Download or read book Interpreting the Body written by Anne Marie Champagne and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society. Interpreting body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race, sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other contexts, the book’s chapters call into question taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the social world, and the body begin and end. Encouraging reflection and opening new perspectives on theories of the body that cut through the classic mind/body divide, this is an important contribution to the literature on the body.
Download or read book You re So Beautiful written by Eileen Fitzgerald and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 1996, this debut collection of ten stories set in the contemporary Midwest casts a sympathetic eye on women . . . celebrating the day-to-day rituals and rhythms of life, waiting to surprise readers with unexpected bursts of passion (Boston Herald).
Download or read book Flat written by Catherine Guthrie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A darn good read.” —Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and New York Times bestselling author A feminist breast cancer memoir of medical trauma, love, and how she found the strength to listen to her body. As a young, queer woman, Catherine Guthrie had worked hard to feel at home in her body. However, after years writing about women’s health and breast cancer, Guthrie is thrust into the role of the patient after a devastating diagnosis at age thirty-eight. At least, she thinks, I know what I'm up against. She was wrong. In one horrifying moment after another, everything that could go wrong does—the surgeon gives her a double mastectomy but misses the cancerous lump, one of the most effective drug treatments fails, and a doctor's error may have unleashed millions of breast cancer cells into her body. Flat is Guthrie’s story of how two bouts of breast cancer shook her faith in her body, her relationship, and medicine. Along the way, she challenges the view that breasts are essential to femininity and paramount to a woman’s happiness. Ultimately, she traces an intimate portrayal of how cancer reshapes her relationship with Mary, her partner, revealing—in the midst of crisis—a love story. Filled with candor, vulnerability, and resilience, Guthrie upends the “pink ribbon” narrative and offers a unique perspective on womanhood, what it means to be “whole,” and the importance of women advocating for their desires. Flat is a story about how she found the strength to forge an unconventional path—one of listening to her body—that she’d been on all along.
Download or read book Breastless written by Stacy Nottle and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacy Nottle thought she had her act together, until she ran face first into a cancer diagnosis and her carefully constructed sense of identity shattered.
Download or read book Running for Our Lives written by Rachel Ann Cullen and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Every time I speak to someone and hear about their experiences, it leaves me with a sense of running's incredible power to help people overcome pretty much anything.' Each day, millions of people around the world put on their trainers and try to deal with their personal demons and life challenges by going for a run. And, increasingly, they do it knowing that they are not alone: a growing and often virtual community is right there running alongside them. We are all, in some sense, running for our lives. Rachel Ann Cullen's first book, Running for My Life, described her own marathon journey through depression, bipolar disorder and body dysmorphia, and her revelatory discovery that running could transform her physical and mental wellbeing. Since hearing from people who had read about her experiences, Rachel wanted to tell some stories of other runners from all around the world – ordinary people living with mental health struggles, dealing with grief, cancer and other unavoidable life events who have relied on running to get them through their worst days and to keep going. Running for Our Lives shares moving accounts of hope and resilience; it demonstrates the power of running to help us all overcome adversity, and is a lesson for us all in learning not only how to survive life's challenges, but to thrive.
Download or read book A Terrible Beauty written by Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A terrible beauty is born' WB Yeats's poignant words have come to immortalise the complex legacy of the Easter Rising, 1916. The poetry that emerged at this time of upheaval in Ireland gave voice to the thoughts of a generation. Yeats's poem, 'Easter 1916', sits alongside selected works of other major poets of the era. These include Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett, who were executed for their part in the Rising. In the aftermath of the Rising an outpouring of poetry also expressed the shock and grief of literary figures such as Padraic Colum, Francis Ledwidge, Eva Gore-Booth, James Stephens, Dora Sigerson Shorter and Seán O'Casey. Rebels, soldiers, honorary Irishmen, sympathisers and exiles all held up a mirror, in verse, to the events, beliefs and desires bound up in 1916.
Download or read book Life Reconstructed written by Kim Harms and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 in 8 women will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime, but this is not just another cancer book. Breast cancer survivor Kim Harms combines her own experience with extensive research and walks readers through the process of mastectomy and breast reconstruction, weighing the pros and cons, detailing the physical and emotional costs, and laying out the questions cancer fighters need to ask to be their own best advocate. With a foreword by the medical director of Katzmann Breast Center and chapters on everything from the vulnerable feeling of exposing your breasts to “everyone” to the distinctions between reconstruction and augmentation (trust us, it’s not a boob job!), Life Reconstructed is the compassionate, honest roadmap every breast cancer fighter needs on her journey to recovery.
Download or read book Beauty Or Beast written by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Literaure: a Very Short Introduction Nicholas Boyle --
Download or read book Beauty written by Sheri S. Tepper and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty," Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair, magic and nature. Set against a backdrop both enchanted and frightening, the story begins with a wicked aunt's curse that will afflict a young woman named Beauty on her sixteenth birthday. Though Beauty is able to sidestep tragedy, she soon finds herself embarked on an adventure of vast consequences. For it becomes clear that the enchanted places of this fantastic world--a place not unlike our own--are in danger and must be saved before it is too late.
