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Wheeler, Sean M. Uprise: Back pain liberation, by tuning your body guitar. [United States]: [S.M. Wheeler], 2015.
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Footbinding, feminism, and freedom: The liberation of women's bodies in modern China. London: F. Cass, 1997.
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Footbinding, feminism and freedom: The liberation of women's bodies in modern China. London: Frank Cass, 1997.
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Castelnuovo, Shirley. Feminism and the female body: Liberating the Amazon within. Boulder: L. Rienner Publishers, 1998.
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King, Stephen. Stephen King's danse macabre. 2nd ed. New York: Berkley Books, 2001.
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King, Stephen. Danse macabre: Die Welt des Horrors in Literatur und Film. 2nd ed. München: Heyne, 1989.
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(Editor), Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, and Alison Goeller (Editor), eds. Embodying Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance (Forecaast Vol 4). Lit Verlag, 2001.
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McNally, David, and David McNally. Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor, and Liberation (S U N Y Series in Radical Social and Political Theory). State University of New York Press, 2000.
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McNally, David. Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor, and Liberation (S U N Y Series in Radical Social and Political Theory). State University of New York Press, 2000.
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Ciunaite, Ilona. Liberation unleashed: A guide to breaking free from the illusion of a separate self. 2016.
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Sen, Somdeep. Decolonizing Palestine. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752735.001.0001.
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This book rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, it considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. Specifically, the book examines the two seemingly contradictory, yet coexistent, anticolonial and postcolonial modes of politics adopted by Hamas following the organization's unexpected victory in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council election. Despite the expectations of experts, Hamas has persisted as both an armed resistance to Israeli settler colonial rule and as a governing body. Based on ethnographic material collected in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Israel, and Egypt, the book argues that the puzzle Hamas presents is not rooted in predicting the timing or process of its abandonment of either role. The challenge instead lies in explaining how and why it maintains both, and what this implies for the study of liberation movements and postcolonial studies more generally.
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Gannon, Sharon, and David Life. Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul. Ballantine Books, 2002.
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Crisp, Tony. Liberating the body: Movements to awaken your inner self. Aquarian P., 1992.
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Bergoffen, Debra. Simone de Beauvoir. Edited by Dan Zahavi. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755340.013.21.
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Identifying herself as a philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir took the phenomenological ideas of the lived body, situated freedom, intentionality, intersubjective vulnerability, and the existential ethical-political concepts of critique, responsibility, and justice, in new directions. She distinguished two moments in an ongoing dialogue of intentionality: the joys of disclosure and the desires of mastery. She disrupted the phenomenological account of perception, revealing its hidden ideological dimensions. Attending to the embodied experience of sex, gender, and age, she challenged the privilege accorded to the working body and introduced us to the unique humanity of the erotic body. Her categories of the Other and the Second Sex exposed the patriarchal norms that are naturalized in the taken-for-granted givens of the life-world. In translating the phenomenological-existential concepts of transcendence and freedom into an activist ethics of critique, hope, and liberation, her work continues to influence phenomenology, existentialism, and feminist theory and practice.
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Baker, Courtney R., ed. Emmett Till, Justice, and the Task of Recognition. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039485.003.0004.
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This chapter examines how the political ideas that would come to shape the civil rights movement in America were fomented and sometimes nearly thwarted by focusing on the many visual encounters with the dead and disfigured body of Emmett Till—some in the flesh, some mediated by photography. The chapter analyzes how the decision of Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett Till's mother, to have an open-casket funeral for her son made possible the wide-scale circulation of photographs of his body. An examination of the courtroom in which Till's murderers were tried makes clear the paradoxical uses of his image. This use demonstrates that the political utility of seeing another's disfigured body lies in recognizing that the violence enacted upon the Other is also violence enacted upon the Self. The chapter offers a psychoanalytic and deconstructionist interpretation of recognition, which is figured as a central project in the struggle for black liberation and civil rights.
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Fischer-Lichte, Erika. A Culture in Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199651634.003.0006.
