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Beyond Human Nature
by Jesse J. Prinz • 2011
Language, emotions, gender, and thought: how culture builds the mind that biology only primes.
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246
🧠 Cultural Psychology🌍 Cognitive Anthropology🧬 Nature Vs Nurture🗣️ Linguistic Relativity🏗️ Social Construction
Beyond Human Nature Summary
Beyond Human Nature 94%
Language, emotions, gender, and thought: how culture builds the mind that biology only primes.
by Jesse J. Prinz 2011
3.69
246 ratings
🧠 Cultural Psychology🌍 Cognitive Anthropology🧬 Nature Vs Nurture🗣️ Linguistic Relativity🏗️ Social Construction
Is It Ever Just Sex?
by Darian Leader • 2023
A psychoanalyst argues sex is not about pleasure: a stage for infantile anxieties, guilt, and power.
3.37
479
📚 Psychoanalytic Theory🌍 Sex And Culture👶 Childhood Sexuality😈 Guilt And Desire🚻 Heteronormativity
Is It Ever Just Sex? Summary
Is It Ever Just Sex? 92%
A psychoanalyst argues sex is not about pleasure: a stage for infantile anxieties, guilt, and power.
by Darian Leader 2023
3.37
479 ratings
📚 Psychoanalytic Theory🌍 Sex And Culture👶 Childhood Sexuality😈 Guilt And Desire🚻 Heteronormativity
The Weirdest People in the World
by Joseph Henrich • 2020
How a medieval church's war on cousin marriage made the West individualistic, analytical, and rich.
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4k+
🧠 Cultural Psychology🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Kinship And Social Structure🧪 Cross-Cultural Experiments🔄 Cultural Evolution Theory
The Weirdest People in the World Summary
The Weirdest People in the World 92%
How a medieval church's war on cousin marriage made the West individualistic, analytical, and rich.
by Joseph Henrich 2020
4.13
4k+ ratings
🧠 Cultural Psychology🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Kinship And Social Structure🧪 Cross-Cultural Experiments🔄 Cultural Evolution Theory
The Nurture Assumption
by Judith Rich Harris • 1998
Parents shape children far less than we believe. Peers, not parents, build adult personality.
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👥 Peer Influence🧬 Behavioral Genetics🏠 Parental Influence Debate🐒 Evolutionary Psychology🔗 Group Dynamics
The Nurture Assumption Summary
The Nurture Assumption 91%
Parents shape children far less than we believe. Peers, not parents, build adult personality.
by Judith Rich Harris 1998
4.14
2k+ ratings
👥 Peer Influence🧬 Behavioral Genetics🏠 Parental Influence Debate🐒 Evolutionary Psychology🔗 Group Dynamics
The World Until Yesterday
by Jared Diamond • 2012
What hunter-gatherers knew about raising children, avoiding danger, and ending feuds we forgot.
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🏕️ Traditional Societies👶 Child Rearing⚠️ Risk Perception🤝 Restorative Justice🛡️ Traditional Warfare
The World Until Yesterday Summary
The World Until Yesterday 91%
What hunter-gatherers knew about raising children, avoiding danger, and ending feuds we forgot.
by Jared Diamond 2012
3.78
11k+ ratings
🏕️ Traditional Societies👶 Child Rearing⚠️ Risk Perception🤝 Restorative Justice🛡️ Traditional Warfare
The Psychology of Sex
by Meg John Barker • 2018
Sexuality runs on spectrums, not switches. Culture writes the script your body follows.
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185
🧠 Sexual Psychology🔍 Critical Psychology🏗️ Social Constructionism🌈 Sexual Diversity🤝 Consent Culture
The Psychology of Sex Summary
The Psychology of Sex 91%
Sexuality runs on spectrums, not switches. Culture writes the script your body follows.
by Meg John Barker 2018
3.88
185 ratings
🧠 Sexual Psychology🔍 Critical Psychology🏗️ Social Constructionism🌈 Sexual Diversity🤝 Consent Culture
The Geography of Thought
by Richard E. Nisbett • 2003
Westerners lock on objects; East Asians read the field: a divide rooted in ancient Greece and China.
