Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Bookforum - Men and Women, Casual Sex, Gender, and More


Courtesy of Bookforum, today's link collections included one on men and women, gender differences, and a bunch of related stuff. Enjoy. (BTW, some of these might end up being posted here individually.)

Do men and women read emotions differently?

Shari Motro (Richmond): Preglimony. Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander (Georgia): The "C Word", the "B Word", and the "W Word": Can derogatory terms traditionally used for females form the basis of actionable sexual harassment when directed toward males but overheard by females? Zachary A. Kramer (ASU): Of Meat and Manhood. Men are dirty and disgusting, women are pure and flawless — right? A review of Men: Evolutionary and Life History by Richard G. Bribiescas. From the Good Men Project, a special series on men’s rights activists, including a look at how feminists get the men’s rights movement wrong and how men’s rights activists get feminism wrong. Why do women have casual sex? Terri Conley upends traditional thinking and argues that both genders are looking for the same thing — pleasure (and more). The emotional depth of a turnip: Do men and women read emotions differently? A review of Man and Woman: An Inside Story by Donald Pfaff. A review of Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman by Elizabeth Abbott. Could polygamy be good for women? Satoshi Kanazawa on why women are more beautiful than men: Natural selection has its own logic. A review of Your Skirt’s Too Short — Sex, Power, Choice by Emily Maguire. Real birth control for men is closer than ever. Calling out the catcallers: Rebecca Chiao empowers Egyptian women to speak up about sexual harassment. Are dude blogs going through an identity crisis? Men in their twenties and thirties are fed up with women, but author Kay Hymowitz says you can’t blame them when women are demanding equality except when it comes to romance (and more on Manning Up). Man up, man down! From every angle, it seems, men are being told they're doing it all wrong — is it any wonder they're confused?

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