What would you do if you had just one day to experience being a young, gorgeous woman? Where would you go? Who would you talk to? And how would the rest of your life turn out? In My Very Own Gender Swap, YOU get to make all of these choices and more as you join Chris Scalatore, a young man in his early 20s, on the romantic transformation adventure of a lifetime. When his friend Kayla presents him with a unique opportunity to transform himself into the woman he might have been, Chris gets to spend an entire day as Natalie—the hot, female version of himself. Not only can you pick what Chris looks like as Natalie, but you also get to decide what she does: Do you go to the lingerie store or stay home to play with Kayla? Will you spend your evening chatting up the cute, artsy lesbian in the corner, or yield yourself to the brash, aggressive billionaire who wants to own and control you? With over 300 pages of possibilities and sixteen completely unique endings, the choices you make on this fateful day will affect Chris in very real ways that will stick with him for the rest of his life. Can Chris learn to find true happiness during his day as a woman, or will he end up even worse off than he would have been otherwise? Only you can decide! Unlike traditional books, this is a branching narrative story that can be read multiple times with different events throughout. At the end of each section there are several hyperlinks indicating choices you can make for Chris, almost like a game. You can tap your e-reader/tablet or click the link in your browser (depending on where you’re reading this) to make the selection you want, and you’ll be transported to that section to continue the story. While it’s possible to use your back buttons to go back a step, you’ll probably have the most fun if you treat the decisions as permanent until your next read-through, just like Chris would have to do!

She's the girl of his dreams... and now that he's a woman, he might finally have a shot with her. Tom McCallister has been in love with his best friend Lyla for as long as he can remember, but what would be the point of telling her that? He's known that it's hopeless ever since she came out to him as a lesbian during their freshman year of college. Lyla likes women, and Tom is definitely not a woman. But when Tom loses both his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Lyla is still the first person he turns to for support. She tells him to drop everything and fly out to see her in New York, confident that some friend time is exactly what he needs to get through his slump. On the plane ride over, Tom confesses his love for Lyla to a mysterious woman, takes a nap, and then wakes up in New York with some very surprising changes! He's been somehow transformed into a jaw-droppingly beautiful woman--a "megahottie," as Lyla would say. Tom has no idea what's going on and texts Lyla in a panic! Fortunately, Lyla is there just like always to help him out. But now that Tom is a woman, their whole dynamic has changed. Sparks fly between the two best friends almost immediately, and Tom realizes that as "Jess," he might finally be able to explore his real feelings for Lyla. Is it worth risking everything for a happily ever after?

Our mission: To explore brave new genders where no man has gone before! From gender-bending lab mix-ups to wild outer space alien romps, this exciting collection of three steamy titles features guys transforming into gorgeous young women and having the adventure of a lifetime in exciting and classic science fiction settings! With over 250 pages of humorous and familiar gender bending romance, you’re sure to be up reading this into the late, late hours of the night. In Girl Genes, Lee might be a brilliant gene editing whiz, but he’s terrible with women, no matter how hard his pal Joey pushes him to get out there and meet some girls. When a chemical spill in his lab changes him overnight into a gorgeous women, he gets a firsthand lesson in everything feminine! Shopping for clothes and learning to do his makeup is hard enough, but what is he supposed to do with all of these new feelings springing up between him and Joey in his new body? In Fembot Factory, William Eske is the brilliant mind behind the Fembotron coroporation, making lifelike playbots with programmed personalities for people to order. It doesn’t bother him in the slightest that he’s secretly emulating real human minds inside of these robots to make them more lifelike… that is, until his wife scans his brain and puts William’s own subjective consciousness into one of them! It was just supposed to be a short lesson, but things get interesting when the model actually gets shipped out to a buyer… In Close Encounters, Ben Rollins is a starship captain making first contact with a new planet where distant cousins of humanity evolved separately from Earthlings. It’s the discovery of a lifetime! But his mission is interrupted when he discovers that the gender-flipping humanoids of this world accidentally activated some latent genes in his own biology, and he begins to slowly transform into a woman in an ever-deepening relationship with one of the attractive aliens… will he find a way to change back, or can he complete his mission in spite of the distractions of his new body? With this much steamy, thrilling, and hilariously fun science fiction content, what are you waiting for? Get it today!