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4k+
🧠 Cultural Psychology🌏 East-West Differences👥 Social Cognition🧩 Cognitive Styles👀 Context Sensitivity
The Geography of Thought Summary
The Geography of Thought 91%
Westerners lock on objects; East Asians read the field: a divide rooted in ancient Greece and China.
by Richard E. Nisbett 2003
3.82
4k+ ratings
🧠 Cultural Psychology🌏 East-West Differences👥 Social Cognition🧩 Cognitive Styles👀 Context Sensitivity
A Natural History of Human Emotions
by Stuart Walton • 2005
Six universal feelings evolved to keep us alive. Culture twisted each one.
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23
🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🏛️ Cultural History💭 Philosophy Of Mind🏗️ Social Construction😇 Moral Emotions
A Natural History of Human Emotions Summary
A Natural History of Human Emotions 91%
Six universal feelings evolved to keep us alive. Culture twisted each one.
by Stuart Walton 2005
3.61
23 ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🏛️ Cultural History💭 Philosophy Of Mind🏗️ Social Construction😇 Moral Emotions
The Psychology of Gender
by Gary W. Wood • 2018
The data: men and women are mostly the same, and pretending otherwise hurts everyone, including men.
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76
🧠 Gender Psychology👥 Social Psychology🏷️ Gender Stereotypes🔍 Cognitive Biases✊ Feminist Psychology
The Psychology of Gender Summary
The Psychology of Gender 91%
The data: men and women are mostly the same, and pretending otherwise hurts everyone, including men.
by Gary W. Wood 2018
3.71
76 ratings
🧠 Gender Psychology👥 Social Psychology🏷️ Gender Stereotypes🔍 Cognitive Biases✊ Feminist Psychology
Cognitive Gadgets
by Cecilia Heyes • 2018
Imitation and language are not instincts. They are cultural tools, rebuilt in every childhood.
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🧠 Cultural Evolution🔬 Cognitive Psychology👶 Cognitive Development👥 Social Learning📖 Cultural Transmission
Cognitive Gadgets Summary
Cognitive Gadgets 91%
Imitation and language are not instincts. They are cultural tools, rebuilt in every childhood.
by Cecilia Heyes 2018
3.75
183 ratings
🧠 Cultural Evolution🔬 Cognitive Psychology👶 Cognitive Development👥 Social Learning📖 Cultural Transmission
Sex Matters
by Mona Charen • 2018
Feminism won, yet women's happiness declined for fifty years. The data explains why.
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331
🔍 Feminism Critique🧬 Sex Differences🧠 Evolutionary Psychology💍 Marriage Defense🍸 Hookup Culture
Sex Matters Summary
Sex Matters 91%
Feminism won, yet women's happiness declined for fifty years. The data explains why.
by Mona Charen 2018
3.71
331 ratings
🔍 Feminism Critique🧬 Sex Differences🧠 Evolutionary Psychology💍 Marriage Defense🍸 Hookup Culture
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
by Marvin Harris • 1974
Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.
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5k+
🍖 Food Taboos🌿 Cultural Ecology💰 Economic Anthropology🕯️ Ritual And Sacrifice⚔️ Origins Of War
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches Summary
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches 91%
Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.
by Marvin Harris 1974
3.92
5k+ ratings
🍖 Food Taboos🌿 Cultural Ecology💰 Economic Anthropology🕯️ Ritual And Sacrifice⚔️ Origins Of War
And Then They Stopped Talking to Me
by Judith Warner • 2020
Middle school and its signature misery were both invented in the 1960s. Knowing why heals.
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597
🧠 Adolescent Development📜 History Of Childhood👨‍👩‍👧 Parenting Teens🔍 Cultural Criticism🪜 Social Hierarchies
And Then They Stopped Talking to Me Summary
And Then They Stopped Talking to Me 91%
Middle school and its signature misery were both invented in the 1960s. Knowing why heals.
by Judith Warner 2020
3.54
597 ratings
🧠 Adolescent Development📜 History Of Childhood👨‍👩‍👧 Parenting Teens🔍 Cultural Criticism🪜 Social Hierarchies
Hard-Core Romance
by Eva Illouz • 2013
A sociologist explains why Fifty Shades conquered the world: BDSM solves what modern romance cannot.
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283
📚 Sociology Of Literature🎭 Cultural Criticism⚡ Sexual Politics💕 Modern Courtship🛠️ Self-Help Culture
Hard-Core Romance Summary
Hard-Core Romance 91%
A sociologist explains why Fifty Shades conquered the world: BDSM solves what modern romance cannot.
by Eva Illouz 2013
3.51
283 ratings
📚 Sociology Of Literature🎭 Cultural Criticism⚡ Sexual Politics💕 Modern Courtship🛠️ Self-Help Culture
The Misfits
by Colin Wilson • 1988
De Sade, Byron, and the 'perverts' who followed weren't just deviants but mystics chasing intensity.
