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Book Synopsis The Gender of Death by : Karl Siegfried Guthke
Download or read book The Gender of Death written by Karl Siegfried Guthke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated historical study of gendered personifications of death in Western art, literature, and culture.
Book Synopsis Death and the Sexes by : Judith M. Stillion
Download or read book Death and the Sexes written by Judith M. Stillion and published by Old Tfi Soc Sci. This book was released on 1985 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex and Death written by Beverley Clack and published by Polity. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries people have debated the nature of the human self. Running beneath these various arguments lie three certainties - we are born, reproduce sexually, and die. The models of spirituality which dominate the Western tradition have claimed that it is possible to transcend these aspects of human physicality by ascribing to human beings alternative traits, such as consciousness, mind and reason. By locating the essence of human life outside its basic physical features, mortality itself has come to be viewed as a problem, for it appears to render human life both meaningless and absurd. Complex connections have then been made between the key features of life: sex is linked with death, and birth becomes the event that introduces the child to the world of decay - and ultimately to death itself. This fascinating book exposes the way in which the preoccupation with transcendence in both religious and secular thinking has distorted our sense of what it is to be human. At the same time, Sex and Death offers an alternative approach to the debate, based on an acceptance of mortality that emphasizes the depth and profundity possible in human life. It is an argument which will be essential reading for students of philosophy or religion, as well as the general reader interested in these debates.
Book Synopsis The Gender of Death by : Karl S. Guthke
Download or read book The Gender of Death written by Karl S. Guthke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illustrated historical survey of the image of death in art and literature Karl S. Guthke assesses the significance of the various personifications of death in different ages and cultures, as male or female, enemy or lover, friend or avenger, angel or devil. Guthke shows that such images are reflections of the life and cultures that produced them, and through them he offers astonishing new insights into the nature and perception of the Western self in its cultural, intellectual, and literary context.
Book Synopsis Sex and the Origins of Death by : William R. Clark
Download or read book Sex and the Origins of Death written by William R. Clark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fascianting look at life and death at the level of the cell, clark addresses such profound questions as why we age, why death exists, and why death and sex go hand in hand. Ranging far and wide over fascinating terrain, this brilliant volume illuminates the miraculous workings of life at its most elemental level and finds in these tiny spaces the answers to some of our largest questions. 7 linecuts.
Book Synopsis The Differential Death-Rate of the Sexes Among Animals with a Suggested Explanation by : Samuel Wood Geiser
Download or read book The Differential Death-Rate of the Sexes Among Animals with a Suggested Explanation written by Samuel Wood Geiser and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power, Sex, Suicide written by Nick Lane and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that. Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small collection of genes, separate from those in the cell nucleus. It is thought that they were once bacteria living independent lives. Their enslavement within the larger cell was a turning point in the evolution of life, enabling the development of complex organisms and, closely related, the origin of two sexes. Unlike the DNA in the nucleus, mitochondrial DNA is passed down exclusively (or almost exclusively) via the female line. That's why it has been used by some researchers to trace human ancestry daughter-to-mother, to 'Mitochondrial Eve'. Mitochondria give us important information about our evolutionary history. And that's not all. Mitochondrial genes mutate much faster than those in the nucleus because of the free radicals produced in their energy-generating role. This high mutation rate lies behind our ageing and certain congenital diseases. The latest research suggests that mitochondria play a key role in degenerative diseases such as cancer, through their involvement in precipitating cell suicide. Mitochondria, then, are pivotal in power, sex, and suicide. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Nick Lane brings together the latest research findings in this exciting field to show how our growing understanding of mitochondria is shedding light on how complex life evolved, why sex arose (why don't we just bud?), and why we age and die. This understanding is of fundamental importance, both in understanding how we and all other complex life came to be, but also in order to be able to control our own illnesses, and delay our degeneration and death. 'An extraordinary account of groundbreaking modern science... The book abounds with interesting and important ideas.' Mark Ridley, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Book Synopsis Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period by : Enrique Fernández
Download or read book Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period written by Enrique Fernández and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late medieval and early modern Europe, death could reinforce, question or efface the category of gender, as evidenced by the preparation for death, executions, burial practices and the cult of the dead.
Book Synopsis Exploring the Relationships Between Gender, Sex and Death Anxiety by : Tiffany Sia
Download or read book Exploring the Relationships Between Gender, Sex and Death Anxiety written by Tiffany Sia and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture by : Jonathan Dollimore
Download or read book Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual.
