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Book Beyond Bodies

Download or read book Beyond Bodies written by Daphne M. Grace and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Articulations and expressions of gender can be destabilising, transgressive, revolutionary and radical, encompassing both a painful legacy of oppression and a joyous exploration of new experience.” Analysing key texts from the 19th to 21st centuries, this book explores a range of British and Anglophone authors to contextualise women’s writing and feminist theory with ongoing debates in consciousness studies. Discussing writers who strive to redefine the gendered world of “sexualized” space, whether internal or external, mental or physical, this book argues how the “delusion” of gender difference can be addressed and challenged. In literary theory and in representations of the female body in literature, identity has increasingly become a shifting, multiple, renegotiable—and controversial—concept. While acknowledging historical and cultural constructions of sexuality, “writing the body” must ultimately incorporate knowledge of human consciousness. Here, an understanding of consciousness from contemporary science (especially quantum theory)—as the fundamental building block of existence, beyond the body—allows unique insights into literary texts to elucidate the problem of subjectivity and what it means to be human. Including discussion of topics such as feminism and androgyny, agency and entrapment, masculinities and masquerade, insanity and emotion, and individual and social empowerment, this study also creates a lively engagement with the literary process as a means of fathoming the “enigma” of consciousness. Daphne Grace is Professor of English, specializing in postcolonial and transnational literature, gender and women’s studies, in addition to British literature of the 19th to 21st centuries. She currently teaches at the University of the Bahamas, and has also previously taught at Sussex University, England, and Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus.

Book Beyond the Body

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan J. Blackmore
  • Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780897333443
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Body written by Susan J. Blackmore and published by Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About one person in ten claims to have left his or her body at some time. Some were close to death; others had under-gone an accident or shock. Dr Blackmore's explanation for out-of-body experiences is based on historical and anecdotal material, surveys, and laboratory experiments.

Book Beyond Bodies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Todd Sanders
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2008-12-15
  • ISBN : 1442659270
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Beyond Bodies written by Todd Sanders and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies and the act of procreation. But what happens when our interlocutors deny such symbolic explanations, when they insist that rain rites and the gender and sexual motifs in them do not symbolize anything but rather aim simply to bring rain? Beyond Bodies examines Ihanzu sensibilities about gender through a fine-grained ethnography of rainmaking rites. It considers the meaning of ritual practices in a society in which gender is not as bound to the body as it is in the Euro-American imagination. Engaging with recent anthropological and gender theory, this book crucially calls into question how social scientists have explained gender symbolism in myriad ethnographic and historical studies across Africa.

Book Beyond the Body

Download or read book Beyond the Body written by Elizabeth Hallam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors challenge theories that put the body at the centre of identity, going 'beyond the body' to highlight the persistence of self-identity even when the body itself has been disposed of or is missing.

Book Beyond the Reproductive Body

Download or read book Beyond the Reproductive Body written by Marjorie Levine-Clark and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the politics of women's health and work in early Victorian England, where government officials and reformers surveying the laboring population became convinced that the female body would be ruined by employment.

Book Bio Typing Beyond Body Language

Download or read book Bio Typing Beyond Body Language written by Johnny Seitz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Seitz is currently teaching the art of reading bodies at Ryokan College of Psychology in Los Angeles and maintains a private practice. "I have personally and professionally experienced many forms of physiotherapies and psychotherapies over the past 20 years, and all have given myself and my patients varying results. I have found that Johnny Seitz's work is a more "lasered" approach which goes directly to the core." -Dr. M. Adam Sheck, Licensed Clinical Psychologist "I recommend him strongly." -Marcel Marceau, the 20th century's most famous mime "I know of no other method better for putting you in touch with your body, thus pointing the way toward health and fitness." -Richard Pena, Director, New York Film Festival "The interest in Johnny Seitz has been steadily increasing. Johnny presents a meaningful class, with a variety of approaches and techniques presented intensively in a very short time. He has an innate ability to present a class to students on an introductory level as well as those who are already well versed in a field. Mr. Seitz's influence has been deeply felt." -Myra A. Mayman, Office for the Arts, Harvard and Radcliffe Universities

Book Beyond the Body Proper

Download or read book Beyond the Body Proper written by Margaret M. Lock and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretically sophisticated and cross-disciplinary reader in the anthropology of the body.