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🔗 Sexual Deviance🧠 Philosophy Of Sex📜 Cultural History📚 Literary Criticism🧍 Existential Psychology
The Misfits Summary
The Misfits 91%
De Sade, Byron, and the 'perverts' who followed weren't just deviants but mystics chasing intensity.
by Colin Wilson 1988
3.69
121 ratings
🔗 Sexual Deviance🧠 Philosophy Of Sex📜 Cultural History📚 Literary Criticism🧍 Existential Psychology
Nature Via Nurture
by Matt Ridley • 2003
Genes are not a script but a set of switches, and the environment does the flipping.
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4k+
🧬 Epigenetics🧬 Behavioral Genetics🌍 Human Universals👶 Developmental Psychology🕰️ Early Experience
Nature Via Nurture Summary
Nature Via Nurture 91%
Genes are not a script but a set of switches, and the environment does the flipping.
by Matt Ridley 2003
4.06
4k+ ratings
🧬 Epigenetics🧬 Behavioral Genetics🌍 Human Universals👶 Developmental Psychology🕰️ Early Experience
Sexing the Body
by Anne Fausto-Sterling • 2000
Nature gives us a spectrum of sexes. Medicine prunes it down to two.
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🔬 Feminist Science Studies🌈 Intersex Advocacy🏛️ Social Constructionism🧠 Biological Essentialism💉 Medical Ethics
Sexing the Body Summary
Sexing the Body 90%
Nature gives us a spectrum of sexes. Medicine prunes it down to two.
by Anne Fausto-Sterling 2000
4.16
3k+ ratings
🔬 Feminist Science Studies🌈 Intersex Advocacy🏛️ Social Constructionism🧠 Biological Essentialism💉 Medical Ethics
Blueprint
by Nicholas A. Christakis • 2019
Goodness is our default setting. Evolution built us for love, friendship, and cooperation.
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🌐 Human Universals🏛️ Cultural Anthropology📜 Cultural Evolution🕸️ Social Networks
Blueprint Summary
Blueprint 90%
Goodness is our default setting. Evolution built us for love, friendship, and cooperation.
by Nicholas A. Christakis 2019
3.95
2k+ ratings
🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🌐 Human Universals🏛️ Cultural Anthropology📜 Cultural Evolution🕸️ Social Networks
The Body Project
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg • 1997
How a century made American girls' bodies into a consumer project, from menarche to first diet.
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👧 Adolescent Girlhood💄 Beauty Standards🥗 Dieting Culture🎯 Marketing To Girls🕰️ Body Image History
The Body Project Summary
The Body Project 90%
How a century made American girls' bodies into a consumer project, from menarche to first diet.
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg 1997
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4k+ ratings
👧 Adolescent Girlhood💄 Beauty Standards🥗 Dieting Culture🎯 Marketing To Girls🕰️ Body Image History
The Culture Code
by Clotaire Rapaille • 2006
Every culture boils health, money, love down to a single unconscious word. Here are America's.
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🧠 Consumer Psychology🌍 Cross-Cultural Marketing🔍 Unconscious Biases🇺🇸 American Identity📊 Brand Strategy
The Culture Code Summary
The Culture Code 90%
Every culture boils health, money, love down to a single unconscious word. Here are America's.
by Clotaire Rapaille 2006
3.94
4k+ ratings
🧠 Consumer Psychology🌍 Cross-Cultural Marketing🔍 Unconscious Biases🇺🇸 American Identity📊 Brand Strategy
The Myth of Mars and Venus
by Deborah Cameron • 2007
Verbal ability overlaps 99.75% between sexes. The gender-communication industry is built on noise.
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🗣️ Gender And Language💬 Language Myths⚡ Gender Stereotypes✊ Feminist Linguistics🏗️ Gender Construction
The Myth of Mars and Venus Summary
The Myth of Mars and Venus 90%
Verbal ability overlaps 99.75% between sexes. The gender-communication industry is built on noise.
by Deborah Cameron 2007
4.03
482 ratings
🗣️ Gender And Language💬 Language Myths⚡ Gender Stereotypes✊ Feminist Linguistics🏗️ Gender Construction
The Social Construction of Reality
by Peter L. Berger • 1966
The world you take for granted is built: how everyday talk, habit, and institutions make reality.