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Chapter 4 investigates the role of the new image of Greece in the first decades of the twentieth century. ‘A Culture in Crisis: Max Reinhardt’s Productions of Greek Tragedies (1903–1919)’ addresses two problems: first, the new body ideal and its liberation from the restraints imposed on it until then, and, second, the division within society of those who made a cult of their individuality and the rapidly growing masses of the proletariat. While in Reinhardt’s Electra (1903) Gertrud Eysoldt displayed her body as that of a maenad or a hysteric, a number of new devices were developed in Oedipus the King (1910) and the Oresteia (1911), both performed in a circus, which temporarily transformed the masses of actors and spectators into a—theatrical—community. The chapter also discusses Leopold Jessner’s production of Oedipus (1929) as a quest for a ‘philosophical theatre’ (Brecht).
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Peckruhn, Heike. Revisiting Body Theology Approaches. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280925.003.0006.
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Chapter 6 revisits feminist theologies, using body theology commitments to analyze potential issues detected in the works of Carter Heyward and Marcella Althaus-Reid. Inattention to the dynamics of perception fundamental to our bodily experience inadvertently undermines the strength of their respective works. Both theologians explicitly reflect on bodily experience and seek to construct liberative theologies, make reference to the pitfalls of body/mind dualisms, and highlight, in one way or another, knowledge via perception. Bringing body theology commitments to Carter Heyward’s theological project, the chapter discusses ways in which body theology can go beyond naïve appeals to sensory perception as epistemological venue. Marcella Althaus-Reid’s work will serve as an example of body metaphor theology. Exploring and suspending/delaying Althaus-Reid’s theological method will show how body theology can strengthen theological aims, namely by dwelling on and exploring experience more thoroughly, thus avoiding a too quick move from experience to metaphor.
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Fitzgerald, Joseph R. The Struggle Is Eternal. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176499.001.0001.
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Using an extensive body of sources, including more than thirty interviews, this biography details and analyzes the life of human rights activist Gloria Richardson, leader of the Cambridge movement in Maryland during the 1960s. Because her radical and uncompromising positions on black liberation were highly influential on the Black Power wave of the black liberation movement, this book depicts Richardson as a progenitor of Black Power who served in its leadership vanguard. This book also moves the geographic borders of Black Power’s roots south to Maryland’s Eastern Shore, detailing the Cambridge movement’s social justice campaign for more jobs and improvements in housing, health care, and education. Activists in Cambridge used the vote and armed self-defense to achieve their goals, and Black Power activists embraced these same strategies and tactics in the mid-1960s, seeing Richardson as a transitional human rights leader and role model. In addition to examining Richardson’s social, economic, and political philosophies—secular humanism, socioeconomic egalitarianism, and gender egalitarianism—and how they impacted her human rights activism, this book analyzes the gendered interpretation of Richardson’s activism and discusses how she was both similar to and different from other national civil rights leaders. Readers also get an insider’s view of her personal life before and after the 1960s, including her marriages, motherhood, and careers and her assessments of recent social justice movements.
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Gamble, Ruth. From Death to Childhood. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190690779.003.0006.
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Chapter 5 tells Rangjung Dorje’s version of his consciousness’s interlife journey from the second Karmapa’s death to his birth and childhood. It begins by analyzing his recollections of Karma Pakshi’s death in the Liberation Story of the In-between State, and his subsequent aborted attempt to enter the body of a nearby corpse. It then follows as he journeys to heaven and is convinced by a group of earth guardians to take rebirth as a human; he later endures the horrors of a human womb. As it tells this story, the chapter highlights the importance of this kind of storytelling to the reincarnation tradition and how this story has been altered over the centuries. The chapter ends with Orgyenpa’s recognition of Rangjung Dorje as Karma Pakshi’s reincarnation, and then describes his early training.
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Cox, Fiona. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779889.003.0001.
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This chapter offers an overview of Ovidian reception at the turn of the millennium, and identifies a new trend of contemporary women writers turning to Ovid. It analyses the intersections between Ovid’s playful subversiveness and the concerns of third-wave feminists, which extend much further than the second-wave recuperation of women’s lost voices, couched in terms that in fact excluded the vast majority of women. In the hands of contemporary women writers Ovid speaks of a multitude of issues, including contemporary politics, of body image, illness, global warming, and the financial crisis. After the criteria governing the selection of women writers to be discussed have been established, a short story of A. S. Byatt is analysed, illustrating the ways in which she alludes to Ovidian myth while simultaneously portraying a world of illness, grief, and ultimately liberation.
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Heins, Laura. The Nazi Modernization of Sex: Romance Melodrama. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037740.003.0003.
