Mutilation and Transformation

Mutilation and Transformation
Author: Eric Varner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2004-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 904740470X

The condemnation of memory inexorably altered the visual landscape of imperial Rome. This volume catalogues and interprets the sculptural, glyptic, numismatic and epigraphic evidence for damnatio memoriae and ultimately reveals its praxis to be at the core of Roman cultural identity.

Self-mutilation and Art Therapy

Self-mutilation and Art Therapy
Author: Diana Milia
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2000
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781853026836

Milia examines the effect of art therapy interventions with clients who harm their bodies. Demonstrating how these theories can be implemented in practice, Milia describes examples from her clinical experience, and includes case studies. Her practical book extends our understanding of the self-mutilation concept and how best it may be addressed.

Female Circumcision

Female Circumcision
Author: Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0812219414

Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries across Africa and Asia, this ritual is hotly debated. Supporters regard it as a central coming-of-age ritual that ensures chastity and promotes fertility. Human rights groups denounce the procedure as barbaric. It is estimated that between 100 million and 130 million girls and women today have undergone forms of this genital surgery. Female Circumcision gathers together African activists to examine the issue within its various cultural and historical contexts, the debates on circumcision regarding African refugee and immigrant populations in the United States, and the human rights efforts to eradicate the practice. This work brings African women's voices into the discussion, foregrounds indigenous processes of social and cultural change, and demonstrates the manifold linkages between respect for women's bodily integrity, the empowerment of women, and democratic modes of economic development. This volume does not focus narrowly on female circumcision as a set of ritualized surgeries sanctioned by society. Instead, the contributors explore a chain of connecting issues and processes through which the practice is being transformed in local and transnational contexts. The authors document shifts in local views to highlight processes of change and chronicle the efforts of diverse communities as agents in the process of cultural and social transformation.

From Shame to Sin

From Shame to Sin
Author: Kyle Harper
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674074564

The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution.

From Caligula to Constantine

From Caligula to Constantine
Author: Sheramy D. Bundrick
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia from Sept. 16, 2000 to Jan. 7, 2001, and at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut from Jan. 31 to March 25, 2001.

Female Genital Mutilation

Female Genital Mutilation
Author: Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781856497732

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Self-Transformations

Self-Transformations
Author: Cressida J. Heyes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2007-08-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0195310543

The subject of normalization and its relationship with sex/gender is a major one in feminist theory and Heyes' book takes a theoretical approach to Foucault's work in this area.

Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica

Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica
Author: Christopher Pool
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2007-02-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521783127

Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica offers the most thorough and up-to-date book-length treatment of Olmec society and culture available.

Muse

Muse
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2002
Genre: Archaeology
ISBN: