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Conceiving Masculinity

Author : Liberty Walther Barnes
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439910429
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Conceiving Masculinity written by Liberty Walther Barnes and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conceiving Masculinity, Liberty Walther Barnes puts the world of male infertility under the microscope to examine how culturally pervasive notions of gender shape our understanding of disease, and how disease impacts our personal ideas about gender. Taking readers inside male infertility clinics, and interviewing doctors and couples dealing with male infertility, Barnes provides a rich account of the social aspects of the confusing and frustrating diagnosis of infertility. She explains why men resist a stigmatizing label like "infertile," and how men with poor fertility redefine for themselves what it means to be manly and masculine in a society that prizes male virility. Conceiving Masculinity also details how and why men embrace medical technologies and treatment for infertility. Broaching a socially taboo topic, Barnes emphasizes that infertility is not just a women's issue. She shows how gender and disease are socially constructed within social institutions and by individuals.

Conceiving Masculinity

Author : Liberty Walther Barnes
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 143991043X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Conceiving Masculinity written by Liberty Walther Barnes and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conceiving Masculinity, Liberty Walther Barnes puts the world of male infertility under the microscope to examine how culturally pervasive notions of gender shape our understanding of disease, and how disease impacts our personal ideas about gender. Taking readers inside male infertility clinics, and interviewing doctors and couples dealing with male infertility, Barnes provides a rich account of the social aspects of the confusing and frustrating diagnosis of infertility. She explains why men resist a stigmatizing label like "infertile," and how men with poor fertility redefine for themselves what it means to be manly and masculine in a society that prizes male virility. Conceiving Masculinity also details how and why men embrace medical technologies and treatment for infertility. Broaching a socially taboo topic, Barnes emphasizes that infertility is not just a women's issue. She shows how gender and disease are socially constructed within social institutions and by individuals.

Conceiving Sexuality

Author : Richard G. Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135215790
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Conceiving Sexuality written by Richard G. Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. After widespread neglect over many years, the study of human sexuality has recently come to the forefront of many of the most important debates in contemporary society and culture. The continued development of feminist theory, the emergence of gay and lesbian studies, and the impact of the international AIDS pandemic have combined to focus new attention on the ways in which gender and sexuality are shaped in different social and cultural settings, and on the complex interactions betwen sexuality and health in the late twentieth century. Edited by two of the leading figures in contemporary sex research, Conceiving Sexuality brings together the contributions of writers from a wide range of social science disciplines and cultural traditions who are working at the cutting edge of contemporary sex research. Focusing on key areas of concern such as gender power relations, the formation of sexual identities, the dynamics of sexual desire, and the social construction of sexual risk, the essays in Conceiving Sexuality provide an important overview of the most pressing topical and theoretical issues currently shaping debate in international and cross-cultural research on sexuality.

Infertility Around the Globe

Author : Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520231376
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Infertility Around the Globe written by Marcia C. Inhorn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. The contributors address a range of topics including how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame on women's shoulders.

Rewriting Masculinity

Author : Kelly J. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190619406
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Masculinity written by Kelly J. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the biblical Gideon? A mighty warrior, or a fearful son? Hesitant solider, clever tactician, commanding father, ruthless killer, idolater, or illegitimate king? Gideon has long challenged readers of the book of Judges. How did so many conflicting portraits become inscribed in our biblical text and its reception? What might these portraits tell us about the authors, editors, and interpreters of Gideon's story-especially their expectations for men? Rewriting Masculinity interweaves redaction criticism, reception history, and masculinity studies to explore how Gideon's image changes from a mighty warrior to a weakling, from a successful leader to a man who led Israel astray. Kelly J. Murphy first considers the ways that older traditions about Gideon were rewritten throughout ancient Israel's history, sometimes in order to align the story of Gideon with new ideas about what it meant to act like a man. At other times, she shows that the story of Gideon was used to explain why older standards of masculinity no longer worked in new contexts. Murphy then traces how some later interpreters, from the ancient to the contemporary, continually rewrote Gideon in light of their own models for men, might, and masculinity. Murphy offers an in-depth case study of how a biblical text was continuously updated. Emphasizing the importance of reading biblical stories and expansions alongside their later reception, she shows that the story of Gideon the mighty warrior is, in many ways, the story of masculinity in miniature: a constantly-transforming construct.