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This chapter explores how Third Reich romance melodramas attempted to form spectator desires to the benefit of Nazi imperialist aims. Nazi romance films positioned Third Reich culture as a liberation from nineteenth-century sexual morality while encouraging female participation in the public sphere in preparation for a war economy. The sexual content of Nazi films was furthermore calculated to exceed that of Hollywood in an attempt to make Nazi rule appear more attractive to German, occupied, and neutral audiences. And contrary to the assumptions that the Nazis attempted to desexualize the cinema, historical evidence shows that the erotic attractions of female performers were explicitly used in order to suppress political critique. Yet the “woman question” continually threatened to interfere with the propaganda minister's instrumentalization of the female body, and Nazi cinema's deployment of the erotic sometimes backfired.
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Clearing: A Guide to Liberating Energies Trapped in Buildings and Lands. Findhorn Press, 2006.
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Milbank, Alison. Supernatural Naturalism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824466.003.0013.
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Carlyle’s ‘Natural Supernaturalism’ or synthesis of idealism and realism is interpreted by Mark Abrams as an immanentizing project. This is questioned in Chapter 12 by analysing ghost stories by women writers who reverse this trajectory to anchor the real in a supernatural cause. They use realism to open a transcendent depth in the material object. Emily Brontë’s lovers in Wuthering Heights seek to burst the limits of the material but are left in a liminal spectrality. Elizabeth Gaskell uses the reality of the supernatural to question the refusal of original sin by rational dissent. Margaret Oliphant’s Dantesque ghost stories establish the supernatural as the truly real positively in ‘A Beleaguered City’ and more problematically in ‘A Library Window’. Finally Charlotte Brontë’s supposedly new psychological Gothic is shown to be wholly traditional and to yoke feminist and theological desires for liberation in an apocalyptic union of body and soul.
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Rey, Terry. The Prophetess in Fantasy and Imagination. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625849.003.0010.
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Methodologically departing somewhat from the strongly empirical chapters that precede it, Chapter 9, “The Prophetess in Fantasy and Imagination,” employs art history, literary analysis, and ethnography to consider the place of Romaine-la-Prophétesse in French and Caribbean fantasy and imagination. Raising the question as to why Romaine does not appear as a figure in Haiti’s celebrated artistic culture, save for brief mention in a single poem, the chapter analyzes his appearance in a novel by Victor Hugo, Bug Jargal, and another by the contemporary Cuban author Maya Moreno, In the Palm of Darkness, to assess imbalances between historical fact and literary imagination. It also considers briefly the prophetess’ subtly emergent status as an icon of both black and LGBT pride and liberation. Processes of racial and sexual identity impelled by Romaine’s historical reality and contemporary appropriation are highlighted in this, the final body chapter of the study.
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Reuter, Martina. François Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810261.003.0003.
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This chapter demonstrates how French thinker François Poulain de la Barre (1648–1723) made a profound contribution to feminist thought by adapting Cartesian ideas towards arguments for the liberation of women in the early modern era. First, it shows that Poulain embraces Cartesian method, and highlights the freedom of the intellect in all human beings, in order to establish that women are intellectually equal to men. Second, this chapter discusses Poulain’s contention that in order for women to overcome their own internalized prejudices, they must realize that their subjugation to men is neither a natural nor a justified state of affairs. Finally, this chapter examines Poulain’s claim that a woman’s self-knowledge—knowledge of herself as a human being, an immaterial mind united to a material body—is a necessary prerequisite for the attainment of her liberty. The upshot is that, for Poulain, self-knowledge is the key for women overcoming their subjugation.
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Curtis IV, Edward E. Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479875009.001.0001.
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The future of US democracy depends on the question of whether Muslim Americans can become full social and political citizens. Though many Muslims have worked toward full assimilation since the 1950s, it has mattered little whether they have expressed dissent or supported the political status quo. Their efforts to assimilate have been futile because the liberal terms under which they have negotiated their citizenship have simultaneously alienated Muslims from the body politic. Focusing on both electoral and grassroots Muslim political participation, this book reveals Muslim challenges to and accommodation of liberalism from the Cold War to the war on terror. It shows how the Nation of Islam both resisted and made use of postwar liberalism, and then how Malcolm X sought a political alternative in his Islamic ethics of liberation. The book charts the changing Muslim American politics of the late twentieth century, examining how Muslim Americans fashioned their political participation in response to a form of US nationalism tied to war-making against Muslims abroad. The book analyzes the everyday resistance of Muslim American women to an American identity politics that put their bodies at the center of US public life and it assesses the attempts of Muslim Americans to find acceptance through military service. It concludes with an examination of the role of Muslim American dissent in the contemporary politics of the United States.
