‘She’ is our first venture into novella writing. Being our first book, we have put in our heart and soul to make this a masterpiece of our own. At first, we decided to pool in our poems and compile it to an anthology but to be a dime in a dozen was not our call. Hence, we came up with something unique - She, a story born with poems as the backbone in a gestation period of six months. The twenty eight random poems were from the different facets of our lives over a span of four years. They served as a depiction of our thoughts and validated our instantaneous emotions. And so it was very challenging to mould them into a single story. We started by organizing them, followed by framing pieces of instances. Little did we know that they would be the threads of the beautifully woven story. A beautiful fusion of different emotions, of different entities, of two different individuals’ lives. The essence of the book is aimed at breaking conventional ideas and stereotypes. She conveys the ideas of destiny, trust and self-healing and also speaks about the major problems faced by teens in the contemporary world. The storyline was set to incept a different perception of failure, because we ardently believe, what you see may not change but how you see could!

During the 1960s, Margaret Mead's argument that gender identity is a product of learning in particular cultural contexts was incorporated into the sex/gender system in feminist theory. In this system, sex refers to physiological differences in the body and gender refers to learned sex-specific bodies to be viewed as separate and distinct from gender-neutral minds. In S/He Brain, Nadeau demonstrates that the sex/gender systemis not some arcane bit of academic jargon that has no impact on our daily lives. It is the greatest source of division and conflict in the politics of our sexual lives for a now obvious reason: the brains of men and women are not the same, and the differences have behavioral consequences. Further, he argues that an improved understanding of the relatinship between sex and gender could enlarge the bases for meaningful dialogue between men and women and lead to new standards for sexual equality that is more realistic and humane than the current standard. The individual most responsible for legitimating the modern distinction between sex and gender was the anthropologist Margaret Mead. According to the Mead doctrine, gender identity is almost entirely a product of learning in different cultural contexts, and sex, or biological reality, is not a determinant of this identity. The assumption that gender identity is learned in sexless, or gender-neutral, minds separate and distinct from sex-specific bodies legitimated the sex/gender system that has been foundational to feminist theory since the mid 1970s. In this system, sex refers to physiological differences in the domain of the body and gender to learned behavior in the domain of mind. Since this two-domain distinction obviated the connection between biological reality and gender identity, it allowed gender identity to be viewed as scripted or socially constructed by cultural narratives (stories, myths, legends, and the like) invented by men to control and oppress women. In ^IS/He Brain^R, Nadeau demonstrates that the sex/gender system is not in accord with biological reality for now obvious reasons—the brains of men and women are not the same, and the differences have behavioral consequences. Yet the intent of the book is to serve the cause of full sexual equality and not to escalate the gender war. Nadeau attempts to accomplish this by demonstrating that an improved understanding of the relationship between sex and gender can not only enlarge the bases for meaningful communication between men and women. It could also serve as the basis for a new and improved standard of sexual equality that eliminates the grossly unfair treatment of women sanctioned by the current standard.

Patricia Lee shares potent shamanic medicine and magic as she inspires us to tap into dreams, visions, and the wisdom of the invisible realms. She is gifted at speaking the language of the sacred feminine and masculine through her storytelling and poetry. S/He Dragon tells the deeply personal yet archetypal journey of her descent into the earth and the darkness and reemergence into the light. Patricias story is one of courage. This is a brilliant book! Sandra Ingerman, MA, author of Soul Retrieval and Walking in Light

“If you want to know why more people are asking ‘what’s your pronoun?’ then you (singular or plural) should read this book.” —Joe Moran, New York Times Book Review Heralded as “required reading” (Geoff Nunberg) and “the book” (Anne Fadiman) for anyone interested in the conversation swirling around gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns, What’s Your Pronoun? is a classic in the making. Providing much-needed historical context and analysis to the debate around what we call ourselves, Dennis Baron brings new insight to a centuries-old topic and illuminates how—and why—these pronouns are sparking confusion and prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, and even statehouses. Enlightening and affirming, What’s Your Pronoun? introduces a new way of thinking about language, gender, and how they intersect.

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