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Timely and politically pertinent, this collection of essays links
the fields of women's studies and cultural studies, examining
women's desires and women as objects of desire. Working in diverse
disciplines and time periods, the contributors address the common
theme of 'perversion' as a cultural, often linguistic, construct.
Analysing texts and images from medieval times to the twentieth
century, the volume affords the reader modernist and postmodernist
perspectives on the connected issues of erotics, pornography, and
perversion.
Timely and politically pertinent, this collection of essays links
the fields of women's studies and cultural studies, examining
women's desires and women as objects of desire. Working in diverse
disciplines and time periods, the contributors address the common
theme of 'perversion' as a cultural, often linguistic, construct.
Analysing texts and images from medieval times to the twentieth
century, the volume affords the reader modernist and postmodernist
perspectives on the connected issues of erotics, pornography, and
perversion.
Covering a variety of genres and periods from medieval epic to
contemporary speculative fiction, Styling Texts explores the
fascinating ways in which dress performs in literature. Numerous
authors have made powerful-even radical-use of clothing and its
implications, and the essays collected here demonstrate how
scholarly attention to literary fashioning can contribute to a
deeper understanding of texts, their contexts, and their
innovations. These generative and engaging discussions focus on
issues such as fashion and anti-fashion; clothing reform;
transvestism; sartorial economics; style and the gaze;
transgressive modes; and class, gender, or race "passing." This is
the first academic volume to address such an extensive range of
texts, inviting consideration of how fashionable desires and
concerns not only articulate the aesthetics, subjectivities, and
controversies of a given culture, but also communicate across
temporal and spatial divisions. Styling Texts is an essential
resource for anyone interested in the artistic representations and
significations of dress.
Research from health psychology and medical science has shown that
a considerable number of cancer patients tend to rely on meaning
while coping with stress caused by their illness. Chapter One
examines the relationships between meaning structures embedded in
meaning in life and coping strategies, and mental adjustment among
gastrointestinal cancer patients. According to lifespan psychology,
late adulthood is a period of substantial changes in the
psychological life of human beings. Chapter Two discusses the need
to develop a dedicated psychological approach towards this age
group, where the typical factors determining their mental
functioning will be investigated and elaborated upon. Chapter Three
presents an approach to the psychoeducation of parents and
siblings, combining Aggression Replacement Training and techniques
for developing prosocial behavior. Chapter Four reviews the
literature that establishes Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) as a major developmental precursor to Oppositional
Defiant Disorder (ODD). Chapter Five discusses the measurement
error of self-reported outcome measures in depression. Chapter Six
aims at validating the Arabian version of Beck Depression
Inventory- Fast Screen (BDI-FS-Ar) in war conditions, and
determining its psychometric properties in samples of MS patients
(as a medical population) and university students (as a non-
medical population) in Syria. Chapter Seven summarises the current
knowledge regarding structural and functional brain alterations
associated with dissociation both in patients suffering from
short-lived dissociation such as in PTSD and in chronic states as
seen in patients with dissociative disorders. This book concludes
with Chapter Eight, a discussion on the complex treatment of
dissociative disorder.
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