Dissenting Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dissenting Bodies write by Martha L. Finch. This book was released on 2009-11-22. Dissenting Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the Puritan separatists of seventeenth-century New England, "godliness," as manifested by the body, was the sign of election, and the body, with its material demands and metaphorical significance, became the axis upon which all colonial activity and religious meaning turned. Drawing on literature, documents, and critical studies of embodiment as practiced in the New England colonies, Martha L. Finch launches a fascinating investigation into the scientific, theological, and cultural conceptions of corporeality at a pivotal moment in Anglo-Protestant history. Not only were settlers forced to interact bodily with native populations and other "new world" communities, they also fought starvation and illness; were whipped, branded, hanged, and murdered; sang, prayed, and preached; engaged in sexual relations; and were baptized according to their faith. All these activities shaped the colonists' understanding of their existence and the godly principles of their young society. Finch focuses specifically on Plymouth Colony and those who endeavored to make visible what they believed to be God's divine will. Quakers, Indians, and others challenged these beliefs, and the constant struggle to survive, build cohesive communities, and regulate behavior forced further adjustments. Merging theological, medical, and other positions on corporeality with testimonies on colonial life, Finch brilliantly complicates our encounter with early Puritan New England.
Bodies in Dissent
Bodies in Dissent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies in Dissent write by Daphne Brooks. This book was released on 2006. Bodies in Dissent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Performance and identity in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Arican-American creative work.
Subaltern Women’s Narratives
Subaltern Women’s Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Subaltern Women’s Narratives write by Samraghni Bonnerjee. This book was released on 2020-12-29. Subaltern Women’s Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Subaltern Women's Narratives brings together intersectional feminist scholarship from the Humanities and Social Sciences and explores subaltern women’s narratives of resistance and subversion. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection focuses on fictional texts, archival records, and ethnographic research to explore the lived experiences of subaltern women in different marginalised communities across a wide geographical landscape, as they negotiate their way through modes of labour and activism. Thematically grouped, the focus of this book is two-fold: to look at the lived experiences of subaltern women as they negotiate their lives in a world of political flux and conflicts; and to examine subaltern women’s dissenting practices as recorded in texts and archives. This collection will push the boundaries of scholarship on decolonial and postcolonial feminism and subaltern studies, reading women’s subversive practices especially in the themes of epistemology and embodiment. This book is aimed primarily at scholars, postgraduates, and undergraduates working in the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies. It will appeal to both historians and scholars of nineteenth century and contemporary literature. Specifically scholars working on subaltern theory, feminist theory, indigenous cultures, anticolonial resistance, and the Global South will find this book particularly relevant.
Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent
Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent write by Elisabeth Fischer. This book was released on 2021-05-31. Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to individual appropriation and to evasion of church and state control. Because bodily practices prompted much debate, they serve as a useful starting point for examining denominational divisions, allowing scholars to explore the actions of smaller and more radical divergent groups. The focus on bodies and conflicts over bodily practices are the starting point for the contributors to this volume who depart from established national and denominational historiographies to probe the often-ambiguous phenomena occurring at the interstices of confessional boundaries. In this way, the authors examine a variety of religious living conditions, socio-cultural groups, and spiritual networks of early modern Europe and the Americas. The cases gathered here skillfully demonstrate the diverse ways in which regional and local differences affected the interpretation of bodily signs. This book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern Europe and the Americas, as well as those interested in religious and gender history, and the history of dissent.
Bodies of Democracy
Bodies of Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies of Democracy write by Machin Amanda. This book was released on 2021-01-15. Bodies of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: identification, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways that human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics but also the generative subjects of democracy.
