Suckling At My Mothers Breasts

Author : Ellen Davina Haskell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143844382X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suckling at My Mother's Breasts written by Ellen Davina Haskell and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Kabbalah's most distinctive images of the feminine divine is that of a motherly, breastfeeding God. Suckling at My Mother's Breasts traces this idea from its origins in ancient rabbinic literature through its flourishing in the medieval classic Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor). Taking the position that kabbalistic images provide specific, detailed models for understanding the relationship between God and human beings, Ellen Davina Haskell connects divine nursing theology to Jewish ideals regarding motherhood, breastfeeding, and family life from medieval France and Spain, where Kabbalah originated. Haskell's approach allows for a new evaluation of Kabbalah's feminine divine, one centered on culture and context, rather than gender philosophy or psychoanalysis. As this work demonstrates, the image of the nursing divine is intended to cultivate a direct emotional response to God rooted in nurture, love, and reliance, rather than knowledge, sexuality, or authority.

Author : Diane Bahr
Publisher : Future Horizons
ISBN 13 : 1935567209
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody Ever Told Me (or My Mother) That! written by Diane Bahr and published by Future Horizons. This book was released on 2010 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice on feeding and exercises to assist the development of babies' mouth and facial muscles to ensure language development, good mouth structure and movement.

Author : Collin Cornell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020936
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divine Doppelgängers written by Collin Cornell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him—but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH’s ancient look-alikes, providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about this challenge. Sooner or later, whether in a religion class or a seminary course, students bump up against the fact that God—the biblical God—was one among other, comparable gods. The ancient world was full of gods, including great gods of conquering empires, dynastic gods of petty kingdoms, goddesses of fertility, and personal spirit guardians. And in various ways, these gods look like the biblical God. Like the God of the Bible, they, too, controlled the fates of nations, chose kings, bestowed fecundity and blessing, and cared for their individual human charges. They spoke and acted. They experienced wrath and delight. They inspired praise. All of this leaves Jews and Christians in a bind: how can they confess that the God named YHWH was (and is) the true and living God, in view of this God’s profound similarities to all these others? The essays in this volume address the theological challenge these parallels create, providing reflections on how Jews and Christians can keep faith in YHWH as God while acknowledging the reality of YHWH’s divine doppelgängers. It will be welcomed by undergraduates studying religion; seminarians and graduate students of Bible, theology, and the ancient world; and adult education classes.

Author : Carole M. Counihan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317325397
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Food and Body written by Carole M. Counihan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender.

Author : Shubha Pathak
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438445377
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figuring Religions written by Shubha Pathak and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers new ways of comparing features of the world’s religions.

Author : Ken Ito
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080476607X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Desire written by Ken Ito and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Japanese writer was more obsessed with desire than Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965). Over a career that spanned half a century, he explored, with both joyful fascination and ruthless insight, the dazzling varieties of sexuality, the complementary attractions of exoticism and nostalgia, the human yearning for mastery over others, and the tense relationship between fantasy and the exterior world. His fiction is filled with portrayals of desire in all its violence, irony, pathos, and comedy. In one of Tanizaki's novels, a young engineer fascinated with the West sets out to transform a Japanese bar girl into his very own version of Mary Pickford. He succeeds to such an extent that the girl, growing tired of his immutable Japaneseness, begins to take foreign lovers. Cuckolded and humiliated though his is, the engineer is unable to leave his fantasy-come-to-life and resigns himself to enslavement. In another novel, a Westernized Japanese finds himself gradually drawn to the past. Specifically, he is attracted to his father-in-law's companion, a young woman who has been trained and costumed to play the part of an old-fashioned mistress. Though this woman is no more a flesh-and-blood embodiment of tradition than a bunraku doll, the protagonist contemplates a life with someone like her, a life defined by the pursuit of abstract, dehumanized cultural ideals. Visions of Desire locates such novels in the shifting discourse on cultural identity and cultural aspiration that permeates Japanese life. Ito argues that Tanizaki's novels do not merely end in the reification and contemplation of cultural ideals but rather problematize the desire behind such ideals. He finds in the writer's fiction a subtle understanding of cultural aspiration as a process riddled with subversions, influenced by patterns of mediation, and circumscribed by the lonely efforts of individual subjectivity. He discovers in Tanizaki's fables about the male effort to transform women into cultural icons a clear awareness of the sexual and class hierarchies that make such transformation possible. Visions of Desire is the first book in English on a writer who is possibly modern Japan's greatest novelist. Ito has written for both the specialist and the general reader, setting his argument in a discussion both of Tanizaki's times and of the life of a writer who believed in living out the fantasies that fueled his fictions.

