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Free Download Robyn Brunton, "Perinatal Care and Considerations for Survivors of Child Abuse: Challenges and Opportunities"
English | ISBN: 3031336380 | 2023 | 213 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This edited collection collates research concerning the challenges and opportunities of pregnancy and the postpartum period for perinatal women who are survivors of child abuse. Drawing on empirical findings and theory, this is the first book to identify emerging and topical issues around screening and disclosure and how clinicians and professionals may help to build resilience for child abuse survivors. Pregnancy and the postpartum period present unique challenges and opportunities for clinicians and mental health professionals who may encounter pregnant women with adverse childhood experiences. Challenges include antenatal care considerations for survivors of child abuse such as triggering events that may further traumatize women or result in avoidance behaviours such as failing to engage in routine antenatal care, and other associated adverse outcomes including increased health concerns and, in some cases, prolonged labour and preterm birth. These challenges point to the need for identifying women at risk and providing sensitive care, and this book demonstrates the opportunities which arise through interventions and resilience building.

Free Download Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics By Ramon Rivera-Servera
2012 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0472071394 | PDF | 3 MB
Performing Queer Latinidad highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s, a period when the size and influence of the Latina/o population was increasing alongside a growing scrutiny of the public spaces where latinidad could circulate. Performances---from concert dance and street protest to the choreographic strategies deployed by dancers at nightclubs---served as critical meeting points and practices through which LGBT and other nonnormative sex practitioners of Latin American descent (individuals with greatly differing cultures, histories of migration or annexation to the United States, and contemporary living conditions) encountered each other and forged social, cultural, and political bonds. At a time when latinidad ascended to the national public sphere in mainstream commercial and political venues and Latina/o public space was increasingly threatened by the redevelopment of urban centers and a revived anti-immigrant campaign, queer Latinas/os in places such as the Bronx, San Antonio, Austin, Phoenix, and Rochester, NY, returned to performance to claim spaces and ways of being that allowed their queerness and latinidad to coexist. These social events of performance and their attendant aesthetic communication strategies served as critical sites and tactics for creating and sustaining queer latinidad.2014 Honorable Mention, Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award, American Anthropological Association2013 Latino Studies Book Award, Latin American Studies Association2013 Lambda Literary Foundation Book Award in LGBT Studies2013 Outstanding Publication Award, Congress on Research in Dance2012 Special Citation, de la Torre Bueno Book Prize, Society of Dance History Scholars

Free Download Bryoni Trezise, "Performing Contemporary Childhoods "
English | ISBN: 1032267380 | 2023 | 172 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 13 MB
Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how children's and young people's digital media create new ideas about youth agency.

Free Download Namrata Pathak, Dhurjjati Sarma, "Performing Arun Sarma: Theatricality, Transgression, Transformation"
English | ISBN: 1036402142 | 2024 | 155 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Free Download Nizar Zouidi, "Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media"
English | ISBN: 3030760545 | 2021 | 557 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different institutional standings, cultural backgrounds and (inter)disciplinary interests with the aim of energizing the ongoing discussion of the generic and thematic issues related to the representation of villainy and evil in literature and media. The volume covers medieval literature to contemporary literature and also examines important aspects of evil in literature such as social and political identity, the gothic and systemic evil practices. In addition to literature, the book considers examples of villainy in film, TV and media, revealing that performance, performative control and maneuverability are the common characteristics of villains across the different literary and filmic genres and eras studied in the volume.

Free Download Christiane König, "Performative Figures of Queer Masculinity: A Media History of Film and Cinema in Germany Until 1945"
English | ISBN: 3476058875 | 2022 | 541 pages | PDF | 25 MB
This is a German history of cinema and film from the 1890s to 1945 with a focus on queer masculinity. Using media studies approaches, the study shows how film as a new medium is constituted through performative re-enactments of spectacular elements from the entertainment and knowledge cultures of the 19th century. In it, bodies, desires and identities are constantly remodelled through the formation of difference. Therefore, male queerness here does not mean the representation of male homosexuality. Rather, it is the dynamic result of complex medial processes, affects and (self-)knowledge on and off the screen. Building on Eve K. Sedgwick's queer-feminist concept of queer performativity, the author creates a historically situated model with which she traces various figures of technically anthropomorphic queer masculinity in the medium of film in an empowering sense.

Free Download Colleen Rua, "Performance, Trauma and Puerto Rico in Musical Theatre "
English | ISBN: 1032251956 | 2023 | 144 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico.

Free Download Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman, "Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews: A Contemporary Jewish Theology "
English | ISBN: 1618118382 | 2019 | 202 pages | PDF | 2 MB
That the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, "the God of the Jews," is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts of that God, by contemporary standards, as well as by the classic problem of evil. In this book, Jerome Gellman aims to alleviate the first challenge, the so-called ideological critique, for the traditional believer by recommending replacing the God of the Jews with a different God, a "Jewish God," one in whom many traditional Jews have come to believe. And the problem of evil is lightened for the traditional believer, mainly by a possible theodicy explaining much evil. The book is at once analytic in style and Hasidic in broad orientation.

Free Download Rosalind Fergusson, "Perfect Babies' Names: All You Need to Choose the Ideal Name"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 190521166X | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.5 mb
More than 3,000 monikers are addressed in this comprehensive guide to names. Each entry explains the name's meaning, history, and pronunciation, as well as notable persons who have shared it over the years, alternative spellings, and how popular-or unpopular-it is now. With tips on how to make a shortlist of preferred names and advice for avoiding unfortunate nicknames, this is a clear and useful resource no parent should be without.

Free Download Brenda Russell, "Perceptions of Female Offenders, Vol. 1: How Stereotypes and Social Norms Affect Criminal Justice Responses Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 3031420063 | 2023 | 174 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This first volume of the second edition builds on the many developments made to the study of female offenders, compiling new insights and evidence-based research. With new cases such as Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, it further explores topics including the role of social media in how female offenders are portrayed, juvenile offenders, female aggression in young adults, female perpetrators of domestic violence and more.