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A finales de agosto de 2023, el escándalo generado por el caso Rubiales puso manifiesto, para una inmensa mayoría de la opinión pública, que algo huele a podrido en nuestro fútbol. Sin embargo, no es más que la punta del iceberg de una situación que algunos, los menos, llevan denunciando hace tiempo. Nepotismo, misoginia, espionaje, prebendas, compra de voluntades, medios de comunicación sesgados a favor de los de siempre y tráfico de influencias...
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¿Qué se entiende por machismo? ¿Qué características tiene un hombre machista? ¿De dónde procede y qué antecedentes tiene esta conducta? ¿Cómo puede un hombre trascender su propio machismo y lograr una mayor conexión con sus emociones y las de quienes lo rodean? ¿Cómo pueden hombres y mujeres, juntos, construir nuevas y/o diferentes formas de entender y vivir la masculinidad y los roles de género?
Estas, y otras preguntas, son abordadas...
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348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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The celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film explores how sexuality in the movies and the performances of iconic actors have reflected cultural experimentation and the fulfillment of latent desires.
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230 pages ; 23 cm
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En un testimonio que abarca los últimos cincuenta años, Marina Castañeda, autora de los títulos clásicos "La experiencia homosexual y el machismo invisible", relata cómo ha vivido la homosexualidad en sus aspectos personales, sociales y profesionales, en paralelo con los avances históricos del movimiento de liberación gay desde su inicio. En un texto que combina anécdotas y reflexiones basadas en su vida, investigaciones y consulta terapéutica,...
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xi, 125 pages ; 21 cm
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"In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women's bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings...
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viii, 387 pages ; 24 cm
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"Just Like Us" offers a powerful account of four young Mexican women coming of age in Denver--two of whom have legal documentation, two of whom who don't--and the challenges they face as they attempt to pursue the American dream.
12) Queer nation
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Argentina may lead South America in terms of progressive social politics, but the gap between cultural values and recently accorded rights to gays, lesbians, and transsexuals is palpable and persistent. A toxic atmosphere is created from the all-encompassing Catholicism and machismo along with the complexity of class, historical, and rural-urban divides, as well as aboriginal-settler tensions.
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xiv, 185 pages ; 21 cm
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At the center of Kurt Vonnegut's first play, which premiered in New York in 1970 and was then adapted into a film in 1971, is big-game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan. For eight years, he has been presumed dead, lost in the Amazon Rain Forest while hunting for diamonds. Now he's back, only to find his wife engaged to a hippie doctor and his son transformed into a pampered sissy. Though his hunting trophies remain, an inexplicable birthday cake sits...
14) Chola salvation
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"Estella Gonzalez vividly captures her native East LA in these affecting stories about a marginalized people dealing with racism, machismo and poverty. In painful and sometimes humorous scenes, young people try to escape the traditional expectations of their family. Other characters struggle with anger and resentment, often finding innovative ways to exact revenge for slights both real and imagined. Throughout, music--traditional and contemporary--accompanies...
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"Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration of the author's boyhood spent in his sister's hand-me-down clothes, this book delves into the enduring and complex bond between Martinez and his deeply flawed, but fiercely protective older brother. It features a cast...
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198 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
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"High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. It is a book centered on one extended family - the Beléns - across multiple generations. It is set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa - and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights too. It is told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical - and its stories explore machismo,...
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234 pages ; 19 cm.
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Deserted Cities narrates the story of Susana and Eligio, a couple from Mexico City, who put their love to the test in a small, forgotten town in the United States. The story begins when Susana is offered to participate in a writers' program in the country to the north, a proposal that fits her like a glove because Susana needs her own space, her own adventure, to feel alive. Without thinking twice or consulting with Eligio, her husband and an often...
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254 pages ; 22 cm.
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A pesar de la conciencia cada vez mayor de la necesidad de una educación más justa y feminista, los varones siguen siendo educados según las pautas del patriarcado. Aún en ambientes considerados progresistas, existe un machismo que impregna lo que se dice, los regalos que se hacen, las responsabilidades que se asignan y cómo se cría a los varones. Este libro ayuda a detectar y combatir esos resabios machistas en la educación, con el fin de...
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456 pages ; 24 cm
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"When 30-year-old Anna Ramsey learns that a meth-addicted looter has dug up what might be the funerary mask of Montezuma, she books the next flight to Oaxaca. Determined to redeem her father, a discredited art collector, and to one-up her unfaithful fiance, a museum curator, Anna hurls herself headlong into Mexico's underground art world. But others are chasing the treasure as well: the shape-shifting drug lord no one can really describe; the enigmatic...
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445 pages ; 22 cm
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"¿Quienes son Las ±chicas de ninguna parte¬? ¿Lograrán acabar con Los verdaderos hombres de Prescott y su machismo?¿Quienes son Las ±chicas de ninguna parte¬? Todas lo son, pero en el instituto Prescott empiezan siendo solo tres: Grace Salter acaba de llegar a la ciudad tras dejar la localidad en la que vivían a cuanta de que su madre, predicadora baptista, se cayó de un caballo, se golpeó en la cabeza y se convirtió en una liberal radical....
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