Collects women's stereotypes of men from interviews, art, politics, and psychology in a controversial "postfeminist" exposition that argues that man-hating is a "collective, cultural phenomenon" and not an individual neurosis. National ad/promo. Tour.

My Enemy My Love

Politics & Social Sciences

Levine, Judith

Social Sciences

DOUBLEDAY

An exploration of why women hate men culls women's stereotypes of men from popular culture, art, and politics and draws anecdotes from interviews to explore this hatred. Reprint.

My Enemy, My Love

Anchor

Ain't No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters

Ain’t No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.―at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers―and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and why it’s failing the very people it is designed to help.  By comparing low-income mothers’ experiences before and after welfare reform, Judith A. Levine probes women’s struggles to gain or keep jobs while they simultaneously care for their children, often as single mothers. By offering a new way to understand how structural factors impact the daily experiences of poor women, Ain’t No Trust highlights the pervasiveness of distrust in their lives, uncovering its hidden sources and documenting its most corrosive and paralyzing effects. Levine’s critique and conclusions hold powerful implications for scholars and policymakers alike.  

University of California Press

In her award-winning Harmful to Minors, Judith Levine radically disturbed our fixed ideas about childhood. Now, the poignantly personal Do You Remember Me? tackles the other end of life. The book is both the memoir of a daughter coming to terms with a difficult father who is sinking into dementia and an insightful exploration of the ways we think about disability, aging, and the self as it resides in the body and the world. In prose that is unsentimental yet moving, serious yet darkly funny, complex in emotion and ideas yet spare in diction, Levine reassembles her father's personal and professional history even as he is losing track of it. She unpeels the layers of his complicated personality and uncovers information that surprises even her mother, to whom her father has been married for more than sixty years. As her father deteriorates, the family consensus about who he was and is and how best to care for him constantly threatens to collapse. Levine recounts the painful discussions, mad outbursts, and gingerly negotiations, and dissects the shifting alliances among family, friends, and a changing guard of hired caretakers. Spending more and more time with her father, she confronts a relationship that has long felt bereft of love. By caring for his needs, she learns to care about and, slowly, to love him. While Levine chronicles these developments, she looks outside her family for the sources of their perceptions and expectations, deftly weaving politics, science, history, and philosophy into their personal story. A memoir opens up to become a critique of our culture's attitudes toward the old and demented. A claustrophobic account of Alzheimer's is transformed into a complex lesson about love, duty, and community. What creates a self and keeps it whole? Levine insists that only the collaboration of others can safeguard her father's self against the riddling of his brain. Embracing interdependence and vulnerability, not autonomy and productivity, as the seminal elements of our humanity, Levine challenges herself and her readers to find new meaning, even hope, in one man's mortality and our own.

Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self

Biographies & Memoirs

Atria Books

An award-winning journalist traces a year during which she and her partner struggled with a pledge to avoid consumer spending practices in spite of their American conditioning, an effort that had a profound impact on their careers, family relationships, and personal identities. By the author of Do You Remember Me? 25,000 first printing.

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping

Professionals & Academics

Free Press

Shocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all but the most necessary purchases for an entire year. Without consumer goods and experiences, Judith and Paul pursue their careers, nurture relationships, and try to keep their sanity, their identities, and their sense of humor intact. Tracking their progress -- and inevitable lapses -- Levine contemplates need and desire, scarcity and security, consumerism and citizenship. She asks the Big Questions: Can the economy survive without shopping? Are Q-tips necessary? Not Buying It is the confession of a woman any reader can identify with: someone who can't live without French roast coffee or SmartWool socks but who has had it up to here with overconsumption and its effects on the earth and everyone who dwells there. For the humor and intelligence of its insights, the refreshment of its skepticism, and the surprises of its conclusions, Not Buying It is sure to be on anyone's list of Necessities.

Community & Culture

Offers parents a wide range of weight-loss solutions for youngsters of all ages that will not damage a child's self-esteem or stunt growth, sharing advice on creating a nutritious, low-fat diet, bolstering self-esteem, increasing exercise, and more.

Helping Your Child Lose Weight The Healthy Way: A Family Approach to Weight Control

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diets & Weight Loss

Citadel

A radical approach to sexual education re-evaluates the relationship between parents and their children on a wide variety of subjects surrounding sex and emphasizes a common-sense, positive, ethics-based approach to teaching youngsters about sex.

Harmful To Minors: The Perils Of Protecting Children From Sex

Elders, Joycelyn M.

Teen & Young Adult

Univ. of Minnesota Press

In her award-winning Harmful to Minors, Judith Levine radically disturbed our fixed ideas about childhood. Now, the poignantly personal Do You Remember Me? tackles the other end of life. The book is both the memoir of a daughter coming to terms with a difficult father who is sinking into dementia and an insightful exploration of the ways we think about disability, aging, and the self as it resides in the body and the world.

Now available in paperback, Judith Levine's controversial book challenges American attitudes towards child and adolescent sexuality-especially attitudes promulgated by a Christian right that has effectively seized control of how sex is taught in public schools. The author-a thoughtful and persuasive journalist and essayist-examines the consequences of "abstinence" only education and its concomitant association of sex with disease, and the persistent denial of pleasure. She notes the trend toward pathologizing young children's eroticized play and argues that Americans should rethink the boundaries we draw in protecting our children from sex. This powerful and illuminating work was nominated for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex

Self-Help

Da Capo Lifelong Books

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My Enemy My Love

My Enemy, My Love

Ain't No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters

Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping

Helping Your Child Lose Weight The Healthy Way: A Family Approach to Weight Control

Harmful To Minors: The Perils Of Protecting Children From Sex

Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self

Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex