From The Womb To The Body Politic

Author : Anna Kuxhausen
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780299289935

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From the Womb to the Body Politic by Anna Kuxhausen Pdf

In Russia during the second half of the eighteenth century, a public conversation emerged that altered perceptions of pregnancy, birth, and early childhood. Children began to be viewed as a national resource, and childbirth heralded new members of the body politic. The exclusively female world of mothers, midwives, and nannies came under the scrutiny of male physicians, state institutions, a host of zealous reformers, and even Empress Catherine the Great. Making innovative use of obstetrical manuals, belles lettres, children’s primers, and other primary documents from the era, Anna Kuxhausen draws together many discourses—medical, pedagogical, and political—to show the scope and audacity of new notions about childrearing. Reformers aimed to teach women to care for the bodies of pregnant mothers, infants, and children according to medical standards of the Enlightenment. Kuxhausen reveals both their optimism and their sometimes fatal blind spots in matters of implementation. In examining the implication of women in public, even political, roles as agents of state-building and the civilizing process, From the Womb to the Body Politic offers a nuanced, expanded view of the Enlightenment in Russia and the ways in which Russians imagined their nation while constructing notions of childhood.

Author : Wendy Harcourt
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136182

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Body Politics in Development by Wendy Harcourt Pdf

Body Politics in Development sets out to define body politics as a key political and mobilizing force for human rights in the last two decades. This passionate and engaging book reveals how once-tabooed issues, such as rape, gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive rights, have emerged into the public arena as critical grounds of contention and struggle. Engaging in the latest feminist thinking and action, the book describes the struggles around body politics for people living in economic and socially vulnerable communities and covers a broad range of gender and development issues, including fundamentalism, sexualities and new technologies, from diverse viewpoints. The book's originality comes through the author's rich experience and engagement in feminist activism and global body politics and was winner of the 2010 FWSA Book Prize.

Author : Lynn Thomas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520936645

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Politics of the Womb by Lynn Thomas Pdf

In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance—and complex ramifications—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to influence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Author : Julie Kipp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139436175

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Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic by Julie Kipp Pdf

In Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic, Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance. The privately shared space signified by the womb or the maternal breast were made public by the widespread interest in the workings of the maternal body. These private spaces evidenced for writers of the period the radical exposure of mother and child to one another - for good or ill. Kipp's primary concern is to underline the ways that writers used representations of mother-child bonds as ways of naturalizing, endorsing and critiquing Enlightenment constructions of interpersonal and intercultural relations. This fascinating literary and cultural study will appeal to all scholars of Romanticism.

Author : Michele Goodwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781107030176

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Policing the Womb by Michele Goodwin Pdf

In Policing the Womb, Michele Goodwin explores how states abuse laws and infringe on rights to police women and their pregnancies. This book looks at the impact of these often arbitrary laws which can result in the punishment, incarceration, and humiliation of women, particularly poor women and women of color. Frequently based on unscientific claims of endangering a fetus, these laws allow extraordinary powers to state authorities over reproductive freedom and pregnancies. In this book, Michele Goodwin discusses real examples of women whose pregnancies have been controlled by the law and what has led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world for a woman to be pregnant.

Author : Siobhán Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317173502

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Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne's Metempsychosis by Siobhán Collins Pdf

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, critics have predominantly offered a negative estimate of John Donne’s Metempsychosis. In contrast, this study of Metempsychosis re-evaluates the poem as one of the most vital and energetic of Donne’s canon. Siobhán Collins appraises Metempsychosis for its extraordinary openness to and its inventive portrayal of conflict within identity. She situates this ludic verse as a text alert to and imbued with the Elizabethan fascination with the processes and properties of metamorphosis. Contesting the pervasive view that the poem is incomplete, this study illustrates how Metempsychosis is thematically linked with Donne’s other writings through its concern with the relationship between body and soul, and with temporality and transformation. Collins uses this genre-defying verse as a springboard to contribute significantly to our understanding of early modern concerns over the nature and borders of human identity, and the notion of selfhood as mutable and in process. Drawing on and contributing to recent scholarly work on the history of the body and on sexuality in the early modern period, Collins argues that Metempsychosis reveals the oft-violent processes of change involved in the author’s personal life and in the intellectual, religious and political environment of his time. She places the poem’s somatic representations of plants, beasts and humans within the context of early modern discourses: natural philosophy, medical, political and religious. Collins offers a far-reaching exploration of how Metempsychosis articulates philosophical inquiries that are central to early modern notions of self-identity and moral accountability, such as: the human capacity for autonomy; the place of the human in the ’great chain of being’; the relationship between cognition and embodiment, memory and selfhood; and the concept of wonder as a distinctly human phenomenon.

