Freeing The Female Body

Author : J. A. Mangan,Fan Hong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0714681296

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Freeing the Female Body by J. A. Mangan,Fan Hong Pdf

Stories of remarkable women who devoted their lives to the cause of women's physical liberation are told in this volume. They each shared the same ambition: to free women's bodies through sport. Scholars have studied the paradoxical importance of sport in both reinforcing the male-dominated status quo and emancipating women from traditional repression in both Western and Eastern worlds, but the role that individuals played in achieving the political and economic freedom of women through sport has been neglected. This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed.

Author : Fan Hong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136335044

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Freeing the Female Body by Fan Hong Pdf

This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed.

Author : Shirley Castelnuovo,Sharon Ruth Guthrie
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1555874398

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Feminism and the Female Body by Shirley Castelnuovo,Sharon Ruth Guthrie Pdf

The authors challenge the Cartesian emphasis on mind that characterizes much feminist theory, offering instead a perspective that conceives of mind and body as a unity. They examine the construction of terrorized female bodies, how this construction is affected by age, class, race, and sexual preference, and how women who resent the status quo are developing themselves physically. They conclude by proposing a politics of feminist embodiment in which women use collective "care-of-the-self" practices that empower both their bodies and their minds. Extensive interviews with women involved in bodybuilding, self-defense training, and similar activities provide the empirical context of this original theoretical analysis.

Author : Jess Connolly
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310352501

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Breaking Free from Body Shame by Jess Connolly Pdf

You were made for more than a love/hate relationship with your body. It's one thing to know in your head that you were created in the image of God. Yet it's quite another to experience this belief in your body, against the cultural ideals of a woman's worth. And between the two lies a world of frustration, disappointment, and the shame of somehow feeling both too much and never enough in your body. Jess Connolly is a bestselling author, sought-after speaker, and trusted Bible teacher who knows this inner conflict all too well, and this book details her journey--and yours--of setting out to discover how to break free from the broken beliefs we all hold about our bodies that hold us back from our fullest life. The truest thing about you is that you are made and loved by God. And the truest thing about Him is that He cannot make bad things. This book will help you believe it with your whole self, as Jess guides you through an eye-opening, empowering process of: Renaming what the world has labeled as less-than Resting in God's workmanship Experiencing restoration where there has been injury And becoming a change agent in partnering with God to bring revival to a generation of women Far from a superficial issue, self-image is a spiritual issue, because God has named your body good from the beginning. Whether your struggle is with eating and exercise habits, stress or trauma, infertility or injury, this book makes space for you to experience God meeting you in this tender place, and ring His freedom bell over your body in a whole new way.

Author : Shahrazad Ali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : African American men
ISBN : WISC:89055002430

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Are You Still a Slave? by Shahrazad Ali Pdf

Find out if you experience slavery flashbacks that influence your behavior and control your thinking and learn how to recover from the post traumatic stress of slavery.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Women
ISBN : 1840220252

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Woman's Body by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rebecca Scritchfield
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780761189756

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Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield Pdf

Imagine a graph with two lines. One indicates happiness, the other tracks how you feel about your body. If you’re like millions of people, the lines do not intersect. But what if they did? This practical, inspirational, and visually lively book shows you how to create a healthier and happier life by treating yourself with compassion rather than shame. It shows the way to a sense of well-being attained by understanding how to love, connect, and care for yourself—and that includes your mind as well as your body. Body Kindness is based on four principles. WHAT YOU DO: the choices you make about food, exercise, sleep, and more HOW YOU FEEL: befriending your emotions and standing up to the unhelpful voice in your head WHO YOU ARE: goal-setting based on your personal values WHERE YOU BELONG: body-loving support from people and communities that help you create a meaningful life With mind and body exercises to keep your energy spiraling up and prompts to help you identify what YOU really want and care about, Body Kindness helps you let go of things you can't control and embrace the things you can by finding the workable, daily steps that fit you best. Think of it as the anti-diet book that leads to a more joyful and meaningful life!

Author : Sherry Mckay,Patricia Vertinsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135758110

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Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium by Sherry Mckay,Patricia Vertinsky Pdf

Architecture and design have been used to exert control over bodies, across lines of class, gender and race. They regulate access to certain spaces and facilities, impose physical or psychological barriers, and make particular activities possible for specific groups. Built in 1951, the War Memorial Gymnasium at the University of British Columbia is a prize-winning example of modernist architecture. Although conceived to honour the dead of World War II, it was far from being a neutral memorial and gymnasium for everyday athletes. This collection shows what the design, construction and shifting functions and spatial configurations of the building reveal about the values and aspirations of the university in the post-war years. It shows how the building reflected the social and power relations among university administrators, architects and planners, faculty, staff and students, and demonstrates how the culture and structure of the gymnasium responded to changing attitudes to competition, discipline, profession, gender, race and health. As the editors explain, built form has politics, and culture - sporting culture - is just politics by another name.

Author : Hans Bonde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317966012

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The Politics of the Male Body in Global Sport by Hans Bonde Pdf

Danish sport has been associated with Europe and the World; not least through I.P. Muller and Niels Bukh and the Danish Gymnastics revolution with its emphasis on male aesthetics and hygiene in the first half of the twentieth century. At the same time, Denmark has stood apart from Europe in the early moments of its history of sport with the rural revolution of the farming communities as a statement of political independence and assertion. However, during the German occupation of Denmark, Danish sport was part of a European collaboration which characterized a number of the occupied countries not least in the Nordic area. After the Second World War, Denmark embraced international body cultures with other European nations in particular Eastern martial arts. Denmark too, as part of trends in the European region and the world, became caught up in sport as a powerful contemporary political statement. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Ann Saffi Biasetti
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780834841468

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Befriending Your Body by Ann Saffi Biasetti Pdf

A step-by-step holistic approach to eating disorder recovery, using self-compassion and embodiment practices to reduce symptoms, increase body awareness and acceptance, reconnect to others, and step back into an integrated life. Those who struggle with disordered eating often find themselves in an unrelenting cycle of harsh self-judgment, painful emotions, and harmful behaviors. Seeing the body as an adversary, these patterns can lead many people to become withdrawn or isolated. Ann Saffi Biasetti’s powerful holistic approach to liberating people from disordered eating focuses on growing self-compassion and embodiment. This insight, informed by yoga and mindfulness meditation, views the body not just as something to be healed or restored but as a source of great wisdom and knowledge. Dr. Biasetti offers yoga-based movement, body-awareness practices, meditations, and journaling exercises to help release long-held habits of self-criticism and perfectionism. Her step-by-step program will rebuild self-compassion, self-care, body awareness, acceptance, and connection to the self and to others.

Author : Rosemary M Balsam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135137014

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Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis by Rosemary M Balsam Pdf

Why has the female body been marginalised in psychoanalysis, with a focus on female problems and pains only? How can we begin to think about body pleasure, power, competition and aggression as normal in females? In Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis, Rosemary Balsam argues that re-tracing theoretical steps back to the biological body's attributes is fruitful in searching for the clues of our mental development. She shows that the female biological body, across female gender variants and sexual preferences, including the 'vanished pregnant body', has been largely overlooked in previous studies. It is how we weave these images of the body into our everyday lives that informs our gendered patterning. These details about being female free up gender studies in the postmodern era to think about the body's contribution to gender – rather than continuing the familiar postmodern trend to repudiate biology and perpetuate the divide between the physical and the mental. There are four main areas explored: • clinical contributions on female development • assessments of past and present psychoanalytic theories in relation to the body • inner portraits of gender building blocks • a conscious and unconscious focus on the potentially procreative female body. Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis will be of particular interest to psychodynamic, psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic practitioners, teachers, students, feminist academicians, college undergraduates, graduates and faculty in women's studies and gender studies. Rosemary Balsam is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Staff Psychiatrist, Yale University Student Mental Health and Counselling Services; Training and Supervising Analyst, Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Author : Dr K Chaudhry
Publisher : Global Book Shop
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Make your Body Immune to Disease FREE by Dr K Chaudhry Pdf

