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"An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language--of extraversion vs. introversion, thinking vs. feeling--has inspired online dating platforms and Buzzfeed quizzes alike. And yet despite the test's widespread adoption, experts in the field of psychometric testing, a $500 million industry, struggle to account for its success--no less to validate its results. How did the Myers-Briggs test insinuate itself into our jobs, our relationships, our Internet, our lives? First conceived in the 1920s by the mother-daughter team of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, a pair of aspiring novelists and devoted homemakers, the Myers-Briggs was designed to bring the gospel of Carl Jung to the masses. But it would take on a life of its own, reaching from the smoke-filled boardrooms of mid-century New York to Berkeley, California, where it was honed against some of the twentieth century's greatest creative minds. It would travel across the world to London, Zurich, Cape Town, Melbourne, and Tokyo; to elementary schools, nunneries, wellness retreats, and the closed-door corporate training sessions of today. Drawing from original reporting and never-before-published documents, The Personality Brokers examines nothing less than the definition of the self--our attempts to grasp, categorize, and quantify our personalities. Surprising and absorbing, the book, like the test at its heart, considers the timeless question: What makes you you"--

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Development. --- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. --- PSYCHOLOGY / Personality. --- Personality tests --- Personality tests. --- Personality --- Personality. --- Self-consciousness (Awareness). --- Self-consciousness (Awareness.). --- Typology (Psychology). --- Typology (Psychology.). --- History. --- Testing. --- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator --- Self-consciousness (Awareness) --- Typology (Psychology) --- Mental types --- Psychological types --- Type (Psychology) --- Types, Mental --- Types, Psychological --- Characters and characteristics --- Psychology --- Temperament --- Self-awareness --- Self-consciousness --- Consciousness --- Character tests --- Educational tests and measurements --- Neuroses --- Personality assessment --- Psychological tests --- MBTI (Personality test) --- History --- Diagnosis

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Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers-attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's tongue-in-cheek term, "bad" readers. They read fiction and poetry to be moved, distracted, instructed, improved, engaged as citizens. How should we think about those readers, and what should we make of the structures, well outside the academy, that generate them? We should, Emre argues, think of such readers not as non-literary but as paraliterary-thriving outside the institutions we take as central to the literary world. She traces this phenomenon to the postwar period, when literature played a key role in the rise of American power. At the same time as American universities were producing good readers by the hundreds, many more thousands of bad readers were learning elsewhere to be disciplined public communicators, whether in diplomatic and ambassadorial missions, private and public cultural exchange programs, multinational corporations, or global activist groups. As we grapple with literature's diminished role in the public sphere, Paraliterary suggests a new way to think about literature, its audience, and its potential, one that looks at the civic institutions that have long engaged readers ignored by the academy.

Books and reading --- Literature and society --- Reading --- Communication in international relations --- History --- Sociological aspects. --- Philosophy. --- United States --- Intellectual life --- cultural diplomacy. --- institutional sociology. --- paraliterary. --- postwar literature. --- sociology of reading. --- 20th century --- Sociological aspects --- Philosophy --- United States.

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Feminism. --- Reproductive technology --- Technology and women. --- Social aspects.

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On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves. For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'biological division of labour', the double-standard for ageing and the dynamics of women's powerlessness and women's power.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Essays --- Authoritarianism --- Power --- Sexual division of labour --- Second feminist wave --- Ageing --- Book --- Feminism --- Women --- Féminisme. --- Femmes --- feminism. --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales. --- Feminism. --- Féminisme.

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Ferrante, Elena