Visceral Bodies
Author | : Daina Augaitis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2010 |
ISBN-10 | : 1895442826 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781895442823 |
Rating | : 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
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Author | : Daina Augaitis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2010 |
ISBN-10 | : 1895442826 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781895442823 |
Rating | : 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Author | : Linda Nochlin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2006-05-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 0674021169 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674021167 |
Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
"What meets the eye in Renoir's paintings of nude bathers? To some viewers, they are the very picture of female sensuality and beauty. To others, they embody a whole tradition of masculine mastery and feminine display. Yet others find in these naked women a fantasy of bodily liberation. The points of view are many, various, and occasionally startling. Linda Nochlin's aim in looking at works of art is not to construct a unitary response but to pull things apart, to leave the reader unsettled, confronting the contradictions - about the body, beauty, and ways of viewing - in the work of impressionists, modern masters, contemporary realists, and postmodernists."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Maia Dolphin-Krute |
Publisher | : punctum books |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2017 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781947447264 |
ISBN-13 | : 1947447262 |
Rating | : 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Memoirs about being sick are popular and everywhere and only ever contribute to pop narratives of illness as a single event or heroic struggle or journey. Visceral: Essays on Illness as Metaphor is not that. Visceral, to the extent that it is a memoir, is a record not of illness but of the research project being sick became. While rooted firmly in critical disability and queer practices, the use of personal narratives opens these approaches up to new ways of writing the body-ultimately a body that is at once theoretical and unavoidably physical. A body where everything is visceral, so theory must be too. From the gothic networks of healthcare bureaucracy and hospital philanthropy to the proliferation of wellness media, off-label usage of drugs, and running off to live a life with, these essays move fluidly through theoretical and physical anger, curiosity and surprise. Arguing for disability rights that attend to the theoretical as much as the physical, this is Illness Not As Metaphor, Being Sick and Time, and The Body in Actual Pain as one. A sick body of text that is-and is not-in direct correspondence to an actual sick body, Visceral is an unrelenting examination of chronic illness that turns towards the theoretical only to find itself in the realms of the biological and autobiographical: because how much theory can a body take?
Author | : Adrian Thatcher |
Publisher | : SCM Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780334063605 |
ISBN-13 | : 0334063604 |
Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper – unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist. Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.
Author | : Clara Mucci |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780393712674 |
ISBN-13 | : 0393712672 |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
A bold look at the body as a source of contention for those who suffer from personality disorders. This work connects interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, and psychoanalytic theory with cognitive and neuroscientific work on implicit memory, trauma theory, and dissociation to propose an integrated method for treating severe borderline and narcissistic disorders, with the prime aim of resolving the affect dysregulation that affects the various realms of bodily discomfort and existential pain. Each chapter presents a particular case and illustrates the methods for working with the specific problems that arise: from bulimia to self-cutting to sexual identity diffusion to suicidality. Treatment is illustrated from the initial level of careful diagnosis to the first stages of the interaction to the further steps and development of the interpersonal work of the dyad patient-therapist, including powerful enactments. In accessible language that references psychodynamic and relational psychoanalytic theory, the book proposes a revision of the etiopathogenesis of personality disorders, starting from the traumatic interpersonal exchanges (early relational trauma, maltreatment, deprivation, and abuse). The book breaks new ground on several levels. For the first time the body is accorded full attention in the treatment: developmentally and epigenetically situation as it is "in-between" the self and the other (at first, the caregiver, then in other circumstances of upbringing and traumatic personal relationships). The body is viewed as the main vehicle of this dysfunctional development, so that both the body and the subject are at once the "victim"—the recipient of the dysregulation resulting in impulsivity, destructiveness, self-harm, or eating disorders—and the internalized persecutor, i.e. the abuser of one's own body that sometimes also becomes the aggressor of others. Profoundly humane and scientifically sound, this book is a must-read for professionals, clients, and families involved in the difficult task of relieving the symptoms and reorganizing the personalities of subjects living in "borderline bodies."
Author | : Drew Leder |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1990-06-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780226470009 |
ISBN-13 | : 0226470008 |
Rating | : 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
The body plays a central role in shaping our experience of the world. Why, then, are we so frequently oblivious to our own bodies? We gaze at the world, but rarely see our own eyes. We may be unable to explain how we perform the simplest of acts. We are even less aware of our internal organs and the physiological processes that keep us alive. In this fascinating work, Drew Leder examines all the ways in which the body is absent—forgotten, alien, uncontrollable, obscured. In part 1, Leder explores a wide range of bodily functions with an eye to structures of concealment and alienation. He discusses not only perception and movement, skills and tools, but a variety of "bodies" that philosophers tend to overlook: the inner body with its anonymous rhythms; the sleeping body into which we nightly lapse; the prenatal body from which we first came to be. Leder thereby seeks to challenge "primacy of perception." In part 2, Leder shows how this phenomenology allows us to rethink traditional concepts of mind and body. Leder argues that Cartesian dualism exhibits an abiding power because it draws upon life-world experiences. Descartes' corpus is filled with disruptive bodies which can only be subdued by exercising "disembodied" reason. Leder explores the origins of this notion of reason as disembodied, focusing upon the hidden corporeality of language and thought. In a final chapter, Leder then proposes a new ethic of embodiment to carry us beyond Cartesianism. This original, important, and accessible work uses examples from the author's medical training throughout. It will interest all those concerned with phenomenology, the philosophy of mind, or the Cartesian tradition; those working in the health care professions; and all those fascinated by the human body.
Author | : James B. Steeves |
Publisher | : Duquesne |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015061754654 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
"The book also amends traditional theories of imagination by suggesting a new approach to determining what it is and how it functions. The imagination is not only extended beyond the realm of fanciful thinking but is restored as being essentially spatial and embodied; there is a primacy of the imaginary within perceptual experience. Further, Steeves demonstrates a stronger connection between Merleau-Ponty's early works on the body and perception and his later works on aesthetic and social theory and on the ontology of the "flesh." Finally, Steeves answers to recent criticisms of Merleau-Ponty's work from postmodernism, deconstructionism and feminism, paving the way for a new understanding of perception and ontology."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Richard Drake |
Publisher | : Elsevier Health Sciences |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781455710782 |
ISBN-13 | : 1455710784 |
Rating | : 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Equiping you with all the essential anatomy information you need to know, this new medical textbook lets you study efficiently while being confident in your mastery of the most important anatomical concepts.
Author | : Glenn Gaesser |
Publisher | : Gurze Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2002-07-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780936077727 |
ISBN-13 | : 0936077727 |
Rating | : 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Do you believe that your weight should be within the range recommended by one of the various height-weight tables that are always appearing in books and magazines? That being overweight is unhealthy? That weight loss improves health? Have you ever been told by your doctor to lose weight? Are you currently dieting or contemplating going on a diet? Have diets failed you or made you feel like a failure? Do you feel people look down on you because of your weight? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” then this book is for you. Millions of Americans stigmatized as “too fat” need to be reassured that the roads to good health are wide enough for everyone. Here’s proof that people can be overweight and still be fit and healthy. Glenn Gaesser, an exercise physiologist, challenges the conventional wisdom that excess body fat poses a danger to health. This is an authoritative, clearly written book that is crucial reading for anyone who wants to take concrete steps towards improving their health – no matter what their size.
Author | : Jonathan Watson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis Group |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105025122107 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
How do men perceive their bodies? how can empirical study of the body inform our understanding of the social world of men? what are the implications of such understanding for public health?