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Wondrous Transformations
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Author : Alison Li
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2023-09-14
Wondrous Transformations written by Alison Li and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-14 with Social Science categories.
Harry Benjamin (1885–1986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine. He was physician to transgender pioneers such as Christine Jorgensen, the 1950s "Ex-GI" turned "Blonde Beauty" media sensation, and in turn, she and other collaborators helped to shape Benjamin's influential 1966 book, The Transsexual Phenomenon. Alison Li's much-needed biography of Benjamin chronicles his passion for hormones and his lifelong interest in sexology. Drawing from extensive research in archival documents, secondary sources, and interviews, Li tells the story of Benjamin's early ventures in gerontology and his later work with over a thousand transgender patients. Benjamin's contributions to treatment, education, research, and networking helped to create the institutional foundations of transgender medicine. Moreover, they set the stage for a radical reconsideration of gender identity, challenging us to reflect upon what it is to be male or female and to envision moving beyond these long-held categories.
Wondrous Transformations
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Author : Alison Li
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2022-05-24
Wondrous Transformations written by Alison Li and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with Medical categories.
A narrative history of hormone use told through the eventful life of Dr. Harry Benjamin, a pioneer in reshaping our notions of sex and gender. Today, it is standard to think of ourselves as hormonal beings. We blame "raging hormones" for the tempests of puberty and midlife and spend our days "running on adrenalin" in "testosterone-fueled" workplaces. Yet this view is relatively recent. Alison Li tells the fascinating history of the rise of hormone use through the life of one of its foremost pioneers. A daring explorer in the areas of sex and aging, as well as a celebrity doctor in 20s New York, German-born physician Harry Benjamin (1885-1986) revolutionized the science of hormones. He devoted his later life to helping people transform themselves. With famous patients such as Christine Jorgensen, Jan Morris, and Renée Richards, he would come to be known as the "Father of Transsexualism." Benjamin's work was groundbreaking in mid-century America, when homosexuality and any behavior that crossed gender lines was not only pathologized but criminalized. However, though his patients remember him as a compassionate physician, today, his approach to transgender medicine would be categorized as heteronormative and outdated. Li positions Benjamin as a complicated figure who both represents a model of his time, and a physician who changed medicine for the better. This gripping history captures the beginning of the gender identity movement and highlights how over the course of the twentieth century Benjamin helped pave the way for our understanding of ourselves as chemically malleable beings.
Marvelous Transformations
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Author : Christine A. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2012-10-19
Marvelous Transformations written by Christine A. Jones and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Marvelous Transformations is an anthology of tales and original critical essays that moves beyond canonized “classics” and old paradigms, documenting the points of historical connection between literary tales and field-based collections. This innovative anthology reflects current interdisciplinary scholarship on oral traditions and the cultural history of the print fairy tale. In addition to the tales, original critical essays, newly written for this volume, introduce readers to differing perspectives on key ideas in the field.
Wondrous Transformations
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Author : Emeline Morin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Wondrous Transformations written by Emeline Morin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Comparative literature categories.
The Words
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Author : Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
language : en
Publisher: IUR Press
Release Date :
The Words written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and has been published by IUR Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Religion categories.
The Words is the first volume of the Risale-i Nur and consists of thirty-three independent parts or Words, which explain and prove aspects of the fundamental matters of belief. These consist of such matters as God s existence and unity, the manifestation of the Divine Names and attributes in creation, the resurrection of the dead and the hereafter, prophethood, the miraculousness of the Qur’an, the angels, the immortality of man s spirit, Divine Determining (fate or destiny), together with such questions as the true nature of man and the universe, and man s need to worship God. Each subject is explained with comparisons and allegories, and demonstrated with reasoned arguments and logical proofs. The most profound aspects of the truths of belief, which were formerly studied only by advanced scholars, are explained in such a way that everyone, even those to whom the subject is new, may understand without difficulty. This work answers brilliantly the attacks made on the Qur’an in the name of science and philosophy, and demonstrates the rationality of belief in God and logical absurdity of denial. It shows too that man s happiness and salvation both in this world and the next lie only in belief in God and knowledge of God.
Wax Suddenly Wondrous Strange
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Wax Suddenly Wondrous Strange written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Ruined Cities Of The East
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Author : William King Tweedie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
Ruined Cities Of The East written by William King Tweedie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with Extinct cities categories.
Bulletin Of The Essex Institute
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Author : Essex Institute
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Bulletin Of The Essex Institute written by Essex Institute and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Essex County (Mass.) categories.
Vol. 30 includes "The first half century of the Essex Institute," and "List of present members."
Proceedings Continued As Bulletin
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Author : Salem Mass, Essex inst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
Proceedings Continued As Bulletin written by Salem Mass, Essex inst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with categories.
In Good Company
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Author : Bede Benjamin Bidlack
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-02-04
In Good Company written by Bede Benjamin Bidlack and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-04 with Religion categories.
In Good Company answers a question that has confounded Christian theologians: What is the nature of the body that will enjoy resurrection at the end of time? In this exciting work of comparative theology, Bede Benjamin Bidlack derives a theory of the body from the French Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, by putting him in dialogue with the Song Dynasty Daoist Xiao Yingsou. In addition to its contribution to comparative theology, In Good Company offers the first translation of the preface of Xiao’s commentary on the Duren jing in a Western language, as well as a careful explication of the provocative mountain diagram therein. Bidlack presents an original contribution for both scholars of Christian theology and Chinese religion. “An excellent example of comparative theology, Bede Bidlack’s In Good Company demonstrates how certain lacunae in one tradition may be addressed by drawing on resources from another religion. Having identified a neglect of the body in the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and in much of the Christian tradition of divinization, Bidlack discusses the work of Daoist scholar Xiao Yingsou as a possible source of inspiration and theological imagination.” – Catherine Cornille, Newton College Alumnae Chair, Professor of Comparative Theology, Boston College “In Good Company takes comparative theology to a new level: it not only places Daoism front and center, but also opens Christian spirituality to a wider dimension. Concerned with the two core themes of the body and personal divinization (or resurrection), the book centers on the work of two influential thinkers in their traditions: Teilhard de Chardin and Xiao Yingsou. Although 800 years apart, their visions of the body as the means to ultimate fulfillment, in close relation to divinity and the cosmos as a whole, powerfully enhance each other, as do their understanding of the intricate process of personal divinization. The book is challenging in its outlook, unsettling in its destabilization of terms, and brilliant in its interweaving of the two traditions. A must for anyone concerned with the new global environment of religious pluralism and the ongoing process of interreligious dialogue.” – Livia Kohn, Professor Emerita of Religion & East Asian Studies, Boston University