instituto, odiaba el color rosa, odiaba los motes, los insultos, las preguntas, la palabra lesbiana. Pero, por encima de todas las cosas, me odiaba a mi misma.Hasta que explote. Y todo salto por los aires.

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Inheritocracyis a provocative and eye-opening analysis of how parental support is therealeconomic story of the twenty-firstcentury.This is a recent development but has echoes in the nineteenthcentury. The modern reality is that for those under forty-five, life chances and opportunities are no longer determined by what you learn or earn but increasingly by whether you have access to the parental ATM.And there are no signs of the inheritance economy abating.With an estimated 5.5 trillion of family wealth set to be transferred in the UK over the next three decades, todays millennials, often caught between raising children and looking after parents,are poised to become the richest generation in history. Yet there is a deep and powerful divide emerging between those who can rely on family financial support and those who cant.This division gives rise to a taboo. Who among us freely admits to the levels of financial support we receive from parents or evengrandparents?Inheritocracyisa stimulating and original blend of memoir and cultural commentary, told through Eliza Filbys humorous and insightful voice and enhanced by over thirty interviews with a diverse group of millennials, as well as the views of politicians, economists, authors and experts from David Willetts to Otegha Uwagba. It also features exclusive YouGov polling data on the surprising ways that British families think about money, wealth, class and themost obvious but hidden privilegethat defines life in the twenty-firstcentury: inheritance.Inheritocracyis a fresh and compelling exploration of our recent past and a future that will be shaped for better or worse by the largest transference of wealth in human history.

Un libro imprescindible para descubrir las voces e historias ocultas de mujeres que desafiaron el estigma de la soltería.Hasta hace no mucho tiempo, las mujeres que no se casaban eran estigmatizadas como raras, neuroticas, amargadas, poco agraciadas o, directamente, fracasadas. Llevaban sobre los hombros una pesada losa que producia, en el mejor de los casos, lastima.El matrimonio ha sido la norma durante siglos, el que marcaba la llegada a la edad adulta de la mujer y, generalmente, su medio para subsistir. Y en el caso concreto de nuestro pais de forma muchisimo mas acusada, porque arrastramos cuarenta años de dictadura en la que unas ideas determinadas de la feminidad, asi como de la masculinidad, fueron parte fundamental del programa ideologico: la mujer ocupaba un papel central en la construccion del regimen tras la guerra, pero con la funcion eminente de ser la madre de la familia.A traves de la experiencia personal de veinte mujeres que nunca se han casado, obras literarias, documentos tanto periodisticos como audiovisuales y a medio camino entre evocacion y sociologia, Manuel Jimenez Nuñez busca reivindicar la memoria y dar a conocer a las nuevas generaciones el arquetipo femenino de la solterona.Decia Carmen Martin Gaite que una de las conclusiones a las que habia llegado, despues de estudiarlo mucho y darle muchas vueltas, es que a las solteras que no van a encontrar marido se las margina o se las caricaturiza, pero nunca se habla realmente con ellas. En este libro hablamos con ellas y les damos la voz cantante.

Un original recorrido por las representaciones más significativas de la institución matrimonial a través de la literatura femenina.Para millones de mujeres, el pequeño aro que adorna su dedo anular y que segun la tradicion simboliza el amor, ha constituido, mas que un anillo, una argolla vital: el sometimiento impuesto por el matrimonio en forma de esclavitud sexual, cautiverio en el hogar, alienacion comomadresposas y toda clase de violencias machistas, en la mente y en la piel.Aunque el silencio ha borrado la mayoria de los testimonios, muchas escritoras han querido relatar esta opresion en sus novelas. George Sand, Merce Rodoreda, Louisa May Alcott, Emilia Pardo Bazan, Edith Wharton, Elena Fortun o Alice Walker han narrado los abusos dentro de la institucion matrimonial.En este ensayo comprometido con el arte y la dignidad, Purificacio Mascarell traza una constelacion de autoras rebeldes frente al poder patriarcal. De la mano de pensadoras como Mary Wollstonecraft, Emma Goldman, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir o Kate Millett, quien afirmo que lo personal es politico,Como anillo al cuello viaja por la literatura y el feminismo en busca del reverso del amor romantico. Un rescate de las voces femeninas que se han atrevido a cuestionar el destino reservado a las mujeres: casarse y callar.

Paola Ramos explora cómo la raza, la identidad y el trauma político han influido en el auge de la extrema derecha latina, y cómo este grupo puede moldear la política de Estados Unidos.Históricamente, los democratas han asumido que pueden contar con el voto latino, pero las elecciones recientes han puesto esa lealtad en tela de juicio. A pesar de su retorica antiinmigrante y sus desastrosas politicas fronterizas, Donald Trump gano un mayor porcentaje del voto latino en 2020 comparado con 2016. Ahora, la periodista Paola Ramos analiza a estos votantes, viajando por todo el pais para descubrir que los motiva a apoyar posiciones que parecen tan contrarias a sus intereses.De costa a costa, de ciudades a zonas rurales, Desertores nos presenta a candidatos republicanos desfavorecidos, insurrectos del 6 de enero, pastores evangelicos y defensores de la guerra cultural, tratando de identificar las influencias que empujan este movimiento hacia la derecha. A traves de sus historias, Ramos nos muestra como el tribalismo, el tradicionalismo y el trauma politico dentro de la comunidad latina han sido usados como un arma para radicalizar y convertir a votantes, que temen perdersu lugar en la sociedad estadounidense.Desertores es un informe cuidadoso e intercultural que resalta como uno de los electorados mas poderosos e incomprendidos de Estados Unidos puede llegar a definir el futuro de la politica de este pais.

Stanley Aronowitz was a towering figure on the American left for over sixty years. Both a tireless organizer and a militant social and political theorist, Aronowitz was a highly perceptive analyst of class power. He was dedicated throughout his career to the development and circulation of conceptual weapons for the working class and for all those who faced oppression within American society.Live Theory is a crucial introduction to an indispensable thinker, bringing together in thirteen seminal essays Aronowitzs theoretical contributions to fundamental questions regarding science, class, culture, and education, alongside his pioneering interventions on labor, contract unionism, and the struggle for radical democracy.Praise for Stanley Aronowitz:"One of Americas most prominent social theorists."The Brooklyn Rail"Stanley Aronowitz is a national treasure." Peter McLaren, UCLA"Stanley Aronowitz is the most important scholar on the past and present US working class."Cornel West"Stanley was a distinguished scholar of labor, work, unions, class, education, American politics, and Marxism. [] [False Promises] is the most wide-ranging exploration of working-class consciousness Ive ever read. [] A fighting left needs more people like him []."Jamie McCallum, Jacobin"Through his radical and relentless pursuit of knowledge and justice, Aronowitz provided a blueprint for living an intellectual life that matters to those of us who refuse to accept the status quo."Eric Weiner, Montclair State University