Religion and intimate life

2021 ◽  
pp. 234-248
Author(s):  
Sarah-Jane Page
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Life

On the Lives of Modern State Law

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Samera Esmeir
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Modern State ◽  
State Law ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Intimate Life ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Key Questions

Modern state law is an expansive force that permeates life and politics. Law's histories—colonial, revolutionary, and postcolonial—tell of its constitutive centrality to the making of colonies and modern states. Its powers intertwine with life itself; they attempt to direct it, shape its most intimate spheres, decide on the constitutive line dividing public from private, and take over the space and time in which life unfolds. These powers settle in the present, eliminate past authorities, and dictate futures. Gendering and constitutive of sexual difference, law's powers endeavor to mold subjects and alter how they orient themselves to others and to the world. But these powers are neither coherent nor finite. They are ripe with contradictions and conflicting desires. They are also incapable of eliminating other authorities, paths, and horizons of living; these do not vanish but remain not only thinkable and articulable but also a resource for the living. Such are some of the overlapping and accumulative interventions of the two books under review: Sara Pursley's Familiar Futures and Judith Surkis's Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria. What follows is an attempt to further develop these interventions by thinking with some of the books’ underlying arguments. Familiar Futures is a history of Iraq, beginning with the British colonial-mandate period and concluding with the 1958 Revolution and its immediate aftermath. Sex, Law, and Sovereignty is a history of “French Algeria” that covers a century of French colonization from 1830 to 1930. The books converge on key questions concerning how modern law and the modern state—colonial and postcolonial—articulated sexual difference and governed social and intimate life, including through the rise of personal-status law as a separate domain of law constitutive of the conjugal family. Both books are consequently also preoccupied with the relationship between sex, gender, and sovereignty. And both contain resources for living along paths not charted by the modern state and its juridical apparatus.

Fallen Heroes? All about Men

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Crisis Discourse ◽  
Intimate Life

The question of what men are and what they want has become central to public debates and private concerns but we cannot understand what is happening if we see it as a problem for men alone. It needs to be considered as part of a long process in which masculinity and femininity, sexual normality and abnormality, and the nature of intimate life are being profoundly shaken. The emergence of a crisis discourse around masculinity has served to obscure the different conditions under which men live their lives, and to exaggerate in turn the radical dichotomy of men and women. Binary divisions along gender and sexual lines can be seen as an historical fiction which conceals a much more confused mixture of fears, anxieties and desires about what being a man means. The dramatic social and cultural changes that we are now witnessing provide conditions for reinventing the relations of gender and sexuality.

scholarly journals Arte, cotidianidade e domesticidade: das metanarrativas aos pequenos relatos contemporâneos

Visualidades ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karine Perez
Keyword(s):  
Set Up ◽  
Intimate Life

Resumo Este artigo trata das relações entre arte, cotidianidade e domesticidade, analisadas a partir da observação de um direcionamento discursivo, artístico e cultural rumo aos pequenos relatos e a uma esfera micro, refletida no crescente interesse dos artistas pelas questões do cotidiano, da vida íntima, do privado e do doméstico na arte. Este interesse se renova a partir da década de 1980, por meio do uso da fotografia pelos artistas, o que possibilita a produção de ficções e novas realidades montadas para a tomada fotográfica.Abstract This article is about the relations between art, cotidianity and domesticity, analyzed from the observation of a discursive, artistic and cultural direction towards micronarratives and a micro field, reflected in the growing interest of artists in the quotidian, intimate life, the private and the domestic in the art. This interest is renewed since the 1980s, through the use of photography by artists, which enables the production of fictions and new realities set up for the photographic act.Resumen Este artículo se ocupa de las relaciones entre arte, cotidianidad y domesticidad, analizadas a partir de la observación de un direccionamiento discursivo, artístico y cultural hacia los pequeños relatos y una esfera micro, reflejada en el creciente interés por cuestiones del cotidiano, de la vida íntima, de lo privado y de lo doméstico en el arte. Ese interés se renueva a partir de la década de 1980, por medio del uso de la fotografía por los artistas, lo que posibilita la producción de ficciones y nuevas realidades construidas para la toma fotográfica.

scholarly journals “The Mandarins”: Simone de Beauvoir’s Artistic Method

2018 ◽  
pp. 96-109
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Korelskaya
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Postwar Literature ◽  
Outer Line ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Literary Methods ◽  
Intimate Life