He messed up his first life, but that’s what second chances are for… even if this time he has to do it as a woman. When Rick, a high-powered, rich financier, unexpectedly arrives at the gates of heaven and is denied entry because of the self-centered way he lived his life, all he wants is a second chance to make up for past mistakes. He’d always intended to be more generous and kinder to people—he was just planning to do it in his golden years. When the angels give him the chance to go back to Earth in a young, fit body and prove the truth of his intentions, Rick eagerly accepts. Getting to be young all over again while keeping all of his accumulated wisdom sounds like a great deal, and he can hardly believe his luck. But when Rick wakes up in a dirty Los Angeles alley in the body of a gorgeous, female twenty-something with no money, no I.D., and no apparent past, he immediately begins to regret his choice. How is he supposed to prove how generous and kind he can be without any of his prior wealth or friends? How is he supposed to support himself with no way to get a job and no resources at his disposal? And how on Earth is he supposed to adjust to being a petite, delicate woman when he’s spent decades as a confident, powerful man? Rick quickly discovers that being a woman is very different from the life he’s used to, in ways that are both frustrating and humiliating. The only person who gives a damn about him now is Luke: the strong, warm-eyed bartender who takes pity on the pretty, bedraggled girl and gives her a place to stay and some money to get back on her feet while she figures out her new life. If only there were something she could do to repay his kindness…

When you’re dumb enough to piss off a goddess, being turned into a woman is the least of your concerns… When best friends Seth and Noah set off for the ultimate spring break Mexican vacation, they have a wild, booze and party-fueled vision of how their week is going to go, and the throngs of hot girls at the airport are just their first taste of that. But all of those plans get cut short when an ill-advised nighttime jaunt to some off-limits, ancient Mayan ruins puts the guys face to face with an actual, incarnate Mayan goddess. She’s powerful, gorgeous, and very pissed off at all the people who keep exploring her temple and taking her sacred objects. Fed up with thieves, she punishes Seth for the intrusion by transforming him into her own image—a ravishingly hot Mayan maiden—and tells him that he can’t have his old body back until they recover her sacred statue from the thieves that took it. But Noah and Seth (now calling herself Sera) don’t even know where to begin looking, and Sera has no experience being a woman! They’ll need to track down the thieves and help Sera adjust to her awkward new situation before her time runs out, which would be hard enough if she wasn’t also completely distracted by the strange, powerful attraction she now feels for her best friend. How did she never notice how hot Noah was before, and how on earth is she going to navigate these feelings that are driving her crazy? It’s getting hard to remember why she even wanted to be a guy in the first place, when it’s so much fun to be a girl…

Turned into a woman: A curse or blessing? Three men have lessons to learn before these supernatural forces are done meddling in their lives… When the moon is full or the gods feel whimsical, mortal forms become malleable and men find themselves experiencing all-new perspectives! Alyson’s latest three-book bundle focuses on romantic transformations spurred by curses and gods, where men learn what life is like for a whole different gender and may even come to like it before their lesson is over… curl up with these steamy romances and bring a little magic into your life! In Bared Before the Gods, Lukas and Mal are Greek adventurers who come up with the ultimate heist: stealing a golden crown from the gods themselves! But Zeus doesn’t take theft lightly: When their heist goes wrong and Zeus strikes Lukas down with his lightning, he’s only narrowly saved by the beautiful Aphrodite who transforms him into a woman to right his past wrongs. How will Lukas convince Mal to help him return the crown in time to return to his original form? And more importantly, what is he supposed to do with these new feelings for his friend that are proving to be the worst kind of distraction? In Curse of the Were-Woman, Chad Mason is a guy who’s had it all, seen it all, and still hasn’t found the right girl to settle down with. When captivating redhead Mina wanders into his bar and instantly grabs his attention, he can see there’s something different about her. But when Mina leaves him high and dry the next day, Chad realizes she left him with more than a broken heart—she also transmitted a curse that transforms him into a woman every night! Can he find Mina again and get her help to reverse the curse, or his he doomed to spend the rest of his days as a were-woman? In Beast to Beauty, Prince Edward is a cruel tyrant who intimidates and harasses the women of the nearby village he rules with an iron fist. But when a disguised goddess appears on his doorstep and is angered by his brutish ways, she transforms him into a beautiful and helpless maiden to teach him a lesson about what it’s like on the other side of life. Can he learn from his mistakes and appease the goddess before the last petal of a magic rose falls from its stem and traps him in his new body forever? Time is short, and as his adventure continues, Edward begins to wonder… does he even want to go back? Don’t miss out on these supernaturally-charged, romantic stories, guaranteed to put a smile on your face as you read them late, late into the night!

