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Why I Don't Like Sex
  • Language: en

Why I Don't Like Sex

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-11-30
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  • Publisher: Unknown

According to Henry Ford, thinking is the hardest work there is. In this collection of essays, the author prods the reader's mind about life events and issues and leaves them thinking.

Engendering Emotions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 185

Engendering Emotions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-10-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

Engendering Emotions examines the production and promotion of the idea of sex/gender difference in emotional experience and expression in the contemporary West. Focusing on the psychology of emotions and on the spheres of aggression and war, and love, intimacy and sex, it explores how the idea of emotional difference serves to define and govern relations between men and women. The book draws on diverse theoretical work and recent empirical data to chart new territory in the study of sex/gender differences.

Digital Health and Technological Promise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Digital Health and Technological Promise

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-11-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

What is ‘digital health’? And, what are its implications for medicine and healthcare, and for individual citizens and society? ‘Digital health’ is of growing interest to policymakers, clinicians, and businesses. It is underpinned by promise and optimism, with predictions that digital technologies and related innovations will soon ‘transform’ medicine and healthcare, and enable individuals to better manage their own health and risk and to receive a more ‘personalised’ treatment and care. Offering a sociological perspective, this book critically examines the dimensions and implications of ‘digital health’, a term that is often ill defined, but signifies the promise of techn...

The Body in Question
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

The Body in Question

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  • Published: 2007-01-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in ‘the body’ in contemporary societies? What factors shape our conceptions of the body, its naturalness, health and normality? What is the mind-body dualism and why should it matter? This book examines these and other body questions from a critical socio-cultural perspective. In particular, it shows how conceptions of the body are affected by processes of individualization, medicalization and commodification. Chapters discuss the impact of new biomedical technologies on the notion of the natural body, efforts to reshape and perfect the body, the role of the media in ‘framing’ body issues, processes of body classification, the impact of consumerism on concepts of health, healing and self-care, and the implications of theoretical and practical efforts to ‘integrate’ mind and body. This book will be an invaluable source for those seeking to understand the social, cultural and political significance of ‘the body’ in contemporary society.

Unmasking the Masculine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Unmasking the Masculine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-07-08
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Postmodernism and poststructuralism have undermined the assumptions upon which established identities have been constructed, such as the concept of stable bodies and stable selves. Sex, gender, sexuality and race are no longer viewed as merely descriptive aspects of experience but also as constructions of identity. Drawing on current debates in postmodern feminism, feminist philosophy of science, anti-racist/postcolonial studies and queer theory, this book considers the way in which discourse fabricates the ideal' male body, sexual identity and sexual politics. Alan Petersen explores the possibilities of developing new models of identity not so closely linked to the sex/gender system and examines the prospects of creating a new or reconceptualized identity politics.

Emotions Online
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 117

Emotions Online

Digital media have become deeply immersed in our lives, heightening both hopes and fears of their affordances. While the internet, mobile phones, and social media offer their users many options, they also engender concerns about their manipulations and intrusions. Emotions Online explores the visions that shape responses to media and the emotional regimes that govern people’s engagements with them. This book critically examines evidence on the role of digital media in emotional life. Offering a sociological perspective and using ideas from science and technology studies and media studies, it explores: • The dimensions and operations of the online emotional economy • Growing concerns ab...

The Asset
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Asset

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-02-08
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Pete Maddox is the new CIA station chief in Venezuela but unlike his bureaucratic predecessor, he comes from the counterterrorism black ops world of the CIA. When he uncovers a Libyan terrorist training camp hidden in the Venezuelan Amazon jungle, he uses a coup against Hugo Chavez to make his move, a bold move that enrages the administrators back at Langley. Forced to stand down and being ordered to leave the country, the CIA assets he recruited are being hunted down by the head of the secret police including the woman he loves. Maddox will risk his career and his life to save her.

Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-02-17
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  • Publisher: Springer

Drawing together insights from media studies, sociology and science and technology studies, this book is one of the first major studies of media coverage, policy debates and public perceptions of nanotechnologies, and makes a fascinating and timely contribution to debates about the public communication of science.

Unmasking the Masculine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Unmasking the Masculine

Postmodernism and poststructuralism have undermined the assumptions upon which established identities have been constructed, such as the concept of stable bodies and stable selves. Sex, gender, sexuality and race are no longer viewed as merely descriptive aspects of experience but also as constructions of identity. Drawing on current debates in postmodern feminism, feminist philosophy of science, anti-racist//postcolonial studies and queer theory, this book considers the way in which discourse fabricates the `ideal' male body, sexual identity and sexual politics. Alan Petersen explores the possibilities of developing new models of identity not so closely linked to the sex//gender system and examines the prospects of creating a new

The Past Never Dies
  • Language: en

The Past Never Dies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-10-18
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Crime thriller set in Costa Rica featuring a local homicide detective teaming up with an FBI Profiler to hunt for a serial killer.