Unit 1 Families What Is Happiness? Unit 2 Femininity The Appeal or the Androgynous Man Unit 3 Learning to Listen The Fine Art or Complaining Unit 4 The Chase Bombs Bursting in Air Unit 5 In Defense of Talk Shows Why We Crave Horror Movies Unit 6 I Surf, Therefore I Am A Design for Living on the Internet Unit 7 Less Is More: A Call for Shorter Work Hours What Is the Point of Working? Unit 8 The Portraits of My Parents A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream Unit 9 Of Shopping Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw! Unit 10 But What Do You Mean? Pornoviolence Unit 11 That Lean and Hungry Look The Ugly Truth About Beauty Unit 12 On Self-Respect The Medusa and the Snail Unit 13 The Word Police Sexism and Language Unit 14 The Broken Chain Arm Wrestling with My Father Unit 15 What the Great Books Do The Limits of the Great Books Unit 16 Love Sick Love Story Unit 17 Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir Safe-Sex Lies Unit 18 Unit 19 Unit 20 Appendix: Reading Critically References