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Author: Daphne M. Grace Publisher: Rodopi ISBN: 9401210799 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 248
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“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.
Author: Daphne M. Grace Publisher: Rodopi ISBN: 9401210799 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
“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.
Author: Susan J. Blackmore Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited ISBN: 9780897333443 Category : Astral projection Languages : en Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Todd Sanders Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442659270 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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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.
Author: Elizabeth Hallam Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134739524 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 200
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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.
Author: Marjorie Levine-Clark Publisher: Ohio State University Press ISBN: 0814209564 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 268
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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.
Author: Johnny Seitz Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595316778 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 165
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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
Author: Sukhi Muker Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781479285891 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 344
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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
Author: Arwen Jayne Publisher: Arwen Jayne ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 100
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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.
Author: Daphne M. Grace
Author: Daphne M. Grace
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Author: Todd Sanders
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