Birth Death And Femininity

Author : Sara Heinämaa
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222370
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth, Death, and Femininity written by Sara Heinämaa and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues surrounding birth and death have been fundamental for Western philosophy as well as for individual existence. The contributors to this volume unravel the gendered aspects of the classical philosophical discourses on death, bringing in discussions about birth, creativity, and the entire chain of human activity. By linking their work to major thinkers such as Heidegger, Nietzsche, Beauvoir, and Arendt, and to major philosophical currents such as ancient philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, and social and political philosophy, they challenge prevailing feminist articulations of birth and death. These philosophical reflections add an important sexual dimension to current thinking on identity, temporality, and community.

Author : Patricia Jalland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women from Birth to Death written by Patricia Jalland and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nancy Demand
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801847622
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece written by Nancy Demand and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous for both mother and child? What were the actual causes of death among women described as dying of childbirth in the Hippocratic Epidemics? Why did families choose to portray labor scenes on tombstones when the Greek commemorative tradition otherwise avoided reference to suffering and illness? In Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, Nancy Demand offers the first comprehensive exploration of the social and cultural construction of childbirth in ancient Greece. Reading the ancient evidence in light of feminist theory, the Foucauldian notion of discursively constituted objects, medical anthropology, and anthropological studies of the modern Greek village, Demand discusses topics that include midwifery, abortion, attitudes of doctors toward women patients, and the treatment of women generally. For evidence, she relies primarily on the case histories in the Epidemics concerning women with complications in pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth. She also draws relevant details from cure records and dedications from healing sanctuaries, labor scenes depicted on tombstones, Aristophanic comedy, andPlatonic philosophy.

Author : Rochelle L. Millen
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584653653
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice written by Rochelle L. Millen and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensitive exploration of the development of pivotal life cycle rituals as they touch Jewish women's lives.

Author : Sheryl Sandberg
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385349955
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lean In written by Sheryl Sandberg and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 international best seller In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg reignited the conversation around women in the workplace. Sandberg is chief operating officer of Facebook and coauthor of Option B with Adam Grant. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TED talk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than six million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. Lean In continues that conversation, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can. Sandberg provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home. Written with humor and wisdom, Lean In is a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential.

Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526125633
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over her dead body written by Elisabeth Bronfen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs.

Author : Connie Zweig
Publisher : Tarcher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To be a Woman written by Connie Zweig and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 1990 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking collection, psychologists, Jungian analysts, feminists and scholars of Goddess cultures explain for the first time that a new state in women's growth is about to emerge--conscious femininity.

Author : Elizabeth Dill
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Becomes Her written by Elizabeth Dill and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, which include analyses of women's deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, funerals, and autopsies in literature and other nineteenth-century media. It offers an insight into the often unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.

Author : Jo Murphy-Lawless
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253334756
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Birth and Death written by Jo Murphy-Lawless and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes an important contribution to the fields of obstetrics, midwifery, childbirth education, sociology of the body, cultural studies and women's studies.

Author : Alison Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192584634
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Born written by Alison Stone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All human beings are born and all human beings die. In these two ways we are finite: our lives begin and our lives come to an end. Historically philosophers have concentrated attention on our mortality—and comparatively little has been said about being born and how it shapes our existence. Alison Stone sets out to overcome this oversight by providing a systematic philosophical account of how being born shapes our condition as human beings. Drawing on both feminist philosophy and existentialist concerns about the structure of meaningful human existence, Stone offers an original perspective on human existence. She explores how human existence is shaped by the way that we are born. Taking natality into account transforms our view of human existence and illuminates how many of its aspects are connected with our birth. These aspects include dependency, the relationality of the self, vulnerability, reception and inheritance of culture and history, embeddedness in social power, situatedness, and radical contingency. Considering natality also sheds new light on anxiety, mortality, and the temporality of human life. This book therefore bears on death and the meaning of life, as well as many debates in feminist and continental philosophy.