Impossible Bodies

Author : Christine Holmlund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136284434

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Impossible Bodies by Christine Holmlund Pdf

Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood. Examining stars from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, to Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lopez, Holmlund focuses on actors whose physique or appearance marks them as unusual or exceptional, and yet who occupy key and revealing positions in today's mainstream cinema. Exploring a range of genres and considering both stars and their sidekicks, Holmlund examines ways in which Hollywood accommodates - or doesn't - a variety of 'impossible' bodies, from the 'outrageous' physiques of Dolph Lundgren and Dolly Parton, to the almost-invisible bodies of Asian-Americans, Latinas and older actors.

Author : Chris Mortensen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780253062352

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The Impossible Arises by Chris Mortensen Pdf

The Impossible Arises explores the life and work of Oscar Reutersvärd (1916–2002), founder of the Impossible Figures movement. The movement began in Stockholm in 1934 when eighteen-year-old Reutersvärd drew the first impossible triangle. Over the course of his life he would go on to draw around 4000 impossible figures and be honored by the Swedish government with an issue of stamps showing his work. Based on a large collection of Reutersvärd's art and correspondence held at the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington, the lavishly illustrated Impossible Arises examines the evolution of Reutersvärd's impossible figures and how they influenced other modern artists in the later twentieth century. The Impossible Arises offers a detailed look at the philosophy guiding Reutersvärd's art and presents a rich array of stories from his eccentric personal life. It is an essential introduction to the life and career of one of the most fascinating artists of the twentieth century.

Author : Sherry Mckay,Patricia Vertinsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Deborah Youdell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402045493

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Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: Exclusions and Student Subjectivities by Deborah Youdell Pdf

Brings sophisticated but accessible theoretical tools together with ethnographic data from real schools Demonstrates the inseparability of categories such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, disability, special needs Develops tools for understanding the relationships between schools, subjectivities, and students as learners Works across national contexts to show the wide applicability of these tools Problematises narrow understandings of inclusion found in contemporary policy Explores a new politics for interrupting educational inequalities

Author : Donald E Westlake
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049986605

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The Busy Body by Donald E Westlake Pdf

A mob boss’s right-hand man must track down a missing cache of heroin The corpse isn’t anybody special—a low-level drug courier—but it has been so long since the organization’s last grand funeral that Nick Rovito decides to give the departed a big send-off. He pays for a huge church, a procession of Cadillacs, and an ocean of flowers, and enjoys the affair until he learns the dead man is going to his grave wearing the blue suit. Rovito summons Engel, his right-hand man, and tells him to get a shovel. Inside the lining of the blue suit jacket is $250,000 worth of uncut heroin, smuggled back from Baltimore the day the courier died. When Engel’s shovel strikes coffin, he braces himself for the encounter with the dead man. But the coffin is empty, the heroin gone, and Engel has no choice but to track down the missing body or face his boss’s wrath.

Author : Scott Melzer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813584911

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Manhood Impossible by Scott Melzer Pdf

In Manhood Impossible, Scott Melzer argues that boys’ and men’s bodies and breadwinner status are the two primary sites for their expression of control. Controlling selves and others, and resisting being dominated and controlled is most connected to men’s bodies and work. However, no man can live up to these culturally ascendant ideals of manhood. The strategies men use to manage unmet expectations often prove toxic, not only for men themselves, but also for other men, women, and society. Melzer strategically explores the lives of four groups of adult men struggling with contemporary body and breadwinner ideals. These case studies uncover men’s struggles to achieve and maintain manhood, and redefine what it means to be a man.

Author : Robert C. Koons,Timothy Pickavance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1067 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119116097

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The Atlas of Reality by Robert C. Koons,Timothy Pickavance Pdf

The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key topics, concepts, and guiding principles of metaphysics. Represents the most comprehensive guide to metaphysics available today Offers authoritative coverage of the full range of topics that comprise the field of metaphysics in an accessible manner while considering competing views Explores key concepts such as space, time, powers, universals, and composition with clarity and depth Articulates coherent packages of metaphysical theses that include neo-Aristotelian, Quinean, Armstrongian, and neo-Humean Carefully tracks the use of common assumptions and methodological principles in metaphysics

Author : St. Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781623401214

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Summa Theologiae Supplementum 69-99 by St. Thomas Aquinas Pdf

The most important work of the towering intellectual of the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae remains one of the great seminal works of philosophy and theology, while extending to subjects as diverse as law and government, sacraments and liturgy, and psychology and ethics. In his third and final part of the Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas begins to address the life of Christ, lived out both in Jesus himself, and in each of the baptized through the sacraments.

