Body image and body schema: interdisciplinary perspectives on the body
In: Advances in consciousness research 62
In: Advances in consciousness research 62
In: Historical Social Research, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 140-161
"This article compares the responses to the declining birthrate by three very different regimes in Wilhelmine, Weimar and Nazi Germany. In their intent these policies were markedly different: just before and during the First World War a declining birthrate symbolized national decline, sapping national progress and military power and the central aim was to boost fertility almost at any price; eugenics was not yet a major influence on official Wilhelmine policy. In the wake of the devastation reaped by the lost war and also influenced by the depression at the end of the 1920s the democratically elected governments of the Weimar Republic attempted to 'rationalize' reproduction to suit the prevailing socio-economic circumstances and the belief in modernity in industry and everyday life. They favored 'fewer but better children' but their policies remained fragmented and heavily contested; lawmakers tried to balance individual rights and collective interests, welfarism and eugenic concerns. In contrast, Nazi leaders developed a comprehensive and sophisticated system of selective reproduction based on racial prejudice; legal safeguards to protect the rights of individuals were ruthlessly dismantled. Material and ideological inducements to boost the birthrate benefited only 'Aryans' and healthy Germans. A series of extremely repressive measures were introduced: on the one hand they were meant to curb the breeding of the 'unfit', like Jews, gypsies, or those considered congenitally diseased and, on the other, they aimed to curb individual birth control by those deemed 'fit'. But of course the picture is more complicated. If we compare official population programs with their implementation at the local level and also with the reproductive strategies employed by ordinary women and men, a more subtle picture emerges about the regimes which is marked by both fundamental changes but also striking continuities." (author's abstract)
In: Curriculum inquiry: a journal from The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 229-246
ISSN: 1467-873X
In: Topics Today Ser.
Throughout the ages, the idea of a "perfect" body has always existed, although what that kind of body is has changed. Today, many people still absorb these expectations of perfection and seek validation through social media and other platforms. This in turn has led to increasing instances of body shaming. This volume examines the complex issue of body image in today's society. It uses critical thinking questions, annotated quotes, and full-color photographs to illustrate the difficulties people face in appreciating and enjoying their bodies. It provides tips for developing a more positive body image and dealing with body shaming.
In: Hobbes studies, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 126-147
ISSN: 1875-0257
Thomas Hobbes once wrote that the body politic "is a fictitious body", thereby contrasting it with a natural body. In this essay I argue that a central purpose of Hobbes's political philosophy was to cast the fiction of the body politic upon the imaginations of his readers. I elucidate the role of the imagination in Hobbes's account of human nature, before examining two ways in which his political philosophy sought to transform the imaginations of his audience. The first involved effacing the false ideas that led to sedition by enlightening men from the kingdom of spiritual darkness. I thus advance an interpretation of Hobbes's eschatology focused upon his attempt to dislodge certain theological conceptions from the minds of men. The second involved replacing this religious imagery with the fiction of the body politic and the image of the mortal God, which, I argue, Hobbes developed in order to transform the way that men conceive of their relationship with the commonwealth. I conclude by adumbrating the implications of my reading for Hobbes's social contract theory and showing why the covenant that generates the commonwealth is best understood as imaginary.
In: Readers in Cultural Criticism Ser.
Cover -- Half title -- Tiltepage -- Copyright page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Renaissance Body: From Colonisation to Invention -- 3 Second Meditation: Of the Nature of the Human Mind -- and that it is Easier to Know than the Body -- 4 A Case of Hysteria: Fräulein Elisabeth von R. -- 5 The Incitement to Discourse -- 6 From 'Seduction and Guilt' -- 7 'Who Kills Whores?' 'I Do', Says Jack: Race and Gender in Victorian London -- 8 Nietzscheanism and the Novelty of the Superman -- 9 Male Bodies and the White Terror -- 10 From 'The Fact of Blackness' -- 11 Womanliness as a Masquerade1 -- 12 The Anorexic Body: Reading Disorders -- 13 Introduction to Bodies That Matter -- 14 From 'Intensities and Flows' -- 15 Beyond Food/Sex: Eating and an Ethics of Existence -- 16 Piercings -- Summaries and Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
In April 2007, Mexico City's Legislative Assembly passed a law that decriminalized abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, and established that the Ministry of Health was to provide the service. This has allowed Mexican women to seek a legal termination of pregnancy (LTP) without any legal procedure at all, therefore setting different coordinates for the experience. This article explores the above issues through the qualitative analysis of 24 interviews with women who had an LTP in Mexico City public clinics during 2008 and 2009. The way the body is discursively constructed during the process of voluntary abortion is discussed, by looking at how its materiality is present in women's narratives. Consequently, the relations established between the subject and her body in the context of pregnancy and its termination are also looked at. The analysis shows that three kinds of embodiment come through in women's narratives of their experience of abortion: the sexual body, the fertile body, and the body of abortion.
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In: Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
In: Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 165-177
ISSN: 1469-929X
In: Dress, body, culture
Introduction: Body Dressing / Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wilson -- One Theoretical Approaches: Dress Needs: Reflections on the Clothed Body, Selfhood and Consumption / Kate Soper ; The Dressed Body / Joanne Entwistle ; Shop-Window Dummies? Fashion, the Body, and Emergent Socialities / Paul Sweetman ; Minding Appearances: Style, Truth, and Subjectivity / Susan Kaiser ; From Fashion to Masquerade: Towards an Ungendered Paradigm / Efrat Tseëlon -- Two Historical Case Studies: When they are veyl'd on purpose to be seene: The Metamorphosis of the Mask in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century London / Christoph Heyl ; Performing Selfhood: The Costumed Body as a Site of Mediation Between Life, Art and the Theatre in the English Renaissance / Ronnie Mirkin ; Manliness, Modernity and the Shaping of Male Clothing / Christopher Breward ; Embodying the Single Girl in the 1960s / Hilary Radner -- Three Contemporary Case Studies: Desire and Dread: Alexander McQueen and the Contemporary Femme Fatale / Caroline Evans ; Fashioning the Queer Self / Ruth Holliday ; Dress, Gender and the Public Display of Skin / Joanne B. Eicher -- Index.
The colorful illustrations in this picture book will help children learn to love their bodies from an early age and appreciate all the wonderful things their bodies do. The book promotes a healthy attitude which will help children understand that all bodies are different and encourage them to take good care of their bodies throughout their lives