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Author: Joan C. Chrisler
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781433827419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing various psychological theories, this book examines women's complex relations with their bodies and how attitudes toward the body affect women's sense of self. It also suggests ways to achieve a positive embodied self
Author: Carla Rice
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2014-02-24
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1442668261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a culture where beauty is currency, women’s bodies are often perceived as measures of value and worth. The search for visibility and self-acceptance can be daunting, especially for those on the cultural margins of “beauty.” Becoming Women offers a thoughtful examination of the search for identity in an image-oriented world. That search is told through the experiences of a group of women who came of age in the wake of second and third wave feminism, featuring voices from marginalized and misrepresented groups. Carla Rice pairs popular imagery with personal narratives to expose the “culture of contradiction” where increases in individual body acceptance have been matched by even more restrictive feminine image ideals and norms. With insider insights from the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, Rice exposes the beauty industry’s colonization of women’s bodies, and examines why “the beauty myth” has yet to be resolved.
Author: Leela Francis
Publisher: BalboaPress
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1452574057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCome Home ~ Body, Self and Soul In this engaging, empowering and honest book, inspirational speaker and facilitator of womens spiritual awakening Leela Francis shares the forests, peaks, and valleys of her wild and wonderful way home. Youll also be moved by the wisdom and stories of her clients who dared to touch deeply into their own rich life tapestries to emerge stronger, more vibrant, and more vividly their true selves. If youre ready to midwife your own rebirth, release the chains of self-judgment, be in authentic dialogue with your body, and find delight in who you are, the Vividly Woman Embodiment System will map out a clear and traceable odyssey for your personal expansion. You will learn how to access your embodied wisdom as you claim your Sensual, Emotional, and Intuitive power; ignite and sustain energy radiance through the five Vividly Woman textures; and discover the gift of the three Vividly Woman lenses as tools of personal inquiry to weave your glorious way back home. Welcome Home! Leela Francis and her story are the fuel that will launch a thousand stories. Women are hungry, longing, for authenticity. Leela provides this rare commodity in a world lacking feminine power. She will lead you home. Caroline Muir, founder of the Divine Feminine Institute for Men and Women and coauthor of the best-selling Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving
Author: Alan Fogel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-04-29
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0393708772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe science and practice of feeling our movements, sensations, and emotions. When we are first born, before we can speak or use language to express ourselves, we use our physical sensations, our “body sense,” to guide us toward what makes us feel safe and fulfilled and away from what makes us feel bad. As we develop into adults, it becomes easy to lose touch with these crucial mind-body communication channels, but they are essential to our ability to navigate social interactions and deal with psychological stress, physical injury, and trauma. Combining a ground-up explanation of the anatomical and neurological sources of embodied self-awareness with practical exercises in touch and movement, Body Sense provides therapists and their clients with the tools to attain mind-body equilibrium and cultivate healthy body sense throughout their lives.
Author: Leslie C. Dunn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780521585835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a material link between body and culture, self and other, the voice has been endlessly fascinating to artists and critics. Yet it is the voices of women that have inspired the greatest fascination, as well as the deepest ambivalence, because the female voice signifies sexual otherness as well as sexual and cultural power. Embodied Voices explores cultural manifestations of female vocality in the light of current theories of subjectivity, the body and sexual difference. The fourteen essays collected here examine a wide spectrum of discourses, including myth, literature, music, film, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Though diverse in their critical approaches, the essays are united in their attempt to articulate the compelling yet problematic intersections of gender, voice, and embodiment as they have shaped the textual representation of women and women's self-expression in performance.
Author: Uri McMillan
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2015-11-04
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1479852473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, McMillian contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised new ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment."--Back cover.
Author: Preston M. Sprinkle
Publisher: David C Cook
Published: 2021-02-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0830781234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompassionate, biblical, and thought-provoking, Embodied is an accessible guide for Christians who want help navigating issues related to the transgender conversation. Preston Sprinkle draws on Scripture, as well as real-life stories of individuals struggling with gender dysphoria, to help you understand the complexities and emotions of this highly relevant topic. This book fills the great need for Christians to speak into the confusing and emotionally charged questions surrounding the transgender conversation. With careful research and an engaging style, Embodied explores: What it means to be transgender, nonbinary, and gender-queer, and how these identities relate to being male or female Why most stereotypes about what it means to be a man and woman come from the culture and not the Bible What the Bible says about humans created in God’s image as male and female, and how this relates to transgender experiences Moral questions surrounding medical interventions such as sex reassignment surgery Which pronouns to use and how to navigate the bathroom debate Why more and more teens are questioning their gender
Author: Chris Bobel
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0826517889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthnographies about transgressing social expectations of the body
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 791
ISBN-13: 0679724516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.
Author: Gina Neff
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2016-06-24
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0262529122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking. People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, looking at the tools they use and the communities they become part of. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what happens when people turn their everyday experience—in particular, health and wellness-related experience—into data, and offer an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of using these technologies. They consider self-tracking as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind of mirror of the self but also how this enables people to connect to, and learn from, others. Neff and Nafus consider what's at stake: who wants our data and why; the practices of serious self-tracking enthusiasts; the design of commercial self-tracking technology; and how self-tracking can fill gaps in the healthcare system. Today, no one can lead an entirely untracked life. Neff and Nafus show us how to use data in a way that empowers and educates.