Download or read book St Vincent s Manhattan written by Drake Worthington and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we face the death of a beloved parent? We turn to our friends and family to cope but often they aren't up to the difficult task of coping and caring for a demanding patient. Paying for medical care can be a nightmare as treatment is withheld unless funds are forthcoming.
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Download or read book The Force of Beauty written by Holly Grout and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The market for commercial beauty products exploded in Third Republic France, with a proliferation of goods promising to erase female imperfections and perpetuate an aesthetic of femininity that conveyed health and respectability. While the industry's meteoric growth helped to codify conventional standards of womanhood, The Force of Beauty goes beyond the narrative of beauty culture as a tool for sociopolitical subjugation to show how it also targeted women as important consumers in major markets and created new avenues by which they could express their identities and challenge or reinforce gender norms. As cosmetics companies and cultural media, from magazines to novels to cinema, urged women to aspire to commercial standards of female perfection, beauty evolved as a goal to be pursued rather than a biological inheritance. The products and techniques that enabled women to embody society's feminine ideal also taught them how to fashion their bodies into objects of desire and thus offered a subversive tool of self-expression. Holly Grout explores attempts by commercial beauty culture to reconcile a standard of respectability with female sexuality, as well as its efforts to position French women within the global phenomenon of changing views on modern womanhood. Grout draws on a wide range of primary sources-hygiene manuals, professional and legal debates about the right to fabricate and distribute "medicines," advertisements for beauty products, and contemporary fiction and works of art-to explore how French women navigated changing views on femininity. Her seamless integration of gender studies with business history, aesthetics, and the history of medicine results in a textured and complex study of the relationship between the politics of womanhood and the politics of beauty.
Download or read book Physiology of Love and Other Writings written by Paolo Mantegazza and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-02-16 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physician, anthropologist, travel writer, novelist, politician, Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) was probably the most eclectic figure in late-nineteenth century Italian culture. A prolific writer, Mantegazza can be seen as a forerunner of what has come to be known as cultural studies on account of his interdisciplinary approach, his passionate blend of scientific and literary elements in his writings, and his ability to transcend the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture. Though extremely popular during his lifetime both in Italy and abroad, Mantegazza's works have not been made available in a significant English language compilation. This volume is a representative overview of Mantegazza's key works, many of them translated into English for the first time. In addition to the unabridged Physiology of Love (1873), a veritable best-seller at the time of its initial publication, this compilation features selections from Mantegazza's writings on medicine, his travelogues, his epistolary novel One Day in Madeira (1868), and his treatise on materialistic aesthetics. Replete with an extensive and informative introduction by the editor, The Physiology of Love and Other Writings also excerpts Mantegazza's works of science fiction, memoir, and social and cultural criticism. As an anthology of the works of Paolo Mantegazza, a writer of diverse topical orientations, this volume is also an account of the circulation of ideas and cross-fertilization of disciplines that defined a crucial period of Italian and European cultural life.
Download or read book 5 Minutes to Stress Relief written by Lauren Miller and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress has three main fuels: worry, fear, and doubt. They act like little serpents that crawl into the lap of your life and wreak havoc emotionally, spiritually, and physically. But you have the ability to identify and dismiss these serpents that are trying to hinder your ability to maintain inner calm, clarity of focus, and a motivated response to all of life. 5 Minutes to Stress Relief will give you the specific skills and tools to: Identify and relieve stress Access personal excellence in your thought life to create positive transformation in your physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences Activate your God-given natural state of being Stress is often called the silent killer. As someone who battled the stress of advanced cancer and divorce—simultaneously—Lauren equips you with the ability to successfully handle any stressful situation...instantly.
Download or read book Write It in the Hearts of Women written by Hinemoa Pourewa and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often, there is emotional turmoil that erupts within the very essence of a woman’s being, yet so many women are unable to speak the words of their aching hearts. Hinemoa Pourewa is the poetic instrument of this pain. She is a voice, compelled to announce women’s silent fears. Through these pages, a hand is stretched out in earnest to hold, seek comfort, and above all, share truth. Pourewa’s poetry exhibits self-honesty and self-reflection. She faces issues that many women find too painful or even embarrassing to discuss. Yet, she finds the courage to share her struggles, in turn helping others in similar situations. A cry for sisterhood yearns to be heard so that a solitary voice may rise in unison. A pathway is lit, and a light-bearer rises out of the abyss to cry, “I am a survivor!”
Download or read book Hearing His Whisper written by Lauren Miller and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two weeks prior to her final divorce court date, Lauren Miller was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer: Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. All at once, the mother of three children, second-degree black belt, fitness trainer, inspirational speaker, and teacher was losing her marriage and possibly her life. In Hearing His Whisper, Lauren records her personal conversations with Jesus before, during, and after her divorce and cancer experience. Hearing His Whisper is a portal into the un-manifested spiritual dimension that ultimately leads one to internal freedom, inner strength, self-love, and acceptance through and with the source of love itself. www.laurenemiller.com Follow Lauren at www.twitter.com/laurenemiller7
