Bøger af Peg Tittle

Fact-driven speculative fiction. What could've been. What should've been.A collection of 18 stand-alone, but related, pieces: ¿DamagesHome for Unwed Fathers Fighting Words ComedownWhat Sane Man Sweet SixteenBallsyJustified It's a BoyMen Need SexHow We Survived The Knitting GroupThe Mars ColoniesA PostTrans PostPandemic WorldUnlessAlleviationThe Women's PartyMy Last Year"Just reading ['What Sane Man'] was satisfying." Anonymous, ovarit.com"['Men Need Sex'] is terrific!" An ovarite from ovarit.com

The title says it all. 110 pieces say it in more detail. Philosophy with an attitude. Because the unexamined life is dangerous. (Note that this is a thematic collection containing almost all of the anti-sexism pieces from the previous Shit volumes, as well as about fifty new pieces.)

A collection of think pieces on a variety of topics: the environment (the notion of garbage, who owns the water, climate change as entertainment, ... ), business (the limits of advertising, business in denial, ...), individual rights and social issues (making certain words illegal, slutwalks, cultural anarchy, a concept of noise trespass, ...), ethics (what's wrong with selling your organs, euthanasia, should parents need to be licensed, ...), education (the failure of ...), and so on.Note: There is now a 2nd edn available, which includes all of the pieces in the first edition, plus more than eighty additional pieces."... It's all thought-provoking, and whether or not you'll end up agreeing with her conclusions, her essays make for fascinating reading." Erin O'Riordan"Tittle's pieces are atypical of philosophical writing in the best ways: of interest to non-specialists, yet instructive and profound, yet entertaining." Ron Cooper, Professor of Philosophy "... a passionate, stylistically-engaging writer ..." George, Amazon

Jess used to be a man. Then he found himself in a female body. It wasn't funny. (Why would anyone even think it was?)*"There's a scene in Tootsie (1982) that is surely one of the most unacclaimed scenes of all time: Dustin Hoffman's character, Michael, as 'Dorothy', makes a suggestion on the set, and the director dismisses it out of hand. As I remember it, Hoffman's face-conveying surprise, confusion, indignation-shows perfectly Michael's reaction to the absence of (and, just maybe, awareness of) male entitlement/privilege. The entire movie should've been about that. Just that. It wasn't. And so I wrote Jess."* "[Jess'] perspective on being a girl and woman while having memories of being a man offers an understanding I'd never thought of. Really interesting book." poolays, LibraryThing "Very interesting book. ... Definitely worth reading." Dan, Goodreads

In a near-future, ''gender recognition'' legislation is repealed, and it becomes illegal for males to identify as females and females to identify as males. However, due in part to the continued conflation of sex and gender and in part to the insistence that gender align with sex, it also becomes illegal for males to be feminine and females to be masculine. A gender identity dystopia. CATEGORY FINALIST FOR THE ERIC HOFFER AWARD 2021"A gripping read." Katya, Goodreads

Impact presents an extended confrontation between a sexual assault victim and her assailants, as part of an imagined slightly revised court process, in order to understand why they did what they did and, on that basis, to make a recommendation to the court regarding sentence. It does not go ... as expected. A novella for women and men alike."Edgy, insightful, terrific writing, propelled by rage against rape. Tittle writes in a fast-paced, dialogue-driven style that hurtles the reader from one confrontation to the next. Chock full of painful social observations .... " Hank Pellissier, Director of Humanist Global Charity"This is not an easy book to read, and there are times when you just have to close the book and breathe. ..." Mesca Elin, Psychochromatic Redemption"[Impact] it made me think (and will so for a long time) about the woman''s place in society, about how men see us ..." Alexandra, Goodreads"A deftly scripted novella by an author with a genuine flair for a riveting narrative style of storytelling that will engage the dedicated attention for women and men from first page to last, Impact effectively showcases the personal and social consequences of misogyny ... While highly recommended for community, college, and university library Contemporary General Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that Impact is also readily available in a digital book format." Micah Andrew, Midwest Book Review ...

What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared, leaving the men to take their places, fill their roles, do what they did. What would happen? How would the men react?Here and now, women''s subordination is so systemic it''s unremarkable (to all but serious feminists). In It Wasn''t Enough, once women are gone and men have to take their places, fill their roles, the subordination becomes remarkable-that is, it becomes noticeable. And then- What would happen? Would men finally see that their world is based, unjustifiably so, on a hierarchy of sex and, as a result, change it? Or would they just create a new, arbitrary, subordinate class to maintain their positions of power? CATEGORY FINALIST FOR THE ERIC HOFFER AWARD 2021"... a powerful and introspective dystopia .... It is a book I truly recommend for a book club as the discussions could be endless .... " Mesca Elin, Psychochromatic Redemption"Unlike far too many novels, this one will make you think, make you uncomfortable, and then make you reread it .... " C. Osborne moonspeaker.ca"I bought this today and just finished reading it (I couldn''t stop btw). It''s amazing, powerful, sad, devastating, funny, angering ... and I wish everyone could read it." Anonymous by request"Tittle''s book hits you hard .... " D. Sohi, Goodreads"I read this book from cover to cover in one afternoon, pulled inexorably along by the readable style and careful pacing. I then spent a long time staring at a wall, recovering from the free-fall, hurtling journey, coming to the conclusion that this book must be read." Shefali Sequeira, 4w"I absolutely enjoyed it. There were times when I was thinking ''There''s no way this would happen,'' but then I''d check the references at the back and sure enough there it was." Sarah Rean

For philosophers, a handy reference to a vaguely-remembered narrative; for general readers, a source of entertainment considerably more substantial and barely less demanding than television; and for students, an introduction to the whole range of philosophy.