Evelyn Conlon is one of Ireland's most important writers. She has published four collections of short stories, My Head is Opening (1987), Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour (1993), Telling: New and Selected Short Stories (2000) and Moving about the Place (2021) and four novels, Stars in the Daytime (1989), A Glassful of Letters (1998) Skin of Dreams (2003) and Not the Same Sky (2013). She has also edited Later On: The Monaghan Bombing Memorial Anthology (2004). Telling Truths: Evelyn Conlon and the Task of Writing is the first book to provide a critical assessment of her work. Drawing on a variety of perspectives such as feminism, ethics, famine studies, mobility studies, translation studies, short fiction, narratology and historiographic metafiction, the essays gathered in this volume reveal that Conlon's writing, characterised by sharp observation, insistently questions the predetermined course of female existence, explores alternative forms of freedom and ultimately reflects her commitment to seek and tell truths. The intersectional approach of the book is part of a current endeavour in Irish Studies to keep interrogating well established topics, to examine the elusiveness of others and to explore new boundaries through renewed epistemological and ethical positions.

Joel Schwartz presents the first systematic treatment of Rousseau's understanding of the political importance of women, sexuality, and the family. Using both Rousseau's lesser-known literary works and such major writings as "Emile, Julie, " and "The Second Discourse," he offers an original and provocative presentation of Rousseau's argument. To read Rousseau, Schwartz believes, is to enter into a profound discourse about the meaning of sexual equality and the opportunities, pitfalls, costs, and benefits that sexual relationships bestow and impose on us all. His own thoughtful reading of Rousseau opens up fresh perspectives on political philosophy and the history of sexual, masculine, and feminine psychology.

With penetrating insight Combs-Schilling illuminates the remarkable survival of one of the world's oldest monarchies, still ruling after 1200 years. The author unravels the paradox of this ancient yet progressive institution that has weathered invasion, economic collapse, and colonial assult. The pillars of stability for which political analysts typicaly search -- military strength, bureaucratic control, and commerical prosperity -- have often been absent in Morocco, sometimes for centuries. How then has the monarchy stood firm?

In this remarkable book, Combs-Schilling argues that the answer is to be found in the distinctive forms of ritual practice developed during times of great crises. Unique among Islamic governments, the Moroccan monarchy became cnetral to the popular celebrations of the most sacred rituals of Islam, cloaking itself in their sanctity.

Combs-schilling breaks new ground in thinking about ritual. The author explores the consequences of the replication and reinforcement of Morocco's national ceremonies in viallages and homes and the metaphorical equivalence thereby built. The author outlines how ritual metaphors simultaneously fuse the monarchy with the hallowed prophets of Islam and the mundane structures of family life.

In elucidating the forcefulness of ritual embodiment the book challenges anthropological theory. It demonstrates that rituals created realities by inscribing them deeply within the individual's body and mind. Rituals use eros and physical substance to build imaginative abstractions. Performances of exquisite beauty and grace make the monarchy intrinsic to definitions of male and female, to experience of birth, intercourse, death, and to the ultimate longing to break death's bonds.

Combs-Schilling creates a model for national political analysis that takes meaning as well as strategic power into account. The author applies the anthropological analysis of rituals to new arenas -- the nation-state and the world political economy -- without ever losing sight of the individual and the flow of daily life. The book clarifies a distinctive form of nationalism that expands the boundaries articulated by Anderson in "Imagined Territories." Rituals rather than territory or administration came to define the Moroccan monarchy and the Moroccan nation under Western assault, and enabled them to survive.

For the novice, the book provides an unusual and compelling entry into Islamic culture and history. Yet it is provocative for the expert in its reinterpretation of the strategic dimensions of Muhammad's marriages and the political potency of the rituals of Islam where power, sacrifice, and sexual identity converge.

By revealing the link between national ceremony and individual identity, the author calls into question the popular view that sharply divides East and West and suggests commonalities in the structures of political-sexual power that are built into societies that operate within the cultural contexts of the world's three monotheistic faiths: Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in "Desiring Arabs" Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization.
A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad's chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture.
"A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic. . . . I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of [this] work."--Khaled El-Rouayheb, "Middle East"" Report""" "In "Desiring Arabs," [Edward] Said's disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor's thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing. . . . [Massad] brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present."--"Financial Times"

