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The good body
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ISBN: 0434013161 Year: 2004 Publisher: London William Heinemann

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Vanessa Beecroft : photographs, films, drawings
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ISBN: 3775715088 Year: 2004 Publisher: Ostfildern-Ruit Hatje Cantz Verlag

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Trouw nooit een vrouw met grote voeten: wereldwijsheid over vrouwen
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Utrecht Het Spectrum

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In dit boek worden spreekwoorden uit meer dan 240 talen en uit meer dan 150 landen thematisch beschreven en vergeleken: het lichaam van de vrouw; haar schoonheid; haar levensfasen van meisje, bruid en echtgenote tot moeder en grootmoeder; de lusten en de lasten van liefde, seks en kinderen krijgen. Ondanks culturele verschillen blijken er frappante overeenkomsten te bestaan in de patronen van dit wereldwijd doorgegeven gedachtegoed.


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The body in society: an introduction
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Polity Press

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Avant, après: les visages de la beauté: essai
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ISBN: 2715814968 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris Editions Balland

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Het beeld van Assepoester, dromend van onweerstaanbare looks, van de kleine zeemeermin klaar om te lijden voor mooie vrouwenbenen, het thema van de esthetische metamorfose heeft altijd centraal gestaan in het vrouwelijke gedachtengoed. Maar schoonheid doet vandaag een heel systeem van beelden tot leven komen en een aanzienlijke economische voorziening, die vrouwen een hele lijst met magische trucjes voorstelt. De auteur analyseert de verschillende stukjes van deze puzzel, van de hoge vlucht van de schoonheidsinstituten en andere spa's, tot de schoonheidsrubrieken, langs de reclame en het ballet van beelden van mannequins die de huidige esthetische normen vormen.


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Arete : Greek sports from ancient sources
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ISBN: 9780520931039 9786613896568 0520953940 9780520953949 9780520274334 0520274334 1283584115 0520931033 661389656X Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley, : University of California Press,

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From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity. This bestselling volume on the culture of Greek athletics is updated with a new preface by leading scholar Paul Christesen that discusses the book's continued importance for students of ancient athletics.

Reading sex in the eighteenth century : bodies and gender in English erotic culture.
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ISBN: 9780521822350 0521822351 Year: 2004 Volume: 3 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

Landscapes, gender, and ritual space : the ancient Greek experience
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ISBN: 0520929322 9786612356933 1282356933 1597346993 9780520929326 9781597346993 141754502X 9781417545025 0520235444 9780520235441 9781282356931 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,

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The division of land and consolidation of territory that created the Greek polis also divided sacred from productive space, sharpened distinctions between purity and pollution, and created a ritual system premised on gender difference. Regional sanctuaries ameliorated competition between city-states, publicized the results of competitive rituals for males, and encouraged judicial alternatives to violence. Female ritual efforts, focused on reproduction and the health of the family, are less visible, but, as this provocative study shows, no less significant. Taking a fresh look at the epigraphical evidence for Greek ritual practice in the context of recent studies of landscape and political organization, Susan Guettel Cole illuminates the profoundly gendered nature of Greek cult practice and explains the connections between female rituals and the integrity of the community. In a rich integration of ancient sources and current theory, Cole brings together the complex evidence for Greek ritual practice. She discusses relevant medical and philosophical theories about the female body; considers Greek ideas about purity, pollution, and ritual purification; and examines the cult of Artemis in detail. Her nuanced study demonstrates the social contribution of women's rituals to the sustenance of the polis and the identity of its people.

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Sacred space --- Women --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History. --- Religious life --- Artemis --- Αρτεμις --- أرتميس --- Ārtimīs --- Artemisa --- Artemida --- Артэміда --- Артемида --- Artemiso --- 아르테미스 --- Arŭt'emisŭ --- Artemide --- ארטמיס --- Artemi --- Artemisz --- アルテミス --- Артеміда --- 阿耳忒弥斯 --- A'ertemisi --- Diana --- Cult. --- Greece --- Religious life and customs. --- Artemis (Greek deity) --- Religion. --- Women -- Religious life -- Greece -- History.. --- Sacred space -- Greece -- History.. --- Artemis (Greek deity) -- Cult.. --- Greece -- Religion. --- ancient history. --- ancient law. --- anthropology. --- antiquity. --- arete. --- artemis. --- athenian democracy. --- city states. --- community. --- competition. --- family. --- female body. --- feminism. --- fertility. --- folk religion. --- folklore. --- gender difference. --- gender roles. --- gender. --- greece. --- greek ritual. --- greeks. --- hubris. --- law. --- legal system. --- masculinity. --- mythology. --- nonfiction. --- polic. --- pollution. --- purity. --- religion. --- reproduction. --- rite. --- ritual. --- sacred space. --- sexuality. --- social body. --- tradition. --- violence. --- women. --- womens rituals.

Feeding desire : fatness, beauty, and sexuality among a Saharan people.
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ISBN: 0415280958 0415280966 1135140855 1135140774 0203603524 1283845075 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Routledge

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While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active female fattening. Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, 'Feeding Desire' analyses the meanings of women's fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial social need to manage sexuality. By demonstrating how a particular beauty ideal can only be understood within wider social structures and cultural logics, the book also implicitly provides a new way of thinking about the ideal of slimness in late Western capitalism. Offering a reminder that an estimated 80% of theworld's societies prefer plump women, this gracefully written book is both a fascinating exploration of the nature of bodily ideals and a highly readable ethnography of a Saharan people.

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