Download or read book Wondrous Transformations written by Alison Li and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Benjamin (1885–1986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine. He was physician to transgender pioneers such as Christine Jorgensen, the 1950s "Ex-GI" turned "Blonde Beauty" media sensation, and in turn, she and other collaborators helped to shape Benjamin's influential 1966 book, The Transsexual Phenomenon. Alison Li's much-needed biography of Benjamin chronicles his passion for hormones and his lifelong interest in sexology. Drawing from extensive research in archival documents, secondary sources, and interviews, Li tells the story of Benjamin's early ventures in gerontology and his later work with over a thousand transgender patients. Benjamin's contributions to treatment, education, research, and networking helped to create the institutional foundations of transgender medicine. Moreover, they set the stage for a radical reconsideration of gender identity, challenging us to reflect upon what it is to be male or female and to envision moving beyond these long-held categories.
Download or read book Marvelous Transformations written by Christine A. Jones and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvelous Transformations is an anthology of tales and original critical essays that moves beyond canonized “classics” and old paradigms, documenting the points of historical connection between literary tales and field-based collections. This innovative anthology reflects current interdisciplinary scholarship on oral traditions and the cultural history of the print fairy tale. In addition to the tales, original critical essays, newly written for this volume, introduce readers to differing perspectives on key ideas in the field.
Download or read book The Words written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and published by IUR Press. This book was released on with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Words is the first volume of the Risale-i Nur and consists of thirty-three independent parts or Words, which explain and prove aspects of the fundamental matters of belief. These consist of such matters as God s existence and unity, the manifestation of the Divine Names and attributes in creation, the resurrection of the dead and the hereafter, prophethood, the miraculousness of the Qur’an, the angels, the immortality of man s spirit, Divine Determining (fate or destiny), together with such questions as the true nature of man and the universe, and man s need to worship God. Each subject is explained with comparisons and allegories, and demonstrated with reasoned arguments and logical proofs. The most profound aspects of the truths of belief, which were formerly studied only by advanced scholars, are explained in such a way that everyone, even those to whom the subject is new, may understand without difficulty. This work answers brilliantly the attacks made on the Qur’an in the name of science and philosophy, and demonstrates the rationality of belief in God and logical absurdity of denial. It shows too that man s happiness and salvation both in this world and the next lie only in belief in God and knowledge of God.
Download or read book Knotting the Banner written by David J. Mozina and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hills of China’s central Hunan province, an anxious young apprentice officiates over a Daoist ritual known as the Banner Rite to Summon Sire Yin. Before a crowd of masters, relatives, and villagers—and the entire pantheon of gods and deceased masters ritually invited to witness the event—he seeks to summon Celestial Lord Yin Jiao, the ferocious deity who supplies the exorcistic power to protect and heal bodies and spaces from illness and misfortune. If the apprentice cannot bring forth the deity, the rite is considered a failure and the ordination suspended: His entire professional career hangs in the balance before it even begins. This richly textured study asks how the Banner Rite works or fails to work in its own terms. How do the cosmological, theological, and anthropological assumptions ensconced in the ritual itself account for its own efficacy or inefficacy? Weaving together ethnography, textual analysis, photography, and film, David J. Mozina invites readers into the religious world of ritual masters in today’s south China. He shows that the efficacy of rituals like the Banner Rite is driven by the ability of a ritual master to form an intimate relationship with exorcistic deities like Yin Jiao, which is far from guaranteed. Mozina reveals the ways in which such ritual claims are rooted in the great liturgical movements of the Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368) and how they are performed these days amid the social and economic pressures of rural life in the post-Mao era. Written for students and scholars of Daoism and Chinese religion, Knotting the Banner will also appeal to anthropologists and comparative religionists, especially those working on ritual.
Download or read book Wondrous Transformations written by Alison Li and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of hormone use told through the eventful life of Dr. Harry Benjamin, a pioneer in reshaping our notions of sex and gender. Today, it is standard to think of ourselves as hormonal beings. We blame "raging hormones" for the tempests of puberty and midlife and spend our days "running on adrenalin" in "testosterone-fueled" workplaces. Yet this view is relatively recent. Alison Li tells the fascinating history of the rise of hormone use through the life of one of its foremost pioneers. A daring explorer in the areas of sex and aging, as well as a celebrity doctor in 20s New York, German-born physician Harry Benjamin (1885-1986) revolutionized the science of hormones. He devoted his later life to helping people transform themselves. With famous patients such as Christine Jorgensen, Jan Morris, and Renée Richards, he would come to be known as the "Father of Transsexualism." Benjamin's work was groundbreaking in mid-century America, when homosexuality and any behavior that crossed gender lines was not only pathologized but criminalized. However, though his patients remember him as a compassionate physician, today, his approach to transgender medicine would be categorized as heteronormative and outdated. Li positions Benjamin as a complicated figure who both represents a model of his time, and a physician who changed medicine for the better. This gripping history captures the beginning of the gender identity movement and highlights how over the course of the twentieth century Benjamin helped pave the way for our understanding of ourselves as chemically malleable beings.
Download or read book Casting Shadows DIY Black Magic Spells For The Modern Practitioner written by www.witchcraftvibes.com and published by www.witchcraftvibes.com. This book was released on with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Casting Shadows: DIY Black Magic Spells For The Modern Practitioner" delves into the world of black magic, providing a comprehensive guide for those interested in practicing the dark arts. The book explores the history of black magic, its modern-day practice, and the ethics and responsibility associated with it. Readers will gain insight into harnessing negative energy, working with spirits, and the power of curses. The author also covers essential tools and techniques, such as altars, magical implements, candles, and incense. The book offers guidance on casting spells with intention, as well as protection and defense against psychic attacks and negative entities. Additionally, it provides instructions on summoning otherworldly entities, practicing dark divination, crafting hexes and curses, performing rituals and ceremonies, and creating alchemical potions. The book also touches on dark healing, sacrifice, embracing one's dark side, and the role of covens and dark communities. "Casting Shadows" aims to help modern practitioners understand and master the black arts, passing down knowledge and exploring the evolution of black magic.
