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Embodying Gender

Author : Alexandra Howson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446229858
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Gender written by Alexandra Howson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-04-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodying Gender provides students and academics with a critical overview of body concepts in both sociology and in feminism. Previously, sociologists have attempted to gender the body and feminists have attempted to embody gender but Alexandra Howson's accessible new text draws these two literatures together, pointing to ways of integrating feminist perspectives on the body into sociological theory. Surveying all the key concepts in the field, this book introduces us to an extensive range of 'narratives of embodiment' and presents a full analysis of the most important texts in new feminist theories of the body. Key questions covered include: o What can sociology say about the body? o What impact has the body made on sociology? o What conceptual frameworks are used to address the body? How do these relate to issues of gender and embodied experience? o How do feminist conceptual tools sit within sociological analysis? Written in a clear, accessible style, Embodying Gender is an invaluable text for undergraduate students, postgraduates and academics in the fields of women's and gender studies and sociology, and is particularly relevant to those specialising in sociology of the body, feminist theory and social theory.

Embodying Gender

Author : Alexandra Howson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761959953
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Gender written by Alexandra Howson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying all the key concepts in the field, this book introduces us to an extensive range of 'narratives of embodiment' and presents a full analysis of the most important texts in new feminist theories of the body.

Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction

Author : Derek J. Thiess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131755194X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction written by Derek J. Thiess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction. The volume employs contemporary clinical psychology, the biopsychosocial model, to demonstrate that age is an important and neglected topic relevant to the study of speculative fiction. While gender offers a vocabulary, the biopsychosocial approach provides a method to consider age (and gender) as an embodied synthesis of physicality, psychology, and social environment. This respected model of clinical psychology allows a unique and innovative lens through which to read age and the body in literature. Thiess offers readings of established sf classics including Octavia Butler’s Parable series; Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game; and cyberpunk authors such as Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, and Neal Stephenson, also exploring more mainstream speculative works including Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series and Joss Whedon’s Firefly/Serenity. Visiting topics such as care work, sexuality, sport, and the military in these works, the book demonstrates that acknowledging a more fully embodied age is not only necessary for the individual subject, but will also enrich our understanding of other social categories, including gender and race. Taking a constructive—rather than adversarial—stance, this book does not merely question how much one can ethically and responsibly "bend" age, but suggests there is a great deal to learn when one explores those limits.

Embodying Geopolitics

Author : Nicola Pratt
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520281764
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Geopolitics written by Nicola Pratt and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region’s gender inequality as a consequence of fundamentally cultural or religious problems. In so doing, they overlooked the specifically political nature of these women’s activism. Moving beyond such culturalist accounts, this book turns to the relations of power in regional and international politics to understand women’s struggles for their rights. Based on over a hundred extensive personal narratives from women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Nicola Pratt traces women’s activism from national independence through to the Arab uprisings, arguing that activist women are critical geopolitical actors. Weaving together these personal accounts with the ongoing legacies of colonialism, Embodying Geopolitics demonstrates how the production and regulation of gender is integrally bound up with the exercise and organization of geopolitical power, with consequences for women’s activism and its effects.

Embodying Gender

Author : Alexandra Howson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761959953
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Gender written by Alexandra Howson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying all the key concepts in the field, this book introduces us to an extensive range of 'narratives of embodiment' and presents a full analysis of the most important texts in new feminist theories of the body.

Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations

Author : Kailing Xie
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811611394
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations written by Kailing Xie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women’s gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on what keeps mainstream Chinese middle-class women conforming to the current gender regime. It illuminates the contradictory effects of neoliberal techniques deployed by a familial authoritarian regime on these women’s striving for success in urban China, and argues that, paradoxically, women’s individualistic determination to succeed has often led them onto the path of conformity by pursuing exemplary norms which fit into the party-state’s agenda.