Book Beyond Body Beyond Mind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sukhi Muker
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2012-09-13
  • ISBN : 9781479285891
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Beyond Body Beyond Mind written by Sukhi Muker and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fearlessly honest and bold, the wisdom and practical tools within these pages are the catalyst for transforming your dreams into your reality. With his insightful and incisive prose, Dr. Sukhi reveals how you can live the life you've always dreamed about-how we are hardwired to express extraordinary levels of health, happiness and abundance. Dr. Sukhi courageously shares his story, including his experience with some of the darkest shades of life. At 18, he was a high-school dropout immersed in crime, violence and drugs. After hitting rock bottom and almost losing his life, Dr. Sukhi started a remarkable, life-changing journey. Today he is an award winning doctor, speaker and ultra- endurance athlete. Beyond Body Beyond Mind shares Dr. Sukhi's pioneering work in a simple and accessible science that explores and reveals the universal laws that underlie our existence: a true, powerful and enlightened way of being. The 9 Strategies to Personal Power are the foundation of this transformational process that frees you to access your inner power and overcome everything that holds you back. Learn how to release negative thought patterns and replace them with positive, productive ways of thinking. Overcome uncertainty, transcend challenges and turn past pain into purpose. Get past feeling lost, stuck, mired in challenging relationships and harboring fear of failure (and success). With Beyond Body Beyond Mind as your guide, you will learn, grow and heal. You'll reconnect with the person you truly are and the life you were meant to live. You will begin to produce extraordinary results in every area of your life

Book Primal Body  Primal Mind

Download or read book Primal Body Primal Mind written by Nora Gedgaudas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining your body’s Paleolithic needs with modern nutritional and medical research for complete mind-body wellness • Provides sustainable diet strategies to curb sugar cravings, promote fat burning and weight loss, reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep and moods, increase energy and immunity, and enhance memory and brain function • Shows how our modern diet leads to weight gain and “diseases of civilization”--such as cancer, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, and ADD • Explains how diet affects the brain, hormone balance, and the aging process and the crucial role of vitamin D in cancer and disease prevention Examining the healthy lives of our pre-agricultural Paleolithic ancestors and the marked decline in stature, bone density, and dental health and the increase in birth defects, malnutrition, and disease following the implementation of the agricultural lifestyle, Nora Gedgaudas shows how our modern grain- and carbohydrate-heavy low-fat diets are a far cry from the high-fat, moderate-protein hunter-gatherer diets we are genetically programmed for, leading not only to lifelong weight gain but also to cravings, mood disorders, cognitive problems, and “diseases of civilization”--such as cancer, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance), heart disease, and mental illness. Applying modern discoveries to the basic hunter-gatherer diet, she culls from vast research in evolutionary physiology, biochemistry, metabolism, nutrition, and chronic and degenerative disease to unveil a holistic lifestyle for true mind-body health and longevity. Revealing the primal origins and physiological basis for a high-fat, moderate-protein, starch-free diet and the importance of adequate omega-3 intake--critical to our brain and nervous system but sorely lacking in most people’s diets--she explains the nutritional problems of grains, gluten, soy, dairy, and starchy vegetables; which natural fats promote health and which (such as canola oil) harm it; the crucial role of vitamin D in cancer and disease prevention; the importance of saturated fat and cholesterol; and how diet affects mental health, memory, cognitive function, hormonal balance, and cellular aging. With step-by-step guidelines, recipes, and meal recommendations, this book offers sustainable strategies for a primally based, yet modern approach to diet and exercise to reduce stress and anxiety, lose weight, improve sleep and mood, increase energy and immunity, enhance brain function, save money on groceries, and live longer and happier.

Book Beyond the Core

Download or read book Beyond the Core written by Chris Zook and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work shows executives how to grow profitably by finding and focusing on their core business. It shows how they can increase the odds of successful expansion once their core business no longer provides sufficient new growth.

