{"title":"Women's History Month","description":"March is Women's History Month! Celebrate with themed reads all month (or year!) long!","products":[{"product_id":"9780593087176","title":"Phallacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLife Lessons from the Animal Penis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wry look at what the astonishing world of animal penises can teach us about male power and dominance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fallacy sold to many of us is that the human penis signals dominance and power. But this wry and penetrating book reveals that nature did not shape the penis - or the human attached to it - as an avatar of either. By positioning our penis among the array of remarkable genitalia in the animal kingdom, Phallacy exposes the truth about the human version - and what it means to have one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAlong the way, this book answers some surprising penis-related questions. Why was Charles Darwin so interested in consensual sex among barnacles? What does a desiccated horse penis have to do with Christianity's foothold in Iceland? What is the one penis to rule them all? In answering such unexpected queries, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhallacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e traces how we ended up erroneously positioning our nondescript penis as a pulsing, awe-inspiring shaft of human masculinity and dominance and what we can do to put it back where it belongs.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eOne key is to unlock the mysteries of the vagina, a structure as unique to each species as the penis but often treated like a genital sidekick. The other key is to free ourselves from the notion that the person is the penis and the penis is the person. The biggest lesson of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhallacy - \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand from other animal penises - is that although our member doesn't amount to much compared to some other wonders down under, our brain truly is outstanding.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eUltimately, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhallacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e challenges the toxic message that a penis makes a man and that men can't control themselves. With instructive illustrations of unusual genitalia and tales of animal mating rituals that will make you particularly happy you are not a bedbug, Phallacy shows where humans fit on the continuum from fun to fatal phalli and why the human penis is an implement for intimacy, not intimidation.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Willingham, Emily","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39516747727023,"sku":"9780593087176","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/products\/9780593087176_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg?v=1617762526"},{"product_id":"9780316449823","title":"Shit, Actually","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. 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In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Witches Are Coming\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, firebrand author of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShrill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You’ve got one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics-and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWest writes, “We were just a hair’s breadth from electing America’s first female president to succeed America’s first black president. We weren’t done, but we were doing it. 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