Whether using images of dizzy sex kittens to sell to the man of the house or playing on the fears of domestic inadequacy to sell to the housewife, advertising has rarely let the truth get in the way of a good story. This collection, stretching from the 19th century to the 1970s, shows the ad-man's beloved caricatures of female behavior in outrageous form: -- Down-trodden housewives obsessed with cooking and cleaning-- Hare-brained office girls struggling in a man's world-- Scantily-clad bimbos used to peddle everything from cars to cigarsYou Mean a Women Can Open It...? shows us how far we've really come.

In A Wild Constraint: The Case for Chastity, Taylor addresses the provocative subject of celibacy. Too often considered an exclusively religious option, celibacy has been reclaimed by some feminists and sociologists over the last 20 years as a radical alternative in secular society to the liberal sexual lifestyle. What, after all, is sexual liberation when so often the outcome is pain and social chaos? In the context of promiscuity, sexual abuse and confusion, celibacy can herald a different sexual freedom. Jenny Taylor draws on personal experience and interviews with men and women of all ages to demonstrate the impact of the sexual revolution and to make a case for celibacy. She argues that celibacy is a viable alternative that deserves to be taken seriously and challenges the church to speak out for sexual abstinence with confidence and certainty.

Within the interdisciplinary framework of gender, translation, and advertising, this study investigates gender representations of fictional characters in original and translated audiovisual advertisements. Stavroula (Stave) Vergopoulou discusses various manifestations of sexism on verbal and/or nonverbal levels. She also explores the ways in which translators can reduce or mitigate linguistic sexism in advertising translation to foster gender-fair language use. Her research draws on sociocultural linguistics and particularly on a social constructionist approach to gender identities. The exploration of the relationship(s) of gender and advertising and the discussion of the key concept of translation form the theoretical basis for the empirical research work. For this, English and German commercials from 2017 to 2020 have been examined along with their English, German, and Greek target texts.

“Lately, I can’t muster a single vision of grandeur. After decades spent scrawling dreams in ink, my pen gasping of breath between ideas, I feel flat and floating like a receipt caught high in the wind and swirling around the antenna tips of Midtown office buildings. It has come to my attention that my only remaining passion is to live life with as much sincerity as possible.” In the span of 14 essays, On Love and Communism explores modern young womanhood through a Marxist-feminist lens. Covering mental health, self-care, fast fashion, romance, and #girlboss-ing, Fustich’s essays are both contemporary yet deeply rooted in political history. Influenced by Audre Lorde, Chris Kraus, and yes, Friedrich Engels, On Love and Communism is an emotional and political companion for our age. Originally published in 2018, the second edition features two new essays. Katie Fustich is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her non-fiction and fiction have been published in New York Magazine, Cosmonauts Avenue, Jezebel, VICE and more. She is currently working on a collection of short stories. Visit http://katiefustich.com to learn more.

This book covers the main topics that students need to learn in a course on Industrial Organization. It reviews the classic models and important empirical evidence related to the field. However, it will differ from prior textbooks in two ways. First, this book incorporates contributions from behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, providing the reader with a richer understanding of consumer preferences and the motivation for many of the business practices we see today. The book discusses how firms exploit consumers who are prone to making mistakes and who suffer from cognitive dissonance, attention lapses, and bounded rationality, for example and will help explain why firms invest in persuasive advertising, offer 30-day free trials, offer money-back guarantees, and engage in other observed phenomena that cannot be explained by the traditional approaches to industrial organization. A second difference is that this book achieves a balance between textbooks that emphasize formal modeling and those that emphasize the history of the field, empirical evidence, case studies, and policy analysis. This text puts more emphasis on the micro-foundations (i.e., consumer and producer theory), classic game theoretic models, and recent contributions from behavioral economics that are pertinent to industrial organization. Each topic will begin with a discussion of relevant theory and models and will also include a discussion of concrete examples, empirical evidence, and evidence from case studies. This will provide students with a deeper understanding of firm and consumer behavior, of the factors that influence market structure and economic performance, and of policy issues involving imperfectly competitive markets. The book is intended to be a textbook for graduate students, MBAs and upper-level undergraduates and will use examples, graphical analysis, algebra, and simple calculus to explain important ideas and theories in industrial organization.

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.

Faster than a speeding bullet, more useless than ever before. The #1 New York Times bestselling series reaches new heights of irrelevance with this powerfully pointless, all-new collection of the things you never need to know. Do you actually care that... there are three feet of DNA in every cell? Saturn has 47 moons? March is National Frozen Foods Month? in 2010 a traffic jam in China lasted ten days? Would it improve your life to know... which movie star wanted to be a funeral director? which state has the most horses per square mile? which dictator was obsessed with Cheetos? what day of the year the most cars are stolen in the United States?