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Revised and updated, this book reverses the tendency in gender studies to portray men as villains and women as victims in a bi-polar paradigm, presenting data and studies from the US, Canada and the UK in the development of a comparative and revised perspective on gender.

Revised and updated, this book reverses the tendency in gender studies to portray men as villains and women as victims in a bi-polar paradigm, presenting data and studies from the US, Canada and the UK in the development of a comparative and revised perspective on gender.

Proceeding from a radically different perspective in seeking a more positive, balanced and inclusive view of men (and women), this book presents three contrasting paradigms of men as Heroes, Villains and Victims.

Proceeding from a radically different perspective in seeking a more positive, balanced and inclusive view of men (and women), this book presents three contrasting paradigms of men as Heroes, Villains and Victims.

THE POWER OF SEX is an entertaining and often startling book that clearly explains why sex, genders, and sexualities-once so relatively simple-are now more complicated and problematic than ever. We may still be male or female but we are also increasingly intersex, transitioning, transgender, trans­sexual, she-males, or ambisexual, we may still be heterosexual or homosex­ual, but we are also increasingly bisexual, asexual, egosexual, polysexual...

This text argues that smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. It attempts to break the "olfactory silence" of modernity by offering an exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history and in a wide variety of non-Western societies.