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UNINA9910826129903321 |
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Bigger than bones / / edited by Haley Jenkins |
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Oxford, United Kingdom : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Body image in literature |
Body image in motion pictures |
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Preliminary Material / Haley Jenkins -- Zombies and Angels: Human Nature in Light of the Unnatural / Linda Fisher-Hoyrem -- Toy Town / Haley Jenkins -- Construction of Limitations: Cultural Marginalization of Altered Embodiment / Ana Koncul -- Experience of Embodied Boundary Transformations in Pregnancy: ‘My Stomach Is Not My Stomach Anymore’ / Agne Matulaite -- Breastfeeding through Sociohistorical Lens: Tensions, Beliefs and Controversies / Ingrid Ots -- ‘My Hands are Those of a Murderer’: Conceptions and Stagings of Artificial Corporeality in Silent Films / Romina Seefried -- Becoming the Secret Self: The Relation of Body and Identity in Fantasy and Horror / Stephanie Weber -- Aberrant Consumers: Eating Disorders and Anti-Capitalist Identities / Dawn Woolley. |
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A murderer’s hands are transplanted onto an innocent pianist, an asexual child’s life is threatened by the world of sex and what really happens when pregnancy takes over a woman’s body? Marginalization, eating disorders, altered bodies, breastfeeding, silent films, the truth behind angels and zombies, these topics are all explored in this exciting volume. Where do we draw the line between ‘the body’ and ‘the other’? What does it really mean to meld the body with the biomechanical? Taking evidence from popular culture and well-known theorists worldwide, Bigger Than Bones explores how we are more than just our skeletal blueprint, that the body – and the perceptions of the |
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body – give way to many layers of debate and inquiry. From being displaced by left-handedness to obtaining wings made from the dead, this collection provides a wide variety of material focused on the body’s transformation, as well as the horror and the gifts it brings. |
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UNINA9910958662503321 |
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Greece in the twentieth century / / editors, Theodore A. Couloumbis, Theodore Kariotis, Fotini Bellou |
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London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2003 |
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1-136-34659-7 |
0-203-04589-0 |
1-283-96597-6 |
1-136-34652-X |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (342 p.) |
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CouloumbisTheodore A |
KariotisTheodore C |
BellouFotini |
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Greece History 1950-1967 |
Greece History 1967-1974 |
Greece History 1974- |
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"Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; GREECE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I; 1. The Evolving Content of the Greek Nation; PART II; 2. Greek Foreign Policy: Debates and Priorities; 3. Greece in a Changing Strategic Setting; 4. The United States and Greece in the Twentieth Century; 5. The Cyprus Question: International Politics and the Failure of Peacemaking; 6. Greece and the Balkans in the Twentieth Century; PART III; 7. The Political Scene: Consolidating Democracy |
8. The Greek Media Landscape9. Science, Technology and the |
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Environment; 10. Greek Education in the Twentieth Century: A Long Process Towards a Democratic European Society; 11. The Salience of the Greek Language in the European Union Melting Pot; 12. The Legal Parameters of Church and State Relations in Greece; PART IV; 13. The Economy: Growth without Equity; 14. The Changing Role of Women in Greece; 15. The Greek-American Community: Past Achievements and Future Opportunities; PART V; 16. Greek-Turkish Relations: A New Era?; 17. The Future of Greece in the European Union; Index |
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This collective study examines the transformation (metamorphosis) that Greece has experienced over the course of the 20th century by exploring its gradual evolution into a consolidated democracy, an advanced economy in the Eurozone and a balanced partner in the EU and NATO promoting a stabilizing role in southeastern Europe.The book examines the variables contributing to the profiling of contemporary Greece, emphasizing the conceptual inertia bedevilling the studies of Greece in recent years by focusing on the elements that indicated the slow pace in the country's modernization. In conclus |
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