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Constructing "Ophelias" : Time magazine, neoliberalism, and the next female generation -- "Precious years ... lost" : early puberty and the discourse of sexualization -- "The perfect storm" : constructing the Gloucester High School pregnancy pact -- American girls & sex : manufacturing a crisis around girls and social media -- "The media loves Emma González" : activism, celebrification, and intersecting -- Conclusion: Making sense of "the grand narrative."

"For three centuries, concepts of the state have been animated by one of the most powerful metaphors in politics: the body politic, a claustrophobic and bounded image of sovereignty. Climate change, neoliberalism, mass migration, and other aspects of the late Anthropocene have increasingly revealed the limitations of this metaphor. Just as the human body is not whole and separate from other bodies--comprising microbes, bacteria, water, and radioactive isotopes--Stefanie R. Fishel argues that the body politic of the state exists in dense entanglement with other communities and forms of life. Drawing on insights from continental philosophy, science and technology studies, and international relations theory, this path-breaking book critiques the concept of the body politic on the grounds of its very materiality. Fishel both redefines and extends the metaphor of the body politic and its role in understanding an increasingly posthuman, globalized world politics. By conceiving of bodies and states as lively vessels, living harmoniously with multiplicity and the biosphere, she argues that a radical shift in metaphors can challenge a politics based on fear to open new forms of global political practice and community. Reframing the concept of the body politic to accommodate greater levels of complexity, Fishel suggests, will result in new configurations for the political and social organization necessary to build a world in which the planet's inhabitants do not merely live but actively thrive"--

"What happens when your body doesn't look how it's supposed to look, or feel how it's supposed to feel, or do what it's supposed to do? Who or what defines the ideals behind these expectations? How can we challenge them and live more peacefully in our bodies? Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement explores these questions by examining how traditional religious narratives and modern philosophical assumptions come together in the construction and pursuit of a better body in contemporary western societies. Drawing on examples from popular culture such as self-help books, magazines, and advertisements, Michelle Mary Lelwica shows how these narratives and assumptions encourage us to go to war against our bodies-to fight fat, triumph over disability, conquer chronic pain and illness, and defy aging. Through an ethic of conquest and conformity, the culture of physical improvement trains us not only to believe that all bodily processes are under our control, but to feel ashamed about those parts of our flesh that refuse to comply with the cultural ideal. Lelwica argues that such shame is not a natural response to being fat, physically impaired, chronically sick, or old. Rather, body shame is a religiously and culturally conditioned reaction to a commercially-fabricated fantasy of physical perfection. While Shameful Bodies critiques the religious and cultural norms and narratives that perpetuate external and internalized judgment and aggression toward "shameful" bodies, it also engages the resources of religions, especially feminist theologies and Buddhist thought/practice, to construct a more affirming approach to health and healing-an approach that affirms the diversity, fragility, interdependence, and impermanence of embodied life."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Contents -- Introduction -- Dirk Solies: The Concept of Person - Shifting between the Conflicting Priorities of Rendering Our Practical Lives Meaningful and Providing Directions for Action -- 1. Why Person? - On the Practical Relevance of the Concept of Person -- 2. The Crypto-Prescriptive Status of the Concept of Person - a Conceptual Criticism -- 3. Refraining from Using the Concept of Person - an Alternative? -- Literature -- Eberhard Guhe: Menschenbild und Medizinethik vom Standpunkt des Theravāda-Buddhismus -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- Literatur -- Eberhard Guhe: Entscheidungskriterien bei bioethischen Problemen aus buddhistischer Sicht -- 1. Motivation der Forschungsreisen -- 2. Interviewpartner, Ort und Inhalt der Interviews -- 3. Ergebnisse -- 4. Fazit -- Eberhard Guhe: Transplantation from a Modern Buddhist Viewpoint -- Literature -- Patricia Rehm-Grätzel: The Person in Search of its Author - On Hannah Arendt's Foundation of the Narrative Identity -- Literature -- Stephan Grätzel: Selfhood as a Condition for Justifying Life -- Summary -- The Self is Inescapable -- The definition of Person -- The Moods of Speech-Act -- Justifying Life -- Paul Nnodim: The Conception of Person in African Philosophy: Personhood in Igbo Life and Thought -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dimensions of Personhood -- 2.1. Intrinsic or Ontological Dimension of Person -- The Body or Ahu -- Mmuo or Spirit -- Chi -- Chi as Creative Essence of the Supreme Creator or Chi-ukwu -- Chi as Complementary Spirit -- Chi as Destiny -- 2.2. The Extrinsic or Normative Dimension of Person -- 3. Conclusion -- Literature -- Stephan Schaede: Person - Body - Life. A Theological Stress Test of a Strained Term -- 1. Kant and person -- 2. Is God a person? -- 3. Jesus Christ - a person? -- 4. Person as a Phenomenon of Representation -- Literature

