Cannabis, Sacred and Profane
Cannabis, Sacred and Profane

Author: Christopher Partridge

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-08-22

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1350115916

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Focussing on the ways in which cannabis has been demonized, sacralized and normalized, Christopher Partridge analyses the complex and often difficult relationship Western societies have had with the plant since the nineteenth century. After an introduction to cannabis and its uses, the book discusses how and why it was constructed as a profane influence and a marker of deviance. It then examines the emergence of medicinal cannabis, showing how this has contributed to its normalization and even its sacralization. Finally, there is a discussion of sacred cannabis, which looks at its use within modern occultism, Rastafari and several cannabis churches. Overall, the book provides a cultural history of cannabis in the modern world, which exposes the underlying reasons for the various and changing attitudes to this popular psychoactive substance.

Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales
Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales

Author: Patricia Pulham

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780754650966

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Patricia Pulham combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism in her study of Vernon Lee's fantastic tales. Using D.W. Winnicott's 'transitional object' theory, Pulham argues that the past in Lee's tales signifies not only an historical but a psychic past. Thus the 'ghosts' that haunt Lee's supernatural fiction held complex meanings for her that were fundamental to her intellectual development and allowed her to explore alternative identities that permit the expression of transgressive sexualities.

The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas
The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas

Author: Helen Horowitz

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1999-04

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780252068119

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Best known as the second president and primary architect of Bryn Mawr College, M Carey Thomas was also a leader in the women's suffrage movement. This book captures the life and personality of this influential woman, and details her accomplishments as an educator and feminist and her relationships with women, her racism, and her anti-Semitism.

The Book of Prefaces
The Book of Prefaces

Author: Alasdair Gray

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780747559122

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'Grandly conceived, gorgeously realised, and sparklingly alert to the making not just of works of art, but of a language, this crammed compendium, so copiously yet lightly learned, so drolly self-reflexive, yet enticingly accessible, so exhilaratingly, quixotically magniloquent, is the last word in forewords.' Herald