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If you were ever a teenage girl - or if you’ve even known a teenage girl - you may know it’s a difficult time, often riddled with insecurities, anxiety, and depression. And while adolescent boys often face similar emotions, research shows that females are more likely to be predisposed to depression. Over the course of 10 lessons, Dr. Karen Bluth offers a solution: self-compassion. She explores why self-compassion is a good thing - a resource that people can learn, put in their toolbox, and use whenever they have a challenging day or even a challenging moment.

The kitchen is the beating heart of every home—but for one woman summoned to an empty house, it’s also the portal to a complicated past. Forced to confront her family’s dark history or risk perpetuating it for generations to come, the woman sets out to do what her mother and grandmother before her never could.

From the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s to today, women have been just as integral to the growth and development of the rap game as their male counterparts. Nonetheless, they’re consistently shortchanged as artists, creators, renegades, and cultural visionaries in prevailing histories of the genre. The Motherlode changes that.

Beginning with a brief overview of the various goals and phases of feminism from the early 19th century onward, writer and feminist theorist Jennifer Baumgardner takes you on a tour of a tumultuous decade full of complex issues and contradictions through the lens of the feminist movement and the ways it shaped - and was shaped by - the closing years of the 20th century. From abortion rights to ‘zines, Feminism in the 1990s explores the ways third-wave feminism reacted to popular culture while simultaneously being co-opted by it.

The Indignities of Being a Woman candidly traces the history of womanhood and investigates how much things have really changed for womankind. By carefully x-raying areas such as body image, marriage, mental illness, fashion, and politics, this audiobook examines what it was like to be a woman in the past versus what it’s like now, when women are constantly told equality between the sexes exists but reality proves otherwise.

Mobbing, dipendenze affettive, anoressia, abusi, stereotipi e transizioni di genere, violenze, disturbi mentali, malattie rare, segreti, estorsioni e ricatto, dolore, bullismo e lutto: sono queste le "ombre" della seconda stagione di "Lodo - L'Ombra delle Donne". Storie personali, raccontate dalla vibrante voce del cuore di 12 donne che hanno affrontato il dolore e il disagio profondo e, in questo podcast, si aprono ad una narrazione autentica ed intima di vissuti incomodi, inconfessabili, di tabù.

"Vietato Invecchiare" è il podcast sullo stigma sociale dell'invecchiamento femminile. Partendo da ricordi vividi di Francesca, faremo un viaggio per raccontare, gli effetti del passare del tempo sulle donne. Dopo i 35 anni non si è più considerate "giovani". Con l'aiuto di esperti capiremo se esistono strumenti per preservare la giovinezza, ammesso che questo sia ciò che una donna che invecchia vuole veramente.

Es ist kompliziert - aber muss es das wirklich sein? Die mehrfach ausgezeichnete Journalistin Anne-Kathrin Gerstlauer geht im Hörbuch "Der Gender-Dating-Gap" und die Liebe der Frage nach, warum es moderne Frauen so schwer haben, einen Partner auf Augenhöhe zu finden. Intelligent, selbstbewusst und erfolgreich: Warum sind ausgerechnet diese Frauen so oft single? Anne-Kathrin Gerstlauer beschreibt humorvoll und pointiert die goldenen Regeln der Dating-Welt, missglückte Annäherungen und den Kampf mit den eigenen Ansprüchen.

Immer geil, immer hart, immer on top - so will heute kein Typ mehr sein. Aber was will er dann, der Mann? Und wie geht’s ihm wirklich in der Kiste? Um das herauszufinden, begleitet Katja Lewina einen archetypischen Kerl vom Kleinkind- bis zum Greisenalter und fragt in tabulosen Interviews nach: Wie lebt es sich mit einem Penis? Wieso ist Schwul-Sein immer noch eine Schande für Hetero-Männer? Und was ist, wenn er nicht mehr steht? Antworten liefern neben dem normalo Cis-Mann auch Experten: vom Orgasmus-Coach bis zum Priester, vom Trans-Mann bis zum Urologen.

Danny Wallace faces the absurdities, trivialities and challenges of being a man every day. It's not for everyone. Half the world don't have to.