Modern Bodies
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Author |
: Julia L. Foulkes |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2003-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807862025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807862029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modern Bodies by : Julia L. Foulkes
In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning. Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers devised new ways of moving bodies in accordance with many modernist principles, their artistry was indelibly shaped by their place in society. Modern dance was distinct from other artistic genres in terms of the people it attracted: white women (many of whom were Jewish), gay men, and African American men and women. Women held leading roles in the development of modern dance on stage and off; gay men recast the effeminacy often associated with dance into a hardened, heroic, American athleticism; and African Americans contributed elements of social, African, and Caribbean dance, even as their undervalued role defined the limits of modern dancers' communal visions. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist. Modern Bodies exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous.
Author |
: Suren Lalvani |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791427188 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791427187 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Photography, Vision, and the Production of Modern Bodies by : Suren Lalvani
Lalvani argues that modernity represents the powerful privileging of vision and the introduction of a paradigm of seeing that is historically distinctive. Taking the introduction of photography in the nineteenth century as a crucial development in the expansion of modern vision, he draws on the writings of Alan Sekula, John Tagg, Jonathan Crary, Norman Bryson and Martin Jay to examine in a comprehensive manner how photography functioned to organize a set of relations between knowledge, power, and the body. However, in taking a broad cultural studies approach Lalvani situates the practices of photography within the larger visual order of the nineteenth century. He demonstrates how the new lines of visibility formed not only by photography but by new urban spaces and new modes of transportation resulted in a particular organizing of the social order, of subjectivity and social relations.
Author |
: Rachel Louise Moran |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2018-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812295061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812295064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Governing Bodies by : Rachel Louise Moran
Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government—especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, trans fat bans, and calorie counts on menus have all proven deeply controversial. Such interventions, Rachel Louise Moran argues, are merely the latest in a long, albeit often quiet, history of policy motivated by economic, military, and familial concerns. In Governing Bodies, Moran traces the tension between the intimate terrain of the individual citizen's body and the public ways in which the federal government has sought to shape the American physique over the course of the twentieth century. Distinguishing her subject from more explicit and aggressive government intrusion into the areas of sexuality and reproduction, Moran offers the concept of the "advisory state"—the use of government research, publicity, and advocacy aimed at achieving citizen support and voluntary participation to realize social goals. Instituted through outside agencies and glossy pamphlets as well as legislation, the advisory state is government out of sight yet intimately present in the lives of citizens. The activities of such groups as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Children's Bureau, the President's Council on Physical Fitness, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) implement federal body projects in subtle ways that serve to mask governmental interference in personal decisions about diet and exercise. From advice-giving to height-weight standards to mandatory nutrition education, these tactics not only empower and conceal the advisory state but also maintain the illusion of public and private boundaries, even as they become blurred in practice. Weaving together histories of the body, public policy, and social welfare, Moran analyzes a series of discrete episodes to chronicle the federal government's efforts to shape the physique of its citizenry. Governing Bodies sheds light on our present anxieties over the proper boundaries of state power.
Author |
: Wenda Trevathan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2010-05-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195388886 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195388887 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives by : Wenda Trevathan
In Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives, anthropologist Wenda Trevathan explores a range of women's health issues, with a specific focus on reproduction, that may be viewed through an evolutionary lens. Trevathan illustrates the power and potential of examining the human life cycle from an evolutionary perspective, and how such an approach could help improve both our understanding of women's health and our ability to respond to health challenges in creative and effective ways.
Author |
: Margo DeMello |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822324679 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822324676 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies of Inscription by : Margo DeMello
An ethnography of the tattoo community, tracing the practice's transformation from a mostly male, working-class phenomenon to one adapted and propagated by a more middle-class movement in the period from the 1970s to the present.
Author |
: Elisabeth Fischer |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2021-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000391367 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000391361 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent by : Elisabeth Fischer
In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to individual appropriation and to evasion of church and state control. Because bodily practices prompted much debate, they serve as a useful starting point for examining denominational divisions, allowing scholars to explore the actions of smaller and more radical divergent groups. The focus on bodies and conflicts over bodily practices are the starting point for the contributors to this volume who depart from established national and denominational historiographies to probe the often-ambiguous phenomena occurring at the interstices of confessional boundaries. In this way, the authors examine a variety of religious living conditions, socio-cultural groups, and spiritual networks of early modern Europe and the Americas. The cases gathered here skillfully demonstrate the diverse ways in which regional and local differences affected the interpretation of bodily signs. This book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern Europe and the Americas, as well as those interested in religious and gender history, and the history of dissent.
Author |
: Vivienne Lo |
Publisher |
: British Museum Research Public |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0861591887 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780861591886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Perfect Bodies by : Vivienne Lo
By presenting rigorous situated histories of changing training regimen in different cultures, this collection of papers collectively challenge orthodox notions of the perfect body and its pursuit. The introductory essay by the editor compares and contrasts the different methods and ideals. Ancient regimen and techniques may seem remote, yet many attempt to resolve issues that are common to us all. Some are directed at the immortality or longevity of the physical body, and include performance-enhancing nutrition and drug taking; others train the spirit and souls for the afterlife. Many emphasise the interconnectedness of the human body with its environment. The papers set their topic in its broad socio-political and cultural context, facilitating a dialogue with other contributors who considered many similar questions for the 20th and 21st centuries. Histories of sports, body cultivation and sports medicines in non-European cultures are only just now beginning to emerge. With the Olympics approaching in London, it is timely to explore the diverse traditions of perfecting body and soul, as a fascinating historical project in itself, but also to provide a rich context for envisioning a more widely beneficial approach to sports, medicine and immortality for all.
Author |
: Katarzyna Burzyńska |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2022-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000551914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000551911 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pregnant Bodies from Shakespeare to Ford by : Katarzyna Burzyńska
This book explores how the pregnant body is portrayed, perceived and enacted in Shakespeare’s and his contemporaries’ drama by means of a phenomenological analysis and a recourse to early modern popular medical discourse on reproduction. Phenomenology of pregnancy is a fairly new and radical body of philosophy that questions the post-Cartesian chasm of an almost autonomous reason and an enclosed and self-sufficient (male) body as foundations of identity. Early modern drama, as is argued, was written and staged at the backdrop of revolutionary changes in medicine and science where old and new theories on the embodied self-clashed. In this world where more and more men were expected to steadily grow isolated from their bodies, the pregnant body constituted an embattled contradiction. Indebted to the theories of embodiment this book offers a meticulous and detailed investigation of a plethora of pregnant characters and their “pregnant embodiment” in the pre-modern works by Shakespeare, Middleton, Webster and Ford. The analysis in each chapter argues for an indivisible link between an intensely embodied experience of pregnancy as enacted in space and identity-shaping processes resulting in a more acute sense of selfhood and agency. Despite seemingly disparate experiences of the selected heroines and the repeated attempts at containment of their “unruly” bodies, the ever transforming and “spatial” pregnant identities remain loci of embodied selfhood and agency. This book provocatively argues that fictional characters’ experience reflects tangible realities of early modern women, while often deflecting the scientific consensus on reproduction in the period.
Author |
: Ramsay Burt |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415145947 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415145945 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alien Bodies by : Ramsay Burt
Looks at dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and the 1930s, including ballet, modern dance and dance in the cinema and Revue. Artists examined include Josephine Baker, Jean Cocteau, Valeska Gert, and George Balanchine.
Author |
: Maurizio Calbi |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2006-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134282357 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134282354 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Approximate Bodies by : Maurizio Calbi
Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and gynaecological treatises.