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Book Warriors and Wildmen

Download or read book Warriors and Wildmen written by Stephen Wicks and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-09-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warriors and Wildmen is a book about men and masculinity. Through an exploration of the complex issues of sex differences, the book presents a challenge to the predominant ideas of modern feminism. Contemporary studies of sex and gender have come primarily from the perspective of women's studies. In the 1990s, however, a growing body of work offers a male perspective. This book surveys that collection, and draws from a wide variety of popular and scholarly writers in support of its major points. This book will be of interest to anyone involved in men's studies, gender issues, and feminism.

Book Warriors and Wildmen

Download or read book Warriors and Wildmen written by Stephen Wicks and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-09-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warriors and Wildmen is a book about men and masculinity. Through an exploration of the complex issues of sex differences, the book presents a challenge to the predominant ideas of modern feminism. Contemporary studies of sex and gender have come primarily from the perspective of women's studies. In the 1990s, however, a growing body of work offers a male perspective. This book surveys that collection, and draws from a wide variety of popular and scholarly writers in support of its major points. This book will be of interest to anyone involved in men's studies, gender issues, and feminism.

Book Wildmen  Warriors  and Kings

Download or read book Wildmen Warriors and Kings written by Patrick M. Arnold and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1990s are seeing growth of the Men's Movement and increasing spiritual work. Arnold's book offers a fresh discussion of masculine spirituality and a powerful call to men to discover and incorporate the characteristics of the Biblical Wildmen, Warriors, and Kings.

Book The Gender Line

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Levit
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2000-03
  • ISBN : 0814751229
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book The Gender Line written by Nancy Levit and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Levit analyzes the ways in which law legitimizes the social segregation of the sexes through legal decisions and illustrates the ways in which men's and women's oppressions are intertwined and how law molds the very definition of masculinity.

Book Daybreak

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shae Ford
  • Publisher : Shae Ford
  • Release : 2015-09-25
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 849 pages

Download or read book Daybreak written by Shae Ford and published by Shae Ford. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midlan has awoken. Soldiers pour from between the gates and monsters descend upon the Kingdom. When Midlan turns its eye to Copperdock, Kael quickly discovers that no realm is safe from the wrath of the King. But while he fights to keep Crevan’s soldiers away from his friends, other powers rise up behind him — including an army so terrible that it threatens to devour everything. All paths lead to Midlan, every fate hinges upon a final battle, and the bloodshed will bring about a reckoning a thousand years in the making — a plan woven by Fate, herself. There’s only one soul she can’t cast for: a boy from the mountains who might undo everything, if he isn’t stopped. When Kael’s journey carries him to the battle’s end, he doesn’t know that the fate of the Kingdom rests upon his shoulders. The choice he makes will forever change his world … and bring him to the story’s end.

Book Remaking Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Tacey
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-23
  • ISBN : 1317798791
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Remaking Men written by David Tacey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of masculinity is a popular subject for contemporary authors, either treated critically from a sociological standpoint, or analysed from a psychological and spiritual perspective. In Remaking Men, David Tacey argues that we must strive to bridge the gap between these separate traditions - masculinity should neither be hijacked by the spiritual, Jung-influenced men's movement, nor discussed merely as a product of socio-political forces. Examining his own and other men's experience in a critical and lively discourse he evades the simplistic optimism of the 'inner journey' approach and the chronic pessimism of contemporary academic arguments. This is a fascinating and very accessible look at masculinity for those who want to explore self and society with intelligence and soul.

Book Redeeming Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Blake Boyd
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780664255442
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Redeeming Men written by Stephen Blake Boyd and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this book--historians, biblical specialists, theologians, ethicists, and scholars of comparative religions--examine the relationship between religious tradition and manhood. The essays cover a broad range of topics--from the dynamics of power in shaping masculine identity, to the role religion plays in shaping masculine identity, to the experience of myth, ritual, spiritual discipline, and community in the lives of men.

Book Heroic Fraternities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony B. Bradley
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2023-02-28
  • ISBN : 1666715530
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Heroic Fraternities written by Anthony B. Bradley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original vision for redefining American manhood in an age of anxiety and an era of socioeconomic change, Heroic Fraternities examines the impact of the “frat film” genre (invented by Animal House) on ideas about “real” men and “real” fraternities that permeate the culture, and led the news media to increasingly equate the supermajority of fraternity men with the outrages of a few. The ugliest cases have sparked a drive to Abolish Greek Life, even though studies show rates of misconduct don’t change when fraternities disappear. Common sense suggests that young men are struggling to build balanced adult male identities in a world where campus leaders call for them to be “less bad” and activists acknowledge male allies with #notallmen. The irony of the abolition movement is what they seek to destroy is also one of the more certain routes to save America’s men from the alienation of a society in crisis. Fraternities are uniquely positioned to address soaring rates of substance abuse, anger, and despair by providing men with the support, friendship, and multiple role models they need. Examining fraternity life in the SEC, ACC, and Big Ten conferences, this book presents reasons for hope—and heroism—at all colleges.