Book Self realization beyond Body  Mind and Creation

Download or read book Self realization beyond Body Mind and Creation written by Anurag S Pandey and published by ANURAG S PANDEY. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for Meditation.

Book The Whole Body Reset

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Perrine
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2023-12-26
  • ISBN : 1982160160
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Whole Body Reset written by Stephen Perrine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first-ever weight-loss plan specifically designed to stop-and reverse-age-related weight gain and muscle loss, while shrinking your belly, extending your life, and creating your healthiest self at mid-life and beyond"--

Book Fitness After 40

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vonda Wright
  • Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
  • Release : 2015-08-05
  • ISBN : 0814449026
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book Fitness After 40 written by Vonda Wright and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Fitness After 40, regain the energy and physique of a teenager in no time. Your body is getting older, those stairs are looking steeper, and your bones are cracking louder. The unavoidable fact is that your body is aging. However, that doesn’t have to impact your fitness level. Forget how many candles were on your last birthday cake--if you exercise smarter, you can remain youthful, energetic, and strong. As an academic orthopedic surgeon and internationally recognized authority on active aging and mobility, Dr. Vonda Wright has created a unique medical program designed to target the fitness and performance needs of mature athletes. In this invaluable resource, Wright reveals how anyone can use flexibility, aerobic exercise, and strength training to maximize the benefits of their fitness regime. You will learn how to: Understand your body, and approach exercise in a new way Maximize your fitness while minimizing injury Gain flexibility--no matter your age Benefit from aerobic exercise Build strength through resistance training Improve balance Fitness After 40 for all maturing adults includes “20 Minutes to Burn” workouts, a six-week total-body plan, and the latest information on nutrition, injury prevention, joint preservation, and the mind/body connection for all maturing adults.

Book Love Beyond Body  Space  and Time

Download or read book Love Beyond Body Space and Time written by Hope Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time is a collection of indigenous science fiction and urban fantasy focusing on LGBT and two-spirit characters. These stories range from a transgender woman undergoing an experimental transition process to young lovers separated through decades and meeting in their own far future. These are stories of machines and magic, love and self-love.

Book Beyond body  place and time

Download or read book Beyond body place and time written by Arwen Jayne and published by Arwen Jayne. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Row fifteen on a flight to Iquitos, South America. A construction engineer looking into the distant past for ideas for the future. A widowed ex army nurse, now in her eighties, on a quest to learn about spiritual forms of healing. An anthropology student on a semester break, off to volunteer on an archaeological dig. Thrown together by circumstance they must survive if they are to solve the mysteries that await them, in worlds peopled by more sentient beings than they ever imagined. Yet the biggest obstacle they must overcome is to see past the differences in their respective ages, backgrounds and interests. A story of reality creation taken to the nth degree. A fast paced, fun, flight of fancy spanning two planets. Metaphysical beings, androids, shapeshifters, aliens, vampires and a few humans people this sci-fi romance that tests the barriers that the path of love and friendship can face.

Book Life Beyond My Body

Download or read book Life Beyond My Body written by Lei Ming and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. Born in a rural Chinese village and identified as a girl at birth, Lei Ming, is barely cared for during his childhood. Often lonely, terrified and abused, he learns early to fend for himself and look within for answers, but there he discovers a paradox that threatens to undo him. Although he does not yet know the word "transsexual," at 16, Ming sets out on a secret mission to find relief. LIFE BEYOND MY BODY tells the true story of his quest to find answers in a society that is closed-mouthed about men like Ming. Along the way, Ming finds solace and judgement in the Christian church, loves and loses a woman, begins his physical transition using black market testosterone, is jailed over his identity, and arranges for top surgery without blowing his cover. But ultimately, understanding the true meaning of being a man will require reckoning with God.

Book A Select Library of the Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church  St  Augustin  Homilies on the Gospel of John  Homilies on the First epistle of John  Soliloquies   1908

Download or read book A Select Library of the Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church St Augustin Homilies on the Gospel of John Homilies on the First epistle of John Soliloquies 1908 written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: