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In the darkroom / by Faludi, Susan,author.;
"'In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things--obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness.' So begins Susan Faludi's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old father--long estranged and living in Hungary--had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. How was this new parent who claimed to be "a complete woman now" connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known? Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her suburban childhood and her father's many previous incarnations: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels to Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of dark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on repressing its past and constructing a fanciful--and virulent--nationhood. The search for identity that has transfixed our century was proving as treacherous for nations as for individuals. Faludi's struggle to come to grips with her father's reinvented self takes her across borders--historical, political, religious, sexual--to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you "choose," or is it the very thing you can't escape?"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Faludi, Susan; Authors, American; Women journalists; Fathers and daughters.; Identity (Psychology); Sex change; Male-to-female transsexuals;
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Kill your darlings [videorecording] / by Cross, David,1964-; DeHaan, Dane,1987-; Hall, Michael C.,1971-; Krokidas, John.; Leigh, Jennifer Jason,1962-; Radcliffe, Daniel,1989-; Sedgwick, Kyra.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick, David Cross.Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat Generation icon Allen Ginsberg in this biopic set during the famed poet's early years at Columbia University, and centering on a murder investigation involving Ginsberg, his handsome classmate Lucien Carr, and fellow Beat author William S. Burroughs. The year is 1944. Ginsberg (Radcliffe) is a young student at Columbia University when he falls hopelessly under the spell of charismatic classmate Carr (Dane DeHaan). Alongside Carr, Ginsberg manages to strike up friendships with aspiring writers William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) that would cast conformity to the wind, and serve as the foundation of the Beat movement. Meanwhile, an older outsider named David Kammerer falls deeply and madly in love with the impossibly cool Carr. Later, when Kammerer dies under mysterious circumstances, police arrest Kerouac, Burroughs, and Carr as potential suspects, paving the way for an investigation that would have a major impact on the lives of the three emerging artists.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997; Carr, Lucien, 1925-2005; Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997; Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969; Authors, American; Biographical films.; Bohemianism; Feature films.; Historical films.; Male friendship;
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Before They Were Men : Essays on a Gender Crisis. by Tobia, Jacob.;
In 'Before They Were Men', gender nonconforming thought leader Jacob Tobia offers a paradigm-shifting argument for reframing how we think about men. Topics include the unspoken body image issues and dysmorphia confronting men and boys, the difficulty of challenging a world that glorifies war, aggression, and the violence of men, and the case for rethinking terms like Toxic Masculinity and Male Privilege. From the author of 'Sissy'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: SELF-HELP / Gender & Sexuality; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies;
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Oryx and Crake : a novel / by Atwood, Margaret,1939-author.;
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Science fiction.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Genetic engineering; Male friendship;
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Queen of the mist / by Cauchi, Caroline,1973-author.;
A gripping new historical novel inspired by a true story, 'Queen of the Mist' tells the story of Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor, the bravest woman you've never heard of and the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel - over a decade before any male daredevil had the balls to do the same. From the author of 'Mrs Van Gogh'.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Taylor, Annie Edson, 1838-1921; Barrels; Daredevils; Women daredevils;
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Eight strings / by DeRosia, Margaret,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Queer fiction.; Novels.; Apprentices; Interpersonal relations; Male impersonators; Puppeteers; Sexual minorities;
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Invisible women : Data bias in a world designed for men / by Criado-Perez, Caroline,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women.; Male domination (Social structure); Social sciences; Sex role;
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Arcadian days : gods, women, and men from Greek myths / by Spurling, John,author.;
'Arcadian Days' is a bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus and Antigone, Achilles and Thetis, and Odysseus and Penelope.
Subjects: Mythology, Greek.;
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The girl from the garden / by Foroutan, Parnaz,author.;
When his marriage does not produce a male heir, the head of a prosperous Persian-Jewish family makes a fateful decision that shatters his household and drives his wife to desperate measures to preserve her status.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Infertility, Female; Jews; Married people;
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The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past / by Leakey, Meave G.,author.; Leakey, Samira,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir-written with her daughter Samira-encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Leakey, Meave G.; Paleoanthropologists; Women anthropologists; Paleoanthropology;
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