Author: Roblyn Rawlins File Type: pdf span orphans 2 widows 2With a vast selection of foods and thousands of recipes to choose from, how do home cooks in America decide what to cook and what does their cooking mean to them?spanbr orphans 2 widows 2br orphans 2 widows 2span orphans 2 widows 2Answering this question,spanspan orphans 2 widows 2spanfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2Making Dinnerfontspan orphans 2 widows 2is an empirical study of home cooking in the United States. Drawing on a combination of research methods, which includes in-depth interviews with over 50 cooks and cooking journals documenting over 300 home-cooked dinners, Roblyn Rawlins and David Livert explore how American home cooks think and feel about themselves, food, and cooking. Their findings reveal distinct types of cook-the family-first cook, the traditional cook, and the keen cook -and demonstrate how personal identities, family relationships, ideologies of gender and parenthood, and structural constraints all influence what ends up on the plate.spanbr orphans 2 widows 2br orphans 2 widows 2span orphans 2 widows 2Rawlins and Livert reveal research that fills the data gap on practices of home cooking in everyday life. This is an important contribution to fields such as food studies, health and nutrition, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, gender studies, and American studies.span

Author: Sara Ahmed File Type: pdf In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the orientation aspect of sexual orientation and the orient in orientalism, Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being orientated means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry. Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appearand those that do notas signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserls Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological textsby Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanonwith insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions.

Author: Joseph H. Nguyen File Type: epub To many modern people, apatheia (being without sufferingwithout passion) sounds like cold-heartedness and indifference to others, a condition to be avoided. However, in the classical world and for many in the historic Christian church it was a spiritual state to aspire to. What exactly is apatheia? What is its origin? How has it been used in spiritual writings throughout the centuries of Christian practice? And how may it help us today to articulate a Christian understanding of the souls spiritual well-being? The central aim of the book is twofold to rediscover the meaning and function of the Greek term apatheia as it was understood and employed by the Stoics in their philosophical and religious writings, and to explore how the theologians of the church--Origen, Evagrius, John Cassian, Maximus, and Ignatius of Loyola--interpreted apatheia for their spiritual practice. Nguyen argues that the concept of apatheia in the Christian spiritual tradition connotes the state of spiritual peace or well-being of the human soul wherein excessive and negative emotions--such as lust, excessive desire for food and drink, anger, envy, resentment, self-love, and pride--are replaced by reasonable desires, love, and humility. Apatheia by Joseph Nguyen is an agile, yet rigorous introduction to one of the most important, yet often misunderstood concepts in the history of Christian spirituality. Dispassion--a condition of inner tranquility and detachment enabling one to pray and practice the virtues--was pursued by Stoics and Desert Fathers alike, and centuries later it became an important concept in Ignatian spirituality. Nguyens work will appeal to anyone interested in the history and practice of Christian spirituality. --Thomas Cattoi, Associate Professor, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University Joseph Nguyens Apatheia in the Christian Tradition is a superb historical survey of a theological concept--apatheia, or indifference--that has informed western philosophical thought for over two-thousand years. . . Nguyens research demonstrates how apatheia has been both a pillar of the contemplative life, and a living ideal adaptable to contemporary spiritual discernment and direction. --Eric Cunningham, Professor, Gonzaga University In this insightful book, Joseph H. Nguyen, traced the source of the development of Christian understanding of spiritual disposition for divine union to the Stoics and underscored healthy emotion as necessary in the Christian life.Through comparisons with Ignatian indifferencethe spiritual experience ofapatheiais brought into a new light. --Patrick Lee, Vice President, Mission and Ministry, Gonzaga University Joseph H. Nguyen, SJ is a Jesuit Priest and Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University. **About the Author Joseph H. Nguyen, SJ is a Jesuit Priest and Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University.

Author: Giovanni Cianci File Type: pdf The extent of John Ruskins influence has long been acknowledged, though his impact on the development of Anglo-American modernism has received little systematic attention. In this volume, published to mark the centenary of Ruskins death, a group of international scholars consider what is often an awkward and conflicted relation. Ruskins voluminous writings are seen to shelter an incipient modernism whose antipathy to a degraded modernity, powerfully predicts a major current within the work of the new century.**