What would you do if you found a magical board game that magically transformed you in some VERY surprising ways? Would you dare to keep playing? Could you uncover its mysteries? And how would the rest of your life turn out? In My Very Own Exchanji, YOU get to make all of these choices and more as you return to the world of Alyson Belle's classic book Exchanji, joining four young friends on the magical and hilarious romantic transformation adventure of a lifetime and seeing all the different ways their fateful night might have turned out. You play the book as Connor, one of the men, and when you find a dusty old board game called Exchanji (An Exciting Game of Changes for Consenting Adults) in a closet, things start to get wild as soon as the dice start rolling! Swapped bodies and surprising transformations are only the start of this crazy night... Not only can you pick which romantic encounters happen to Connor throughout the book, but you also get to choose from dozens and dozens of branching paths as the night gets crazier and crazier: Will you go along with the board game's magic or fight it every step of the way? Will you wind up with your girlfriend Maya, the hotheaded Kelsey, or even your best friend Frank? Do you dare to step beyond the portal and enter the magical realms of Exchanjia? With over 400 pages of possibilities and sixteen completely unique endings, the choices you make on this fateful day will affect Connor and every one of his friends for the rest of their lives (or maybe beyond)! Can you make the right choices to have fun, stay alive, and uncover all of the mysteries of the world of Exchanji? There's only one way to find out! Unlike traditional books, this is a branching narrative story that can be read multiple times with different events throughout. At the end of each section there are several hyperlinks indicating choices you can make for Connor, just like a game. You can tap your e-reader/tablet or click the link in your browser (depending on where you’re reading this) to make the selection you want, and you’ll be transported to that section to continue the story. While it’s possible to use your back buttons to go back a step, you’ll probably have the most fun if you treat the decisions as permanent until your next read-through, just like Connor and his friends would have to do!

‘Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature’ explores the claustrophobic shadow of discrimination hanging over Indian women and lower caste people from ancient times. It examines how different literary figures paint a vivid and descriptive picture of the physical and psychological oppression faced throughout India. The book traces feminist resistance, subaltern resistance, and resistance during the anti-colonial struggle, with the literary outputs discussed working as socio-political activity against dominant ideologies. The volume further talks about the responsibility, not only of those oppressed, but also of us as human beings, to speak out against the violation of human rights and for justice. So, the book focuses on the literary writers who always dream of a better India where all people, regardless of their caste, class and gender, can live and breathe freely. The book is divided into three parts. Part I describes the plight of women, their commodification and the politics around them, and how they fight hard to regain their faded identity. Part II depicts the interesting findings on gender-caste intersections and discrimination. Part III explores the struggle of the low caste, specifically male members of Dalit community, along with their history. It further portrays how orthodoxy in rituals creates the burden of traditional and existential crises. ‘Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature’ re-visits Indian literary texts in terms of what they reveal about the resistance registered through the suffering of human beings (women and Dalits) at the hands of fellow human beings, and further links the discussion to our contemporary situation. The book has a unique quality in that it is not only a detailed study of select Indian English texts, but also delves into an in-depth analysis of texts from Bengali, Urdu, and Hindi literature. The work is likely to affect and appeal to students, scholars and academics, and can be adopted for classroom teaching and research purposes as well.

Gaskell (social and educational studies, U. of British Columbia) explores the way young men and women experience and account for the relations between school and work, and analyzes the way schooling and work have been organized by historical and continuing patterns of gender and class inequality. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Ruth Landes (1908?91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations. Ahead of her time in many respects, Landes worked with issues that defined the central debates in the discipline at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In Ruth Landes, Sally Cole reconsiders Landes?s life, work, and career, and places her at the heart of anthropology. ø The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Landes studied under the renowned anthropologist Franz Boas and was mentored by Ruth Benedict. Landes?s rejection of domestic life led to an early divorce. Her ideas regarding gender roles also shaped her 1930s fieldwork among the Ojibwa, where she worked closely with Maggie Wilson to produce a masterpiece study of gender relations, The Ojibwa Woman. Her growing prominence and subsequent work in Bahia, Brazil, was marked by outstanding fieldwork and another landmark study, The City of Women. This was a tumultuous time for Landes, who was accused of being a spy, and her remarkable work fed the envy of such prominent scholars as Melville Herskovits and Margaret Mead. Ultimately, however, the errors and excesses that her critics complained of long ago now point us to the innovations for which she is responsible and that give her work its lasting value and power.