Feminist existentialism, biopolitics, and critical phenomenology in a time of bad health / / Talia Welsh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910504288903321
• Autore: Welsh Talia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Routledge, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 1-00-316867-1; 1-000-48065-8; 1-003-16867-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 pages)
• Collana: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
• Disciplina: 613
• Soggetti: Health behavior - Social aspects; Health attitudes - Social aspects; Public health - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The good health imperative -- Smokers, drinkers, and the fat -- The cost of smokers, drinkers, and the fat -- The good health imperative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: A critical phenomenology of health and illness -- Phenomenologies of illness and disease -- Health as a being at home and being capable -- Health as morality: obesity and disability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Feminist phenomenologies and self-regulating bodies -- The development of agency to care for the body -- Female self-regulation -- Feminist alternatives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Biopolitics and personal responsibility -- Foucault's biopolitical revolution -- The case of childhood obesity -- Problematizations -- Parental responsibility -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Marxism, reproductive labor, and the body as fetish object -- Reproductive labor-dirty and clean work -- The evolution of human need -- Body as fetish object -- Affirmative culture and the good health imperative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Alternative visions of health- somaesthetics and innumerable healths ; -- Create dangerously -- Creative self-fashioning -- Nietzsche's innumerable healths -- Innumerable selves and eternal return of the same -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Toward an existential ethics of working on the self -- Existential anxiety and bracketing the good health imperative -- Paths and fitting -- Roles, ambiguity, and natality -- Vulnerability and health -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual responsibility. We are awash in concerns about the state of our health and recommendations about how to improve our health from medical professionals, public health experts, and the diet-exercise-wellness industry. The idea that health is about wellness and not just preventing illness becomes increasingly widespread as we find out how various modifiable behaviors, such as smoking or our diets, impact our health. In a critical examination of health, we find that alongside the move toward wellness as a state that the individual is responsible to, in part produce, there is a roll-back of public programs. This book explores how this "good health imperative" is not as apolitical as one might assume. The more the individual is the locus of health, the less structural and historical issues that create health disparities are considered. Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health's main feature is to discuss the impact of the increasing shift to model of individual responsibility for one's health. It will benefit readers who are interested to think critically about normalization to produce "healthy bodies." In addition, this book will benefit readers who understand the value of personal health, but are wary of the ways in which health can be used as a tool to discriminate and fuel inequalities in health care access. This volume would primarily be of interest to academics and students interested in critically examining health from philosophical perspective in the fields of philosophy, public health, gender studies, and sociology. It would also be a useful resource for non-specialists interest in health, as well as public health and medical professionals seeking more understanding of how to encourage healthy behavior without reinforcing discrimination"--

Elephant's edge [[electronic resource] ] : the Republicans as a ruling party / / Andrew J. Taylor ; foreword by Norman J. Ornstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778549503321
• Autore: Taylor Andrew J. <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, CT, : Praeger Publishers, c 2005
• ISBN: 9786612407918; 2-7598-5363-2; 1-282-40791-0
• Descrizione fisica: xvii, 319 p
• Altri autori (Persone): OrnsteinNorman J
• Disciplina: 324.2734/09/0511
• Soggetti: Political parties - United States; United States Politics and government 2001-2009
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-301) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: American party politics today -- Uneven playing field: the constitutional and geographical origins of the Republican advantage -- Elephants in the House: after forty years in the wilderness -- Playing the democrats at their own game -- Governing stealthily: Republicans in the states and the courts -- Trapping the donkey: foreign policy as Republican advantage -- Trapping the donkey again: domestic policy as Republican advantage -- The well-oiled machine: the Republican Party organization -- Allied interests, and political money -- Winning hearts and minds: the media and the Republican ideas industry -- Social, economic, and attitudinal change as Republican advantage: public opinion and the politics of wealth, work faith, and race -- The Republicans as a ruling (not majority) party.