Lascivious 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 Lascivious Bodies write by Julie Peakman. This book was released on 2005. Lascivious Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 'Lascivious Bodies' Julie Peakman presents a history of sex in 18th-century Britain, a period of wide-ranging experimentation that led to the birth of modern sexuality as we now know it.
Born Again Bodies
Born Again 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 Born Again Bodies write by R. Marie Griffith. This book was released on 2004-10-04. Born Again Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Fat People Don't Go to Heaven!" screamed a headline in the tabloid Globe in November 2000. The story recounted the success of the Weigh Down Workshop, the nation's largest Christian diet corporation and the subject of extensive press coverage from Larry King Live to the New Yorker. In the United States today, hundreds of thousands of people are making diet a religious duty by enrolling in Christian diet programs and reading Christian diet literature like What Would Jesus Eat? and Fit for God. Written with style and wit, far ranging in its implications, and rich with the stories of real people, Born Again Bodies launches a provocative yet sensitive investigation into Christian fitness and diet culture. Looking closely at both the religious roots of this movement and its present-day incarnations, R. Marie Griffith vividly analyzes Christianity's intricate role in America's obsession with the body, diet, and fitness. As she traces the underpinning of modern-day beauty and slimness ideals—as well as the bigotry against people who are overweight—Griffith links seemingly disparate groups in American history including seventeenth-century New England Puritans, Progressive Era New Thought adherents, and late-twentieth-century evangelical diet preachers.
Sex and Punishment
Sex and Punishment - 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 Sex and Punishment write by Eric Berkowitz. This book was released on 2013-04-03. Sex and Punishment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. From the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for 'gross indecency' in 1895, Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law. The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human desire itself: royal mistresses, gay charioteers, medieval transvestites, lonely goat-lovers, prostitutes of all stripes and London rent boys. Each of them had forbidden sex, and each was judged – and justice, as Berkowitz shows – rarely had anything to do with it.
Dissenting Bodies
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.
Mighty Lewd Books
Mighty Lewd Books - 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 Mighty Lewd Books write by J. Peakman. This book was released on 2003-06-24. Mighty Lewd Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.
