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The Paradoxical Return of the Feminine

Author : Jeannette M. Gagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649610492
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Paradoxical Return of the Feminine written by Jeannette M. Gagan and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sings yes from every page, emphasizing the power of feminine energy and providing a variety of concrete ways both men and women can cultivate feminine energy in their lives. Chapters begin with raising awareness; practical steps follow, illuminated by the author's narrative of personal transformation, in plain language, Dr. Gagan simplifies such complex and paradoxical truths as: - The return of the feminine requires balancing masculine and feminine energies - Spirituality and psychology are linked - The brain, especially its ability to create new neuronal pathways, is essential to spirituality - Sexuality is a potent pathway for connecting the divine energy of the universe to individual consciousness The Paradoxical Return of the Feminine is an accessible guide for all who seek to heal themselves and bring unity into their relationships and, indeed, to the world. You, too, can say yes!

The Paradoxical Return of the Feminine

Author : Jeannette Gagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952615092
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Paradoxical Return of the Feminine written by Jeannette Gagan and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Peace Attainable?This book sings yes from every page, emphasizing the power of feminine energy and providing a variety of concrete ways both men and women can cultivate feminine energy in their lives. Chapters begin with raising awareness; practical steps follow, illuminated by the author's narrative of personal transformation. In plain language, Dr. Gagan simplifies such complex and paradoxical truths as: · The return of the feminine requires balancing masculine and feminine energies· Spirituality and psychology are linked· The brain, especially its ability to create new neuronal pathways, is essential to spirituality· Sexuality is a potent pathway for connecting the divine energy of the universe to individual consciousness The Paradoxical Return of the Feminine is an accessible guide for all who seek to heal themselves and bring unity into their relationships and, indeed, to the world. You, too, can say yes!

Gendered Paradoxes

Author : Amy Lind
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271076364
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Paradoxes written by Amy Lind and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach combining political economy and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the growth of several strands of women’s activism and identifies how they have helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her analysis of this ambivalent and “unfinished” cultural project of modernity in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of various social sectors; women’s community development initiatives and responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist “issue networks” in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist movement.

Subjects on Display

Author : Beth Newman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821415484
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Subjects on Display written by Beth Newman and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a consideration of fiction by Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Newman shifts the inquiry toward the observed in the experience of being seen. In the process she reopens the question of the gaze and its relation to subjectivity."--Jacket.

The Hélène Cixous Reader

Author : Susan Sellers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134944764
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Hélène Cixous Reader written by Susan Sellers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This key collection of feminist writing includes essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama, all arranged chronologically. Spanning twenty years, it demonstrates the development of one of the great creative minds of the 20ieth century.

Returning the Gift

Author : Rebecca Colesworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191084352
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Returning the Gift written by Rebecca Colesworthy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From debates about reparations to the rise of the welfare state, the decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Which individuals and institutions have the authority to give? Marshalling wide-ranging interdisciplinary research, Returning the Gift argues that these questions centrally shaped literary modernism. The book begins by revisiting the locus classicus of twentieth-century gift theory -- the French sociologist Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay, The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. His title notwithstanding, the gift Mauss envisions is not primitive or pre-capitalist, but rather a distinctively modern phenomenon. Subsequent chapters offer sustained, nuanced readings of novels and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and H.D. from the 1920s to 1940s, underscoring the ways their writing is illuminated by contemporaneous developments in the social sciences, economics, and politics, while also making a case for their unique contributions to broader debates about gifts. Not only do these writers insist that literature is a special kind of gift, but they also pose challenges to the gift's feminization in the work of both their Victorian forebears and contemporary male theorists. Each of these writers uses tropes and narratives of giving -- of hospitality, sympathy, reciprocity, charity, genius, and kinship -- to imagine more egalitarian social possibilities under the conditions of the capitalist present. The language of the gift is not, as we might expect, a mark of hostility to the market so much as a means of giving form to the 'society' in market society -- of representing everyday experiences of exchange that the myth of the free market works, even now, to render unthinkable.

The Female Body in the Looking-Glass

Author : Basia Sliwinska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786720086
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Female Body in the Looking-Glass written by Basia Sliwinska and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his theory of the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan argued that the female body is defined by its lack of male attributes. Within this framework, he described female sexuality primarily as an absence, and assumed female subordination to the male gaze. However, what happens if one follows Jean Baudrillard's advice to 'swallow the mirror' and go through the 'looking-glass' to explore the reflections and realities that we encounter in the cultural mirror, which reflects the culture in question: its norms, ideals and values? What if the beautiful is inverted and becomes ugly; and the ugly is considered beautiful or shape-shifts into something conventionally thought of as beautiful? These are the fundamental questions that Basia Sliwinska poses in this important new enquiry into gender identity and the politics of vision in contemporary women's art.Through an innovative discussion of the mirror as a metaphor, Sliwinska reveals how the post-1989 practices of woman artists from both sides of the former Iron Curtain - such as Joanna Rajkowska, Marina Abramovic, Boryana Rossa, Natalia LL and Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova - go beyond gender binaries and instead embrace otherness and difference by playing with visual tropes of femininity. Their provocative works offer alternative representations of the female body to those seen in the cultural mirror. Their art challenges and deconstructs patriarchal representations of the social and cultural 'other', associated with visual tropes of femininity such as Alice in Wonderland, Venus and Medusa. The Female Body in the Looking-Glass makes a refreshing, radical intervention into art theory and cultural studies by offering new theoretical concepts such as 'the mirror' and 'genderland' (inspired by Alice's adventures in Wonderland) as critical tools with which we can analyse and explain recent developments in women's art.

