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Free Download Robyn Longhurst, "Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries"
English | 2000 | pages: 177 | ISBN: 0415189667, 0415189675 | PDF | 4,3 mb
This is one of the first books to introduce students to the key concepts and debates surrounding the relationship between bodily boundaries, abject materiality and spaces. The text includes original interview and focus group data informed by feminist theory on the body and uses case studies to illustrate the social construction of bodies. It will critically engage students in topical questions around sexuality, cultural differences and women’s sub-ordination to men.

Free Download Sexy Bodies: Eine soziologische Reise durch den Geschlechtskörper By Paula-Irene Villa (auth.)
2000 | 275 Pages | ISBN: 3322951944 | PDF | 8 MB
InhaltIn diesem Einführungs- und Handbuch werden aktuellesoziologische (handlungstheoretische, phänomenologische unddiskurstheoretische) sowie feministische Perspektiven auf den Körperrekonstruiert. Bei der synthetischen Zusammenführung geht es vor allem umeine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Erträgen, Grenzen und Verkürzungen derjeweiligen Perspektiven, insbesondere um das gesellschaftstheoretischeDefizit gegenwärtiger (sozial-)konstruktivistischer Analysen. Mit Bourdieuund Kreckel werden Vergeschlechtlichungsprozesse, die den Körper formen unddas leibliche Erleben des Geschlechts beeinflussen, auch als durch diesoziale Ungleichverteilung gesellschaftlicher Ressourcen geprägte Prozessebegriffen. Ein abschließendes Kapitel zum Argentinischen Tango bringt die soziologischenAnalysen ¶zum Tanzen¶. Aus dem Inhalt: 1 Struktur-Subjekt-Handlung-Körper 1.1 Struktur I: Das Geschlechterverhältnis 1.2 Struktur II: Soziale Ungleichheit 1.3 Das Subjekt: Ein Ich, das nicht Eins ist 1.4 Der Körper als Scharnier von Struktur und Subjekt 2 Was tun wir, um das Geschlecht zu sein? Geschlechtskörper undHandeln 2.1 Konstruktivistische Mikrosoziologie der Geschlechter 2.2 ,Doing gender’ – Geschlecht als Prozeß 2.3 Der Körper als Ressource 2.4 Interaktionen und soziale Ordnung 2.5 ,Doing gender’ und ,Doing Inequality’ 2.6 Kritischer Fall 3 Was sagen wir, um das Geschlecht zu sein? Geschlechtskörperund Diskurs 3.1 Diskurstheorie – ,Sprache handelt’ 3.2 Die Macht des Wortes: Diskursive Performativität 3.3 Diskurs und Intelligibilität I: Foucaults Analyse modernerSexualität 3.4 Diskurs und Intelligibilität II: Butlers Genealogie derGeschlechterdifferenz 3.5 Diskurs und Körpermaterie 3.6 Das Recht auf das Wort: Sprache und soziale Macht 3.7 Sprache und Hexis – eine andere Form, Diskurs und Körper zuverknüpfen 3.8 Kritisches Fazit 4 Was spüren wir, um das Geschlecht zu sein? Geschlechtskörperund leibliches Empfinden 4.1 Leib-Phänomenologie im Kontext der Mikrosoziologie 4.2 Der phänomenologisc

Free Download Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti
English | October 1, 2024 | ISBN: 0593800230 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.3 MB
In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, "one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation" (Washington Post) takes on what’s become the country’s most resonant political issue.

Free Download Earthly Bodies: Embracing Animal Nature by Vanessa Chakour
English | September 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 0143137751 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 5.60 MB
Examining the cultural belief that our animal instincts are to be corrected or corralled, nature advocate and rewilding facilitator Vanessa Chakour explores our inner and outer landscapes through the lens of wild animals.

