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Author: Elspeth Probyn Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134906188 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 179
Book Description
Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing `others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex of the self, an issue of vital importance to feminists and yet neglected by feminist theory until now, to suggest that there are ways of using our gendered selves in order to speak and theorize non-essential but embodied selves. Arguing for `feminisms with attitude', Sexing the Self ranges across a wide range of theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early Cultural Studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism, from `identity debates' to Foucault's `care of the self'.
Author: Elspeth Probyn Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134906188 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 179
Book Description
Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing `others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex of the self, an issue of vital importance to feminists and yet neglected by feminist theory until now, to suggest that there are ways of using our gendered selves in order to speak and theorize non-essential but embodied selves. Arguing for `feminisms with attitude', Sexing the Self ranges across a wide range of theoretical strands, drawing upon a body of literature from early Cultural Studies to Anglo-American feminist literary criticism, from `identity debates' to Foucault's `care of the self'.
Author: Tracey L. Steele Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 486
Book Description
SEX, SELF AND SOCIETY: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF SEXUALITY contains 60 edited articles divided into 15 chapters covering a range of issues dealing with human sexuality. Focusing on sexuality as both process and as a social institution, the book also covers contemporary issues such as abortion and sexually transmitted diseases.
Author: M. Tamboukou Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230513948 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
Maria Tamboukou links Foucauldian ideas to feminism and education. Its central argument is that the Foucauldian notion of 'technologies of the self' needs to be gendered and contextualized. This argument is pursued through a genealogical analysis of autobiographical texts of women educators in the UK at the turn of the nineteenth century. This is a new theoretical approach, since Foucault's work has proved to be of great interest to feminist scholars but as yet, his theories have only intermittently been used in educational feminist work.
Author: Libby Bennett Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 9781442200388 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 277
Book Description
Finding and Revealing Your Sexual Self integrates case studies and 'Sexercises' designed to enhance the information in each chapter. The tone of the book is one of compassion with a common sense approach that takes into account various sexual orientations. Special 'Sexual Healing' sections are dispersed throughout, containing relevant questions and answers relating to the difficulties that arise in different areas of sexuality and communication. The methods used in the book are tried and true exercises successfully used by the authors in couple and individual therapy. Finding and Revealing Your Sexual Self helps readers to become sexually self-aware and able to share this awareness with their partner, while providing the tools to discuss sex with professionals, if necessary.
Author: Brenda Cossman Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804749961 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
This book explores the relationship between sex and belonging in law and popular culture, arguing that contemporary citizenship is sexed, privatized, and self-disciplined. Former sexual outlaws have challenged their exclusion and are being incorporated into citizenship. But as citizenship becomes more sexed, it also becomes privatized and self-disciplined. The author explores these contesting representations of sex and belonging in films, television, and legal decisions. She examines a broad range of subjects, from gay men and lesbians, pornographers and hip hop artists, to women selling vibrators, adulterers, and single mothers on welfare. She observes cultural representations ranging from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy to Dr. Phil, Sex in the City to Desperate Housewives. She reviews appellate court cases on sodomy and same-sex marriage, national welfare reform, and obscenity regulation. Finally, the author argues that these representations shape the terms of belonging and governance, producing good (and bad) sexual citizens, based on the degree to which they abide by the codes of privatized and self-disciplined sex.
Author: Miya Yamanouchi Publisher: Booktango ISBN: 1468958704 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages :
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This is a resource for women seeking practical techniques to discover, explore, express and embrace their sexual self. This book teaches you specific skills to improve your relationship with yourself (the key to better sex and relationships with others) by assisting you to connect with your core sexual self through intensive reflective questions and strategies. This book will allow you to access and celebrate your unique and beautiful sexuality.
Author: Avodah K. Offit Publisher: ISBN: Category : Personality Languages : en Pages : 344
Book Description
A guide to exploring the theory that character shapes sexuality and sexual difficulties. Terms such as sexual hypochondria, supersex and sexual learning disability are introduced in this text in order to highlight the relationship with personality forces.
Author: Philip M. Helfaer Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Not just another book about sexual abuse, this book explores the possibility of the hard but real journey to self-respect. It is an in-depth approach to understanding the individual's experience in sexual love, and an exploration of the nature of the self and sexuality. Describing a wide range of violations of sexuality and the resulting injuries to self-respect, it has the theoretical and clinical depth to be useful to professionals, while written in language accessible to the lay reader. The necessity of bringing in the body is examined and the text offers an experientially relevant way of conceptualizing bodily processes (bioenergetics) in sexuality and the self. This work affords new avenues for understanding the possibilities of the evolution of the self in adult life, and of child development toward the rebirth of self-respect and the development of a sexual ethic.
Author: Pamela Moss Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 1461647320 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 235
Book Description
This provocative and moving work explores concepts of body and space to better understand the daily lives and struggles of women with chronic illness. Moss and Dyck show how such women—coping with associated notions of illness, health, and being female—restructure their physical and social environments through the strategies they choose to accommodate disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, or rheumatoid arthritis. Strategies might include disclosing or concealing illness from employers and friends; seeking or rejecting emotional support through old friends and new contacts; and pursuing or resisting specific diagnoses from the biomedical community. Featuring a wealth of original research and personal stories, Women, Body, Illness tells the tales of chronically ill women forging networks of support, redefining themselves, and challenging what it is to be ill.
Author: Elspeth Probyn
Author: Elspeth Probyn
Author: Michael S. Kimmel
Author: Tracey L. Steele
Author: M. Tamboukou
Author: Libby Bennett
Author: Brenda Cossman
Author: Miya Yamanouchi
Author: Avodah K. Offit
Author: Philip M. Helfaer
Author: Pamela Moss