Embodying the Monster - 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 Embodying the Monster write by Margrit Shildrick. This book was released on 2001-11-01. Embodying the Monster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by one of the most distinguished commentators in the field, this book asks why we see some bodies as ′monstrous′ or ′vulnerable′ and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily ′normality′ and bodily perfection. Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, Margrit Shildrick argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent. In trying to organize it out of the discourses of normality, we point to the impossibility of realizing a fully developed, invulnerable self. She calls upon us to rethink the monstrous, not as an abnormal category, but as a condition of attractivenes, and demonstrates how this involves an exploration of relationships between bodies and embodied selves, and a revising of the phenomenology of the body.
Embodying the Monster
Embodying the Monster - 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 Embodying the Monster write by Margrit Shildrick. This book was released on 2002. Embodying the Monster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the ideas of bodily monstrosity; vulnerablity; normality; and perfection, this book examines the ideologies surrounding these perceptions and considers what this tells us about ourselves.
Emotion and Social Theory
Emotion and Social Theory - 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 Emotion and Social Theory write by Simon Williams. This book was released on 2001-02-27. Emotion and Social Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The emotions have traditionally been marginalized in mainstream social theory. This book demonstrates the problems that this has caused and charts the resurgence of emotions in social theory today. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, both classical and contemporary, Simon Williams treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and our embodied relationship to the world. He reflects and comments upon the turn towards the body and intimacy in social theory, and explains what is important in current thinking about emotions. In his doing so, readers are provided with a critical assessment of various positions within the field, including the strengths and weaknesses of poststructuralism and postmodernism for examinin
Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel
Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel - 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 Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel write by Safwat Marzouk. This book was released on 2015-06-05. Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Appealing to Monster Theory and the ancient Near Eastern motif of "Chaoskampf," Safwat Marzouk argues that the paradoxical character of the category of the monster is what prompts the portrayal of Egypt as a monster in the book of Ezekiel. While on the surface the monster seems to embody utter difference, underlying its otherness there is a disturbing sameness. Though the monster may be defeated and its body dismembered, it is never completely annihilated. Egypt is portrayed as a monster in the book of Ezekiel because Egypt represents the threat of religious assimilation. Although initially the monstrosity of Egypt is constructed because of the shared elements of identity between Egypt and Israel, the prophet flips this imagery of monster in order to embody Egypt as a monstrous Other. In a combat myth, YHWH defeats the monster and dismembers its body. Despite its near annihilation, Egypt, in Ezekiel's rhetoric, is not entirely obliterated. Rather, it is kept at bay, hovering at the periphery, questioning Israel's identity.
Monstrosity
Monstrosity - 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 Monstrosity write by Alexa Wright. This book was released on 2013-06-30. Monstrosity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the 'Monster of Ravenna' to the 'Elephant Man', Myra Hindley and Ted Bundy, the visualisation of 'real', human monsters has always played a part in how society sees itself. But what is the function of a monster? Why do we need to embody and represent what is monstrous? This book investigates the appearance of the human monster in Western culture, both historically and in our contemporary society. It argues that images of real (rather than fictional) human monsters help us both to identify and to interrogate what constitutes normality; we construct what is acceptable in humanity by depicting what is not quite acceptable. By exploring theories and examples of abnormality, freakishness, madness, otherness and identification, Alexa Wright demonstrates how monstrosity and the monster are social and cultural constructs. However, it soon becomes clear that the social function of the monster – however altered a form it takes – remains constant; it is societal self-defence allowing us to keep perceived monstrosity at a distance. Through engaging with the work of Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva and Canguilhem (to name but a few) Wright scrutinises and critiques the history of a mode of thinking. She reassesses and explodes conventional concepts of identity, obscuring the boundaries between what is 'normal' and what is not.