Free Download A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0262049023 | 357 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
In A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds, Francisco Aboitiz provides a brief history of life, the brain, and cognition, from the earliest living beings to our own species. The author proceeds from the basic premise that, since evolution by natural selection is the process underlying the origin of life and its evolution on earth, the brain-and thus our minds-must also be the result of biological evolution. The aim of this book is to narrate how animal bodies came to be built with their nervous systems and how our species evolved with culture, technology, language, and consciousness.

Free Download Jack Williams, "Rethinking Religious Conversion: Bodies, People and Processes "
English | ISBN: 135038321X | 2024 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Drawing on methods from religious studies, philosophy, and cognitive science, Jack Williams develops a unique and interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious conversion. This is the first major philosophical study of conversion to treat the phenomenon as a long-term process, shaped by the convert’s embodiment and immersion in a linguistic, social, and ritual community.

Free Download Christopher E. Mauriello, "Forced Confrontation: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II"
English | ISBN: 1498548059 | 2017 | 252 pages | PDF | 3 MB
During the final weeks of World War II, the American army discovered multiple atrocity sites and mass graves containing the dead bodies of Jews, slave laborers, POWs and other victims of Nazi genocide and mass murder. Instead of simply reburying these victims, American Military Government carried out a series of highly ritualized "forced confrontations" towards German civilians centered on the dead bodies themselves. The Americans forced nearby German townspeople to witness the atrocity site, disinter the bodies, place them in coffins, parade these bodies through the town and lay them to rest in town cemeteries. At the conclusion of the ceremony in the cemetery in the presence of dead bodies, the Americans accused the assembled German civilians and Germany as whole of collective guilt for the crimes of the Nazi regime.

Free Download Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature"
English | ISBN: 0226835006 | 2024 | 270 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds.

Free Download Posthuman Bodies By Judith Halberstam, Ira Livingston
1995 | 275 Pages | ISBN: 0253328942 | PDF | 8 MB
"Its sheer breadth of scope makes it unlike the usual – science, technology, and society – texts, and its rigorous insistence on the transformative and inventive potentials of these technologies distances it from the denunciatory, technophobic texts that litter academic bookshelves. Since both ‘the body’ and ‘technoscience’ are such potent sites of recent academic investigation, "Posthuman Bodies’ will no doubt draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of ‘literature and science’ researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox."- Richard Doyle. ""Posthuman Bodies" is a speculative, or a performative, collection…ts importance lies in its offering a singularly discriminating and singularly creative engagement with the imaginative project that Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and Haraway have been among the first to foster."- James Faubion. "Posthuman Bodies" engages in a vital interdisciplinary investigation of the emerging political technologies of the body in the wake of postmodernity-technologies apparent in fil, medicine, entertainment industries, politics, and the arts. This interdisciplinary collection reflects the growing concern with new interfaces between humans and computer and bio-medical technologies, providing a strong sense of the funamental changes underway that will radically alter the experience of our own and others’bodies. Automatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians and other queers, people with AIDS, people with multiple personality disorders, the Alien and the Terminator: they participate in the profound technological, representational, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated. The contributors are Kathy Acker, Alexandra Chasin, Camilla Griggers, Judith Halberstam, Kelly Hurley, Ira Livingston, Carol Mason, Paula Rabinowitz, Roddey Reid, Steven Shaviro, Susan Squier, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Jennifer Terry, and Eric White.

Free Download The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today by Rob Dunn, David Stifel, Tantor Audio
English | March 17, 2020 | ISBN: B085LVDR55 | 10 hours and 23 minutes | M4B | 566 Mb
Biologist Rob Dunn reveals the crucial influence that other species have upon our health, our well-being, and our world in The Wild Life of Our Bodies – a fascinating tour through the hidden truths of nature and codependence. Dunn illuminates the nuanced, often imperceptible relationships that exist between homo sapiens and other species, relationships that underpin humanity’s ability to thrive and prosper in every circumstance. Fans of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma will be enthralled by Dunn’s powerful, lucid exploration of the role that humankind plays within the greater web of life on Earth.