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1) Future sex
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English
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"Emily Witt is single and in her thirties. Up until a few years ago, she still envisioned her sexual experience 'eventually reaching a terminus, like a monorail gliding to a stop at Epcot Center.' Like many people, she imagined herself disembarking, finding herself face-to-face with another human being, 'and there we would remain in our permanent station in life: the future.' But, as many of us have found, things are more complicated than that. Love...
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English
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In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time--and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to classical Greek and Roman philosophy and Christian theology for their concepts of the sexes, deriding women as oversexed sinners, inherently lustful, insatiable, and weak. In contrast, drawing on accounts...
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