Download or read book Nudity Today written by Jesse Pearson and published by Picturebox, Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the body of nude photography being made by a large group of young artists from all over the world. The collection examines the new moods and outlooks in photography engendered by the heady era that witnessed the explosion of the snapshot aesthetic, the birth of digital photos and the proliferation of online outlets for sharing and exhibiting art. As these changes shaped the means of photography, the relaxing of social mores changed the ends. The young artists of today are more open in their portrayal of sexuality in these intimate and beautiful nudes.
Download or read book Veils Nudity and Tattoos written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first sight, tattoos, nudity, and veils do not seem to have much in common except for the fact that all three have become more frequent, more visible, and more dominant in connection with aesthetic presentations of women over the past thirty years. No longer restricted to biker and sailor culture, tattoos have been sanctioned by the mainstream of liberal societies. Nudity has become more visible than ever on European beaches or on the internet. The increased use of the veil by women in Muslim and non-Muslim countries has developed in parallel with the aforementioned phenomena and is just as striking. Through the means of conceptual analysis, Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics reveals that these three phenomena can be both private and public, humiliating and empowering, and backward and progressive. This unorthodox approach is traced by the three’s similar social and psychological patterns, and by doing so, Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos hopes to sketch the image of a woman who is not only sexually emancipated and confident, but also more and more aware of her cultural heritage.
Download or read book Religious Violence Today 2 volumes written by Michael Jerryson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world. Religious violence and persecution have been growing steadily both within the United States and around the world. Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of scholars, this current and comprehensive reference helps readers understand the persecution of members of particular faiths as well as violence committed by members of those faiths. In doing so, it promotes a greater understanding of the role of religion in global politics, domestic and international terrorism, and religious bigotry. The book contains sections on particular religious traditions from around the world. Each section begins with an overview essay surveying violence related to that particular religion, whether committed by or against members of that faith. Reference entries in each section then provide objective, fundamental information about particular topics related to violence and the religion discussed. The entries provide cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and the work closes with a bibliography of resources for further study.
Download or read book Naked Jesus written by Jery Tillotson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Emmanuel Trident? Was he really Jesus Christ--as legend suggests? On a wintry evening in 1940, a charismatic stranger suddenly appears in the crime-ridden village of Vesaria in the North Carolina mountains. He brings harmony and prosperity to the community but then he marries the town outcast--the beautiful transgender Diana DuPree--and there is the miracle birth of twin sons. Enraged, Klansmen massacre the family and a horrendous plague wipes out all life in Vesaria within a week. But myth says the Mountain Messiah actually escaped to a magic cave in the side of the mountain and remains asleep until a mystical signal awakens him. His twin sons survive. One becomes a famous gay fashion designer. HIs sibling becomes a blazing replica of his father. The two vow to find their father--and discover once and for all--if he really is the Messiah!
Download or read book Comic Art Creativity and the Law written by Greenberg, Marc H. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic novels and comics have launched characters and stories that play a dominant role in contemporary popular culture throughout the world. The extensive revisions in this second edition of Comic Art, Creativity and the Law update the author’s analysis of important changes at the intersection of law and comics, featuring an examination of how recent cases will affect the creative process as applied to comic art.
Download or read book Constitutional Law for a Changing America written by Lee Epstein and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 1855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political factors influence judicial decisions. Arguments and input from lawyers and interest groups, the ebb and flow of public opinion, and especially the ideological and behavioral inclinations of the justices all combine to shape the development of constitutional doctrine. Drawing on political science as much as from legal studies, Constitutional Law for a Changing America helps students realize that Supreme Court cases are more than just legal names and citations. With meticulous revising, authors Lee Epstein and Thomas G. Walker streamline material while accounting for recent landmark cases and new scholarship. Ideal for a one-semester course, the Seventh Edition of Short Course offers all of the hallmarks of the Rights and Powers volumes in a more condensed format. Students and instructors benefit from the Constitutional Law for a Changing America Resource Center, which features more than 500 excerpted supplemental cases, links to CQ Press reference materials, and a moot court simulation. Learn more at edge.sagepub.com/conlaw ORDER THE CORRECT ISBN to ensure that your students get FREE access to the Constitutional Law for a Changing America Resource Center: Use bundle ISBN: 978-1-5443-0895-1
Download or read book The Philosopher s New Clothes written by Nickolas Pappas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a new approach to the question, "Is the philosopher to be seen as universal human being or as eccentric?". Through a reading of the Theaetetus, Pappas first considers how we identify philosophers – how do they appear, in particular how do they dress? The book moves to modern philosophical treatments of fashion, and of "anti-fashion". He argues that aspects of the fashion/anti-fashion debate apply to antiquity, indeed that nudity at the gymnasia was an anti-fashion. Thus anti-fashion provides a way of viewing ancient philosophy’s orientation toward a social world in which, for all its true existence elsewhere, philosophy also has to live.