Author : Stacey A. Langwick
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780253222459

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Bodies, Politics, and African Healing by Stacey A. Langwick Pdf

This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology.

Author : Felipe Smith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820319333

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American Body Politics by Felipe Smith Pdf

Felipe Smith tracks the emergence of particular gender images--such as white witch, black madonna, mammy, and white lady--and their impact on early African American literature. Smith gives us a remarkable synthesis of historical readings combined with a highly original contribution to the comprehension of racial thought and literary writing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Birth control
ISBN : OCLC:949448292

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The Body Politic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julia Metzger-Traber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783658223656

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If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee by Julia Metzger-Traber Pdf

This book posits that the ‘refugee crisis’ may actually be a crisis of identity in a rapidly changing world. It argues that Western conceptions of the individual ‘Self’ shape metaphors of political homes, and thus the geopolitics of belonging and exclusion. Metzger-Traber creatively re-conceives political belonging by perceiving the interconnection of each ‘Self’ through its most immediate home – the breathing body. On an experimental literary journey through her own past and that of Germany, she puts political philosophy in conversation with somatic and spiritual insight to expand notions of ‘Self’ and 'Home'. Then she asks: What ethical imperatives arise? What kinds of homes and homelands would we create if we no longer thought we ended at our skin?

Author : Andrea Powell Wolfe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793631305

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Black Mothers and the National Body Politic by Andrea Powell Wolfe Pdf

Black Mothers and the National Body Politic: The Narrative Positioning of the Black Maternal Body from the Civil War Period through the Present focuses on the struggles and triumphs of black motherhood in six works of narrative prose composed from the Civil War period through the present. Andrea Powell Wolfe examines the functioning of the black maternal body to both define and undermine ideal white womanhood; the physical scarring of the black mother and the reclamation of the black maternal body as a site of subversion and nurturance as well as erotic empowerment; and the construction of oppressive discourses surrounding black female bodies and reproduction and the development of resistance to these types of discourses. These tensions undergird a multifaceted discussion of the narrative positioning of the black maternal body within and in relationship to the national body politic, an inherently exclusionary and restrictive metaphorical entity constructed and socially contracted over time by an already politically empowered citizenry. Ultimately, close analysis of the texts under study suggests that the United States—as a figurative body complete with imagined “parts” that perform separate functions, from intelligence to labor, ingestion to expulsion—has simultaneously used and cast off the black maternal body over the course of centuries.

Author : Mary Jacobus,Evelyn Fox Keller,Sally Shuttleworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134976089

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Body/Politics by Mary Jacobus,Evelyn Fox Keller,Sally Shuttleworth Pdf

Body/Politics demonstrates how many of the controversies in modern science involve or invoke the feminine body as their battleground. This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific issues as artificial fertilization, the "crisis" in childbirth management,and the medical invention of "female" maladies and the debates surrounding them. In the process it makes an important attempt to remedy the traditional division between science and non-science by focusing on the interconnection of literary, social, and scientific discourses concerning the female body. The editors have brought together noted feminist scholars and critics from various fields. Contributers include Susan Bordo, Mary Ann Doane, Donna Haraway, Emily Martin, Mary Poovey and Paula A. Treichler.

Author : Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781584659426

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An American Body - Politic by Bernd Herzogenrath Pdf

A reflection on the metaphor of the body politic throughout American history

Author : Catherine A. Holland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136697050

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The Body Politic by Catherine A. Holland Pdf

This work advances an original thesis that challenges the dominant schools of thought concerning the liberal tradition in the US.

Author : Roman Silvani
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643801050

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Political Bodies and the Body Politic in J.M. Coetzee's Novels by Roman Silvani Pdf

J.M. Coetzee's novels can be considered a continued enterprise in figuring and varying the otherness of the human body, which, first and foremost, it comes forward in its vulnerability and pain. Coetzee's fiction offers an understanding that the body is a site upon which politics are played out and made manifest. Political Bodies and the Body Politic in J.M. Coetzee's Novels examines the various manifestations - ugliness, mutilation, cancer, etc. - with regard to the South African body politic. (Series: Transcultural Anglophone Studies - Vol. 3)