The contemporary study of sexuality too often finds itself at an impasse, conceptualizing sexuality either psychologically or sociologically: sexologists and psychologists have tended to point to the biological origins of sexuality underpinned by hormones, drives and, most recently, genetics; in contrast, historians and sociologists point to the social field as the defining force that shapes the meanings given to sexuality and sexual experience. Confronting the limitations and challenges this impasse poses, Katherine Johnson argues for a psychosocial approach that rethinks the relationship between psychic and social realms in the field of sexuality, without reducing it to either. Weaving through an expanse of theoretical and empirical examples drawn from sociology, psychology, queer and cultural studies, she produces an innovative, transdisciplinary perspective on sexual identities, subjectivities and politics that makes an original contribution to key debates ranging from identity politics and gay marriage, to mental health risks and queer youth suicide. Embracing ideas from developmental psychology, social constructionist sociology, social and critical psychology, psychoanalysis and queer theory, this original book will be necessary reading for students and scholars of sexuality across the social sciences.

Originally published in 1953, the material presented in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was derived from personal interviews with nearly 6,000 women; from studies in sexual anatomy, physiology, psychology, and endocrinology. The study revealed the incidence and frequency with which women participate in various types of sexual activity and how such factors as age, decade of birth, and religious adherence are reflected in patterns of sexual behavior. The authors make comparisons of female and male sexual activities and investigate the factors which account for the similarities and differences between female and male patterns of behavior and provide some measure of the social significance of the various types of sexual behavior.

Das Thema Gleichstellung in Verwaltung, Wirtschaftsbetrieben, Politik und dem offentlichen Leben wurde lange Zeit als rein soziales Thema" verstanden, doch heute weiss man: Die Gleichstellung von Frauen und Mannern hat bedeutenden Einfluss auf das Wohlbefinden UND die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung einer Organisation oder eines Landes. Dennoch ist sie laut aktueller Zahlen in der EU noch immer nicht Realitat. Gleichstellung bedeutet u.a., dass Manner und Frauen in allen Bereichen und auf allen Hierarchieebenen selbstverstandlich und ausgewogen zu finden sind, dass Manner und Frauen in ihren Lebensbedurfnissen unterstutzt und diese nicht durch uberkommene Rollenerwartungen behindert werden u.v.m. Dieses praxisnahe Buch erklart, WER Anderungen herbeifuhren kann und vor allem, WIE das geschehen kann. Es versorgt Praktiker/innen aus Wirtschaft und offentlicher Verwaltung mit Wissen uber Gleichstellungsziele und -strategien, relevante betriebliche Handlungsfelder, die Rolle der Fuhrungskrafte. Gleichzeitig bietet es - wie ein Werkzeugkasten - eine Vielzahl konkreter Instrumente zur Analyse der Ausgangssituation sowie der Umsetzung in die Praxis."

Die Behandlungsleitlinie "StArungen der sexuellen PrAferenz" wurde von der Deutschen Gesellschaft fA1/4r Sexualforschung (DGfS) und der Deutschen Gesellschaft fA1/4r Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN) gemeinsam entwickelt. Das wichtigste Anliegen von Leitlinien ist nicht nur, alle neuesten und womAglich noch gar nicht beurteilbaren Ergebnisse in Diagnose, Therapie oder auf dem Gebiet der Prognose wiederzugeben, sondern ebenfalls die bewAhrte Praxis darzustellen. Diesen Anspruch erfA1/4llt die vorliegende Leitlinie. Sie richtet sich nicht nur an den Spezialisten, der tief greifend und detailliert informiert sein muss, sondern auch an eine breitere FachAffentlichkeit und allgemein Interessierte, einschlieAlich Betroffener, die A1/4ber die gAngige Praxis Bescheid wissen wollen, um sich orientieren zu kAnnen.

Dieses Handbuch verfolgt das Ziel, die leibliche Dimension im Wirkungsgeschehen zwischen Patient und Therapeut psychoanalytisch und psychotherapeutisch zu erschliessen. Das beruhrt alle tradierten Grundbegriffe und Behandlungsprinzipien der Psychoanalyse. Viele namhafte Psychotherapeuten/innen bzw. Psychoanalytiker/innen nehmen sich dieser historischen Entwicklungsaufgabe der Psychoanalyse an. Sie fuhren die Leser an zahlreichen Beispielen verschiedenster Krankheitsbilder (siehe Index der Fallvignetten) zu basalen Formen des Gewahrwerdens, Erfassens und Behandelns. So offnet die Psychoanalyse ihre Behandlungslehre fur das unmittelbare Ubertragungs- und Gegenubertragungsgeschehen und fundiert das Prinzip der Nachzeitlichkeit (etwas durcharbeiten, nachdem es geschehen ist) durch das Prinzip der Unmittelbarkeit (implizites Erfassen und Verandern von Vorgangen, wahrend sie geschehen)."