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This is a new release of the original 1952 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1952 edition.
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SEX and a changing civilisation - BY KENNETH WALKER - PREFACE - I
SUPPOSE that it is inevitable that by some readers this should be
regarded as an immoral, and even as an irreligious book. In actual
fact it is neither, unless the word irnmral be used in its
strictest sense for that which is contrarv to cus- J tom. If
anything, it is a religious book for, even when not directly
expressed, the same idea will be found shining- through the text of
every chapter, that mans troubles are the result of what man is. He
has expended all his energy in attempts to alter his circumstances
and none in any effort to change himself. Yet in this alone lies
any hope of his escaping from the disorder of his world. If by a
religious life is meant a change of inner attitudes and values, and
not merely an external mode of behaviour, then it is to religion he
must turn in order to bring about his spiritual evolution. There
are signs that men and women of the twentieth century are in some
way dimly conscious of this need. Theosophy, Christian Science,
Spiritualism and the Oxford Movement follow one another across its
opening years, and the eagerness with which each in turn has been
welcomed is an indication of the widespread desire for spiritual
leadership. Before proceeding to a consideration of the changes the
twentieth century has witnessed in our attitude to sex, I have
thought it advisable to devote some preliminary chapters to a
discussion of sex itself, for exactly what is meant by that term
has proved difficult to define. These chapters of necessity contain
material that is of interest to the scientific rather than to the
general reader. But if they prove dull and unappetising, they can
easily beskipped, for in no way are they essential to the
understanding of the latter part of the book. Wherever possible, I
have made acknowledgments in the text to authorities from whose
works I have culled quotations. In spite of this, I feel that it is
necessarv that I should state in this preface mv J I . special
indebtedness to two writers, Havelock Ellis and P. D. Ousenskv. To
Havelock Ellis. a tendering of thanks or okan apology would be
equally appropriate thanks for the rich mine of information that
his writings have provided, and apologies for the free use I have
made of that mine. Compared with people and events, books have but
little influence on our lives. Sometimes it may happen that a work
which has fallen into our hands by some happy accident, remains for
ever afterwards on our bookshelves to mark a veritable epoch in our
way of thinking. Such an epoch occurred in the writers life when he
discovered P. D. Ouspenskys A New Model 4 the Universe. K. W. --
CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I SEX AND BIOLOGY 11 SEX AND PSYCHOLOGY 111 SEX
AND ESOTERICISM IV SEX AND ITS MECHANISM . VIII SEX AND SOCIETY IX
SEX IN MEN AND WOMEN X SEX AND THE LAW . XI SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE . .
. - CHAPTER I - SEX AND BIOLOGY - BEFORE it is possible to consider
any clanes that the twentieth century may have witnessed in our
attitude to sex, it is necessary to devote some time to discussing
what is sex itself. In order to obtain an answer to the question,
what is sex, we must turn first to biology and study it in lower
forms of life. Here we will find sex in the raw, the crude material
out of which may be formed, according to how it is used, the beauty
of human love or thi squalor of human lust. That it is important
tostart with a clear understanding has been impressed upon the
writer by his observation of the effect that the same book on the
subject of sex may produce on two diffcrent readers. Whilst the one
will commend it for its common sense, the other will condemn it for
its obscenity. To be able to discuss it, to reduce it to termsof
anatomy, seems to the reader who has experienced the richness of
love, a degradation and an obscenitv...
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Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated
politically in a border community As a borderland city with
generations of slow violence and extreme weather events like flash
flooding and intense heat waves, San Antonio, Texas, speaks
directly to global issues in climate politics. In Climate Politics
on the Border: Environmental Justice Rhetorics, Kenneth Walker
takes a place-based approach to his study of San Antonio to explore
how extreme weather events and responses to them shape local
places, publics, and politics, with an eye toward a future
characterized by severe climate breakdown. Attending to the local
histories and micropolitics of San Antonio, Walker examines the
effects of extreme weather events as they are experienced across
radically inequitable social categories. These local histories
serve as a guide, not just for future climates, which stand to be
unprecedented, but for the necessary public and political responses
to them. He shows how extreme weather events in the past have
reinforced colonial social orders that weaken democratic goals of
pluralism and equity. Conversely, he also shows how diverse
coalitions have resisted and responded to these forces. Walker
examines the ethics of Latinx and Anglo relations within
state-sponsored productions of racial inequity and environmental
degradation, the coalitional capacities of environmental activists
and second-wave Chicana/o organizations to protect clean water and
transform local political representation, the obligations of
place-keeping in Latinx urban design and ecological restoration,
and the need to foster pluriversal worlds in city-level climate
action and adaptation plans. Collectively these chapters rethink
tropes of adaptation, resilience, and coalition as rhetorical and
ecological capacities for public and political responses to
extractivism. Based on years of archival work and fieldwork,
Climate Politics on the Border demonstrates vividly why ecological
and anticolonial approaches to rhetoric are essential for grappling
with climate politics. Overall, this is a timely study of how
environmental degradation, pollution, and climate change are
disputed and negotiated at the local political level in a
borderland community.
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