Monologie: A Woman's Life in Letters

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A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. Show full abstract] distressed by these changes, midlife gay men also articulate a concern with a perceived decline in bodily appearance. The study examines how visually impaired boys construct masculinities, the subjectivity of these boys in relation to these constructions, and how they position themselves in relation to these masculinities. This morning, clutching all of my belongings in a paper bag they’d given me, I walked out of the hospital and back into my world. Alternatively the Freudian “phalocentrism” so criticized by the feminists doesn’t allow to discern the feminine in itself, because if woman is desiring .

If the starting point of psychoanalysis was the feminine - listening to women and their bodily conversion of something damned and not said of sex (hysteria), Freud ends his oeuvre leaving open the question of the feminine as the “dark continent”. He had a sort of elegant courtesy toward me--allowing me to descend before him, making sure I was comfortably seated, was it too hot, too cold in the room, a civilized deference, a decorum that asked nothing from me and that I was unused to. Show full abstract] release boys from the grip of expectation as Mary Pipher did for girls in Reviving Ophelia.Analyses of in-depth interviews with 15 gay and 15 heterosexual men ages 40-60 reveal that while both groups of men describe their bodies as deteriorating or declining in terms of functionality and are often . Trying to understand her place in that world, she undertakes therapy with a psychiatrist as different from her as he could be. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

The paper outlines the way in which older men often construct masculinity as an oppressive (hegemonic) requirement, but which can be reformed into ‘positive’ traits of ‘strength of mind’, ‘responsibility’, ‘caring’, ‘helping out’, ‘doing a favour’, and ‘giving something back’, with a consistent yet implicit assumption that enactment of these denotes a ‘proud’ masculine identity. El artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa que tuvo como ob- jetivo explorar la articulación hipotética entre masculinidad, conductas de riesgo y mortalidad por violencia en comunidades rurales de la sierra de Sonora a lo largo del siglo XX. Presentamos y problematizamos la teoría de la masculinidad hegemónica, de Raewyn Connell, así como la perspectiva queer, referencias teóricas identificados en la revisión de literatura que también está expuesta. Ms Rubinstein holds a Masters degree in Women's Studies from The Graduate School of the City University of New York. This treatment of gendered-imaginary-as-empirics imports a set of normative investments that limit the extent to which the heroic soldier myth, and the political work that it undertakes, can be deconstructed.

In constructing complex characters who struggle to live with and against the narrow definitions of . Show full abstract] major themes: studies that brought to light and analyzed a suppressed history of masculinities that departed from cultural norms (especially homosexual masculinity), and studies devoted to the reassessment of mainstream Victorian manhood. Assuming the centrality of identity construction in adolescence, this study explores the intersection of masculinity and disability in adolescent boys. The (Dis-)Establishing of Reality in Conor McPherson’s The Weir’, in Werner Huber, Martin Middeke, and Hubert Zapf (eds), Self-Reflexivity in Literature (Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2005), p. In considering what inhibits the child’s mourning, attention is paid to the psycho-social conditions that produce violent masculinities.

Show full abstract] and castrated (as the man), including maternity, she continues to be refered to the masculine - and to the phalo (also in seduction - masked).This study investigates the intersection of gender and disability in adolescent males with visual impairments. It then presents a reading of major works on Victorian masculinity from the 1990s, organized around two . Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. Robert Ryman, Volker Adolphs, Laura Arici, Dore Ashton, Kenneth Baker, Neal Benezra, Bruce Boice, Yve-Alain Bois, Christian Bonnefoi, Daniel Buren, Dan Cameron, John Canaday, David Carrier, Jean Clay, Douglas Crimp, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Arthur Danto, Jan Dibbets, Willis Domingo, Thierry de Duve, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Marcia Hafif, Ellen Handy, Gerrit Henry, Suzanne Hudson, Robert Hughes, Steven L.