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Author : Edward Shorter
Release : 1984
Genre : Accouchement - Histoire
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Book Rating : 181/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Women's Bodies by : Edward Shorter
Download or read book A History of Women's Bodies written by Edward Shorter. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine McCormack
Release : 2021-11-16
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 092/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies by : Catherine McCormack
Download or read book Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies written by Catherine McCormack. This book was released on 2021-11-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster—women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art—think Titian, Botticelli, and Millais—and the image-saturated world of fashion photographs, advertisements, and social media, and boldly counters these depictions by turning to the work of women artists like Morisot, Ringgold, Lacy, and Walker, who offer alternative images for exploring women’s identity, sexuality, race, and power in more complex ways.
Author : Patricia L. Garfield
Release : 1988
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis Women's Bodies, Women's Dreams by : Patricia L. Garfield
Download or read book Women's Bodies, Women's Dreams written by Patricia L. Garfield. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sally Banes
Release : 2013-11-05
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 172/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dancing Women by : Sally Banes
Download or read book Dancing Women written by Sally Banes. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. Broad in its scope and compelling in its argument Dancing Women: * provides a series of re-readings of the canon, from Romantic and Russian Imperial ballet to contemporary ballet and modern dance * investigates the gaps between plot and performance that create sexual and gendered meanings * examines how women's agency is created in dance through aspects of choreographic structure and style * analyzes a range of women's images - including brides, mistresses, mothers, sisters, witches, wraiths, enchanted princesses, peasants, revolutionaries, cowgirls, scientists, and athletes - as well as the creation of various women's communities on the dance stage * suggests approaches to issues of gender in postmodern dance Using an interpretive strategy different from that of other feminist dance historians, who have stressed either victimization or celebration of women, Banes finds a much more complex range of cultural representations of gender identities.
Author : Rosemary M Balsam
Release : 2012-07-26
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis by : Rosemary M Balsam
Download or read book Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis written by Rosemary M Balsam. This book was released on 2012-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