Author : Kaare Dahl Martinsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317052814

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Soldier Repatriation by Kaare Dahl Martinsen Pdf

Soldier repatriation from Afghanistan has impacted debate about the war. This study highlights this impact with particular focus on Britain, Denmark and Germany. All three countries deployed soldiers soon after the 9/11 attacks, yet their role in Afghanistan and the casualty rates suffered, have been vastly different. This book looks at how their casualties influenced the framing of the war by analysing the political discourse about the casualties, how the media covered the repatriation and the burials, and how the dead were officially recognised and commemorated. Explaining how bodies count is not done exclusively by focusing on the political leadership and the media in the three countries, the response from the men and women in Afghanistan to the official framing of the war is given particular weight. Martinsen contributes to our understanding of European strategic culture by showing how countries respond to the same security challenges.

Author : Douglas A. Vakoch,Sam Mickey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351682404

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Women and Nature? by Douglas A. Vakoch,Sam Mickey Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Editor's foreword -- Part I Overview -- Introduction -- 1 Françoise d'Eaubonne and ecofeminism: rediscovering the link between women and nature -- Part II Rethinking animality -- 2 A retreat on the "river bank": perpetuating patriarchal myths in animal stories -- 3 Visual patriarchy: PETA advertising and the commodification of sexualized bodies -- 4 Ethical transfeminism: transgender individuals' narratives as contributions to ethics of vegetarian ecofeminisms -- Part III Constructing connections -- 5 The women-nature connection as a key element in the social construction of Western contemporary motherhood -- 6 The nature of body image: the relationship between women's body image and physical activity in natural environments -- 7 Writing women into back-to-the-land: feminism, appropriation, and identity in the 1970s magazine -- Part IV Mediating practices -- 8 Bilha Givon as Sartre's "third party" in environmental dialogues -- 9 "Yo soy mujer" ¿yo soy ecologista? Feminist and ecological consciousness at the Women's Intercultural Center -- 10 The politics of land, water and toxins: reading the life-narratives of three women oikos-carers from Kerala -- 11 Ecofeminism and the telegenics of celebrity in documentary film: the case of Aradhana Seth's Dam/Age (2003) and the Narmada Bachao Andolan -- Afterword -- Index

Author : James Fyfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Future life
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5LK9

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The Hereafter by James Fyfe Pdf

Author : Katie Kilroy-Marac
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520300200

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An Impossible Inheritance by Katie Kilroy-Marac Pdf

Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal during the 1960s and 1970s. Today’s clinic remains haunted by its past and Katie Kilroy-Marac brilliantly examines the complex forms of memory work undertaken by its affiliates over a sixty year period. Through stories such as that of the the ghost said to roam the clinic’s halls, the mysterious death of a young doctor sometimes attributed to witchcraft, and the spirit possession ceremonies that may have taken place in Fann’s courtyard, Kilroy-Marac argues that memory work is always an act of the imagination and a moral practice with unexpected temporal, affective, and political dimensions. By exploring how accounts about the Fann Psychiatric Clinic and its past speak to larger narratives of postcolonial and neoliberal transformation, An Impossible Inheritance examines the complex relationship between memory, history, and power within the institution and beyond.

Author : Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510014943358

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Gallitzin's Letters by Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin Pdf

Author : Sahar Ghumkhor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030320614

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The Political Psychology of the Veil by Sahar Ghumkhor Pdf

Veiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil more than a woman? This book investigates the preoccupation with the veiled body through the imaging and imagining of Muslim women. It examines the relationship between the body and knowledge through the politics of freedom as grounded in a ‘natural’ body, in the index of flesh. The impulse to unveil is more than a desire to free the Muslim woman. What lies at the heart of the fantasy of saving the Muslim woman is the West’s desire to save itself. The preoccupation with the veiled woman is a defense that preserves neither the object of orientalism nor the difference embodied in women’s bodies, but inversely, insists on the corporeal boundaries of the West’s mode of knowing and truth-making. The book contends that the imagination of unveiling restores the West’s sense of its own power and enables it to intrude where it is ‘other’ – thus making it the centre and the agent by promising universal freedom, all the while stifling the question of what freedom is.

Author : Kalwant Bhopal,Uvanney Maylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134612178

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Educational Inequalities by Kalwant Bhopal,Uvanney Maylor Pdf

While there is considerable literature on social inequality and education, there is little recent work which explores notions of difference and diversity in relation to "race," class and gender. This edited text aims to bring together researchers in the field of education located across many international contexts such as the UK, Australia, USA, New Zealand and Europe. Contributors investigate the ways in which dominant perspectives on "difference," intersectionality and institutional structures underpin and reinforce educational inequality in schools and higher education. They emphasize the importance of international perspectives and innovative methodological approaches to examining these areas, and seek to locate the dimensions of difference within recent theoretical discourses, with an emphasis on "race," class and gender as key categories of analysis.