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Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore girdles and waist-pinchers…In recent years good girls join the army. They climb the corporate ladder. They go to the gym…They wear painful pointy shoes. They don’t eat too much. They…don’t eat at all. They stay perfect. They stay thin. I could never be good.” The Good Body starts with Eve’s tortured relationship with her own “post-forties” stomach and her skirmishes with everything from Ab Rollers to fad diets and fascistic trainers in an attempt get the “flabby badness” out. As Eve hungrily seeks self-acceptance, she is joined by the voices of women from L.A. to Kabul, whose obsessions are also laid bare: A young Latina candidly critiques her humiliating “spread,” a stubborn layer of fat that she calls “a second pair of thighs.” The wife of a plastic surgeon recounts being systematically reconstructed—inch by inch—by her “perfectionist” husband. An aging magazine executive, still haunted by her mother’s long-ago criticism, describes her desperate pursuit of youth as she relentlessly does sit-ups. Along the way, Eve also introduces us to women who have found a hard-won peace with their bodies: an African mother who celebrates each individual body as signs of nature’s diversity; an Indian woman who transcends “treadmill mania” and delights in her plump cheeks and curves; and a veiled Afghani woman who is willing to risk imprisonment for a taste of ice cream. These are just a few of the inspiring stories woven through Eve’s global journey from obsession to enlightenment. Ultimately, these monologues become a personal wake-up call from Eve to love the “good bodies” we inhabit.

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African Americans --- African American fathers --- Fathers and sons --- African American men --- Role models --- Fishing --- Social aspects --- Daniel, Jack L. --- Daniel, Omari C. --- Family. --- Juniata River Valley (Pa.) --- Social life and customs. --- Angling --- Recreational fishing --- Sport fishing --- Sportfishing --- Models, Role --- Afro-American men --- Men, African American --- Afro-American fathers --- Fathers, African American --- Aquatic sports --- Wildlife-related recreation --- Fishes --- Persons --- Men --- Fathers

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The concept of manhood was immensely important in ancient Athens, shaping its political, social, legal, and ethical systems. This book, a groundbreaking study of manhood in fourth-century Athens, is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of notions about masculinity found in the Attic orators, who represent one of the most important sources for understanding the social history of this period. While previous studies have assumed a uniform ideology about manhood, Joseph Roisman finds that Athenians had quite varied opinions about what constituted manly values and conduct. He situates the evidence for ideas about manhood found in the Attic orators in its historical, ideological, and theoretical contexts to explore various manifestations of Athenian masculinity as well as the rhetoric that both articulated and questioned it. Roisman focuses on topics such as the nexus between manhood and age; on Athenian men in their roles as family members, friends, and lovers; on the concept of masculine shame; on relations between social and economic status and manhood; on manhood in the military and politics; on the manly virtue of self-control; and on what men feared.

Masculinity --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- History --- Rhetoric --- Athens (Greece) --- Civilization. --- ancient athens. --- ancient greece. --- ancient world. --- athenian masculinity. --- athens. --- attic. --- demos. --- domesticity. --- economic status. --- eros. --- fathers and sons. --- fear. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- greed. --- greek men. --- head of household. --- hellenism. --- homosexuality. --- honor. --- husband. --- kharis. --- kinship. --- kurios. --- manhood. --- manliness. --- manly values. --- manly virtue. --- marriage. --- masculine shame. --- masculinity. --- mens studies. --- military. --- nonfiction. --- peace. --- pity. --- pleasure. --- politics. --- pride. --- rhetoric. --- self control. --- sexuality. --- shame. --- social history. --- son. --- status. --- violence. --- war. --- wealth. --- youth.