The Intimate State

Author : Teri Chettiar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN : 9780190931209

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The Intimate State explores how state-supported mental health initiatives made emotional intimacy both politically valued and personally desired during a crucial period of modern British psychiatric and cultural history. Focusing on the transformative decades following World War II, Teri Chettiar narrates the surprising story of how individual emotional wellbeing became conflated with inclusive democracy and subsequently prioritized in the eyes of scientists, politicians, and ordinary citizens. This new model of emotional health promoted nuclear families and monogamous marriage relationships as fundamental for individual and political stability and fostered unexpected collaborations between British mental health professionals and social reformers who sought to resolve the Cold War crisis in political and moral values. However, this model also generated backlash and resistance from communities who were excluded from its vision of idealized intimacy, including women, queer people, and adolescents. Ultimately, these communities would foster a new generation of activists who would turn the state agenda on its head by demanding political recognition for marginalized citizens on the basis of emotional health. Through new archival research, The Intimate State traces the rise of a modern psychiatric view of the importance of intimate relationships and the resultant political culture that continues to inform identity politics--and the politics of social equality--to this day.

Author : Margot Canaday,Nancy F. Cott,Robert O. Self
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226794891

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Intimate States by Margot Canaday,Nancy F. Cott,Robert O. Self Pdf

Fourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history. The last few decades have seen a surge of historical scholarship that analyzes state power and expands our understanding of governmental authority and the ways we experience it. At the same time, studies of the history of intimate life—marriage, sexuality, child-rearing, and family—also have blossomed. Yet these two literatures have not been considered together in a sustained way. This book, edited and introduced by three preeminent American historians, aims to close this gap, offering powerful analyses of the relationship between state power and intimate experience in the United States from the Civil War to the present. The fourteen essays that make up Intimate States argue that “intimate governance”—the binding of private daily experience to the apparatus of the state—should be central to our understanding of modern American history. Our personal experiences have been controlled and arranged by the state in ways we often don’t even see, the authors and editors argue; correspondingly, contemporary government has been profoundly shaped by its approaches and responses to the contours of intimate life, and its power has become so deeply embedded into daily social life that it is largely indistinguishable from society itself. Intimate States makes a persuasive case that the state is always with us, even in our most seemingly private moments.

Author : Perveez Mody
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135220518

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This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morality, gender, kinship and the study of the individual and the couple in contemporary India.

Author : Sara L. Friedman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781684174331

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Intimate Politics by Sara L. Friedman Pdf

"On a visit to eastern Hui’an in 1994, Sara Friedman was surprised to see a married woman reluctant to visit her conjugal home. The author would soon learn that this practice was typical of the area, along with distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labor, and powerful same-sex networks. These customs, she would learn, have long distinguished villages in this coastal region of southeastern China from other rural Han communities. Intimate Politics explores these practices that have constituted eastern Hui’an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han. This book asks what such practices have come to mean in a post-1949 socialist order that has incorporated forms of marriage, labor, and dress into a developmental scale extending from the primitive to the civilized. Government reform campaigns were part of a wholesale effort to remake Chinese society by replacing its “feudal” elements with liberated socialist ideals and practices. As state actors became involved in the intimate aspects of Huidong women’s lives, their official models of progress were challenged by the diversity of local practices and commitment of local residents. These politicized entanglements have generated what the author calls “intimate politics,” a form of embodied struggle in which socialist civilizing agendas—from the state-sponsored reforms of the Maoist decades to the market-based “reform and opening” of the post-Mao era—have been formulated, contested, and, in some cases, transformed through the bodies and practices of local women."

Author : PERVEEZ. MODY,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367176203

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The Intimate State by PERVEEZ. MODY,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : Martin W. Huang
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438469010

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Intimate Memory by Martin W. Huang Pdf

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks. In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memoirs, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands, brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their representations of women are much more complex and diverse than the representations we find in more public genres such as Confucian female exemplar biographies. Martin W. Huang is Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China.

Author : Sasha Roseneil,Isabel Crowhurst,Tone Hellesund,Ana Cristina Santos ,Mariya Stoilova
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787358898

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The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm by Sasha Roseneil,Isabel Crowhurst,Tone Hellesund,Ana Cristina Santos ,Mariya Stoilova Pdf

The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting national contexts: the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal. By investigating how the couple-norm is lived and experienced, how it has changed over time, and how it varies between places and social groups, this book provides a detailed analysis of changing intimate citizenship regimes in Europe, and makes a major intervention in understandings of the contemporary condition of personal life. The authors develop the feminist concept of ‘intimate citizenship’ and propose the new concept of ‘intimate citizenship regime’, offering a study of intimate citizenship regimes as normative systems that have been undergoing profound change in recent decades. Against the backdrop of processes of de-patriarchalization, liberalization, pluralization and homonormalization, the ongoing potency of the couple-norm becomes ever clearer.