Simone de Beauvoir is a representative of one of the leading philosophical schools in the middle of the 20th century. The article presents Beauvoir’s artistic method, applied in her novel The Mandarins, and examines the theoretical and biographical sources of the novel. The author demonstrates the place that the novel has in the Beauvoir’s literary and philosophical heritage and reveals the genre features of the work, introducing some special terms such as engaged, modern or philosophical novel and testimonial autobiographical project. The article also analyzes the novel’s literary form and the binary structure of the narrative. The study of the main characters, who are Henri Perron, Anne Dubreuilh and her husband Robert, allows to give a couple of narrative lines. First of them is the inner line that opens the reflective, contemplative and intimate life of one of the main characters – Anne. The second one is the outer line that means that the reader receives the information about characters from the Henry’s actions. Basing on this structure, we draw a conclusion about the modifications in the genre of existential novel in the postwar years. The new themes can be found in the literature. Authors introduce to readers the certain social reality through the inner life of some characters – intellectuals, novelists or philosophers. The thesis about the inner transformation of the genre is proved on Beauvoir’ and Jean-Paul Sartre’s works and on the prewar works of Sartre and Albert Camus. Beauvoir’s new literary methods and plots, which are the logical development of her work, made her novel one of the pioneers in the postwar literature.

SEXUAL ACTIVITY: DEPENDENCE ON AGE, GENDER, VARIOUS CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AND CEREBRAL STROKE

2021 ◽  
pp. 384-395
Author(s):  
В.С. Мякотных ◽  
Е.С. Остапчук ◽  
О.М. Хромцова
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Neurological Deficits ◽  
Sexual Disorders ◽  
Cerebral Stroke ◽  
Functional Defect ◽  
Functional Consequences ◽  
Activity Dependence ◽  
Intimate Life

Целью представленного исследования явилось определение места и роли сексуальных расстройств у представителей разного пола и возраста в развитии фоновой для церебрального инсульта патологии и формировании клинической картины острого периода инсульта и его последствий. Детально рассматривали вопросы интимной жизни 111 пациентов (58 мужчин и 53 женщины) в предшествовавшие инсульту периоды и определяли возможные связи с клиническими особенностями острого периода инсульта. У 77 из этих 111 пациентов изучали динамику сексуальных нарушений в связи с особенностями функционального дефекта, сформировавшегося спустя 3-24 мес после перенесенного инсульта. Выявлено, что снижение сексуальной активности до инсульта имеет, наряду с возрастом, отчетливое значение в развитии фоновой для инсульта патологии и в формировании последствий инсульта. У лиц пожилого возраста наиболее тяжелые функциональные последствия инсульта сформировались в 8,3 % при наличии нормальных сексуальных отношений в предшествовавший инсульту период и в 27,6 % при отсутствии таковых. Негативная динамика сексуальной активности после перенесенного инсульта выявлена в 46,8 % наблюдений, в основном у представителей пожилого возраста, и связана у женщин с наличием и выраженностью неврологического дефицита, у мужчин с присутствием церебральных атрофических изменений. The purpose of this study was to determine the place and role of sexual disorders in representatives of different sexes and ages in the development of background for cerebral stroke pathology and the formation of the clinical picture of acute stroke period and its consequences. Questions of intimate life of 111 patients (58 men and 53 women) in the periods preceding a stroke were considered in detail and possible connections with clinical features of an acute period of in-Soult were defined. In 77 of these 111 patients, we studied the dynamics of sexual disorders in connection with the features of a functional defect that formed 3-24 months after a stroke. It was revealed that the decrease in sexual activity before the stroke has a distinct significance along with age in the development of background for insulin pathology and in the formation of the consequences of stroke. In the elderly, the most severe functional consequences of stroke were formed in 8,3 % in the presence of normal sexual relations in the period preceding the stroke and in 27,6 % in the absence of such. Negative dynamics of sexual activity after a stroke was detected in 46,8 % of cases, mainly among the elderly, and is associated in women with the presence and severity of neurological deficits, in men-with the presence of cerebral atrophic changes.

The Intimate Life of the Nation

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-50
Author(s):  
Judith G. Coffin
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Philosophical Argument ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Female Condition ◽  
Intimate Life

This chapter reconstructs how the public was introduced to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir's most famous work, and considers its critical reception. It mentions reviewers and critics who saw themselves as custodians of literary standards and public taste, and held very firm and contrasting views on the broader reading public. It elaborates how the reviewers and critics' views provide new ways to understand Beauvoir's arguments and the expectations that took shape around her. The chapter describes The Second Sex as an eight-hundred-page manuscript that challenges philosophical argument, literary criticism, history, and social science, as well as provide a detailed description of sexual and bodily experience. It points out how The Second Sex was considered ahead-of-its time with its narrative of the philosophical reconsideration of the female condition or situation.

Cultural Struggles, Intimate Life and Transnational Narratives

2016 ◽  
pp. 101-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Nehring ◽  
Emmanuel Alvarado ◽  
Eric C. Hendriks ◽  
Dylan Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Life
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