Download or read book Cherchez la femme written by Erika Fülöp and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, the most fundamental values at the basis of societal organization and culture were determined and sanctified almost exclusively by men—including the values traditionally associated with women, such as corporeal beauty, purity, motherhood, or empathy. However, from ancient times, and increasingly toward the end of the second millennium, women have succeeded in finding ways to overcome such limits and have made their contributions to the revision of values and to the establishment of new ones. Cherchez la femme offers a selection of essays inquiring into the nature of aesthetic, linguistic, cultural, and social values created, informed, or reformed by women in the French-speaking world, as well as studies on how the discourse of (male) power used female figures to strengthen its own position. With topics ranging in time from Semiramis’s ancient legend to today, and in space from Québec to Haiti, metropolitan France, and New Caledonia, the volume shares the richness and fruitfulness of the female perspective in art, culture, theory, and political action.
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Download or read book Discurso Sobre el Origen de la Desigualdad Entre los Hombres written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si hubiera podido elegir el lugar de mi nacimiento, habría elegido una sociedad de una magnitud limitada por la extensión de las facultades humanas, es decir, por la posibilidad de ser bien gobernada, y donde cada uno al cumplir suficientemente su empleo, nadie habría estado obligado de encomendar a otros las funciones que estaban a su cargo un Estado donde todos los particulares por conocerse entre ellos, no habrían podido sustraer a las miradas y al juicio del público las maniobras oscuras del vicio ni la modestia de la virtud, y donde esta buena costumbre de verse y de conocerse hace del amor a la patria el amor entre los ciudadanos, más que el amor a la tierra. Hubiera querido nacer en un país donde el soberano y el pueblo no pudiesen tener más que un solo y común interés, a fin de que todos los movimientos de la máquina no tendiesen más que al bien común lo que no pudiendo lograse a menos que el pueblo y el soberano sean una misma persona, se sigue que habría querido nacer bajo un gobierno democrático sabiamente atemperado. Habría querido vivir y morir libre, es decir, de tal manera que nadie pudiese sacudir el honorable yugo. Ese yugo saludable y suave que las cabezas más altivas llevan más dócilmente en tanto no están hechas para llevar ningún otro. Hubiera querido que nadie en el Estado hubiese podido ponerse por encima de la ley, y que nadie desde fuera hubiese podido imponer una que el Estado estuviese obligado a reconocer. Pues cualquiera que fuese la constitución de un gobierno, si se hallase un solo hombre que no estuviese sometido a la ley, todos los otros estarían necesariamente a merced de él y si hubiese un jefe nacional y otro jefe extranjero, cualquier partición de autoridad que pudiesen hacer, sería imposible que ni uno ni otro fuesen obedecidos y que el Estado estuviese bien gobernado.' Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book The Dramatic World of Valle Incl n written by Robert Lima and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There follows an up-to-date bibliography of the plays, from editions contemporary with the author through those published posthumously; it includes translations of the dramas into many languages, as well as a selection of critical studies worldwide."--Jacket.
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Download or read book The Birth of a new Bishop in Chess written by Govert Westerveld and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new bishop in chess has been a great mystery from the XV century until now, because not only was the power of the Queen greatly introduced, but so was also the position of the church. Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza was the partisan of Princess (later Queen) Isabella I of Castile and fought for her in the Battle of Zamora and Toro between 1475 and 1476. This warrior churchman had a prominent part in placing Princess Isabella on the throne and served her tirelessly in her efforts to suppress the disorderly nobles of Castile with the money of the church. Cardinal Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza remains one of the most striking and picturesque figures of the XV-century, and was equally great as churchman, statesman and warrior. He was considered as "the third king of Spain" and Isabella's best adviser.
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Download or read book A Companion to Spanish Cinema written by Bernard P. E. Bentley and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a detailed chronological account of the history of Spanish cinema.
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Download or read book Rainforest Medicine written by Jonathon Miller Weisberger and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the practices, legends, and wisdom of the vanishing traditions of the upper Amazon, this book reveals the area's indigenous peoples' approach to living in harmony with the natural world. Rainforest Medicine features in-depth essays on plant-based medicine and indigenous science from four distinct Amazonian societies: deep forest and urban, lowland rainforest and mountain. The book is illustrated with unique botanical and cultural drawings by Secoya elder and traditional healer Agustin Payaguaje and horticulturalist Thomas Y. Wang as well as by the author himself. Payaguaje shares his sincere imaginal view into the spiritual life of the Secoya; plates of petroglyphs from the sacred valley of Cotundo relate to an ancient language, and other illustrations show traditional Secoya ayahuasca symbols and indigenous origin myths. Two color sections showcase photos of the plants and people of the region, and include plates of previously unpublished full-color paintings by Pablo Cesar Amaringo (1938-2009), an acclaimed Peruvian artist renowned for his intricate, colorful depictions of his visions from drinking the entheogenic plant brew, ayahuasca ("vine of the soul" in Quechua languages). Today the once-dense mysterious rainforest realms are under assault as the indiscriminate colonial frontier of resource extraction moves across the region; as the forest disappears, the traditional human legacy of sustainable utilization of this rich ecosystem is also being buried under modern realities. With over 20 years experience of ground-level environmental and cultural conservation, author Jonathon Miller Weisberger's commitment to preserving the fascinating, unfathomably precious relics of the indigenous legacy shines through. Chief among these treasures is the "shimmering" "golden" plant-medicine science of ayahuasca or yajé, a rainforest vine that was popularized in the 1950s by Western travelers such as William Burroughs and Alan Ginsberg. It has been sampled, reviled, and celebrated by outsiders ever since. Currently sought after by many in the industrialized West for its powerful psychotropic and life-transforming effects, this sacred brew is often imbibed by visitors to the upper Amazon and curious seekers in faraway venues, sometimes with little to no working knowledge of its principles and precepts. Perceiving that there is an evident need for in-depth information on ayahuasca if it is to be used beyond its traditional context for healing and spiritual illumination in the future, Miller Weisberger focuses on the fundamental knowledge and practices that guide the use of ayahuasca in indigenous cultures. Weaving first-person narrative with anthropological and ethnobotanical information, Rainforest Medicine aims to preserve both the record and ongoing reality of ayahuasca's unique tradition and, of course, the priceless forest that gave birth to these sacred vines. Featuring words from Amazonian shamans--the living torchbearers of these sophisticated spiritual practices--the book stands as testimony to this sacred plant medicine's power in shaping and healing individuals, communities, and nature alike.
Download or read book The University of Colorado Studies written by University of Colorado Boulder and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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