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Confessing Excess

Author : Carole Spitzack
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791402726
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Confessing Excess written by Carole Spitzack and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-07-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the discourse on female weight reduction in American culture, Confessing Excess analyzes contemporary dieting and the weight loss literature by taking up the themes of confession and surveillance. Spitzack argues that dieting is characterized by confession (of excess) which women internalize and which necessitates ongoing surveillance or monitoring of the body. Informal conversations and in-depth interviews also juxtapose womens everyday dieting experiences with the discourse of dieting texts. By evaluating the cultural construction of women in this manner, the author illuminates the power strategies that offer self-acceptance at the price of self-condemnation.

Confessing Excess

Author : Carole Spitzack
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438420803
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Confessing Excess written by Carole Spitzack and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-07-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the discourse on female weight reduction in American culture, Confessing Excess analyzes contemporary dieting and the weight loss literature by taking up the themes of confession and surveillance. Spitzack argues that dieting is characterized by confession (of "excess") which women internalize and which necessitates ongoing surveillance or monitoring of the body. Informal conversations and in-depth interviews also juxtapose women's everyday dieting experiences with the discourse of dieting texts. By evaluating the cultural construction of women in this manner, the author illuminates the power strategies that offer self-acceptance at the price of self-condemnation.

Critical Confessions Now

Author : Abdulhamit Arvas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031185080
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Critical Confessions Now written by Abdulhamit Arvas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exhibit great diversity and take up different disciplinary approaches by scholars who stand at various stages of their careers. They address not only different time periods but also various linguistic and cultural contexts. Contributors deploy a wide array of methods, critical approaches, and narrative voices, and contributors assumed the confessional voice with a whole host of affective responses — from enthusiasm to cautious hesitation to outright discomfort. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 2-3, August 2020.

Feminist Theology and Contemporary Dieting Culture

Author : Hannah Bacon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567659968
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theology and Contemporary Dieting Culture written by Hannah Bacon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Bacon draws on qualitative research conducted inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how Christian religious forms and theological discourses inform contemporary weight-loss narratives. Bacon argues that notions of sin and salvation resurface in secular guise in ways that repeat well-established theological meanings. The slimming organization recycles the Christian terminology of sin – spelt 'Syn' – and encourages members to frame weight loss in salvific terms. These theological tropes lurk in the background helping to align food once more with guilt and moral weakness, but they also mirror to an extent the way body policing techniques in Christianity have historically helped to cultivate self-care. The self-breaking and self-making aspects of women's Syn-watching practices in the group continue certain features of historical Christianity, serving in similar ways to conform women's bodies to patriarchal norms while providing opportunities for women's self-development. Taking into account these tensions, Bacon asks what a specifically feminist theological response to weight loss might look like. If ideas about sin and salvation service hegemonic discourses about fat while also empowering women to shape their own lives, how might they be rethought to challenge fat phobia and the frenetic pursuit of thinness? As well as naming as 'sin' principles and practices which diminish women's appetites and bodies, this book forwards a number of proposals about how salvation might be performed in our everyday eating habits and through the cultivation of fat pride. It takes seriously the conviction of many women in the group that food and the body can be important sites of power, wisdom and transformation, but channels this insight into the construction of theologies that resist rather than reproduce thin privilege and size-ist norms.

Some Confessions of an Average Man

Author : Richard King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Some Confessions of an Average Man written by Richard King and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Confess!

Author : Thomas Waugh
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228000645
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book I Confess! written by Thomas Waugh and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions – first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill – altered the lifestyles and desires of generations. Since the 1990s, the internet and its cataclysmic cultural and social technological shifts have unleashed a third sexual revolution, crystallized in the acts and rituals of confession that are a staple of our twenty-first-century lives. In I Confess!, a collection of thirty original essays, leading international scholars such as Ken Plummer, Susanna Paasonen, Tom Roach, and Shohini Ghosh explore the ideas of confession and sexuality in moving image arts and media, mostly in the Global North, over the last quarter century. Through self-referencing or autobiographical stories, testimonies, and performances, and through rigorously scrutinized case studies of "gay for pay," gaming, camming, YouTube uploads, and the films Tarnation and Nymph()maniac, the contributors describe a spectrum of identities, desires, and related representational practices. Together these desires and practices shape how we see, construct, and live our identities within this third sexual revolution, embodying both its ominous implications of surveillance and control and its utopian glimmers of community and liberation. Inspired by theorists from Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze to Gayle Rubin and José Esteban Muñoz, I Confess! reflects an extraordinary, paradigm-shifting proliferation of first-person voices and imagery produced during the third sexual revolution, from the eve of the internet to today.

Confessions of the Flesh

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525565418
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of the Flesh written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to the public One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault made an indelible impact on Western thought. The first three volumes in his History of Sexuality—which trace cultural and intellectual notions of sexuality, arguing that it has been profoundly shaped by the power structures applied to it—constitute some of Foucault’s most important work. This fourth volume posits that the origins of totalitarian self-surveillance began with the Christian practice of confession. The manuscript had long been secreted away, in accordance with Foucault’s stated wish that there be no posthumous publication of his unpublished work. With the sale of the Foucault archives in 2013, Foucault’s nephew felt that the time had come to publish this final volume in Foucault’s seminal history. Philosophically, it is a chapter in his hermeneutics of the desiring subject. Historically, it focuses on the remodeling of subjectivity carried out by the early Christian Fathers, who set out to transform the classical Logos of truthful human discourse into a theologos—the divine Word of a pure sovereign. What did God will in the matter of righteous sexual practice? Foucault parses out the logic of the various responses proffered by theologians over the centuries, culminating with Saint Augustine’s fascinating discussion of the libido. Sweeping and deeply personal, Confessions of the Flesh is a tour de force from a philosophical master

Reshaping the Female Body

Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135207003
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Reshaping the Female Body written by Kathy Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reshaping... looks at women's involvement in cosmetic surgery and raises the question of why women put themselves under the knife for operations which are painful, risky and expensive and often leave them in worse shape than before.

The Federal Reporter

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Federal Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

Author : Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119699290
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Recovering Engineer written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover insider secrets of how America’s transportation system is designed, funded, and built – and how to make it work for your community In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn Jr. delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America’s transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did, and how to modernize transportation to better serve local communities. You’ll discover real-world examples of poor design choices and how those choices have dramatic and tragic effects on the lives of the people who use them. You’ll also find case studies and examples of design improvements that have revitalized communities and improved safety. This important book shows you: The values of the transportation professions, how they are applied in the design process, and how those priorities differ from those of the public. How the standard approach to transportation ensures the maximum amount of traffic congestion possible is created each day, and how to fight that congestion on a budget. Bottom-up techniques for spending less and getting higher returns on transportation projects, all while improving quality of life for residents. Perfect for anyone interested in why transportation systems work – and fail to work – the way they do, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer is a fascinating insider’s peek behind the scenes of America’s transportation systems.

United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reports Containing the Cases Determined in All the Circuits from the Organization of the Courts

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Reports Containing the Cases Determined in All the Circuits from the Organization of the Courts written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women and Exercise

Author : Eileen Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113688369X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Women and Exercise written by Eileen Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly visible part of health campaigns, obesity among women is rising, and studies indicate that women are generally less physically active than men. Women’s (lack of) exercise, therefore, has become a public concern, and physiological and psychological research has attempted to develop more effective exercise programs aimed at women. Yet women have a complex relationship with embodiment and physical activity that is difficult for quantitative scientific approaches to explore. This book addresses this neglect by providing a much-needed feminist, qualitative social analysis of women and exercise. The contributors, drawn from across Europe and North America, investigate the ways women experience exercise within the context of the global fitness industry. All the authors take a specifically feminist perspective in their analysis of the fit, feminine body, exploring media images and the global branding of fitness products, the relationship between exercise and fat, the construction of physical activity within health discourse, and the lived experience of the exercising body. The collection explores the diversity of women’s experiences of exercise in relation to age, ethnicity and body size. The book is essential for anyone interested in health promotion, sport and exercise or the social and cultural study of gender and embodiment.

Interpersonal Communication Research

Author : Mike Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135672997
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Interpersonal Communication Research written by Mike Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional collection--a compilation of meta-analyses related to issues in interpersonal communication--provides an expansive review of existing interpersonal communication research. Incorporating a wide variety of topics related to interpersonal communication, including couples and safe sex, parent-child communication, argumentativeness, and self-disclosure, the contributions in this volume also examine such basic issues as reciprocity, constructivism, social support in interpersonal communication, as well as gender, conflict, and marital and organizational issues. With contributions organized into five sections, this volume: *sets the stage for independent meta-analyses; *provides an overview of individual characteristics in interpersonal communication and the meta-analyses reflecting this theme; *explores the dyadic and interactional approaches to interpersonal communication; and *examines the impact of the meta-analyses on the understanding of interpersonal communication. As a resource for interpersonal communication researchers at all levels, this volume establishes a solid foundation from which to launch the next generation of study and research.

Athletic Intruders

Author : Anne Bolin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487563
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Athletic Intruders written by Anne Bolin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by feminism and the fields of anthropology and sociology of sport, this anthology investigates women's place in sport and exercise from a sociocultural perspective, documenting women's struggle into the sports arenas of male hegemony. The nine ethnographic case studies explore issues of identity, embodiment, and meaning in various sports and exercise, including triathlons, aerobics, basketball, bodybuilding, weightlifting, motorcycle riding, softball, casual exercise, and rugby.

Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions

Author : Stephen Colbert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501169017
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions written by Stephen Colbert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgive him, Father, for Stephen Colbert has sinned. He knew it was wrong at the time. But he went ahead and did it anyway. Now he’s begging for forgiveness. Based on his popular segment from The Late Show, Stephen Colbert and his team of writers now reveal his most shameful secrets to millions (although, actually, he’d like you to not to tell anyone). Midnight Confessions is an illustrated collection of Stephen Colbert at his most brilliant and irreverent.

Confessions of a Civil Servant

Author : Bob Stone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742527652
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Civil Servant written by Bob Stone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Civil Servant is filled with lessons on leading change in government and the military. Bob Stone based the book on thirty years as a revolutionary in government. It comes at a time when the events of 9-11 are sharpening America's demands for government at all levels that works.