Kenny has a bully problem: a bad bully problem. Every day is torment, until a new girl arrives at the school. Alex is tall, athletic, and beautiful—and she doesn’t take crap from anyone. When she sees Kenny being targeted by the school’s meanest bullies, she puts her foot down—right into the face of the meanest of them all. And just like that, the bad boys are too afraid to pester Kenny. Now, school life for Kenny isn’t looking so grim. It seems like he’s in the clear, until Alex reveals to him that there is something she wants from the young, petite-framed man.

A femboy becomes a girl? A witch offers a potion to a friend to turn him into a woman for a week. If his true inner self ends up relating to the new female body, he'll stay that way for the rest of his life; if not, he'll turn back into a male. Will he adapt to a new life, with men being interested in him, or will his old paradigms cause him to return to the male form at the end of the week? Will he lose the witch-girlfriend he has always been in love with and end up with a man, or will they come closer together? Can this situation of male-to-female transformation improve his life or ruin it? What will be the result when the clock stops ticking? Immerse yourself in this LGBT romance short read, of a gender swap for Jamie where Jamie becomes a fully feminized, transgender woman.

Van left his old life behind, but some things remain the same. Even in space, crime still exists. After taking a Peacemaker job to find missing fuel, Perry finds something far more sinister than simple theft-a voice, crying out in a forge of heat and flame, and the discovery reveals a series of acts so vicious that nothing short of revenge will suffice. Following leads across the stars, Van, Perry, and Torina discover the wealthy elite are doing more than just taking fuel. They're stealing lives. But it takes money to make justice, and Van has to work. Torina's land must be restored, and the Dragonet needs new armor, and Van's sword isn't going to sharpen itself. So Van throws himself into the life of a Peacemaker, where he discovers that doing his job-and doing it well-makes him a target. He's got the will. He's got the sword. And he's got help. Now all he needs is a little fuel. And maybe a gun or two.

Fully feminized in outward appearance, a woman's voice, with a man's brain inside? A researcher wins a grant for a study to determine if a male brain will turn into a female brain when the male is fully feminized, with the exception of his male parts. If the brain scans show no change, and the subject is happy with the transformation, then it must be free will and personal desires that determine gender identity. Will a male with a male brain survive being transformed so far as to have a fully female appearance, or will he be trapped in a body of the wrong gender permanently? Will his brain become female and his identity as well, or will his brain remain male when his identity becomes female? Immerse yourself in this LGBT transgender romance where a PhD is transformed through cosmetic surgery, giving him the appearance of a sexy, sensual, and feminine woman. Will her paradigms be broken so she can immerse herself in being a woman who loves to please men, or will she be in a personal hell? Will she lose her desire for women, or will it increase? Will anyone ever love the freak she has become? Find out now in this short-read, transgender, hot and steamy, LGBT romance where a male's outward appearance is fully feminized, not just crossdressed, to look like a beautiful woman.

Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping’s timely new work draws attention to the multiple cultural and historical legacies that coexist and challenge each other within this dominant form of story telling. Although scholars tend to focus their attention on elite cultural trends and avant garde movements in literature and film, Zhong argues for recognizing the complexity of dianshiju’s melodramatic mode and its various subgenres, in effect "refocusing" mainstream Chinese culture. Mainstream Culture Refocused opens with an examination of television as a narrative motif in three contemporary Chinese art-house films. Zhong then turns her attention to dianshiju’s most important subgenres. "Emperor dramas" highlight the link between popular culture’s obsession with emperors and modern Chinese intellectuals’ preoccupation with issues of history and tradition and how they relate to modernity. In her exploration of the "anti-corruption" subgenre, Zhong considers three representative dramas, exploring their diverse plots and emphases. "Youth dramas’" rich array of representations reveal the numerous social, economic, cultural, and ideological issues surrounding the notion of youth and its changing meanings. The chapter on the "family-marriage" subgenre analyzes the ways in which women’s emotions are represented in relation to their desire for "happiness." Song lyrics from music composed for television dramas are considered as "popular poetics." Their sentiments range between nostalgia and uncertainty, mirroring the social contradictions of the reform era. The Epilogue returns to the relationship between intellectuals and the production of mainstream cultural meaning in the context of China’s post-revolutionary social, economic, and cultural transformation. Provocative and insightful, Mainstream Culture Refocused will appeal to scholars and students in studies of modern China generally and of contemporary Chinese media and popular culture specifically.

Cuckolds have to be good for something, right?Raven Merlot and Rod Fetcher are back with 10 more stories of cuckolded husbands and liberated hotwives. This bundle has story after story of cuckold husbands learning that they must not only be submissive to their wives, but to the bigger, better men that their wives prefer. These stories combine the joy of cuckolding with the sublime exploration of one's sexuality. This bundle includes stories of university experiments, rural English pagan festivals, and diplomatic incidents! But no matter how these cuckolds end up on their knees they know what to do when they get there.;)Included in this box set are: All The WayMay Day CelebrationsDream TimeMMF with the MMAWorking Overtime and Twice as HardGiving it all he's got!Who is he jealous of?Someone to watch over usA Night at the TheaterDiplomacy

Gender is one of the most important topics in the field ofsociology, and as a system of social practices it inspires amultitude of theoretical approaches. The Sociology of Genderoffers an introductory overview of gender theory and research,offering a unique and compelling approach. Treats gender as a multilevel system operating at theindividual, interactional, and institutional levels. Stresses conceptual and theoretical issues in the sociology ofgender. Offers an accessible yet intellectually sophisticated approachto current gender theory and research. Includes pedagogical features designed to encourage criticalthinking and debate. Closer Look readings at the end of each chapter give aunique perspective on chapter topics by presenting relevantarticles by leading scholars.

What is motivating her to feminize him? A geek named Joss, working on his PhD thesis on motivation, rents a house away from the noise and takes in a roommate named Marcy to help pay the bills. Little does he know how lucky he will be to have Marcy as his roommate. She is another PhD candidate, also working on a thesis about motivation. Gorgeous and intelligent, Marcy motivates Joss to discover things he never would have dreamed of, and they learn about motivation, love, sensuality, and femininity. She soon has Joss fully crossdressed and feminized to experience life as Jossie, a desirable girl rather than his geek self. Will he be motivated to become the geek again when their experimenting is over, or will he be destined to live his life fully feminized forever? Which will he choose? Does he in fact have a choice? Immerse yourself in the vivid experiences of Joss as he tells the tale of his crossdressing and feminization while falling in love in this new-adult, LGBT, transgender, crossdressing, feminization, first-time, short-read romance.

Annotation After a general discussion of methods and approaches, Walls explores the construction of desire in the Gilgamesh Epic; a Freudian analysis of Horus and Seth; and sex, power, and violence in Nergal and Ereshkigal. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).