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🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge🏗️ Social Constructionism🔍 Phenomenological Sociology🏠 Everyday Life🏛️ Institutional Analysis
The Social Construction of Reality Summary
The Social Construction of Reality 90%
The world you take for granted is built: how everyday talk, habit, and institutions make reality.
by Peter L. Berger 1966
4.11
4k+ ratings
🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge🏗️ Social Constructionism🔍 Phenomenological Sociology🏠 Everyday Life🏛️ Institutional Analysis
Testosterone
by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young • 2019
Testosterone isn't a male hormone or aggression fuel. The real molecule is far stranger.
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🔬 Science Studies♀️ Feminist Science🏳️‍🌈 Queer Science🧬 Biology And Society⚖️ Scientific Bias
Testosterone Summary
Testosterone 90%
Testosterone isn't a male hormone or aggression fuel. The real molecule is far stranger.
by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young 2019
4.06
320 ratings
🔬 Science Studies♀️ Feminist Science🏳️‍🌈 Queer Science🧬 Biology And Society⚖️ Scientific Bias
Testosterone Rex
by Cordelia Fine • 2017
The familiar story of testosterone-fueled men and cautious women falls apart under real data.
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🧬 Sexual Selection🧠 Biological Essentialism🧬 Neurosexism✳️ Feminist Science🐒 Evolutionary Psychology
Testosterone Rex Summary
Testosterone Rex 90%
The familiar story of testosterone-fueled men and cautious women falls apart under real data.
by Cordelia Fine 2017
3.79
4k+ ratings
🧬 Sexual Selection🧠 Biological Essentialism🧬 Neurosexism✳️ Feminist Science🐒 Evolutionary Psychology
Is There Anything Good About Men?
by Roy F. Baumeister • 2016
The gender gap isn't about privilege. It's about who culture found more useful to sacrifice.
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology👤 Male Psychology💘 Sexual Selection🏋️ Masculinity Studies🏆 Status Competition
Is There Anything Good About Men? Summary
Is There Anything Good About Men? 90%
The gender gap isn't about privilege. It's about who culture found more useful to sacrifice.
by Roy F. Baumeister 2016
3.74
356 ratings
🧠 Evolutionary Psychology👤 Male Psychology💘 Sexual Selection🏋️ Masculinity Studies🏆 Status Competition
Argonauts of the Western Pacific; An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea.
by Bronisław Malinowski • 1922
A Pacific ceremonial shell ring reveals an economy driven by honor, not self-interest.
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1k+
🏦 Economic Anthropology🎁 Gift Economies📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork👁️ Participant Observation🔄 Ceremonial Exchange
Argonauts of the Western Pacific; An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. Summary
Argonauts of the Western Pacific; An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. 90%
A Pacific ceremonial shell ring reveals an economy driven by honor, not self-interest.
by Bronisław Malinowski 1922
3.76
1k+ ratings
🏦 Economic Anthropology🎁 Gift Economies📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork👁️ Participant Observation🔄 Ceremonial Exchange
Wired for Culture
by Mark Pagel • 2012
Culture isn't a byproduct of big brains. It's the reason we have them.
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🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology🔄 Cultural Evolution👥 Social Learning📚 Cumulative Culture🤝 Group Cooperation
Wired for Culture Summary
Wired for Culture 90%
Culture isn't a byproduct of big brains. It's the reason we have them.
by Mark Pagel 2012
3.86
296 ratings
🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology🔄 Cultural Evolution👥 Social Learning📚 Cumulative Culture🤝 Group Cooperation
She/He/They/Me
by Robyn Ryle • 2019
Pick a gender path and see where it leads: an interactive tour of the binary and beyond.
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🏗️ Gender Construction👥 Gender Socialization🌍 Third Gender Traditions🗿 Patriarchy⚧️ Intersex Rights
She/He/They/Me Summary
She/He/They/Me 90%
Pick a gender path and see where it leads: an interactive tour of the binary and beyond.
by Robyn Ryle 2019
3.40
545 ratings
🏗️ Gender Construction👥 Gender Socialization🌍 Third Gender Traditions🗿 Patriarchy⚧️ Intersex Rights
Parenting Without Borders
by Christine Gross-Loh • 2013
Your child's sleep, eating, and play problems may not be biological. They may be cultural.
