Chinese Men’s Practices of Intimacy, Embodiment and Kinship

Chinese Men’s Practices of Intimacy, Embodiment and Kinship
Author: Siyang Cao
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-06-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529212987

This book explores Chinese young men’s views of manhood and develops a new concept of ‘elastic masculinity’ which can be stretched and forged differently in response to personal relationships and local realities. Drawing from empirical research, the author uses the term shenti (body-self) as a central concept to investigate the Chinese male body and explores intimacy and kinship within masculinity. She showcases how Chinese masculinities reflect the resilience of Confucian notions as well as transnational ideas of modern manhood. This is a unique dialogue with ‘western’ discourse on masculinity, and an invaluable resource for understanding the profound social changes that transformed gendered arrangements in urban China.

Changing Times

Changing Times
Author: Ulla Fels
Publisher: tredition
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 373239140X

Changing Times: Considering the many African refugees seeking Asylum in our rich European countries nowadays and our lack of knowledge about their social background, Bakary Sidibe's stories about his life and his explanations about his Gambian society help us to feel more connected with the newcomers and to understand them as people with their own history and values. Bakary Sidibe also shows us how the destabilising influence of the colonial rulers on the traditional social, economic and political structures of African societies still affects the life of the people today. Their young men with no employment and no perspectives at home are now seeking their fortunes in Europe.

Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations

Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations
Author: Kailing Xie
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2021-04-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811611394

This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women’s gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on what keeps mainstream Chinese middle-class women conforming to the current gender regime. It illuminates the contradictory effects of neoliberal techniques deployed by a familial authoritarian regime on these women’s striving for success in urban China, and argues that, paradoxically, women’s individualistic determination to succeed has often led them onto the path of conformity by pursuing exemplary norms which fit into the party-state’s agenda.

The Why in the Road - Soul Healing for Changing Times

The Why in the Road - Soul Healing for Changing Times
Author: Katharina Wehrli
Publisher: Earthlit Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780977286904

In the storm of modern life, this spiritually inspiring book offers unprecedented tools of recognition and navigational skills for body, mind, and soul. According to Wehrli, as the great world cycle awakens, consciousness can expand accordingly in the realm of natural truths that respect all life.

Evolution of Life

Evolution of Life
Author: Cecie Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 118
Release: 1998
Genre: Biology
ISBN:

This selected paperback binding of the Eighth Edition of Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life gives instructors the option of purchasing a shorter text covering selected excerpted topics. Six paperbacks are available: Cell Biology and Genetics, Evolution of Life, Diversity of Life, Plant Structure and Function, Animal Structure and Function, and Ecology and Behavior. Evolution of Life covers Unit III (Principles of Evolution) and contains a customized table of contents and the back matter from Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life. The Evolution of Life volume includes a brief history of evolutionary thought, microevolutionary thought, microevolutionary processes, macroevolution, the origin and macroevolution of life, and a case study of human evolution.

Theology for Changing Times

Theology for Changing Times
Author: Christopher R. Baker
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2018-09-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334056950

From wealth creation to wealth distribution and social ethics, from urban mission to religious studies and psychology the work of John Atherton was breathtaking in scope and variety. Unifying all of his work however, was a concern with engaging the work of theology with wider society.With contributions from some of the leading lights in public theology today, this book offers not only an appreciation of John Atherton's work within a prodigiously large array of disciplines, but also an attempt to ask 'what next', taking his work forward and considering where the future of public theology might lie. John Atherton's last published article is also reproduced.