Download or read book The End of Gender written by Debra Soh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and frequent contributor to The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Debra Soh [discusses what she sees as] gender myths in this ... examination of the many facets of gender identity"--
Download or read book Women and Death 3 written by Clare Bielby and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.
Book Synopsis Death, Gender and Ethnicity by : David Field
Download or read book Death, Gender and Ethnicity written by David Field and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity of ways through which the universal event of death is encountered. It brings together accounts of how these experiences are actually managed with analyses of a range of representations of dying and grieving in order to provide a more theoretical approach to the relationship between death, gender and ethnicity. Though death and dying have been an increasingly important focus for academics and clinicians over the last thirty years, much of this work provides little insight into the impact of gender and ethnicity on the experience. The result is often a universalising representation which fails to take account of the personally unique and culturally specific experiences associated with a death. Drawing on a range of detailed case studies, Death, Gender and Ethnicity develops a more sensitive theoretical approach which will be invaluable reading for students and practitioners in health studies, sociology, social work and medical anthropology.
Book Synopsis Initiation to the Mysteries of Birth Sexes & Love Death by : Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre
Download or read book Initiation to the Mysteries of Birth Sexes & Love Death written by Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quote from chapter "Mysteries of Birth""Be aware, you preexist your Birth, and you will survive your Death.""Be daring, have no fear! Push the limits of the human mind: the result will infinitely increase, in the Social State, the majesty of Divinity, the dignity of Humankind and your own authority."Quote from chapter "Mysteries of Sexes & Love""Creative Nature, united to God by the power, the mutual bond of Love, engenders everything out of nothing. Without this supreme bond, which constitutes the foundation of the Union of the Sexes and Marriage, this engenderment which creates and builds the Universe would collapse entirely.""Today, in many European countries and elsewhere, the feminine question, stirred from a civil and even political point of view, is giving rise to a turmoil which may become detrimental to the peace of the Home, to the tranquility of the City, and even damaging to the real happiness of Women themselves."Quote from "chapter "Mysteries of Death""Immortal after Death, the Soul is certainly immortal before Birth.""In every finite solar system of the Universe, Death is manifesting as the return of individual beings to the wholeness of being, the return of individual things to the oneness of original substance."
Book Synopsis Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman by : Lucinda M. Becker
Download or read book Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman written by Lucinda M. Becker and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucinda Becker's study explores the female experience of death in early modern England. It shows that women had a unique and discernible relationship to death during that period, a relationship that can now be exploited to increase our understanding of the period and its treatment of femininity
Download or read book Death & Sex written by Tyler Volk and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On DEATH . . . What is shared by spawning Pacific salmon, towering trees, and suicidal bacteria? In his lucid and concise exploration of how and why things die, Tyler Volk explains the intriguing ways creatures-including ourselves-use death to actually enhance life. Death is not simply the end of the living, though even in that aspect the Grim Reaper has long been essential to natural selection. Indeed, the exquisite schemes and styles of death that have emerged from evolution have been essential to the great story from life's beginnings in tiny bacteria nearly four thousand million years ago to ancient human rituals surrounding death and continuing to the existential concerns of human culture and consciousness today. Volk weaves together autobiography, biology, Earth history, and results of fascinating studies that show how thoughts of our own mortality affect our everyday lives, to prove how an understanding of what some have called the ultimate taboo can enrich the celebration of life. . . . and SEX In Sex, Dorion Sagan takes a delightful, irreverent, and informative romp through the science, philosophy, and literature of humanity's most obsessive subject. Have you ever wondered what the anatomy and promiscuous behaviors of chimpanzees and the sexual bullying of gorillas tell us about ourselves? Why we lost our hair? What amoebas have to do with desire? Linking evolutionary biology to salacious readings of the lives and thoughts of such notables as the Marquis de Sade and Simone de Beauvoir, and discussing works as varied as The Story of O and Silence of the Lambs, Sex touches on a potpourri of interrelated topics ranging from animal genitalia to sperm competition, the difference between nakedness and nudity, jealousy's status as an aphrodisiac and the origins of language, Casanova and music, ovulation and clothes, mother-in-law jokes and alpha females, love and loneliness. A brief, wonderfully entertaining, highly literate foray into the origins and evolution of sex. Two books in one cover, Death & Sex unravel and answer some of life's most fundamental questions.
Book Synopsis Is There Sex After Death? by : Jeanne Abel
Download or read book Is There Sex After Death? written by Jeanne Abel and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