Book Conan Meets the Academy

Download or read book Conan Meets the Academy written by Jonas Prida and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Howard penned a series of fantasy stories in 1932 featuring Conan, a hulking warrior from "Cimmeria" who roamed the mythical Hyborian Age landscape engaging in heroic adventures. More than the quirky manifestation of Depression-era magazines, Conan the Barbarian has endured as a cultural mainstay for over 70 years. This multidisciplinary collection offers the first scholarly investigation of Conan, from Howard's early stories, through midcentury novels and Arnold Schwarzenegger's iconic films, to the 2011 cinematic remake of Conan the Barbarian. Drawing on disciplines such as stylometry, archeology, cultural and folklore studies and literary history, the essays examine statistical analyses of the words in Conan texts, the literary genesis of Conan, later-day parodies, Conan video games, and much more. This volume reveals the hidden scholarly depth of this seemingly unsophisticated fictional character.

Book Ecomasculinities

Download or read book Ecomasculinities written by Rubén Cenamor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there exist numerous studies on ecocriticism and ecofeminism, much less has been written about ecomasculinities. This volume contributes to filling this gap by examining models of fictional ecomasculinity in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema. Our study examines ecomasculinities as practices of masculinity which are deeply conservationist and can embrace non-masculine traits. In this line of thought, a main goal of the volume is to interrogate the potential of ecomasculinities to elicit in men a desire to become engage in other practices of masculinity that are counter-hegemonic and have as main goal to achieve equality on different strata of society. Bridging the gap between the Social Sciences and the Humanities, the book interrogates intersections between ecomasculinities and masculinities beyond capitalism, ecomasculinities and aging, and ecomasculinities and queerness, among others.

Book Men s Bodies  Men s Gods

Download or read book Men s Bodies Men s Gods written by Bjorn Krondorfer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men's Bodies, Men's Gods explores the intersection of body, religion, and culture from the specific perspective of male identities. How are male bodies constructed in different historical periods and contexts? How do race, ethnicity, and sexual preference impact on the intersection of male bodies and religious identity? Does Christianity provide models to cope with the aging and ailing male body? Does it provide models for intimacy between men and women? Between men and men? And, how do men reflect the carnal dimensions of power, abuse, and justice?

Book Warrior Woman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Aleshire
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2001-04
  • ISBN : 0312244088
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Warrior Woman written by Peter Aleshire and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the life of the nineteenth-century Apache spiritual leader, war shaman, and woman warrior Lozen, who, fighting alongside Geronimo, Cochise, and Victorio, successfully evaded the U.S. Army for over forty years.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion written by John Corrigan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The academic study of religion recently has turned to the investigation of emotion as a crucial aspect of religious life. Researchers have set out in several directions to explore that new terrain and have brought with them an assortment of instruments useful in charting it. This volume collects essays under four categories: religious traditions, religious life, emotional states, and historical and theoretical perspectives. In this book, scholars engaged in cutting edge research on religion and emotion describe the ways in which emotions have played a role in Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and other religions. They analyze the manner in which key components of religious life -- ritual, music, gender, sexuality and material culture -- represent and shape emotional performance. Some of the essays included here take a specific emotion, such as love or hatred, and observe the place of that emotion in an assortment of religious traditions and cultural settings. Other essays analyze the thinking of figures such as St. Augustine, Soren Kierkegaard, Jonathan Edwards, Emile Durkheim, and William James. This collection offers a range of critical perspectives on the academic study of religion and emotion, in the form of syntheses, provocations, and prospective observations, that will inform the work of those already engaged in the field. Taken together, the writings included in this handbook serve as an ideal entry point for anyone wishing to familiarize themselves with the new academic study of religion and emotion.

Book Introduction to Multicultural Counseling for Helping Professionals  second edition

Download or read book Introduction to Multicultural Counseling for Helping Professionals second edition written by Graciela L. Orozco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Warrior of the Moon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Brooke
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2020-01-08
  • ISBN : 1937745686
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Warrior of the Moon written by Stephen Brooke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he was small, Maratoa had held one desire above all others: to become a warrior as great as his heroic father. Yes, he knew he had inherited sorcerous powers and, yes, he been trained in their use. But there was no place for a man with such abilities in Mora society, in the Land of the Sleeping Sky. Now the greatest of all wizards had traveled across the ocean, on a mission that might decide the fate of their world. Does the fate of Maratoa also hang in the balance? A voyage into the unknown brings answers but asks new questions. Headhunters, lost aviators, a secret submarine, sea monsters - all these Maratoa encounters on his quest in WARRIOR OF THE MOON, a fantasy novel by Stephen Brooke.

Book Samson and the Liminal Hero in the Ancient Near East

Download or read book Samson and the Liminal Hero in the Ancient Near East written by Gregory Mobley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary problem that Mobley's book deals with is the odd character of Judges 13-16 and of its hero, Samson. the book also examines the Samson saga and its relation to ideas found in other biblical and Mesopotamian stories.

Book War and Sex

    Book Details:
  • Author : John V. H. Dippel
  • Publisher : Prometheus Books
  • Release : 2011-09-27
  • ISBN : 1616143134
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book War and Sex written by John V. H. Dippel and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dippel reviews social circumstances leading up to conflicts from the American Civil War through the Vietnam War and the current clash with Islamic fundamentalists, and explores how tensions over gender roles affect men's willingness to go to war.