Cultures of Intoxication
Cultures of Intoxication

Author: Fiona Hutton

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-25

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 3030352846

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This book considers the global discourses and debates about ‘intoxication’, engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected how particular groups are perceived and responded to, resulting in punitive responses such as drug prohibition, alongside harsh treatment of those who are seen to transgress societal norms and values. Therefore, this collection seeks to unsettle dominant discourses about intoxication and to consider this concept in new, critical ways. Ways of being intoxicated are also defined in this book in their broadest sense; from ‘energy drinks’ and other legal drugs, to recreational use of illicit drugs such as ecstasy, to ‘problematic’ drug use.

A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography
A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography

Author: Julie Peters

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1351212338

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Gender as a social class along with its concomitant heteronormative gender coercion seem to be intransigent across time and cultures. But across these cultures we also see a degree of nonconforming behaviour which very often carries significant multi-dimensions of stigma and risk; because the exception proves the rule, an understanding of gender nonconformity sheds light on the normative operation of gender in society. A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography attempts to demythologise trans and gender diversity by conducting an in-depth critical analysis of the life choices of the autoethnographic subject (the author), who was so uncomfortable with their culturally allocated masculinity that they chose to live an apparently normal female life. The research is post-transsexual in that the subject forgoes passing in their affirmed gender to ensure the integrity of the data. A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography may primarily appeal to students and researchers interested in the Sociology of Gender and Sociology of Trans and Gender Diversity, as well as the broader areas of embodiment and power differentials based on gender, class, nationality, location, temporality, sexuality and gender (non)conformity. This insightful volume may also be of interest to those within the fields Health Promotion and Education, Human Rights, Social Justice and Equity or the Social and Cultural Anthropology of Gender.

Worldwide Perspectives on Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals
Worldwide Perspectives on Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals

Author: Paula Gerber Ph.D.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 827

ISBN-13:

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This three-volume set is a rich resource for readers in any discipline interested in understanding the global, regional, and domestic experiences of LGB people. This interdisciplinary set makes a vital contribution to understanding how LGB rights are progressing—and in some cases, regressing—around the globe. The three volumes look at the lived experiences of LGB people from varied perspectives and provide comprehensive coverage on a wide variety of topics ranging from LGB youth and LGB aging to the approaches to LGB people of different religions, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Chapters focus on topics including the ongoing criminalization of same-sex sexual conduct and how international human rights law can be used to improve the lives of LGB people. Particular attention is paid to the rights of bisexuals, a group often ignored in works focusing on sexual orientation. Volume 1 focuses on history, politics, and culture relating to LGB people; Volume 2 focuses on the laws—domestic and international—governing LGB people; and Volume 3 provides snapshots of the current state of LGB experience in countries worldwide, presented by geographical region: Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region.

Private Life under Socialism
Private Life under Socialism

Author: Yunxiang Yan

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2003-03-12

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0804764115

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For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.

Take a Closer Look
Take a Closer Look

Author: Daniel Arasse

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2013-09-08

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0691151547

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What paintings can teach us—if we can really learn to see them What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about? What do we imagine? How can we explain, even to ourselves, what we see or think we see? And how can art historians interpret with any seriousness what they observe? In six engaging, short narrative "fictions," each richly illustrated in color, Daniel Arasse, one of the most brilliant art historians of our time, cleverly and gracefully guides readers through a variety of adventures in seeing, from Velázquez to Titian, Bruegel to Tintoretto. By demonstrating that we don't really see what these paintings are trying to show us, Arasse makes it clear that we need to take a closer look. In chapters that each have a different form, including a letter, an interview, and an animated conversation with a colleague, the book explores how these pictures teach us about ways of seeing across the centuries. In the process, Arasse freshly lays bare the dazzling power of painting. Fast-paced and full of humor as well as insight, this is a book for anyone who cares about really looking at, seeing, and understanding paintings.

Mental Health 3ed
Mental Health 3ed

Author: Nicholas Procter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1108984622

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Mental Health equips students with the tools to provide person-focused care when supporting improved mental health of diverse communities.

Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities

Author: King, Andrew

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1447333020

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With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. This edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing. It draws on theory and empirical data to provide both conceptual knowledge and clear ‘real-world’ illustrations. The book includes section introductions to guide the reader through the debates and ideas and a glossary offering clear definitions of key terms and concepts.

Social Psychology Australian & New Zealand Edition
Social Psychology Australian & New Zealand Edition

Author: Saul Kassin

Publisher: Cengage AU

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 0170420566

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Using a balanced approach, Social Psychology, 2e connects social psychology theories, research methods, and basic findings to real-world applications with a current-events emphasis. Coverage of culture and diversity is integrated into every chapter in addition to strong representation throughout of regionally relevant topics such as: Indigenous perspectives; environmental psychology and conservation; community psychology; gender identity; and attraction and close relationships (including same-sex marriage in different cultures, gendered behaviours when dating, and updated data on online dating), making this visually engaging textbook useful for all social psychology students.

The Wings of Love Volume 2
The Wings of Love Volume 2

Author: Kwabena Osei

Publisher: K. Osei Doctrines and Publications

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9082394146

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The world will be safer and a paradise, if mankind learns to live with its innocence. Unconditional love is the cover cloth of the innocence. Instead of mankind to swim in the romantic lake of unconditional love for the discovery of the hidden paradise bewitching marriage and relationships; lack of awareness, mankind is swimming in the dirty gutters of false love, creating its own worst nightmares. Engaging in marriages, love and sex relationships with the ego’s mindless love tantamount to creating a timing bomb for your destruction. False love nourishes us with the bread of sorrows. Prior to selfishness, mankind has embraced the ego’s mindless love as the simple way of life. Individual’s nuts have transformed love and sex meant to be a divine gift into a merchandise commodity. Since love and sex became a merchandise commodity to be purchased and being manipulated by wealth, unconditional love has been buried under the great oceans surrounding the mother earth. False love is the major contributor to the atrocities caused in the name of love. This lovely book; ‘The Wings of Love Vol.2’ is of much significant to the human races. It highlights and guides mankind for the acknowledgement of the Supreme power of Love, the origin of Life Force. Alike, to enables mankind to distinguish between false love and natural love to avoid deceptions and atrocities caused in the name of love consistently. ‘Prevention is better than cure.’ Natural Love creates no misery. The living hell in which mankind is condemned by the mercy of false love can be transformed into the living heaven through the power of unconditional love. Love unconditionally, and you will always find pleasure in love. The power of Love conquers all.

Mental Health
Mental Health

Author: Nicholas Procter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1108988466

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Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach equips students with the tools they need to provide exceptional person-focused care when supporting improved mental health of diverse communities.The third edition has been updated and restructured to provide a more logical and comprehensive guide to mental health practice. It includes new chapters on trauma-informed care, different mental health conditions and diagnoses, suicide and self-harm and the mental health of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Significant updates have been made to the chapters on the social and emotional well-being of First Nations Australians and mental health assessment. Taking a narrative approach, the text interweaves personal stories from consumers, carers and workers with lived experience. Each chapter contains 'Translation to Practice' and 'Interprofessional Perspective' boxes, reflection questions and end-of-chapter questions and activities to test students' understanding of key theories. Written by experts in the field, Mental Health remains an essential, person-centred resource for mental health students.