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243052
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel, A Translation with Commentary written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A pleasure to read. . . . Alter has given fresh life to some of the most beloved . . . books in our heritage.”—Philadelphia Inquirer The Song of Songs; Ruth; Esther; Jonah; and Daniel offer readers a range of pleasures not usually associated with the Bible. As distant in time from the Five Books of Moses as Updike is from Shakespeare, these Late Biblical books are innovative, entertaining literary works. Women often stand center stage. The Song of Songs is a celebration of young love, frankly sensuous, with no reference to God or covenant. It offers some of the most beautiful love poems of the ancient world. The story of Queen Esther’s shrewd triumph is also a secular entertainment, with clear traces of farce and sly sexual comedy. The character of Ruth embodies the virtues of loyalty, love, and charity in a harmonious world. Enigma replaces harmony in Daniel’s feverish night dreams. The apocalyptic strangeness of Daniel echoes in works from the New Testament’s Book of Revelations to the lyrics of Bob Dylan. And Jonah, the tale of a giant fish who, on God’s command, swallows the prophet and imprisons him in his dark wet innards for three days, ends with a question that lingers, unanswered, leaving the reader to ponder the many limitations of humankind.

Author : E. V. Frapiere
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512712140
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through My Mother's Voice, I Found My Own written by E. V. Frapiere and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest wonder sensation of innovative literary style is E.V. Frapiere and her phenomenal “poemoir”: THROUGH MY MOTHER’S VOICE, I FOUND MY OWN. No matter how you feel about poetry, essays and other musings, you’ll love the solid strength and lyrical notes of this unique book! Born during a time of loss and pain, this book helped Ms. Frapiere find redemption and resurrection of her innate talents through the journey...and the world is the blessed beneficiary of the extraordinary results! Artist, Author and Poet, E.V. Frapiere has fashioned a stunning memoir from the diverse fabrics and textures of literary device and form. From freestyle and rhyming poetry to life reflections and more, THROUGH MY MOTHER’S VOICE, I FOUND MY OWN is a refreshing taste of authentic realism seasoned with love, joy and wisdom from the heart and spirit of a woman of faith. Anyone reading this book will be inspired to find their own power within and embark on the journey of a lifetime! To learn more of E.V. Frapiere and her exceptional debut, visit www.EVFrapiere.com and enter a world of elegant literature and a heart-centered movement destined to change the world!

Author : Ramtha (the enlightened one (Spirit))
Publisher : Ramtha's School of the Mind
ISBN 13 : 9781578730278
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Beginner's Guide to Creating Reality written by Ramtha (the enlightened one (Spirit)) and published by Ramtha's School of the Mind. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of important events in Ramtha's lifetime, from birth to his ascension, as well as Ramtha's basic teaching on consciousness and energy, the nature of reality, the self and the personality, the Observer in quantum mechanics, the auric field surrounding the body, the kundalini energy, and the seven seals in the body. This teaching covers the introduction given to students before commencing studies at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Includes: Foreword by JZ Knight, Introductory Essay to Ramtha's Teachings, Ramtha's Autobiography, Diagrams, Workbook, Glossary and Index.

Author : Astrid Henry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253111227
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not My Mother's Sister written by Astrid Henry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No matter how wise a mother's advice is, we listen to our peers." At least that's writer Naomi Wolf's take on the differences between her generation of feminists -- the third wave -- and the feminists who came before her and developed in the late '60s and '70s -- the second wave. In Not My Mother's Sister, Astrid Henry agrees with Wolf that this has been the case with American feminism, but says there are problems inherent in drawing generational lines. Henry begins by examining texts written by women in the second wave, and illustrates how that generation identified with, yet also disassociated itself from, its feminist "foremothers." Younger feminists now claim the movement as their own by distancing themselves from the past. By focusing on feminism's debates about sexuality, they are able to reject the so-called victim feminism of Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. Rejecting the orthodoxies of the second wave, younger feminists celebrate a woman's right to pleasure. Henry asserts, however, that by ignoring diverse older voices, the new generation has oversimplified generational conflict and has underestimated the contributions of earlier feminists to women's rights. They have focused on issues relating to personal identity at the expense of collective political action. Just as writers like Wolf, Katie Roiphe, and Rene Denfeld celebrate a "new" feminist (hetero)sexuality posited in generational terms, queer and lesbian feminists of the third wave similarly distance themselves from those who came before. Henry shows how 1970s lesbian feminism is represented in ways that are remarkably similar to the puritanical portrait of feminism offered by straight third-wavers. She concludes by examining the central role played by feminists of color in the development of third-wave feminism. Indeed, the term "third wave" itself was coined by Rebecca Walker, daughter of Alice Walker. Not My Mother's Sister is an important contribution to the exchange of ideas among feminists of all ages and persuasions.