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1k+
🌍 Cross-Cultural Parenting🧒 Child Autonomy🧸 Unstructured Play🛌 Sleep Practices🛍️ Consumerism Critique
Parenting Without Borders Summary
Parenting Without Borders 90%
Your child's sleep, eating, and play problems may not be biological. They may be cultural.
by Christine Gross-Loh 2013
3.94
1k+ ratings
🌍 Cross-Cultural Parenting🧒 Child Autonomy🧸 Unstructured Play🛌 Sleep Practices🛍️ Consumerism Critique
WARRIORS AND WORRIERS
by BENENSON • 2014
Men and women evolved to survive different threats, producing two human natures visible from birth.
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology♂️ Sex Differences⚡ Risk And Fear👥 Female Competition🤝 Male Bonding
WARRIORS AND WORRIERS Summary
WARRIORS AND WORRIERS 90%
Men and women evolved to survive different threats, producing two human natures visible from birth.
by BENENSON 2014
4.09
167 ratings
🧠 Evolutionary Psychology♂️ Sex Differences⚡ Risk And Fear👥 Female Competition🤝 Male Bonding
The Culture of Narcissism
by Christopher Lasch • 1978
The self-obsessed aren't full of themselves. They're empty, and the culture keeps them that way.
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4k+
🧐 Cultural Criticism🇺🇸 Postwar America🏚️ Social Atomization🛒 Consumer Culture🛋️ Therapeutic Culture
The Culture of Narcissism Summary
The Culture of Narcissism 90%
The self-obsessed aren't full of themselves. They're empty, and the culture keeps them that way.
by Christopher Lasch 1978
3.96
4k+ ratings
🧐 Cultural Criticism🇺🇸 Postwar America🏚️ Social Atomization🛒 Consumer Culture🛋️ Therapeutic Culture
A Little History of Psychology
by Nicky Hayes • 2024
Psychology's biggest insights grew from its bitterest feuds and its most embarrassing mistakes.
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225
🏛️ History Of Psychology🧭 Schools Of Thought🧬 Nature Vs Nurture🧠 Cognitive Biases👥 Social Influence
A Little History of Psychology Summary
A Little History of Psychology 90%
Psychology's biggest insights grew from its bitterest feuds and its most embarrassing mistakes.
by Nicky Hayes 2024
3.90
225 ratings
🏛️ History Of Psychology🧭 Schools Of Thought🧬 Nature Vs Nurture🧠 Cognitive Biases👥 Social Influence
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
by Michael Tomasello • 1999
Reading each other's goals let knowledge stockpile across generations, changing the mind forever.
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🧠 Cognitive Development🧬 Cultural Evolution🤝 Social Cognition🗣️ Language Acquisition💭 Symbolic Thought
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition Summary
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition 90%
Reading each other's goals let knowledge stockpile across generations, changing the mind forever.
by Michael Tomasello 1999
4.13
292 ratings
🧠 Cognitive Development🧬 Cultural Evolution🤝 Social Cognition🗣️ Language Acquisition💭 Symbolic Thought
Our Kind
by Marvin Harris • 1989
Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.
4.17
672
🧬 Human Evolution🏺 Prehistory🏛️ Cultural Evolution🗣️ Origin Of Language📊 Social Hierarchy
Our Kind Summary
Our Kind 90%
Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.
by Marvin Harris 1989
4.17
672 ratings
🧬 Human Evolution🏺 Prehistory🏛️ Cultural Evolution🗣️ Origin Of Language📊 Social Hierarchy
Boys & Sex
by Peggy Orenstein • 2020
The sex ed boys actually get: porn, peers, and a masculinity that forbids feeling.
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7k+
🔬 Masculinity Studies🍻 Hookup Culture📖 Sex Education📱 Porn And Society⛓️ Toxic Masculinity
Boys & Sex Summary
Boys & Sex 90%
The sex ed boys actually get: porn, peers, and a masculinity that forbids feeling.
by Peggy Orenstein 2020
4.23
7k+ ratings
🔬 Masculinity Studies🍻 Hookup Culture📖 Sex Education📱 Porn And Society⛓️ Toxic Masculinity
Men and Marriage
by George Gilder • 1986
Men are the weaker sex: only marriage channels their energy into something civilization can use.
