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The Pursuit of Loneliness Philip Slater · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "The mother-son relationship is the focus of this major study of Greek family and Greek mythology. Greek women married early, were excluded from public life, and had little legal protection; yet females figure prominently in Greek mythology and the maternal goddesses are often represented as powerful and aggressive. It is Slater's contention that women in Greek society exerted a strong… Shares: Conditions sociales, Culture, Social conditions

The merry men, and other tales and fables Robert Louis Stevenson · 1887 · 407p · ≈ 13h · Challenging This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

Culture and religion in some of their relations John Campbell Shairp · 1871 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Culture, Philosophy

Ginx's baby Edward Jenkins · 1870 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging The name of the father of Ginx’s Baby was Ginx. By a not unexceptional coincidence, its mother was Mrs. Ginx. The gender of Ginx’s Baby was masculine. On the day when our hero was born, Mr. and Mrs. Ginx were living at Number Five, Rosemary Street, in the City of Westminster. The being then and there brought into the world was not the only human entity to which the title of “Ginx’s Baby” was or… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan · 1963 · ★ 3.9 · 386p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Landmark, groundbreaking, classic―these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women’s confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average… Shares: Conditions sociales, Open_syllabus_project, Social conditions

Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1911 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the welfare of the human race as a whole. Society's long history of male hegemony and female subservience has not enhanced the natural qualities of the human race but rather distorted… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

American Indian Stories Zitkála-Šá · 1921 · ★ 4.0 · 98p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Collection of American Indian stories by Zitkala-Sa, an Sioux Indian. Many of the stories are of an autobiographical nature. Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

Guapa Saleem Haddad · 2016 · ★ 4.5 · 331p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother, the woman who raised him, catches… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

Women and economics Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1898 · ★ 3.6 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by the work she does - and thus man becomes her economic environment. As a consequence, her "female" attributes dominate her "human" qualities because they determine her… Shares: Conditions sociales, Open_syllabus_project, Social conditions

La cité de la joie Dominique Lapierre · 1985 · ★ 4.3 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate En La Ciudad de la Alegría se narran las vivencias de varios personajes en un slum (barrio de chabolas) de Calcuta. Paul Lambert es un cura católico francés cuya misión personal es ayudar a los más necesitados. Max Loeb un médico americano que llega a Calcuta cautivado por el trabajo de Lambert. Su historia se va mezclando con la de la familia Pal, con el cabeza de familia Hasari, que deben de… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

Life Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe Oliver Nyambi · 2019 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c. 2000–2009).Much of what has been written about the Zimbabwean crisis – a decade-long period of unprecedented economic collapse and political upheavals in… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

Hard Times Charles Dickens · 1854 · ★ 3.5 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Dickens scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideas and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination. Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

The mis-education of the Negro Carter Godwin Woodson · 1933 · ★ 4.5 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Raises questions that readers were trying to answer in 1933 and are still trying to answer today. Explores the impact of slavery on the Black psyche and raises questions about our educational system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and training, and which of these African Americans are receiving. Provides solutions to these challenges, but… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

Letters from New York Lydia Maria Child · 1843 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This carefully crafted ebook: "Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Memoirs Narrative of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave The Underground Railroad Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl History of Mary… Shares: Culture, Social conditions

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 This Excellent Collection brings together Stapledon's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Science-Fiction Books. This Books created and collected in Olaf Stapledon's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. William Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) is one of the… Shares: Philosophy

Homo Ludens Johan Huizinga · 1938 · ★ 4.0 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A unique philosophical perspective regarding the topic of play and it's impact and necessity in human culture. Shares: Culture, Philosophy

Stupid white men Michael Moore · 2001 · ★ 3.0 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate OCLC 685134910 ISBN13 9788589362146 Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

De la division du travail social Émile Durkheim · 1893 · ★ 3.9 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Challenging "In 1893, a young doctoral student was to publish an entirely original work on the nature of labor and production as they were being shaped by the industrial revolution. Emile Durkheim's The Division of Labor in Society studies the nature of social solidarity and explores the ties that bind one person to the next in order to hold society together. This revised and updated second edition fluently… Shares: Open_syllabus_project, Social conditions, Philosophy

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