Embodying Modernity

Author : Daniel F. Silva
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988755
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Modernity written by Daniel F. Silva and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodying Modernity examines the current boom of fitness culture in Brazil in the context of the white patriarchal notions of race, gender, and sexuality through which fitness practice, commodities, and cultural products traffic. The book traces the imperial meanings and orders of power conveyed through “fit” bodies and their different configurations of muscularity, beauty, strength, and health within mainstream visual media and national and global public spheres. Drawing from a wide range of Brazilian visual media sources including fitness magazines, television programs, film, and social media, Daniel F. Silva theorizes concepts and renderings of modern corporality, its racialized and gendered underpinnings, and its complex relationship to white patriarchal power and capital. This study works to define the ubiquitous parameters of fitness culture and argues that its growth is part of a longer collective nationalist project of modernity tied to whiteness, capitalist ideals, and historical exceptionalism.

The Embodied Performance of Gender

Author : Jack Migdalek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317610199
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Embodied Performance of Gender written by Jack Migdalek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norms of embodied behaviour for males and females, as promoted in mainstream Western public arenas of popular culture and the everyday, continue to work, overtly and covertly, as definitive and restrictive barriers to the realm of possibilities of embodied gender expression and appreciation. They serve to disempower and marginalize those not inclined to embody according to such dichotomous models. This book explores the ramifications of the way our gendered, sexed and culturally constructed bodies are situated toward notions of difference and highlights the need to safeguard the social and emotional well-being of those who do not fit comfortably with dominant norms of masculine/feminine behaviour, as deemed appropriate to biological sex. The book interrogates gender inequitable machinations of education and performance arts disciplines by which educators and arts practitioners train, teach, choreograph, and direct those with whom they work, and theorizes ways of broadening personal and social notions of possible, aesthetic, and acceptable embodiment for all persons, regardless of biological sex or sexual orientation. The author’s own struggles as a performance artist, educator, and person in the everyday, as well as the findings of empirical fieldwork with educators, performance arts practitioners, and high school students, are employed to illustrate and advocate the need for self reflexive scrutiny of existing and hidden inequities regarding the embodiment of gender within one’s own habitual perspectives, taste, and practices.

Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality

Author : Sarah-Jane Page
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100029143X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality written by Sarah-Jane Page and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the notion of embodiment as a starting point, this volume maps the interconnecting relationships between religion, gender and sexuality. The chapters highlight how the body – its location, the narratives that surround it, its movement and negotiations – is central to understanding these multifaceted relationships. The contributors recognise the ways in which gender and sexuality are crucial to how we embody religion and encourage a more complex and nuanced understanding of embodied religion. The material is organised according to three central themes: (1) the relationship between the religious and the secular; (2) power, regulation and resistance; and (3) the symbolism of gendered bodies. Cutting across a range of disciplinary perspectives, Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality will be relevant to students of sociology, anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, theology and religious studies.

Embodying Gender

Author : Lisa Catherine Harper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Gender written by Lisa Catherine Harper and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction

Author : Derek Thiess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367872021
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction written by Derek Thiess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction. The volume employs contemporary clinical psychology, the biopsychosocial model, to demonstrate that age is an important and neglected topic relevant to the study of speculative fiction. While gender offers a vocabulary, the biopsychosocial approach provides a method to consider age (and gender) as an embodied synthesis of physicality, psychology, and social environment. This respected model of clinical psychology allows a unique and innovative lens through which to read age and the body in literature. Thiess offers readings of established sf classics including Octavia Butler's Parable series; Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game; and cyberpunk authors such as Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, and Neal Stephenson, also exploring more mainstream speculative works including Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series and Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity. Visiting topics such as care work, sexuality, sport, and the military in these works, the book demonstrates that acknowledging a more fully embodied age is not only necessary for the individual subject, but will also enrich our understanding of other social categories, including gender and race. Taking a constructive--rather than adversarial--stance, this book does not merely question how much one can ethically and responsibly "bend" age, but suggests there is a great deal to learn when one explores those limits.

