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Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting, The Bad Corset explores contemporary anti-woman bias to challenge the commonly accepted assertions about corsetry's contribution to disease, disfigurement, and disorders of the female body. The original 1908 French book, Le Corset by Ludovic O'Followell-with its graphic illustrations, some of which are reproduced here-tells a s...

Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting, The Bad Corset explores contemporary anti-woman bias to challenge the commonly accepted assertions about corsetry's contribution to disease, disfigurement, and disorders of the female body. The original 1908 French book, Le Corset by Ludovic O'Followell-with its graphic illustrations, some of which are reproduced here-tells a s...

Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines representations of the supernatural dead to demonstrate shifts in the manifestation of gender. Including readings of East Asian detectives/cyborgs, Iranian vampires, and African zombies, among others, This collection offers a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture representations of the gendered supernatural from a broad range of i...

Slow North East Scotland travel guide. Tourist information and holiday tips including castles, Pictish stone circles and other heritage attractions, walking, wildlife, accommodation, local food. Thorough coverage features Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Caledonian pinewoods, Balmoral royal estate, mountains, lochs, whisky distilleries, festivals

Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural investigates fundamental anthropological questions about humanity, the concept of 'dead, ' and how we relate to our own genders when using the supernatural to understand them.

Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation. An undergarment that provided support and shape for centuries, the corset occupies a familiar but exotic space in modern consciousness, created by two sometimes contradictory narrative arcs: the texts that women wrote regarding their own corseting experienc...

Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines representations of the supernatural dead to demonstrate shifts in the manifestation of gender. Including readings of East Asian detectives/cyborgs, Iranian vampires, and African zombies, among others, This collection offers a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture representations of the gendered supernatural from a broad range of i...

This book examines how science fiction's portrayal of humanity's desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. It begins by taking the reader on a journey that outlines basic human desires-in short, we are storytellers, and we need the objects of our desire to be able to mirror that aspect of our beings. This not only explains the reasons we seek out differences in our mates, but also why we crave sex and...

A practical guide for the person who is confronted by the possibile suicide of a friend or family member.There are many wonderful things about modern life, yet somehow suicide has become a public health epidemic in America. Painful choices face both the suicidal person and any person who tries to help. This book provides insight into this stark dilemma and offers simple, practical actions that are designed to help. There is a better choice.

A practical guide for the person who is confronted by the possibile suicide of a friend or family member.There are many wonderful things about modern life, yet somehow suicide has become a public health epidemic in America. Painful choices face both the suicidal person and any person who tries to help. This book provides insight into this stark dilemma and offers simple, practical actions that are designed to help. There is a better choice.

The purpose of this book is to offer a complete resource for clinical medical assistant training by providing a thorough education to prepare medical assistant students for clinical practice"--Provided by publisher.

Named after a workaday knife wielded by shepherds and farmers in the high pastures of the Alps when a tool for paring, shaping, cutting into, scraping out of, or freeing is useful, these poems likewise cleave away the false and deceptive to clarify and reveal a startling and unifying wonder. In language radiant, lovely, and disturbing, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson explores the linkages between the uncomfortable familiar and the curiously intimate str...