Tag: Bodies

Free Download Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition (Early American Studies) by Kathleen M. Brown
English | February 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1512823279 | True EPUB | 456 pages | 10.3 MB
Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery’s harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the bodily integrity and wellbeing of enslaved people threw up many unexpected challenges. This book explores those challenges.

Free Download Caroline Godart, "The Dimensions of Difference: Space, Time and Bodies in Women’s Cinema and Continental Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 1783486546 | 2015 | 154 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on the gaze, to examine the question of sexual difference through three axes: space, time, and bodies. These are some of the most fundamental elements of cinema, which deploys the bodies of actors through space and time, for instance, through camerawork and editing.

Free Download Ewa Barbara Luczak, "Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery "
English | ISBN: 1032409622 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange; one involving violence and oppression, leaving memory and trauma sedimented in cultural conventions, political arrangements, social institutions and, most significantly, materially and symbolically engraved upon the body, with "the self" often deprived of agency and sovereignty. Consisting of three sections, this text focuses on works of the 20th and 21st century fiction and cultural narratives by mainly African American authors, aiming to highlight the different ways in which race has been pathologized in America and examine how the legacies of plantation ideology have been metaphorically inscribed on black bodies. The variety of analytical approaches and thematic foci with respect to theories and discourses surrounding race and the body allow us to delve into this thorny territory in the hope of gaining perspectives about how African-American lives are still shaped and haunted by the legacies of plantation slavery. Furthermore, this volume offers insights into the politics of eugenic corporeality in an illustrative dialogue with the lasting carceral and agricultural effects of life on a plantation. Tracing the degradation and suppression of the black body, both individual and social, this text includes analysis of the pseudo-scientific discourse of social Darwinism and eugenics; the practice of mass incarceration and the excessive punishment of black bodies; and food apartheid and USDA practices of depriving black farmers of individual autonomy and collective agency. Based on such an interplay of discourses, methodologies and perspectives, this volume aims to use literature to further examine the problematic relationship between race and the body and stress that black lives do indeed matter in the USA.

Free Download Emily Pierini, "Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing"
English | ISBN: 1800738463 | 2023 | 310 pages | PDF | 11 MB
When approaching the multiplicity of the spiritual experiences of healing, ethnographers are often presented with ideas of the existence of "other" worlds that may intersect with the so-called "material" or "physical" worlds. This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the "unknown"―be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an "other"―shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.

Free Download Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation: A Comparative Theology of Divine Possessions By Joshua Samuel
2020 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 9004420037 | PDF | 19 MB
In Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation Joshua Samuel engages in constructing an embodied comparative theology of liberation by comparing divine possessions among Hindu and Christian Dalits in South India.

Free Download Ruha Benjamin, "People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier"
English | ISBN: 0804782970 | 2013 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1443 KB
Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments―good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace―ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting relationship between science and society, on the people who benefit―or don’t―from regenerative medicine and what this says about our democratic commitments to an equitable society.

Free Download -, "The Quantification of Bodies in Health: Multidisciplinary Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 1800718845 | 2021 | 219 pages | EPUB | 928 KB
The use of digital tracking technologies is a widespread phenomenon. Millions of people around the world now track, document, and analyse their physical activities, vital functions, and daily habits through wearable devices, apps, and platforms. The aim is to assess and improve health, productivity, and wellbeing. The current Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the uptake of tracking technologies.

Free Download May Friedman, "Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice"
English | ISBN: 1138580023 | 2019 | 264 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice seeks to explore the multiple, variable, and embodied experiences of fat oppression and fat activisms. Moving beyond an analysis of fat oppression as singular, this book will aim to unpack the volatility of fat―the mutability of fat embodiments as they correlate with other embodied subjectivities, and the threshold where fat begins to be reviled, celebrated, or amended. In addition, Thickening Fat

Free Download Athena to Barbie: Bodies, Archetypes, and Women’s Search for Self By Wright, J. Lenore
2021 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 1506480470 | PDF | 5 MB
Athena to Barbie<\/i> explores the vexed nature of being a woman. It maps the four corners of impossible choice a female faces because of the female body\-\-her body as spiritual space (Mary), as political space (Athena), as erotic space (Venus), and as materialist space (Barbie). The book tracks the difficulty women face in understanding themselves as someone who has, but is not only, a body. The question of identity is particularly fraught and complicated when it comes to women\-\-because the ability to bear children is a double\-edged sword. Across time (including right now), having a womb has shaped how women are viewed and treated in negative ways, and women\x27s childbearing abilities have been used to stereotype, oppress, and constrain them. Pregnancy is powerful, but the possibility of pregnancy comes with impossible pressures and choices. This book takes on the task of reconciliation\-\-how women can understand themselves in light of their bodies\-\-through an intense dive into history, art, literature, theology, and, particularly, philosophy.<\/p>

Kenneth McKenzie, Todd Harra, "Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid "
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0806541415 | 256 pages | EPUB / AZW3 / MOBI | 1.7 MB
With humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach’s Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty’s Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission to embrace our morbid curiosity. From the authors of Mortuary Confidential.