Download or read book The Wondrous Day written by Hans-Christian Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cleverly innovative book, young readers will love guessing what Brady Mouse will see next on his walk, and they will delight in the surprising transformations. Full color.
Download or read book Daoism Handbook written by Livia Kohn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty major scholars in the field wrote this new, authoritative guide to the main features and development of Daoism. The chapters are devoted to either specific periods, or topics such as Women in Daoism, Daoism in Korea and Daoist Ritual Music. Each chapter rigidly deals with a fixed set of aspects, such as history, texts, worldview and practices. Clear markings in the chapters themselves and a detailed index make this volume the most accessible key resource on Daoism past and present.
Download or read book Biblical Illustrator Volume 2 written by Exell, Joseph S. and published by Delmarva Publications, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 10933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like it if one of the greatest preachers could help you prepare your sermons? How about 20+ ministers to assist you with your sermon? Joseph Exell included content from some of the most famous preachers such as Dwight L. Moody, Charles Spurgeon, J. C. Ryle, Charles Hodge, Alexander MacLaren, Adam Clark, Matthew Henry and many more. He compiled this 56 volume Biblical Illustrator Commentary and Delmarva Publications, Inc. is publishing it in a 6 volume digital set with a linked table of contents for ease of studying. This set includes the analysis on entire Bible, Old and New Testament. Complete your resources with this Biblical Illustrator by Joseph Exell.
Download or read book Redeeming Words written by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language. In this probing look at Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinberg-Levin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; the idealism and romanticism of Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows how Döblin and Sebald—writers with radically different styles working in different historical moments—have in common a struggle against forces of negativity and an aim to bring about in response a certain redemption of language. Kleinberg-Levin considers the fast-paced, staccato, and hard-cut sentences of Döblin and the ghostly, languorous, and melancholy prose fiction of Sebald to articulate how both writers use language in an attempt to recover and convey this utopian promise of happiness for life in a time of mourning.
Download or read book Reason Diminished written by Peter G. Platt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reason Diminished examines ?the power that wonder wields over reason in [Shakespeare?s] late plays, both philosophically and dramaturgically.? Peter Platt posits that, in these famous plays, wonder and the marvelous are assigned preeminent positions over reason and order. In fact, Platt argues that the marvelous played a crucial role in Renaissance culture as a whole. ø The book opens by surveying theories of wonder from Aristotle?s Poetics and Metaphysics through the writings of Renaissance theorists. A crucial chapter examines the many ways that the Renaissance attempted to bring the marvelous to bear on the world around it. The next two chapters look at the tension between realism and the marvelous in Elizabethan fiction and the theatrical tradition of the masque. ø Part of the book examines the role of wonder and the marvelous in Shakespeare?s ?romances?: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter?s Tale, and The Tempest. ?Shakespeare?s romances,? writes Platt, ?represent various experiments with the marvelous.? Platt argues that ?late Shakespeare . . . invites the spectators to engage in?and in some cases to shape?the marvels on the stage before them.? ø A persuasive and resourceful study of some of Shakespeare?s most celebrated works, Reason Diminished will add significantly to the ongoing reassessment of Shakespeare?s plays and the world in which they took shape.
Download or read book Ruined Cities of the East written by William King Tweedie and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glimpses of Ocean Life Or Rock Pools and the Lessons they Teach written by John Harper and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting work on marine zoology, 'Glimpses of Ocean Life,' gives us a glance at the invisible world of ocean. The writer provides valuable insights into the hidden marvels of nature in a comprehensible manner. It includes details about crabs, starfishes, prawns, shrimps, seahorses, etc. Moreover, it is filled with beautiful illustrations of these incredible creatures.
Download or read book Ruined Cities of Bible Lands written by William King Tweedie and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creative Daoism written by Monica Esposito and published by UniversityMedia. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as Christianity has its Vatican in Rome, modern Daoism boasts of a unique center of religious authority and administration: the Temple of the White Clouds (Baiyun guan) in Beijing, seat of the general headquarters of the Chinese Daoist Association. This temple complex in Beijing, called by Dr Esposito “modern Daoism’s Vatican,” houses the grave of the mythical founder of Daoism’s Quanzhen tradition and celebrates the patriarchs of its Longmen (”Dragon Gate”) branch as his legitimate heirs. This book shows in detail how Daoist masters and historiographers in China, much like their Catholic counterparts in Europe, invented a glorious patriarchal lineage as well as a system of ordination designed to perpetuate orthodox transmission and central control. They also created a kind of New Testament: a new canonical collection of scriptures entitled “The Gist of the Daoist Canon” (Daozang jiyao). This ultimate canon of Daoism contains hundreds of texts including the Daoist classic The Secret of the Golden Flower which achieved fame through the commentary by Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. A classic study on the invention of religious traditions, the four parts of Creative Daoism describe the creation of the Daoist Vatican's Longmen lineage of patriarchs, system of ordination, canon of sacred scriptures, and doctrine of universal salvation.
Download or read book John Thelwall written by J. Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on newly-discovered manuscripts, this collection is the first modern edition of poetry by John Thelwall, the famed radical Romantic and champion of the working class. Eight key essays and 125 fully-annotated poems introduce his work in correspondence with historical traditions and current critical paradigms.
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