Der Reader versammelt programmatische Ansätze der kulturwissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Problem der Evidenz aus dem Blickpunkt der Sprach-, Geschichts-, Kunst- und Literaturwissenschaft, Medientheorie, Anthropologie und Soziologie. Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Rüdiger Campe, Iris Daermann, Egon Flaig, Peter Geimer, Vinzenz Hediger, Caspar Hirschi, Ludwig Jäger, Albrecht Koschorke, Helmut Lethen, Jakob Moser, Inka Mülder-Bach, Jan-Dirk Müller, Karl Schlögel, Florian Sprenger, Jakob Tanner, Marcus Twellmann, Juliane Vogel und Claus Zittel.

Why do we dress the way we do? Why has fashion changed and evolved over the centuries? How did the 3-piece suit come about? What is a ruff? Why have hemlines risen and fallen over time? Why did a suntan replace the pale, peaches-and-cream face as the sign of a high-class woman? In this book, fashion specialist Colin McDowell goes beyond standard fashion histories and narrative surveys to answer all these questions and more. Fashion is both functional and expressive we wear clothes to keep warm or for protection but they also articulate the way we feel and are often used to impress. Fashion trends are influenced by history and their social context. For example, the waistcoat is often believed to have been introduced as part of the Victorian 3-piece suit. In fact, it was brought to England by Charles II in 1666 after his restoration and return from exile at the French court. Samuel Pepys, diarist and civil servant, wrote: 'The King hath yesterday in council declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes which he will never alter. It will be a vest, I know not well how.' Charles wanted the new garment to be part of a restrained national dress for gentlemen and the vest flourished throughout Georgian times as a show-off garment made of rich silks and heavily embroidered, often in silver and gold

Alles, was wir Menschen tun, tun wir als leiblich strukturierte Wesen: Vom Stoffwechsel angefangen über unsere Bewegungen bis hin zur Kommunikation. Nicht umsonst heißt es im Deutschen: »Wie er / sie leibt und lebt. In vielen gesellschaftlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten scheint dagegen die Leiblichkeit des Menschen aus dem Blick zu geraten. So kommt es z. B. in der Gehirnforschung vor, dass der Mensch auf ein Wesen aus Gehirn und Geist reduziert betrachtet wird. Der vorliegende Band greift die Leibthematik aus medizinischer, philosophischer und theologischer Sicht ebenso wie aus der Perspektive von Literaten, Tänzern und Künstlern auf. Mit Beiträgen von Mónica E. Alarcón Dávila, Thomas Fuchs, Manuela Fuelle, Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz, Achim Hahn, Martin Hähnel, Christian Ide Hintze, Regine Kather, Marcus Knaup, Roland Kohlhaas, Jutta Pagel-Steidl, Günter Rager, Joseph Ratzinger (Benedikt XVI.), Harald Seubert, Jörg Scheller, Eberhard Schockenhoff, Patrick Spät, Magnus Striet, Johannes Weise.