Download or read book Holy Virility written by Emmanuel Reynaud and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holy Virility written by Jennifer Frances Ash and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation offers an investigation of subjectivity and masculinity within the historical context of early and late medieval Christianity through readings of Augustine of Hippo's Confessions and Henry Suso's Life of the Servant. Using a theoretical framework of psychoanalysis, feminism, gender theory and deconstruction, it can be seen that subjectivity in the masculine mode will have never been simply or only monologic, a monolithic construct. For both Augustine and Henry Suso, the "self" of their self-writing, the specificity of their supposed identity as male subjects, might only be realized through means of and in relation to the Divine Other. Yet an exploration of such an identity, textually conceived of, revealed and concealed through the speaking of the textual confessional, the textual "self" reveals and conceals the fissures internal to the structure of that identity: masculinity supposedly founded in, grounded in and guaranteed by the masculinity of the deity that has created the man in his own image and likeness, works to cover over the instability of its structure. The self-certainty of the confessing subject is illusory, the masculinity of this subject being the "dominant fiction" nurtured by the workings of Western metaphysics, the onto-theology also known as Christianity. But in the self-writing of Henry Suso, the Augustinian paradigm is profoundly disturbed: self-writing has become a co-operative process where the one is produced by the two, the "self" is written as "he" rather than "I," and the masculinity of the "self" is also produced through the writing of the feminine other. Henry Suso's masculinity is decidedly unstable, and autobiography reads more in the manner of hagiography. It is in the ascetic practices, the mystic experience integral to the spirituality of Suso, especially the centrality of his relationship to the dying body of the God-man, that we can see both in the case of the Dominican friar and in the crucified body which is situated at the center of Christian theology and medieval piety, masculinity re-situated at the margins, masculinity more in the manner of femininity.
Download or read book Building a Spiritual Nation written by Theodore Andoseh and published by ZTF Books Online. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lord Jesus Christ founded a great spiritual nation—the race of the elect, the community of king-priests—and the apostles were the builders. In a sense, every ministry—community—has a founder and the rest are builders of that spiritual nation. - What is a spiritual nation? - What goes into the forging of a spiritual nation? - What are the characteristics of their founders? - What are the distinct attributes and responsibilities of its builders? - How does it start and grow into the nation that God intends? How do we remain a spiritual nation and not go astray when success comes? Building a Spiritual Nation attempts Bible-grounded answers to these questions and more. The author, Theodore Andoseh, harnesses insight from two major approaches to nation-building—the pattern of Moses and that of our Lord Jesus Christ. He identifies seven vectors in the forging of a mighty spiritual nation. He singles out disloyalty on the part of the nation builders as the major pitful on the pathway towards this great nation of kings and priests. It is the all of us all—produced by absolute surrender and total consecration—that will bring about this global community of the elect.
Download or read book Militarized Currents written by Setsu Shigematsu and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foregrounding indigenous and feminist scholarship, this collection analyzes militarization as an extension of colonialism from the late twentieth to the twenty-first century in Asia and the Pacific. The contributors theorize the effects of militarization across former and current territories of Japan and the United States, such as Guam, Okinawa, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines, and Korea, demonstrating that the relationship between militarization and colonial subordination—and their gendered and racialized processes—shapes and produces bodies of memory, knowledge, and resistance. Contributors: Walden Bello, U of the Philippines; Michael Lujan Bevacqua, U of Guam; Patti Duncan, Oregon State U; Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, U of Hawai‘i, M noa; Insook Kwon, Myongji U; Laurel A. Monnig, U of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign; Katharine H. S. Moon, Wellesley College; Jon Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio, U of Hawai‘i, M noa; Naoki Sakai, Cornell U; Fumika Sato, Hitotsubashi U; Theresa Cenidoza Suarez, California State U, San Marcos; Teresia K. Teaiwa, Victoria U, Wellington; Wesley Iwao Ueunten, San Francisco State U.
Download or read book The Swimsuit Issue and Sport written by Laurel R. Davis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue demonstrates how the magazine encourages individual and institutional practices that create and maintain inequality. Laurel Davis illustrates how the interactions of media production, media texts, media consumption, and social context influence meaning. Individuals' interpretations of and reactions to the magazine are influenced by their views about gender and sexuality, views that have been shaped by their social experiences. Based on extensive interviews with Sports Illustrated producers and consumers, as well as analysis of every swimsuit issue from the first in 1964 to those of the 1990s, the book argues that Sports Illustrated uses the swimsuit issue to secure a large male audience by creating a climate of hegemonic masculinity. This practice produces considerable profit but on the way to the bank tramples women, gays, lesbians, people of color, and residents of the postcolonialized world.
Download or read book Gender written by Stevi Jackson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering students an informed overview of some of the most significant sociological work on gender produced over the last three decades, these readings are supplemented by a substantial critical introduction and editorial commentary.
Download or read book Legal Feminisms written by Clare McGlynn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this book explores the links between theories of feminism and the practice of law, and does so through an examination of a number of contemporary themes in feminist legal studies. From an interdisciplinary perspective, this book examines, as one of its overarching themes, the existence of a distinctively female legal voice, or voices. In arguing for a recognition of the diversity of women’s experiences of the law and in the law, it is also maintained that the role of feminism as a political strategy must not be lost. Feminist legal studies is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of contemporary legal studies and the ambition of this book is both to capture and channel this dynamic. In introducing themes from politics, philosophy, literature, sociology and cultural studies, this book will be of interest to a wide ranging audience.
Download or read book Updike and the Patriarchal Dilemma written by Mary O'Connell and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disturbing element exists, O'Connell determines, in both the texts of the Rabbit novels and in the critical community that examines them. In the novels, O'Connell finds substantial evidence to demonstrate patterns of psychological and physical abuse toward women, citing as the culminating example the mounting toll of literally or metaphorically dead women in the texts.