Author : Elzbieta Przybylo
Publisher : Abnormalities: Queer/Gender/Em
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814255426

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Asexual Erotics by Elzbieta Przybylo Pdf

Develops erotics as a way to rethink the role of sex and sexual desire and to envision new forms of asexual intimacy.

Author : Christian Groes,Nadine T. Fernandez
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785338618

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Intimate Mobilities by Christian Groes,Nadine T. Fernandez Pdf

As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people’s mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined with issues of gender, kinship, race, and sexuality, as well as local and global powers and border restrictions in a disparate world.

Author : Martha J. Reineke
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781628950038

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Intimate Domain by Martha J. Reineke Pdf

For René Girard, human life revolves around mimetic desire, which regularly manifests itself in acquisitive rivalry when we find ourselves wanting an object because another wants it also. Noting that mimetic desire is driven by our sense of inadequacy or insufficiency, Girard arrives at a profound insight: our desire is not fundamentally directed toward the other’s object but toward the other’s being. We perceive the other to possess a fullness of being we lack. Mimetic desire devolves into violence when our quest after the being of the other remains unfulfilled. So pervasive is mimetic desire that Girard describes it as an ontological illness. In Intimate Domain, Reineke argues that it is necessary to augment Girard’s mimetic theory if we are to give a full account of the sickness he describes. Attending to familial dynamics Girard has overlooked and reclaiming aspects of his early theorizing on sensory experience, Reineke utilizes psychoanalytic theory to place Girard’s mimetic theory on firmer ground. Drawing on three exemplary narratives—Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Sophocles’s Antigone, and Julia Kristeva’s The Old Man and the Wolves—the author explores familial relationships. Together, these narratives demonstrate that a corporeal hermeneutics founded in psychoanalytic theory can usefully augment Girard’s insights, thereby ensuring that mimetic theory remains a definitive resource for all who seek to understand humanity’s ontological illness and identify a potential cure.

Author : Evliya Çelebi
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0791406407

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The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman, Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588-1662) by Evliya Çelebi Pdf

Robert Dankoff has culled passages from Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels that deal directly with the life and times of Çelebi's patron, Melek Ahmed Pasha, an outstanding seventeenth-century military and administrative leader. Çelebi's account is sensitive to all the currents of his age and reflects them in his narrative. His wry comments and observations extend from the intimate details of daily life, and the attitudes of the lower classes, to the deeds of the mighty, the ideals of the age, and the fate of the empire. He concentrates on the later phase of Pasha's career, beginning with his appointment as Grand Vizier in 1650. Because Çelebi was Pasha's confidant as well as his protege, there is a level of intimacy, almost a psychological portrait, quite unusual in Ottoman and Islamic literature. The narrative highlights the private side of this public figure -- his weaknesses as well as his heroics; his religious life and domestic affairs -- in particular, his relations with his two successive wives, both sultanas or princesses.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231543002

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The Intimate Universal by William Desmond Pdf

William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.

Author : Ann Laura Stoler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0520231112

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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power by Ann Laura Stoler Pdf

Looking at the way cultural competencies and sensibilities entered into the construction of race in the colonial context, this text proposes that 'cultural racism' in fact predates its postmodern discovery.

Author : Heonik Kwon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108487924

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After the Korean War by Heonik Kwon Pdf

The first comprehensive analysis of the Korean War and its enduring legacies through the lenses of intimate human and social experience.

Author : Ardath Whynacht
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31T00:00:00Z
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781773630847

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Insurgent Love by Ardath Whynacht Pdf

Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through examining commonly accepted typologies of high-risk intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend and provides an abolitionist frame for the most dangerous forms of intimate partner violence. This book illustrates that the origins of both the carceral state and toxic masculinity are situated in settler colonialism and racial capitalism and sees police homicide and domestic homicide as akin. Describing an experience of domestic homicide in her community and providing a deeply personal analysis of some of the most recent cases of homicide in Canada, the author inhabits the complexity of seeking abolitionist justice. Insurgent Love traces the major risk factors for domestic homicide within the structures of racial capitalism and suggests transformative, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist approaches for safety, prevention and justice.