Embodying Difference

Author : Linda Saborío
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 161147468X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Difference written by Linda Saborío and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodying Difference: Scripting Social Images of the Female Body in Latina Theatre explores contemporary theatrical productions by Latina dramatists in the United States and focuses on the effects that neoliberal politics, global market strategies, gender formation, and racial and ethnic marginalization have had on Latinas. Through the analysis of select plays by dramatists Nao Bustamante, Coco Fusco, Anne García-Romero, Josefina López, Cherríe Moraga, Linda Nieves-Powell, Dolores Prida, and Milcha Sánchez-Scott, Embodying Difference shows how the bodies of Latinas are represented on stage in order to create an image of Latina consolidation. The performances of a dynamic female body challenge assumptions about ethno-racial expressions, exoticized “otherness,” and political correctness as this book explores often uneasy sites of representations of the body including phenotype, sexuality, obesity, and the body as a political marker. Drawing on the theoretical framework of difference, including differing gender voices, performances, and performative acts, Embodying Difference examines social images of the Latina body as a means of understanding and rearticulating Latina subjectivity through an expression of difference. By means of a gradual realization and self-acclamation of their own images, Latinas can learn to embody notions of self that endorse their curvaceous, sexualized, and oversized bodies that have historically been marked and marketed by their “brownness.”

Embodying the Feminine in the Dances of the World's Religions

Author : Angela M. Yarber
Publisher : Liturgical Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781433115448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Embodying the Feminine in the Dances of the World's Religions written by Angela M. Yarber and published by Liturgical Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dances that embody the «feminine» teach the dancer and the observers inside and outside the faith tradition about women's experiences, expressions, and understandings within their respective faith traditions. In Embodying the Feminine in the Dances of the World's Religions, the author immerses herself in four dance traditions and explores what their dance teaches about women's experiences in their faith tradition. Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance stemming from the devadasi system; kabuki onnagata are Japanese male enactors of «female-likeness»; the Mevlevi Order of America allows women to train as «whirling dervishes»; and Gurit Kadman created folk dances for Jewish women and men.

Embodied

Author : Preston M. Sprinkle
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 0830781234
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Embodied written by Preston M. Sprinkle and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compassionate, biblical, and thought-provoking, Embodied is an accessible guide for Christians who want help navigating issues related to the transgender conversation. Preston Sprinkle draws on Scripture, as well as real-life stories of individuals struggling with gender dysphoria, to help you understand the complexities and emotions of this highly relevant topic. This book fills the great need for Christians to speak into the confusing and emotionally charged questions surrounding the transgender conversation. With careful research and an engaging style, Embodied explores: What it means to be transgender, nonbinary, and gender-queer, and how these identities relate to being male or female Why most stereotypes about what it means to be a man and woman come from the culture and not the Bible What the Bible says about humans created in God’s image as male and female, and how this relates to transgender experiences Moral questions surrounding medical interventions such as sex reassignment surgery Which pronouns to use and how to navigate the bathroom debate Why more and more teens are questioning their gender

Embodying Latino Masculinities

Author : J. Rudolph
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137022884
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Latino Masculinities written by J. Rudolph and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through explorations of six cases taken from various Latino ethnic groups, this book advances our understanding about meanings of Latino manhood and masculinities. The studies range from theatre and literature to men's activism and sports, showing how masculinities are embodied and performed.

Embodying the Problem

Author : Jenna Vinson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813591023
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Embodying the Problem written by Jenna Vinson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dominant narrative of teen pregnancy persuades many people to believe that a teenage pregnancy always leads to devastating consequences for a young woman, her child, and the nation in which they reside. Jenna Vinson draws on feminist and rhetorical theory to explore how pregnant and mothering teens are represented as problems in U.S. newspapers, political discourses, and teenage pregnancy prevention campaigns since the 1970s. Vinson shows that these representations prevent a focus on the underlying structures of inequality and poverty, perpetuate harmful discourses about women, and sustain racialized gender ideologies that construct women’s bodies as sites of national intervention and control. Embodying the Problem also explores how young mothers resist this narrative. Analyzing fifty narratives written by young mothers, the recent #NoTeenShame social media campaign, and her interviews with thirty-three young women, Vinson argues that while the stigmatization of teenage pregnancy and motherhood does dehumanize young pregnant and mothering women, it is at the same time a means for these women to secure an audience for their own messages. More information on the author's website (https://jennavinson.com)

Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime

Author : Susan Pickard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032570556
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime written by Susan Pickard and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection fills an important lacuna by acknowledging the importance of understanding both gender and age when approaching illness experiences.