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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Orbach, Susie
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 39 2009
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- lichamen, psychologie, psychoanalyse, vrouwbeelden, anorexia nervosa, diëten, plastische chirurgie, wereld, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 2000-2009, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Throughout the Western world, people have come to believe that general dissatisfaction can be relieved by some change in their bodies. Here Susie Orbach explains the origins of this condition, and examines its implications. Challenging the Freudian view that bodily disorders originate and progress in the mind, she argues that we should look at self-mutilation, obesity, anorexia, and plastic surgery on their own terms, through a reading of the body itself. Incorporating the latest research from neuropsychology, as well as case studies from her own practice, she traces many of these fixations back to the relationship between mothers and babies, to anxieties that are transferred unconsciously. She reveals how vulnerable our bodies are, how susceptible to every kind of negative stimulus--from a nursing infant sensing a mother's discomfort to a grown man or woman feeling inadequate because of a model on a billboard. .In the past several decades, a globalized media has overwhelmed us with images of an idealized, westernized body, and conditioned us to see any exception to that ideal as a problem. The body has become an object, a site of production and commerce in and of itself. Instead of our bodies making things, we now make our bodies. Orbach reveals the true dimensions of the crisis, and points the way toward healing and acceptance.
gendered space and mobility in American women's road narratives, 1970-2000
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ganser, Alexandra
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 2009
- Thesaurus
- reisliteratuur, reizigers, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Reading Jack Kerouac's 'On the road' through Virginia Woolf's 'A room of one's own', the author examines women's road narratives. The study shows how women's literature has inscribed itself into the American discourse of the 'freedom of the road'. Women writers have participated in this myth, yet at the same time also have rejected it as fundamentally based on gendered and racial/ethnic hierarchies and power structures. The book analyzes stories about female runaways, outlaws, adventurers, kidnaps, biker chicks and travelling saleswomen and makes theoretical observations on the debates regarding discourses of spatiality and mobility.
emotion and ACT UP's fight against AIDS
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gould, Deborah B.
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2009
- Thesaurus
- aids, acties, emoties, sociale bewegingen, lesbische vrouwen, homo's, Verenigde Staten, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by taking to the streets. But by the early 1990s, the organization they founded, ACT UP, was no more—even as the AIDS epidemic raged on. Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author’s time as a member of the organization, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. Overlooked by many scholars of social movements, emotion, Gould argues, plays a fundamental role in political activism. From anger to hope, pride to shame, and solidarity to despair, feelings played a significant part in ACT UP’s style of protest, which included demonstrations, die-ins, and other kinds of street theater.
seeking gender justice in a globalizing age
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Reilly, Niamh
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 1L 2009
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- mensenrechten, gelijke behandeling, globalisering, internationaal, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw, 2000-2009, 21e eeuw
- Description
- This book explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for women's human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main influences that have shaped the movement and explores how western, legalist, state-centric as well as profound gender biases continue to impede enjoyment of human rights in women's lives in all regions.
reading incest in neoliberal America
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Harkins, Gillian
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2009
- Thesaurus
- incest, literatuur, Verenigde Staten, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author posits the late twentieth-century increase in incest literature against political and economic changes of the era. Issues of race, class and gender are emphasized in textual analysis, which is combined with theory –feminist and multidisciplinary– and discussion of the culture of the era. The author is particularly concerned with the effects of neoliberal ideology on patriarchal distributions of power within nationally constructed fantasies of the Freudian concept of the family romance. She discusses different concepts of trauma, the history and cultural variations of the incest taboo and the so called 'memory wars' in the debate on incest.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Versantvoort, Maroesjka
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- arbeidsparticipatie, betaalde arbeid, zorgarbeid, arbeidsverdeling naar sekse, Nederland, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 2000-2009, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, paper, statistiek
- Description
- Analyse van de tijdbestedingsdata voor Nederland en onderzoek naar de aannemelijkheid van de idee dat een reductie van arbeidstijd leidt tot een verhoging van zorgtijd. Het beslaat de periode 1975-1979 tot en met 2000-2004. De bevindingen plaatsen vraagtekens bij de te verwachten effectiviteit van verlofarrangementen als het gaat om het waarborgen van zorgtijd, met name voor mannen, maar in mindere mate ook voor vrouwen.
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