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Feminist Theory written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 7841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles ranging from The Liberation of Women to Feminists and State Welfare, from Married to the Job to Julia Kristeva, this set provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources from the diverse field of gender studies.
Download or read book The Gendered Society written by Michael S. Kimmel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say that we come from different planets (men from Mars, women from Venus), that we have different brain chemistries and hormones, and that we listen, speak, and even define our morals differently. How is it then that men and women live together, take the same classes in school, eat the same food, read the same books, and receive grades according to the same criteria? In The Gendered Society, Michael S. Kimmel examines our basic beliefs about gender, arguing that men and women are more alike than we have ever imagined. Kimmel begins his discussion by observing that all cultures share the notion that men and women are different, and that the logical extension of this assumption is that gender differences cause the obvious inequalities between the sexes. In fact, he asserts that the reverse is true--gender inequality causes the differences between men and women. Gender is not simply a quality inherent in each individual--it is deeply embedded in society's fundamental institutions: the family, school, and the workplace. The issues surrounding gender are complex, and in order to clarify them, the author has included a review of the existing literature in related disciplines such as biology, anthropology, psychology and sociology. Finally, with an eye towards the future, Kimmel offers readers a glimpse at gender relations in the next millennium. Well-written, well-reasoned and authoritative, The Gendered Society provides a thorough overview of the current thinking about gender while persuasively arguing that it is time to reevaluate what we thought we knew about men and women.
Download or read book The American Body in Context written by Jessica R. Johnston and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Marilyn Monroe to the Spice Girls, from Grover Cleveland to President Clinton, to one's naked form reflected in the mirror each morning, Americans are taught to read bodies as symbols displaying and revealing hidden truths about the individual and his or her behaviours. Any discussion of the body becomes complex and muddled as one tries to analyze how and why certain body types are attributed certain meanings.
Download or read book Men Law and Gender written by Richard Collier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to speak of ‘men’ as a gender category in relation to law? How does law relate to masculinities? This book presents the first comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between men, law and gender; outlining the contours of the ‘man’ of law across diverse areas of legal and social policy. Written in a theoretically informed, yet accessible style, Men, Law and Gender provides an introduction to the study of law and masculinities whilst calling for a richer, more nuanced conceptual framework in which men’s legal practices and subjectivities might be approached. Building on recent sociological work concerned with the relational nature of gender and personal life, Richard Collier argues that social, cultural and economic changes have reshaped ideas about men and masculinities in ways that have significant implications for law. Bringing together voices and disciplines that are rarely considered together, he explores the way ideas about men have been contested and politicised in the legal arena. Including original empirical studies of male lawyers, the legal profession and fathers’ rights and law reform, alongside discussions of university law schools and legal academics, and family policy and parenting cultures, this innovative, timely and important text provides a unique and important insight into the relationship between law, men and masculinities. It will be required reading for academics and students in law and legal theory, socio-legal studies, gender studies, sociology and social policy, as well as policy-makers and others concerned with the changing nature of gender relations.
Download or read book Sexuality and Its Discontents written by Jeffrey Weeks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few topics evoke so much anxiety and pleasure, pain and hope, discussion and silence as sexuality. Throughout the Christian era it has been a major moral preoccupation. Since the eighteenth century it has also been the focus of 'scientific' exploration and political activity. But, despite this obsessive concern, we are still as baffled as our predecessors about the 'true' meaning of sex. In this book Jeffrey Weeks unravels the dense web of historical, theoretical and political forces that have culminated in the contemporary crisis of sexual meanings and values. The book begins with a powerful evocation of our present discontents and their potent signs: the rise of the New Right, the retreat of progressive forces and a wave of moral panics around sex. It argues that this crisis is rooted in a tradition which has ascribed an inflated importance to sexuality, whilst claiming a privileged access to truth. The author then examines radical debates of recent years, and asks whether they contain the potentiality for taking us beyond the existing boundaries of sexuality. From this analysis emerges a controversial 'radical pluralist' approach to sexuality built on an acceptance of diversity and choice. By linking our present discontents to a clear understanding of the past, Jeffrey Weeks presents a rational, optimistic and challenging vision of a realizable future.
Download or read book Sex Violence and the Body written by V. Burr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book examines the relationship between wounding and sexuality, bringing together issues around sexuality, gender, power, violence and representations. Drawing on a range of disciplines including cultural and media studies, sociology and psychology, it explores social practices such as S&M, cosmetic surgery and 'extreme' sports.
Download or read book The Women of Orphan Black written by Valerie Estelle Frankel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show's main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment. The mighty heroines save one another and destroy the patriarchy while subverting gender expectations. The feminist clones are Sarah, who clashes with her radical feminist foster-mother; Alison, the quintessential post-feminist housewife; Cosima, a second-wave feminist lesbian; Beth, a third-wave feminist bogged down by addiction; and M.K., a fourth-wave feminist who tackles the hardships of disability through the Internet. The book explores the women's war against corporate power and how it relates to the science and ethics surrounding cloning.
Download or read book Lewd Women and Wicked Witches written by Marianne Hester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the development of revolutionary feminist theory of male sexual violence in the present day, and the witch hunts of early modern Europe, in an analysis of male power over women.
Download or read book Ensemblance written by de Miranda Luis de Miranda and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esprit de corps has played a significant role in the cultural and political history of the last 300 years. Through several historical case studies, Luis de Miranda shows how this phrase acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. He also reveals how interconnected, yet distinct, French, English and American modern intellectual and political thought is. In the end, this is a cautionary analysis of past and current ideologies of ultra-unified human ensembles, a recurrent historical and theoretical fabulation the author calls 'ensemblance'.
