A History of Women's Bodies
Author | : Edward Shorter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Accouchement - Histoire |
ISBN | : 9780140225181 |
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Author | : Edward Shorter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Accouchement - Histoire |
ISBN | : 9780140225181 |
Author | : Rosalyn Diprose |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780415097826 |
Diprose argues that the usual approaches to ethics perpetuate the mechanisms that subordinate women, and argues for a new ethics of sexual difference which better locates the mechanisms of discrimination and the means to subvert them.
Author | : Boston Women's Health Book Collective |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780671221454 |
Discusses the many roles of women and the choices open to them. Includes detailed treatment of feminine hygiene.
Author | : Christina Lamb |
Publisher | : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 150119917X |
From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she’s never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars—the “bang-bang” war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of wartime, other than as grieving widows and mothers, though their experience is markedly different from that of the men involved in battle. Lamb chronicles extraordinary tragedy and challenges in the lives of women in wartime. And none is more devastating than the increase of the use of rape as a weapon of war. Visiting warzones including the Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Bosnia, and Iraq, and spending time with the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar, she records the harrowing stories of survivors, from Yazidi girls kept as sex slaves by ISIS fighters and the beekeeper risking his life to rescue them; to the thousands of schoolgirls abducted across northern Nigeria by Boko Haram, to the Congolese gynecologist who stitches up more rape victims than anyone on earth. Told as a journey, and structured by country, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields gives these women voice. We have made significant progress in international women’s rights, but across the world women are victimized by wartime atrocities that are rarely recorded, much less punished. The first ever prosecution for war rape was in 1997 and there have been remarkably few convictions since, as if rape doesn’t matter in the reckoning of war, only killing. Some courageous women in countries around the world are taking things in their own hands, hunting down the war criminals themselves, trying to trap them through Facebook. In this profoundly important book, Christina Lamb shines a light on some of the darkest parts of the human experience—so that we might find a new way forward. Our Bodies, Their Battlefields is as inspiring and empowering is as it is urgent, a clarion call for necessary change.
Author | : Rosemary M Balsam |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-07-26 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1135137013 |
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 | : Lidia Curti |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1998-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0814715737 |
On women authors and women in literature
Author | : Patricia L. Garfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Boston Women's Health Book Collective |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : 9780785780724 |
The definitive consumer health reference for women of all ages and ethnic groups, this book encompasses such controversial issues as managed care and the insurance industry; breast cancer treatment options; recent developments in contraception; and much more. 150 photos. Charts & graphs throughout.
Author | : Laura Gowing |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300142889 |
This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction. This history of the female body is at once intimate and wide-ranging, with sometimes startling insights about the extent to which early modern women maintained, or forfeited, control over their own bodies. Laura Gowing explores the ways social and economic pressures of daily life shaped the lived experiences of bodies: the cost of having a child, the vulnerability of being a servant, the difficulty of prosecuting rape, the social ambiguities of widowhood. She explains how the female body was governed most of all by other women—wives and midwives. Gowing casts new light on beliefs and practices of the time concerning women’s bodies and provides an original perspective on the history of women and gender.
Author | : Christopher Mielke |
Publisher | : Trivent Publishing |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2019-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 6158122238 |
This volume is a collection of essays focusing on marginalized women mostly in Central and Eastern Europe from around 1350 to 1650. "Other" women are discussed in three different categories: women whose religious practices put them on the social margins, "common women" who are in society but not of society because they are in the sex trade, and women whose occupations were reason enough to shunt them. In order to fill a gap in gender history for countries east of the Rhine River, the studies included present how official city-funded brothels in medieval Austria worked, how a princess' disability affected her life as Byzantine empress, how one unmarried Transylvanian woman who got pregnant dealt with being the center of a court case, and how enslaved women in medieval Hungary were treated as sexual property. The hope with this volume is that it will show the many interdisciplinary ways that women on the margins can be studied in this region, and to diminish the taboo of discussing this topic to begin with.