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🧬 Biological Determinism🧠 Evolutionary Psychology⚖️ Sexual Economics❌ Antifeminism💍 Monogamy
Men and Marriage Summary
Men and Marriage 90%
Men are the weaker sex: only marriage channels their energy into something civilization can use.
by George Gilder 1986
4.22
511 ratings
🧬 Biological Determinism🧠 Evolutionary Psychology⚖️ Sexual Economics❌ Antifeminism💍 Monogamy
The True Life
by Alain Badiou • 2016
A philosopher's diagnosis: boys can't become men, girls lose girlhood; the solution is corruption.
3.61
555
🏛️ Continental Philosophy⚧️ Gender Studies🎭 Rites Of Passage🔍 Lacanian Psychoanalysis🚩 Post-Marxism
The True Life Summary
The True Life 90%
A philosopher's diagnosis: boys can't become men, girls lose girlhood; the solution is corruption.
by Alain Badiou 2016
3.61
555 ratings
🏛️ Continental Philosophy⚧️ Gender Studies🎭 Rites Of Passage🔍 Lacanian Psychoanalysis🚩 Post-Marxism
A Natural History of Human Thinking
by Michael Tomasello • 2014
Apes think alone. We think together. The two-step evolution that made the difference.
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🧬 Cognitive Evolution🤝 Social Cognition🗣️ Language Origins🦍 Ape Cognition
A Natural History of Human Thinking Summary
A Natural History of Human Thinking 90%
Apes think alone. We think together. The two-step evolution that made the difference.
by Michael Tomasello 2014
3.99
207 ratings
🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🧬 Cognitive Evolution🤝 Social Cognition🗣️ Language Origins🦍 Ape Cognition
The Gardener and the Carpenter
by Alison Gopnik • 2016
Children aren't built; they're grown. A developmental scientist explains why the difference matters.
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3k+
🧒 Child Development🎲 Play-Based Learning🔍 Parenting Critique🧬 Evolutionary Psychology👥 Alloparenting
The Gardener and the Carpenter Summary
The Gardener and the Carpenter 90%
Children aren't built; they're grown. A developmental scientist explains why the difference matters.
by Alison Gopnik 2016
3.77
3k+ ratings
🧒 Child Development🎲 Play-Based Learning🔍 Parenting Critique🧬 Evolutionary Psychology👥 Alloparenting
Saving the Modern Soul
by Eva Illouz • 2008
Why therapy's language now runs the boardroom, the bedroom, and the self.
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184
🏛️ Cultural Sociology🛋️ Therapy Culture📚 Self-Help Critique💼 Emotional Labor📖 Narrative Identity
Saving the Modern Soul Summary
Saving the Modern Soul 90%
Why therapy's language now runs the boardroom, the bedroom, and the self.
by Eva Illouz 2008
4.08
184 ratings
🏛️ Cultural Sociology🛋️ Therapy Culture📚 Self-Help Critique💼 Emotional Labor📖 Narrative Identity
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
by Howard Gardner • 2010
Three ancient virtues, dismantled by the digital age, reconstructed for it.
3.48
216
🧭 Moral Education🏛️ Virtue Ethics💻 Digital Age Ethics🎨 Aesthetic Education👶 Child Moral Development
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed Summary
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed 90%
Three ancient virtues, dismantled by the digital age, reconstructed for it.
by Howard Gardner 2010
3.48
216 ratings
🧭 Moral Education🏛️ Virtue Ethics💻 Digital Age Ethics🎨 Aesthetic Education👶 Child Moral Development
Tits Up
by Sarah Thornton • 2024
A mastectomy sends a sociologist into strip clubs and milk banks to learn what breasts mean.
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2k+
✊ Bodily Autonomy💋 Sex-Positive Feminism🗿 Cultural Anthropology🔪 Cosmetic Surgery🤱 Lactation And Nursing
Tits Up Summary
Tits Up 90%
A mastectomy sends a sociologist into strip clubs and milk banks to learn what breasts mean.
by Sarah Thornton 2024
3.66
2k+ ratings
✊ Bodily Autonomy💋 Sex-Positive Feminism🗿 Cultural Anthropology🔪 Cosmetic Surgery🤱 Lactation And Nursing
The Philosophical Baby
by Alison Gopnik • 2003
Babies notice everything adults filter out. What children's minds reveal about truth, love, meaning.
