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Author : Carin Franzén, Johanna Vernqvist
Release : 2023-11-03
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Book Synopsis Body, Gender, Senses by : Carin Franzén, Johanna Vernqvist
Download or read book Body, Gender, Senses written by Carin Franzén, Johanna Vernqvist. This book was released on 2023-11-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gili Hammer
Release : 2019-10-03
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 083/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Blindness Through the Looking Glass by : Gili Hammer
Download or read book Blindness Through the Looking Glass written by Gili Hammer. This book was released on 2019-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciousness. Blindness Through the Looking Glass examines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on sight as their dominant mode of perception, identifying the multiple senses involved in the formation of gender identity within social interactions. Challenging visuality as the dominant mode to understand gender, social performance, and visual culture, the book offers an ethnographic investigation of blindness (and sight) as a human condition, putting both blindness and vision “on display” by discussing people’s auditory, tactile, and olfactory experiences as well as vision and sight, and by exploring ways that individuals perform blindness and “sightedness” in their everyday lives. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 blind women in Israel and anthropological fieldwork, the book investigates the social construction and daily experience of blindness in a range of domains. Uniquely, the book brings together blind symbolism with the everyday experiences of blind and sighted individuals, joining in mutual conversation the fields of disability studies, visual culture, anthropology of the senses, and gender studies.
Author : Carin Franzén
Release : 2023-11-13
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Book Rating : 327/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Body, Gender, Senses by : Carin Franzén
Download or read book Body, Gender, Senses written by Carin Franzén. This book was released on 2023-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body, touch and its sensations are present, sometimes viewed in contradictory ways, both expressed, visualized, and rejected, in early modern art and literature. In seven essays moving from the 16th to the mid-18th century, and from Italy and Spain to France and Sweden, this volume explores strategies used by early modern women poets, philosophers, and artists in order to create subversive expressions of the body, gender and the senses. Showing how body and soul, the carnal and the divine, the senses and the mind, could be represented as intertwined and dependent on each other in various ways, it gives due attention to European women writers and artists that in unconventional ways responded to the period's two main intellectual and philosophical attitudes - Epicurean and Stoic - towards the body and its senses. These attitudes not only intersect in the period's discussions of virtue and other moral phenomena, but are central to critical assessment of the relations between emotions, perception, and reason. By following this topic from a gender perspective, the book highlights other forms of subjectivity than the ones usually related to the early modern period's dominating subjectivation of female bodies, thinking and desires.
Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Release : 1997-10
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 255/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Invention of Women by : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Download or read book The Invention of Women written by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. This book was released on 1997-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.
Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Release : 1989
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 516/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Le Deuxième Sexe by : Simone de Beauvoir
Download or read book Le Deuxième Sexe written by Simone de Beauvoir. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.
