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201) Madame
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Français
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A double portrait of a young boy slowly coming out of the closet and of the lady that was, even more than his mother, the woman in his life, his grandmother. The film takes viewers on an intimate journey where Caroline, a flamboyant 90-year-old grandmother, and her filmmaker grandson Stephane explore the development and transmission of gender identity in a patriarchal environment. Stephane struggles to play the role everyone expects in his Swiss bourgeois...
207) Higher learning
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English
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First-term college freshmen get a crash course in diversity, identity and sexuality.
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Each year just before Christmas, new Santas are initiated to run the sleighs, and every generation, a new North Pole Santa receives his birthright to be the next North Pole Santa. The next in line is an adopted Athabascan girl, and the Twentieth North Pole Santa's brothers have consipred to prevent her from running a sleigh or becoming the Twenty-First North Pole Santa.
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"What Makes Girls Sick and Tired is a feminist manifesto that denounces the discrimination against and unfairness felt by women from childhood to adulthood. The graphic novel, illustrated in a strikingly minimalist style with images of girls with varied body types and personalities, invites teenagers to question the sexism that surrounds us, in ways that are obvious and hidden, simple and complex."--
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Little Olympians series volume 4
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English
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"The Little Olympians have decided to start a camp paper to report on all their feats! Hermes writes about an archery contest that Artemis wins. However, when the paper comes out, most of the article is about Apollo and how well he did, and Artemis is only mentioned briefly. She confronts Hermes about this, and he says he was just really impressed by Apollo, and Apollo's bragging made for a better story. Can Artemis get the boys to understand how...
214) Growing up a girl
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Girls growing up in America face sexist school dress code policies, pressure to meet impossible beauty standards, and gender-based violence. This title looks at the differences between the girl and boy experiences of growing up and the steps people can take to address sexist practices.
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We trust our sciences to operate on a plane of objectivity and fact in a world of subjectivity and cultural ideologies, but should we? In The Age of Scientific Sexism, philosopher Mari Ruti offers a sharp critique of the gender profiling tendencies of evolutionary psychology, untangling the insidious threads of various gender mythologies that have infiltrated--or perhaps even define--this faux-science. Selling stereotypes as scientific facts, evolutionary...
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Doctors routinely deny patients access to hormonal birth control prescription refills, and this issue has broad interest for feminism, biomedical ethics, and applied ethics in general. Medical Sexism argues that such practices violate a variety of legal and moral standards, including medical ethics, informed consent, and human rights. Jill B. Delston makes the case that medical sexism serves as a major underlying cause of these systemic and persistent...
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English
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This best-selling anthology expertly explores concepts of identity, diversity and inequality as it introduces students to race, class, gender, and sexuality in the United States. The thoroughly updated 10th edition features 38 new readings. New material explores citizenship and immigration, mass incarceration, sex crimes on campus, transgender identity, the school to prison pipeline, food insecurity, the Black Lives Matter movement, the pathology...
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