TESTED REMEDIES 1. EVERY ADULT should take this prescription twice a year :- Enteroquinol tablets 1 tablet thrice a day for 7 days - [FIRST CHOICE MEDICINE IN DIARRHOEA] Decaris Adult one tablet to be repeated after a week - TOTAL TWO TABLETS. 2. For any Urine symptoms, take CHANDRAPRABHA VATI 1 tablet thrice a day for 10-30 days. 3. For Leucorrhoea and uterus issues SUPARI PAK 2 teaspoonfuls in a glass of milk twice a day. 4. For painful menstruation PILL ALOES ET MYRRH one tablet thrice a day for 2 days. 5. Diarrhoa in kids responds to homoeopathic medicine PODOPHYLLUM-30 5-10 drops in water. After 24 hours try CHAMOMILA same way. If diarrhoea persists, give a dose of KARPOOR AASAV. 6. Viral fever, Dengue fever - all such political entities, may be variant of malaria. Most fevers respond to SINGLE DOSE of Chloroquin - Double strength 2 tablets, in 36 hours 7. For prevention and support therapy of Cancer, Rheumatoid and other intricate diseases, GUDUCHI 1 tablet twice a day for one month. 8. Pneumonia patients respond miraculously to Crystalline Penicillin - costing RUPEE ONE - in intravenous infusion. Crystalline penicillin (Penicillin G sodium or Benzyl penicillin) has no anaphylactic reactions. 9. Convalescent patients recovering from any illness respond instantly to Haemaccel infusion. 10. For low Platelet count in Dengue and Cancer chemotherapy : CARIPRILL TABLETS - one tablet thrice a day for 5 days.

Author : Elizabeth McPherson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000685329

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Milestones in Dance in the USA by Elizabeth McPherson Pdf

Embracing dramatic similarities, glaring disjunctions, and striking innovations, this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America. Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, it traces dance in the USA as it broke traditional forms, crossed genres, provoked social and political change, and drove cultural exchange and collision. The authors put a particular focus on those whose voices have been silenced, unacknowledged, and/or uncredited – exploring racial prejudice and injustice, intersectional feminism, protest movements, and economic conditions, as well as demonstrating how socio-political issues and movements affect and are affected by dance. In looking at concert dance, vernacular dance, ritual dance, and the convergence of these forms, the chapters acknowledge the richness of dance in today’s USA and the strong foundations on which it stands. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses that embrace culturally responsive pedagogy and seek to shift the direction of the lens from western theatrical dance towards the wealth of dance forms in the United States.

Author : Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D.
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307571632

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The Woman in the Shaman's Body by Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D. Pdf

A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today. Shamanism was not only humankind’s first spiritual and healing practice, it was originally the domain of women. This is the claim of Barbara Tedlock’s provocative and myth-shattering book. Reinterpreting generations of scholarship, Tedlock–herself an expert in dreamwork, divination, and healing–explains how and why the role of women in shamanism was misinterpreted and suppressed, and offers a dazzling array of evidence, from prehistoric African rock art to modern Mongolian ceremonies, for women’s shamanic powers. Tedlock combines firsthand accounts of her own training among the Maya of Guatemala with the rich record of women warriors and hunters, spiritual guides, and prophets from many cultures and times. Probing the practices that distinguish female shamanism from the much better known male traditions, she reveals: • The key role of body wisdom and women’s eroticism in shamanic trance and ecstasy • The female forms of dream witnessing, vision questing, and use of hallucinogenic drugs • Shamanic midwifery and the spiritual powers released in childbirth and monthly female cycles • Shamanic symbolism in weaving and other feminine arts • Gender shifting and male-female partnership in shamanic practice Filled with illuminating stories and illustrations, The Woman in the Shaman’s Body restores women to their essential place in the history of spirituality and celebrates their continuing role in the worldwide resurgence of shamanism today.

Author : Frederick R. Schram,J. C. von Vaupel Klein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004630543

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Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis by Frederick R. Schram,J. C. von Vaupel Klein Pdf

This important and extensive volume presents part of the Proceedings of the Fourth International Crustacean Congress held in Amsterdam in 1998. As the title implies, 'Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis' was the general, underlying theme of all contributions at the congress. With the turn of the century, someone ought to 'assess the balance' of our natural environment and of the various branches of biology that study its rapidly declining diversity. From the five subthemes covered at the conference, those of (1) Diversity in Time and Space (including Systematics, Phylogeny, and Palaeontology), (2b) Biogeography, (3c) Larvae, and (4) Physiology and Biochemistry (including Molecular Biology and Genetics) are represented in this volume, along with a few contributions from other subthemes (e.g. (2a) Invasive Crustacea, (3a) Ecology, (3b) Behaviour, and (5) Fisheries and Aquaculture). The book is primarily meant for scientists working at institutes involved in research on the group (Crustacea: marine, freshwater, or terrestrial) and/or the disciplines covered. Individual carcinologists working on one of the themes discussed in this volume, will find a wealth of interesting and timely contributions, as will other scientists working in marine or freshwater biology or in soil ecology.