Conceiving

Author : Dr. Pierre Miron
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459730089
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Conceiving written by Dr. Pierre Miron and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-04-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infertility affects between 10 and 15 percent of couples in western countries, and causes major suffering. This indispensable reference presents current medical approaches that can help prevent and treat infertility. It aims to inform hopeful parents in the clearest possible terms about what they can do to achieve a healthy pregnancy.

Freezing Fertility

Author : Lucy van de Wiel
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479803626
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Freezing Fertility written by Lucy van de Wiel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new reproductive technologies of this century. In Freezing Fertility, Lucy van de Wiel takes us inside the world of fertility preservation—with its egg freezing parties, contested age limits, proactive anticipations and equity investments—and shows how the popularization of egg freezing has profound consequences for the way in which female fertility and reproductive aging are understood, commercialized and politicized. Beyond an individual reproductive choice for people who may want to have children later in life, Freezing Fertility explores how the rise of egg freezing also reveals broader cultural, political and economic negotiations about reproductive politics, gender inequities, age normativities and the financialization of healthcare. Van de Wiel investigates these issues by analyzing a wide range of sources—varying from sparkly online platforms to heart-breaking court cases and intimate autobiographical accounts—that are emblematic of each stage of the egg freezing procedure. By following the egg’s journey, Freezing Fertility examines how contemporary egg freezing practices both reflect broader social, regulatory and economic power asymmetries and repoliticize fertility and aging in ways that affect the public at large. In doing so, the book explores how the possibility of egg freezing shifts our relation to the beginning and end of life.

Reconceiving the Second Sex

Author : Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845454722
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Reconceiving the Second Sex written by Marcia C. Inhorn and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women?s reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored men?s reproductive concerns or contributions to women?s reproductive health: Men are clearly viewed as the?second sex? in reproduction. This volume argues that the marginalization of men is an oversight of considerable proportions, and thereby seeks to break the silence surrounding men?s thoughts, experiences, and feelings about their reproductive lives. It sheds new light on male reproduction from a cross-cultural, global perspective, focusing not only upon men in Europe and America but also those in the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Both heterosexual and homosexual, married and unmarried men are featured in this volume, which assesses concerns ranging from masculinity and sexuality to childbirth and fatherhood. Thus, men are brought back into the equation, as reproductive partners, progenitors, fathers, nurturers, and decision-makers.

Masculine Compromise

Author : Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288289
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Masculine Compromise written by Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships, with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities. They show how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as lovers, husbands, fathers, and sons. They also reveal how migrant men make masculine compromises: they strive to preserve the gender boundary and their symbolic dominance within the family by making concessions on marital power and domestic division of labor, and by redefining filial piety and fatherhood. The stories of these migrant men and their families reveal another side to China’s sweeping economic reform, modernization, and grand social transformations.

Manhood Acts

Author : Michael Schwalbe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317256344
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Manhood Acts written by Michael Schwalbe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Manhood Acts Michael Schwalbe offers a new perspective on the social construction of manhood and its relationship to male domination. Schwalbe argues that study of masculinity has lost touch with its feminist roots and has been seduced by the politically safe notion of 'multiple masculinities'. Manhood Acts delineates the practices males use to construct 'women' and 'men' as unequal categories. Schwalbe reclaims the radical feminist insights that gender is a field of domination, not a field of play, and that manhood is fundamentally about exerting or resisting control. Manhood Acts arrives at the conclusion that abolishing gender as a system of oppression will require more than transgressive self-presentation. It will be necessary to end the exploitive economic relationships that necessitate manhood itself.

(In)Fertile Male Bodies

Author : Esmée Sinéad Hanna
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800716117
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book (In)Fertile Male Bodies written by Esmée Sinéad Hanna and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esmée Sinéad Hanna and Brendan Gough examine men’s experiences of fertility and lifestyle practices, exploring personal experiences of the role of lifestyle in the quest for conception as well as the broader promotion of ‘lifestyle’ within both clinical and online material as a key aspect for ‘improving’ male fertility.

How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?

