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Beautiful Bodies

2010-05-11 Fiction
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Release : 2010-05-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Beautiful Bodies by : Laura Shaine Cunningham

Download or read book Beautiful Bodies written by Laura Shaine Cunningham. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manhattan, the coldest night of the year -- six best friends rush to attend a celebration. Blown by wind and snow, the women arrive flushed, each caught in midadventure.... Tonight's the night of nights -- to rejoice in a new lover, leave an unfaithful husband, or decide to have a baby on one's own. These "six in the city" profes-sional women fight for their female choices. Sparks and zingers fly across the table....Love lives, secrets, and friendships go up in candle flame. Who will win -- the romantics or the realists? How can working women triumph in such trying times? While the cell phones chime and the biological clocks rewind, the friends enact a timeless ceremony. Here is our urban "friends-as-family" generation -- Beautiful Bodies is a dazzling comedy of manners in the grand tradition of Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy.

Beautiful Bodies

2017 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Release : 2017
Genre : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Book Rating : 578/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful Bodies by : Kimberly Rae Miller

Download or read book Beautiful Bodies written by Kimberly Rae Miller. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending social history and personal experiences, an exploration of how people try to control their bodies with food reveals the struggle everyone experiences with their own bodies.--

Beautiful Bodies

2024-05-28 Religion
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Release : 2024-05-28
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 328/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful Bodies by : Margaret R. Miles

Download or read book Beautiful Bodies written by Margaret R. Miles. This book was released on 2024-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Augustine was known as a theologian of feeling for many centuries. Renaissance painters pictured him holding his passionately blazing heart in his hand. In Augustine’s society and education, feeling was considered an intimate and integral aspect of thinking, so intimately interwoven that philosophers struggled to distinguish these activities. Thus, Augustine was also committed to learning throughout his passionate and thoughtful life, from his early conviction that “God and the soul” can be known through the meticulous use of reason, to mature sermons in which he quoted “God is love,” and commented, in effect, that is all you need to know about God. The role of feeling in his understanding of the effect of Christian doctrines on present life has been less noticed. This book proposes that changes in his perception of the value and significance of human bodies—from objects of rapacious lust to rapturous admiration of their beauty—form the nexus within which Augustine’s thought and feeling cohere. The old Augustine’s understanding of the theological significance of present bodies informed his acknowledged speculations on the qualities and capacities of beautiful bodies, nunc et tunc.

Beautiful Bodies

2022-02-24 Social Science
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Release : 2022-02-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 727/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful Bodies by : Uroš Matić

Download or read book Beautiful Bodies written by Uroš Matić. This book was released on 2022-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily aesthetics and related gender norms. The volume does not explore beauty for the sake of beauty, but extensively explores how it serves to form and keep gender norms in place. The concept of beauty has been a topic of interest for some time, yet it is only in recent times that archaeologists have begun to approach beauty as a culturally contingent and socially constructed phenomenon. Although archaeologists and ancient historians extensively dealt with gender, they dealt less with it in relation to beauty. The contributions in this volume deal with different intersections of gender and corporeal aesthetics by turning to rich archaeological, textual and iconographic data from ancient Sumer, Aegean Bronze Age, ancient Egypt, ancient Athens, Roman provinces, the Viking world and the Qajar Iran. Beauty thus moves away from a curiosity and surface of the body to an analytic concept for a better understanding of past and present societies.

Beautiful Bodies

2022-03-15 Social Science
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Release : 2022-03-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 735/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful Bodies by : Uroš Mati?

Download or read book Beautiful Bodies written by Uroš Mati?. This book was released on 2022-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily aesthetics and related gender norms. The volume does not explore beauty for the sake of beauty, but extensively explores how it serves to form and keep gender norms in place. The concept of beauty has been a topic of interest for some time, yet it is only in recent times that archaeologists have begun to approach beauty as a culturally contingent and socially constructed phenomenon. Although archaeologists and ancient historians extensively dealt with gender, they dealt less with it in relation to beauty. The contributions in this volume deal with different intersections of gender and corporeal aesthetics by turning to rich archaeological, textual and iconographic data from ancient Sumer, Aegean Bronze Age, ancient Egypt, ancient Athens, Roman provinces, the Viking world and the Qajar Iran. Beauty thus moves away from a curiosity and surface of the body to an analytic concept for a better understanding of past and present societies.

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