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2k+
🧠 Developmental Psychology👶 Child Cognition🎭 Imagination And Play⚖️ Moral Development🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
The Philosophical Baby Summary
The Philosophical Baby 90%
Babies notice everything adults filter out. What children's minds reveal about truth, love, meaning.
by Alison Gopnik 2003
3.78
2k+ ratings
🧠 Developmental Psychology👶 Child Cognition🎭 Imagination And Play⚖️ Moral Development🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
The End of Gender
by Debra Soh • 2020
A sex researcher on why sex is binary and most gender-questioning kids outgrow it.
3.90
3k+
🧬 Evolutionary Psychology⚧️ Transgender Debate♂️♀️ Sex Differences🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Dysphoria✍️ Gender-Critical Feminism
The End of Gender Summary
The End of Gender 90%
A sex researcher on why sex is binary and most gender-questioning kids outgrow it.
by Debra Soh 2020
3.90
3k+ ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Psychology⚧️ Transgender Debate♂️♀️ Sex Differences🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Dysphoria✍️ Gender-Critical Feminism
A Return to Modesty
by Wendy Shalit • 1998
The sexual revolution's casualties are women, and the way back is the virtue it mocked.
3.79
1k+
🔄 Sexual Revolution Critique🛡️ Protecting Girlhood🧱 Emotional Boundaries🚫 Hookup Culture⚧️ Sex Differences
A Return to Modesty Summary
A Return to Modesty 90%
The sexual revolution's casualties are women, and the way back is the virtue it mocked.
by Wendy Shalit 1998
3.79
1k+ ratings
🔄 Sexual Revolution Critique🛡️ Protecting Girlhood🧱 Emotional Boundaries🚫 Hookup Culture⚧️ Sex Differences
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
by Alan S. Miller • 2006
The mating dance, boardroom gambles, and prayer: all driven by a brain built for the savannah.
3.56
2k+
🧬 Evolutionary Psychology💑 Human Mating🦚 Sexual Selection⏳ Evolutionary Mismatch🙏 Psychology Of Religion
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters Summary
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters 90%
The mating dance, boardroom gambles, and prayer: all driven by a brain built for the savannah.
by Alan S. Miller 2006
3.56
2k+ ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Psychology💑 Human Mating🦚 Sexual Selection⏳ Evolutionary Mismatch🙏 Psychology Of Religion
The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker • 1994
Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.
4.01
23k+
📝 Generative Linguistics👶 Language Acquisition🧬 Evolutionary Psychology⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture🧠 Psycholinguistics
The Language Instinct Summary
The Language Instinct 90%
Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.
by Steven Pinker 1994
4.01
23k+ ratings
📝 Generative Linguistics👶 Language Acquisition🧬 Evolutionary Psychology⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture🧠 Psycholinguistics
For Her Own Good
by Barbara Ehrenreich • 1976
Male experts sold science and child-rearing advice; the price was women's autonomy.
3.96
3k+
📜 Women's History💊 Medicalization🏠 Domestic Ideology👶 Child-Rearing Advice😰 Motherhood And Anxiety
For Her Own Good Summary
For Her Own Good 90%
Male experts sold science and child-rearing advice; the price was women's autonomy.
by Barbara Ehrenreich 1976
3.96
3k+ ratings
📜 Women's History💊 Medicalization🏠 Domestic Ideology👶 Child-Rearing Advice😰 Motherhood And Anxiety
Girls & Sex
by Peggy Orenstein • 2016
Girls learn to perform sex before they want it. Orenstein asked 70 of them why.
4.07
11k+
👯 Sexual Double Standards🎓 Hookup Culture🪞 Body Image✋ Consent Culture⛪ Purity Culture
Girls & Sex Summary
Girls & Sex 90%
Girls learn to perform sex before they want it. Orenstein asked 70 of them why.
by Peggy Orenstein 2016
4.07
11k+ ratings
👯 Sexual Double Standards🎓 Hookup Culture🪞 Body Image✋ Consent Culture⛪ Purity Culture
Civilized to Death
by Christopher Ryan • 2018
Agriculture made us sicker, more unequal, and less free. The hunter-gatherer way holds the clues.
4.12
5k+
🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Studies🚫 Myth Of Progress⚠️ Civilization's Costs🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch🤝 Forager Egalitarianism
Civilized to Death Summary
Civilized to Death 90%
Agriculture made us sicker, more unequal, and less free. The hunter-gatherer way holds the clues.
by Christopher Ryan 2018
4.12
5k+ ratings
🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Studies🚫 Myth Of Progress⚠️ Civilization's Costs🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch🤝 Forager Egalitarianism
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