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Hickey, Wakoh Shannon. Mind Cure. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190864248.001.0001.
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Mindfulness is widely claimed to improve health and performance, and historians typically say that efforts to promote meditation and yoga therapeutically began in the 1970s. In fact, they began much earlier, and that early history offers important lessons for the present and future. This book traces the history of mind-body medicine from eighteenth-century Mesmerism to the current Mindfulness boom and reveals how religion, race, and gender have shaped events. Many of the first Americans to advocate meditation for healing were women leaders of the Mind Cure movement, which emerged in the late nineteenth century. They believed that by transforming their consciousness, they could also transform oppressive circumstances in which they lived, and some were activists for social reform. Trained by Buddhist and Hindu missionaries, these women promoted meditation through personal networks, religious communities, and publications. Some influenced important African American religious movements, as well. For women and black men, Mind Cure meant not just happiness but liberation in concrete political, economic, and legal terms. The Mind Cure movement exerted enormous pressure on mainstream American religion and medicine, and in response, white, male doctors and clergy with elite academic credentials appropriated some of its methods and channeled them into scientific psychology and medicine. As mental therapeutics became medicalized, individualized, and then commodified, the religious roots of meditation, like the social justice agendas of early Mind Curers, fell away. After tracing how we got from Mind Cure to Mindfulness, this book reveals what got lost in the process.
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Boy Scout bigotry: Fighting back. San Francisco, Calif. (1663 Mission St., Suite 550): National Center for Lesbian Rights, 1992.
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Starks, Tricia. Smoking under the Tsars. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501722059.001.0001.
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Using unusual sources and approaching tobacco from the perspective of users, producers, and objectors, this monograph provides an unparalleled view of the early transfer by the Russian market to smoking and presents the addictive, nicotine-soaked Russian cigarette – the papirosa -- and the sensory, medical, social, cultural, and gendered consequences of this unique style of tobacco use. Starting with the papirosa’s introduction in the nineteenth century and foundation as a cultural and imperial construct, the monograph moves through its emergence as a mass-use product of revolutionary potential, towards discussion as a moral and medical problem, on to its mass-marketing as a liberating object, and concluding as it became a point for increasing conflict for users, reformers, and purveyors. Material from newspapers, journals, industry publications, etiquette manuals, propaganda posters, popular literature, memoirs, cartoons, poetry, and advertising images is combined with wider scholarship in history, public health, anthropology, and addiction studies, for an ambitious social and cultural exploration of the interaction of institutions, ideas, practice, policy, consumption, identity, and the body. Utilizing these unique approaches and sources, the work reconstructs how early-Russian smokers experienced, understood, and presented their habit in all its biological, psychological, social, and sensory inflections.
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Reich-Ranicki, Marcel. The Author of Himself. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691206066.001.0001.
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The author of this book was born into a Jewish family in Poland in 1920, and he moved to Berlin as a boy. There he discovered his passion for literature and began a complex affair with German culture. In 1938, his family was deported back to Poland, where German occupation forced him into the Warsaw Ghetto. As a member of the Jewish resistance, a translator for the Jewish Council, and a man who personally experienced the ghetto's inhumane conditions, the author gained both a bird's-eye and ground-level view of Nazi barbarism. His account of this episode is among the most compelling and dramatic ever recorded. He escaped with his wife and spent two years hiding in the cellar of Polish peasants. After liberation, he joined and then fell out with the Communist Party and was temporarily imprisoned. He began writing and soon became Poland's foremost critical commentator on German literature. When he returned to Germany in 1958, his rise was meteoric. He claimed national celebrity and notoriety as the head of the literary section of the leading newspaper and host of his own television program. He frequently flabbergasted viewers with his bold pronouncements and flexed his power to make or break a writer's career. This, together with his keen critical instincts, makes his memoir an indispensable guide to contemporary German culture as well as an absorbing eyewitness history of some of the twentieth century's most important events.