Download or read book Bad for Us written by John Portmann and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people do things that are blatantly bad for them? Think of the falls from grace of Richard Nixon, Gary Hart, Rob Lowe, Martha Stewart, and Kobe Bryant. Portmann argues that we are often our own worst enemies, and that the hardest kind of suffering to bear is what we inflict upon ourselves. This groundbreaking book is a wide-ranging exploration of self-destructive behavior and self-injury. It helps us better understand how and why we engineer our own downfalls, and why dizzying reversals of fortune often leave a trail that leads back to people who should have known better--like Jayson Blair and his blatant plagiarism or Bill Clinton and his affair with Monica Lewinsky.After developing an exciting philosophical category"raving"in which we take leave of our senses and refuse to act according to societal mores, Portmann observes that we all occasionally crave the forbidden or the dangerous. While raving takes varied forms, from streaking nude across a college campus to indulging in unsafe sex, it is best described as "a temporary vacation from the self." Cautioning that our very happiness is at stake, Portmann exhorts us to choose wisely. This rare book is the North Star for cautious rebels."Bad for Us is an engaging book that explores a social and moral paradox. Drawing from thinkers ranging from Immanuel Kant to Thomas Sowell to Madonna, John Portmann deeply explores a topic all but taboo among modern writers--the dual need each of us feels to develop and maintain a sense of self-control, and to lose it from time to time." -William N. Eskridge, Jr., author of Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet and John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School
Download or read book Law and Ethics for Today s Journalist written by Joe Mathewson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist offers aspiring and working journalists the practical understanding of law and ethics they must have to succeed at their craft. Instead of covering every nuance of media law for diverse communications majors, Mathewson focuses exclusively on what's relevant for journalists. Even though media law and media ethics are closely linked together in daily journalistic practice, they are usually covered in separate volumes. Mathewson brings them together in a clear and colourful way that practicing journalists will find more useful. Everything a journalist needs to know about legal protections, limitations, and risks inherent in workaday reporting is illustrated with highlights from major court opinions. Mathewson advises journalists who must often make ethical decisions on the spot with no time for the elaborate, multi-faceted analysis. The book assigns to journalists the hard decisions on ethical questions such as whether to go undercover or otherwise misrepresent themselves in order to get a big story. The ethics chapter precedes the law chapters because ethical standards should underlie a journalist's work at all times. There may be occasions when ethics and law are not parallel, thus calling for the journalist to make a personal judgment. Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist is user-friendly, written in clear, direct, understandable language on issues that really matter to a working journalist. Supplementary reading of the actual court cases is recommended and links to most cases are provided in the text. The text includes a fine (but purposely not exhaustive) bibliography listing important and useful legal cases, including instructive appellate and trial court opinions, state as well as federal.
Download or read book Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body written by Brett Lunceford and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although nudity is something that everyone has experience with, public nudity is still largely considered taboo. Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body examines instances of public nudity where sexuality is at the forefront of public body display. It presents a range of case studies: the legal aspects of sexualized public nudity as it relates to communication theory and the First Amendment; the controversies surrounding the work of photographer Jock Sturges; the public performance art of Milo Moiré; the topless protests of FEMEN; the social media activism of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy; the ritualized flashing during Mardi Gras in New Orleans; and the sexual displays of Folsom Street Fair, the largest leather pride festival. Taken together, these cases teach much about identity, self-determination, and sexuality, and illustrate the complicated rhetorical nature of the human body in the public sphere.
