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"A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior. What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time-and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to a blend of classical Greek and Roman philosophy and Christian theology for their concepts of the sexes. For the height of female attractiveness, they chose the mythical Helen of Troy, whose imagined pear shape, small breasts, and golden hair served as beauty's epitome. Casting Eve's shadow over medieval women, they derided them as oversexed sinners, inherently lustful, insatiable, and weak. And, unless a nun, a woman was to be the embodiment of perfect motherhood. In contrast, drawing on accounts of remarkable and subversive medieval women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Hildegard of Bingen, along with others hidden in documents and court cases, Janega shows us how real women of the era lived. While often mothers, they were industrious farmers, brewers, textile workers, artists, and artisans and paved the way for new ideas about women's nature, intellect, and ability. In The Once and Future Sex, Janega unravels the restricting expectations on medieval women and the ones on women today. She boldly questions why, if our ideas of women have changed drastically over time, we cannot reimagine them now to create a more equitable future"--

"From 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International USA. During this time, he and the organization confronted some of the greatest challenges to human rights, including genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sudan; controversies over the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the use of torture by the United States after 9/11; as well as growing concern about inequities in the American justice system, from police misconduct to the death penalty. Drawing upon his encounters with tyrants, the inspiration of brave human rights heroes, and collaborations with celebrities ranging from Patrick Stewart to Salma Hayek, Schulz uses poignant narrative and amusing anecdotes to discuss the day-to-day realities of struggling with life-and-death human rights crises. In the process he ducks an assassination threat in Liberia; brings tears to the eyes of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; and bests America's self-described "toughest sheriff" on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect. Full of reflection as well as action, Reversing the Rivers provides Schulz with the opportunity to address profound philosophical questions, such as "What is the nature of evil?"; "How do we foster the 'better angels of our nature'?" "When may we use force to stop people from using force?" "Is the prohibition on torture as simple as it seems?" and "What's wrong with an eye for an eye?" Most important, in an eloquent concluding chapter, he answers the quandary most frequently posed to him during his years at Amnesty, "Given all the horrors in the world you see day after day, how do you retain any hope at all in humanity?""--

"Offers intermediate Greek students a reliable, up-to-date introduction to Plato's most influential work. Plato's Greek is not difficult, but his ideas have generated considerable controversy. Book I serves as a dramatic introduction to them, with its memorable confrontation between Socrates and the sophist Thrasymachus over the nature of justice"--

Wie viel Hyaluron passt in das Gesicht einer intelligenten Frau? Wie viel Botox kann ich meiner politischen Haltung zumuten? Wie viel Hängebrust ertragen? Saralisa Volm steckt mittendrin im Schönheitswahn. Es ist Zeit für körperliche Selbstermächtigung, besseren Sex, echte Wut, entspanntes Altwerden und dafür, endlich nein zu sagen. Überall ist Körper. Überall ist Bewertung. Kein Entkommen. Was macht das mit uns? Saralisa Volm, Schauspielerin, Filmproduzentin und Kuratorin, ist hin- und hergerissen zwischen der Generalsanierung ihres Körpers und einem großen "Fuck you". Kann man sich nicht einfach unförmig finden und trotzdem das Leben genießen? Die 38-Jährige hat sich beruflich und privat intensiv mit dem Thema Körper beschäftigt. Hier erzählt sie die Geschichte ihres ambivalenten Verhältnisses zum eigenen Körper. Sie ist der Ausgangspunkt für die feministische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema. Wer ist schuld an unserem Schönheitsdilemma? Und vor allem: Was können wir Frauen ihm entgegensetzen. "Was für eine kluge, schmerzhafte wie intime Analyse der permanenten Fremdbestimmungen, denen der weibliche Körper ausgesetzt ist." Samira El Ouassil "Ein ehrlicher Blick in Abgründe und gleichzeitig eine Umarmung, warm und heilsam." Verena Altenberger