Helene Cixous

Author : Abigail Bray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1403938873
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Helene Cixous written by Abigail Bray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail Bray offers a lucid and accessible introduction to Hélène Cixous and her theorisation of writing and sexual difference. This book explores the context of feminist debates surrounding Cixous's work and provides a concise explanation of her major philosophical and literary concepts, including the 'other bisexuality', the 'third body', and l'écriture feminine. Bray demonstrates, through original and provocative readings of texts by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Angela Carter, the creative potential of Cixous's thought on literature and philosophy. Reading Cixous alongside Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze and Derrida, Bray argues for a recognition of Cixous as one of the important thinkers of our times.

We Mean to Be Counted

Author : Elizabeth R. Varon
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807866083
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book We Mean to Be Counted written by Elizabeth R. Varon and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were important actors in the public drama of politics. Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony.

The Beauty Paradox

Author : Chiara Piazzesi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538175754
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty Paradox written by Chiara Piazzesi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why must beauty be seen as a binary that is either oppressive or empowering for women? The Beauty Paradox: Femininity in the Age of Selfies argues that women’s experiences of beauty as both validating and belittling is grounded in the contradictory injunctions that they receive regarding their participation in beauty culture. Piazzesi identifies the four main paradoxes of Western beauty culture: the worth paradox, the authenticity paradox, the power paradox, and the commitment paradox and examines how they trail women’s everyday experiences, choices, and reflections regarding beauty. She examines the role of beauty in women’s everyday lives and in a variety of contexts: informal social encounters, work and career settings, parenting, intergenerational relationships, self-care, and online networking practices. The author broadens the current discourse on beauty with an emphasis on the digital world, primarily the use of selfies.

مجلة الدراسات العربية

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book مجلة الدراسات العربية written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov

Author : Philip Bullock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351197533
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov written by Philip Bullock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andrey Platonovich Platonov (1899-1951) is increasingly regarded as one of the greatest writers of the Soviet period. His linguistic virtuosity, philosophical rigour and political unorthodoxy combined to create some of the most captivatingly absurd works of literature in any language. Unsurprisingly, many of these remained unpublished in his lifetime, and indeed for many years thereafter. In this lively and original study, Philip Bullock traces the development of feminine imagery in Platonov's prose, from the seemingly misogynist outrage of his early works to the tender reconciliation with domesticity in his final stories, and argues that gender is a crucial feature of the author's audacious utopian vision."

The Returns of Antigone

Author : Tina Chanter
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438452934
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Returns of Antigone written by Tina Chanter and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Antigones influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature. Despite a venerable tradition of thinkers having declared the death of tragedy, Antigone lives on. Disguised in myriad national costumes, invited to a multiplicity of international venues, inspiring any number of political protests, Antigone transmits her energy through the ages and across the continents in an astoundingly diverse set of contexts. She continues to haunt dramatists, artists, performers, and political activists all over the world. This cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collection explores how and why, with essays ranging from philosophical, literary, and political investigations to queer theory, race theory, and artistic appropriations of the play. It also establishes an international scope for its considerations by including assessments of Latin American and African appropriations of the play alongside European receptions of the play.

The Retrospective Muse

Author : Froma I. Zeitlin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501772988
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Retrospective Muse written by Froma I. Zeitlin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin's innovative studies have changed the field of classics. Her instantly recognizable work brings together anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and an acute literary sensibility to open ancient texts and ideas to new forms of understanding. A selection of her luminous essays on topics still timely today are collected for the first time in a volume that shows the full range and flair of her remarkable intellect. Together, these illuminating analyses show why Zeitlin's work on ancient Greek culture has had an enduring impact on scholars around the world, not just in classics but across multiple fields. From Homer to the Greek novel, from religion to erotics, from myth and ritual to theatrical performance, she expounds on some of the most important works of ancient writing and some of modernity's most significant critical questions. Zeitlin's writing still sheds light on the durable aspects of classics as a discipline, and this book encapsulates her achievement.

A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

Author : Antony Easthope
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802038005
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader written by Antony Easthope and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1992, The Critical and Cultural Theory Reader served the growing need for essays and extracts for the study of culture. Now, the second and expanded edition of this highly successful reader reflects the growing diversity of the field and includes thirteen new essays.

Resentment and the Feminine in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics

Author : Caroline Joan S. Picart
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271041469
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Resentment and the Feminine in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics written by Caroline Joan S. Picart and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche's remarks about women and femininity have generated a great deal of debate among philosophers, some seeing them as ineradicably misogynist, others interpreting them more favorably as ironic and potentially useful for modern feminism. In this study, Kay Picart uses a genealogical approach to track the way Nietzsche's initial use of "feminine" mythological figures as symbols for modernity's regenerative powers gradually gives way to an increasingly misogynistic politics, resulting in the silencing and emasculation of his earlier configurations of the "feminine." While other scholars have focused on classifying the degree of offensiveness of Nietzsche's ambivalent and developing misogyny, Picart examines what this misogyny means for his political philosophy as a whole. Picart successfully shows how Nietzsche's increasingly derogatory treatment of the "feminine" in his post-Zarathustran works is closely tied to his growing resentment over his inability to revive a decadent modernity.

The Logic of the Gift

Author : Alan D. Schrift
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134714777
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of the Gift written by Alan D. Schrift and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of the gift can be located at the center of current discussions of deconstruction, gender and feminist theory, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, and economics: it is, simply, one of the primary focal points at which contemporary interdisciplinary discourses intersect. Into this context comes a new, indispensable volume. The Logic of the Gift offers several important essays on gifts and gift-giving that are often referred to but seldom read, and adds to them new essays written especially for this collection.