Download or read book The Naked Boy written by Clay Sherrod and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being one of millions of the Baby Boomer generation, I not only did my part in overpopulating the world, but also watched the remarkable transition of society and the world in general as my body and mind grew. Holding on to small mysteries and things that I did not want to lose from my life, I essentially have never grown up, and after nearly seventy years have acclimated to the fact I will never - ever - grow up, no matter what older people tell me to do. These are the life stories of a boy growing older while the world of technology emerged. As this transition marched on, this boy saw his world around him transform from a world in which imagination - fantasy - led to intellectual growth, to a new generation possessed with the idea that their lives are dependent on technology. Computers, smart phones, devices - all have taken the place of creativity. Lessons of the Naked Boy are life's simple philosophies that we must remember to keep from becoming victims of our own technology.
Download or read book Dissent and Marginality written by Kiyoshi Tsuchiya and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-12-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve essays responding to the proposed title, 'Dissent and Marginality', each with a specific perspective and solid research, are brought together here. The collection incorporates the historical and contemporary dimensions, tracing back religious, philosophical or social dissent in our history and addressing the issue of race, gender, sexuality and other forms of marginalization of our postmodern times. It offers a train of fine reading to theologians, literary, cultural or social critics and historians.
Download or read book Nude Beach written by Jack D. Douglas and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1977-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Victorian Nude written by Alison Smith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith reveals how images of the nude were used at all levels of Victorian culture, from prestigious high-art paintings through to photographs and popular entertainments; and discusses the many views as to whether these were legitimate forms of representation or, in fact, pornography and an incitement to unregulated sexual activity.
Download or read book Mr Skin s Skincyclopedia written by Mr. Skin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cult hero, radio personality, and internet maven, Mr. Skin has penned the essential guide to celebrity nudity in a combination of hard, reliable data and hilarious, captivating entertainment.
Download or read book Damn Shame written by David Pevsner and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, daring, bawdy and incredibly honest memoir from the anti-ageist, anti-body shaming, pro-sex advocate and erotic provocateur. Over the course of his 40-year career in show business, David Pevsner has done it all. He’s acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in independent films and on numerous TV network shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family and Criminal Minds. As he continues his career in entertainment, Pevsner has also dedicated himself to exploring his deepest sexual fantasies. In his late 30s he became a mature male escort and over the last several years has attracted a large international fan base through his blog of erotic photographs celebrating nudity and sexuality. Damn Shame is David Pevsner’s incredible story and is a passionate and poignant look at one man’s journey from a thin, shy boy ashamed of his body and sexuality to a defiant, fearless everyman exploring his erotic desires, everything from leather and S&M to nude/erotic/hardcore modelling. Along the way, he fights back against society’s demonization of gay sex, body shaming and ageism while pursuing his own very personal definition of success and seeking love, validation and self-esteem. Damn Shame gives a loud and powerful voice to a generation of mature men who have been conditioned to believe from society (and especially younger members of the gay community) that they are sexually irrelevant, old and undesirable. Pevsner’s life story goes in directions that many couldn’t imagine, but the lessons learned through his experiences will resonate with readers of every age.
Download or read book Wicca and Witchcraft For Dummies written by Diane Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Wiccan magic, rituals, traditions, and code of conduct Get the scoop on this ancient spiritual path Wondering what it takes to be a Wiccan? This plain-English guide introduces you to the vibrant world of Wicca and the practices of Witchcraft, describing its ancient origins, dispelling stereotypes, and explaining Wiccan beliefs, ethics, rituals, and holidays. You'll see what it means to live as a contemporary Wiccan -- and how to worship alone or with a group. Discover how to * Worship alone or join a coven * Perform charms, blessings, and spells * Obtain necessary tools and supplies * Spot spiritual scams and inappropriate behavior * Explore a spiritual path guided by nature
