Author: Vita FortunatiPublisher:
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Languages : it
Pages : 278
Book Description
The controversial women's body
Author: Vita FortunatiThe Female Body in Medicine and Literature
Author: Andrew ManghamPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846314720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Drawing on a range of texts from the seventeenth century to the present, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature explores accounts of motherhood, fertility, and clinical procedures for what they have to tell us about the development of women's medicine. The essays here offer nuanced historical analyses of subjects that have received little critical attention, including the relationship between gynecology and psychology and the influence of popular art forms on so-called women's science prior to the twenty-first century. Taken together, these essays offer a wealth of insight into the medical treatment of women and will appeal to scholars in gender studies, literature, and the history of medicine.
Controversial Bodies
Author: John D. LantosPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421403579
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Controversial, fascinating, disturbing, and often beautiful, plastinated human bodies—such as those found at Body Worlds exhibitions throughout the world—have gripped the public's imagination. These displays have been lauded as educational, sparked protests, and drawn millions of visitors. This book looks at the powerful sway these corpses hold over their living audiences everywhere. Plastination was invented in the 1970s by German anatomist Gunther von Hagens. The process transforms living tissues into moldable plastic that can then be hardened into a permanent shape. Von Hagens first exhibited his expertly dissected, artfully posed plastinated bodies in Japan in 1995. Since then, his shows have continuously attracted so many paying customers that they have inspired imitators, brought accusations of unethical or even illegal behavior, and ignited vigorous debates among scientists, educators, religious leaders, and law enforcement officials. These lively, thought-provoking, and sometimes personal essays reflect on such public displays from ethical, legal, cultural, religious, pedagogical, and aesthetic perspectives. They examine what lies behind the exhibitions' popularity and explore the ramifications of turning corpses into a spectacle of amusement. Contributions from bioethicists, historians, physicians, anatomists, theologians, and novelists dig deeply into issues that compel, upset, and unsettle us all.
Controversies in Body Theology
Author: Marcella Althaus-ReidPublisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 0334041570
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Examines some of the most extreme approaches to the body that our society engages with. This book embraces the difficult and challenging areas of the body and society, as an embodied resource for the ever-expanding task of considering the nature of incarnation through the lens of body theology.
The Female Body and the Law
Author: Zillah R. EisensteinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520414403
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Female Body and the Law provides an original and incisive reexamination of the dynamics of sexual equality. Eisenstein contends that sexual inequality is fostered both by the law and by the insistence that men and women are biologically different. Through a fascinating discussion of a series of issues including affirmative action, AIDS, Baby M, pornography, and abortion, Eisenstein shows how the law operates as a political language that establishes and curtails choices and actions. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Women's Weight and Body Image
Author: Calli A. BreilPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The portrayal of women in the media has long been known to influence not only ideals about perfection, but also how a woman views the attractiveness of her own body as well as those of others. This study analyzed the messages about women and weight in news outlets and health and women's magazines. A content analysis was conducted of news articles regarding weight issues for women in news outlets, women's service magazines, and women's health magazines from August 2013 to January 2014. The sample yielded 223 articles, which were analyzed to determine how these online sources framed stories about women and weight; the study included analysis of the news values, writing techniques, and frames discussed in the articles. The analysis revealed that all media genres emphasize attractiveness more than health and generally utilize soft news values and styles in order to discuss the topic. Differences were seen primarily between news outlets and women's service magazines, which tended to cite different types of sources and differed in their use of soft news approaches.
Bodies of Knowledge
Author: Wendy KlinePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226443086
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Throughout the 1970s & 1980s, women argued that unless they gained information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. Wendy Kline considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the centre of women's liberation.
Fearing the Black Body
Author: Sabrina StringsPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479831093
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.
Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up: From Avoidance to Recovery and Growth
Author: Robert T. MullerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393712273
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Winner, 2019 Written Media Award, International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation. Winner, 2015 William James Book Award, American Psychological Association How to navigate the therapeutic relationship with trauma survivors, to help bring recovery and growth. In therapy, we see how relationships are central to many traumatic experiences, but relationships are also critical to trauma recovery. Grounded firmly in attachment and trauma theory, this book shows how to use the psychotherapy relationship, to help clients find self-understanding and healing from trauma. Offering candid, personal guidance, using rich case examples, Dr. Robert T. Muller provides the steps needed to build and maintain a strong therapist-client relationship –one that helps bring recovery and growth. With a host of practical tips and protocols, this book gives therapists a roadmap to effective trauma treatment.
Author: Vita Fortunati