Author : Robin A Hadley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805393928
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book How is a Man Supposed to be a Man? written by Robin A Hadley and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statistics. This unique book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be fathers. It explores the complex intersections that influence childlessness over the life course.

New Testament Masculinities

Author : Stephen D. Moore
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004130462
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book New Testament Masculinities written by Stephen D. Moore and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection considers themes of Christology, patriarchy, violence, colonialism, family structures, and sexual practices as it explores the construction and performance of masculinity in the New Testament and related early Christian texts. Examining the Gospels, Romans, the Pastorals, Revelation, and the "Shepherd of Hermas," it situates diverse masculinities within a Greco-Roman matrix and introduces biblical scholarship to a rich vein of classical scholarship on gender. The contributors include Janice Capel Anderson, David J. A. Clines, Colleen M. Conway, Mary Rose D'Angelo, Page duBois, Chris Frilingos, Jennifer A. Glancy, Maud W. Gleason, Stephen D. Moore, Jerome H. Neyrey, Seong Hee Kim, Jeffrey L. Staley, Diana M. Swancutt, Tat-siong Benny Liew and Eric Thurman. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism

Author : Bjorn Krondorfer
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334049024
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism written by Bjorn Krondorfer and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bjorn Krondorfer, one of the leading scholars in this field, has collected 35 key texts that have shaped this field within the wider area of the study of gender, religion and culture. The texts in this critical reader engage actively and critically with the position of men in society and church, men's privileged relation to the sacred and to religious authority, the ideals of masculinity as engendered by religious discourse, and alternative trajectories of being in the world, whether spiritually, relationally or sexually. Each of the texts is introduced by the editor and accompanied by bibliographies that make this the ideal tool for study.

A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities

Author : Thomas K. Hubbard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118610687
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities written by Thomas K. Hubbard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world. Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holistically Discusses Greece and Rome in each chapter, with sensitivity to the continuities and differences between the two classical civilizations Addresses the classical influence on the understanding of later ages and religion Covers artistic and literary genres, various social environments of sexual conduct, and the technical disciplines of medicine, magic, physiognomy, and dream interpretation Features contributions from more than 40 top international scholars

Feminist Biblical Studies in the Twentieth Century

Author : Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589839218
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Biblical Studies in the Twentieth Century written by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chart the development of feminist approaches and theories of interpretation during the period when women first joined the ranks of biblical scholars This collection of essays on feminist biblical studies in the twentieth century seeks to explore four areas of inquiry demanding further investigation. In the first section, articles chart the beginnings and developments of feminist biblical studies as a conversation among feminists around the world. The second section introduces, reviews, and discusses the hermeneutic religious spaces created by feminist biblical studies. The third segment discusses academic methods of reading and interpretation that dismantle androcentric language and kyriarchal authority. The fourth section returns to the first with work that transgresses academic boundaries in order to exemplify the transforming, inspiring, and institutionalizing feminist work that has been and is being done to change religious mindsets of domination and to enable wo/men to engage in critical readings of the Bible. Features: Essays examine the rupture or break in the malestream reception history of the Bible Exploration of the term feminism in different social-cultural and theoretical-religious locations Authors from around the world present research and future directions for research challenging the next generation of feminist interpreters

Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity

Author : Nathan D. Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009093142
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity written by Nathan D. Howard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Nathan Howard explores gender and identity formation in fourth-century Cappadocia, where pro-Nicene bishops used a rhetoric of contest that aligned with conventions of classical Greek masculinity. Howard demonstrates that epistolary exhibitions served as 'a locus for' asserting manhood in the fourth century. These performances illustrate how a culture of orality that had defined manhood among civic elites was reframed as a contest whereby one accrued status through merits of composition. Howard shows how the Cappadocians' rhetoric also reordered the body and materiality as components of a maleness over which they moderated. He interrogates fourth-century theological conflict as part of a rhetorical battle over claims to manhood that supported the Cappadocians' theology and cast doubt on non-Trinitarian rivals, whom they cast as effeminate and disingenuous. Investigating accounts of pro-Nicene protagonists overcoming struggles, Howard establishes that tropes based on classical standards of gender contributed to the formation of Trinitarian orthodoxy.