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Jesus in Our Wombs
Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent
AvRebecca J. Lester
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
433 kr
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In "Jesus in Our Wombs", Rebecca J. Lester takes us behind the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in central Mexico to explore the lives, training, and experiences of a group of postulants - young women in the first stage of religious training as nuns. Lester, who conducted eighteen months of fieldwork in the convent, provides a rich ethnography of these young women's journeys as they wrestle with doubts, fears, ambitions, and setbacks in their struggle to follow what they believe to be the will of God. Gracefully written, finely textured, and theoretically rigorous, this book considers how these aspiring nuns learn to experience God by cultivating an altered experience of their own female bodies, a transformation they view as a political stance against modernity. Lester explains that the Postulants work toward what they see as an 'authentic' femininity - one that has been eclipsed by the values of modern society. The outcome of this process has political as well as personal consequences. The Sisters learn to understand their very intimate experiences of 'the Call' - and their choices in answering it - as politically relevant declarations of self.Readers become intimately acquainted with the personalities, family backgrounds, friendships, and aspirations of the Postulants as Lester relates the practices and experiences of their daily lives. Combining compassionate, engaged ethnography with an incisive and provocative theoretical analysis of embodied selves, "Jesus in Our Wombs" delivers a profound analysis of what Lester calls the convent's 'technology of embodiment' on multiple levels - from the phenomenological to the political.
Famished
Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America
AvRebecca J. Lester
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
309 kr
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When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old—and again when she was eighteen—she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating disorders—their history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and place in the American cultural imagination. Famished, the culmination of over two decades of anthropological and clinical work, as well as a lifetime of lived experience, presents a profound rethinking of eating disorders and how to treat them. Through a mix of rich cultural analysis, detailed therapeutic accounts, and raw autobiographical reflections, Famished helps make sense of why people develop eating disorders, what the process of recovery is like, and why treatments so often fail. It’s also an unsparing condemnation of the tension between profit and care in American healthcare, demonstrating how a system set up to treat a disease may, in fact, perpetuate it. Fierce and vulnerable, critical and hopeful, Famished will forever change the way you understand eating disorders and the people who suffer with them.
Famished
Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America
AvRebecca J. Lester
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
266 kr
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When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old—and again when she was eighteen—she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating disorders—their history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and place in the American cultural imagination. Famished, the culmination of over two decades of anthropological and clinical work, as well as a lifetime of lived experience, presents a profound rethinking of eating disorders and how to treat them. Through a mix of rich cultural analysis, detailed therapeutic accounts, and raw autobiographical reflections, Famished helps make sense of why people develop eating disorders, what the process of recovery is like, and why treatments so often fail. It’s also an unsparing condemnation of the tension between profit and care in American healthcare, demonstrating how a system set up to treat a disease may, in fact, perpetuate it. Fierce and vulnerable, critical and hopeful, Famished will forever change the way you understand eating disorders and the people who suffer with them.
Famished
Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America
AvRebecca J. Lester
E-bok
Engelska, 2019
432 kr
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When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old—and again when she was eighteen—she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating disorders—their history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and place in the American cultural imagination. Famished, the culmination of over two decades of anthropological and clinical work, as well as a lifetime of lived experience, presents a profound rethinking of eating disorders and how to treat them. Through a mix of rich cultural analysis, detailed therapeutic accounts, and raw autobiographical reflections, Famished helps make sense of why people develop eating disorders, what the process of recovery is like, and why treatments so often fail. It’s also an unsparing condemnation of the tension between profit and care in American healthcare, demonstrating how a system set up to treat a disease may, in fact, perpetuate it. Fierce and vulnerable, critical and hopeful, Famished will forever change the way you understand eating disorders and the people who suffer with them.
Ethnographies of Loss, Longing, and the Afterlives of Care
Remnants of Attachment
AvRebecca J. Lester,Lauren Cubellis
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2026
813 kr
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The anthropological work on care has sought to diversify conceptualizations of the concept, to challenge how we recognize it and identify its happening, and to critique its complicities and caveats. This volume revolutionizes this framing by articulating a mode of care that remains dynamic, and which acknowledges the changeability of care and caring over time and place. These authors address a fundamental tension in the theoretical and conceptual of work of care to date; namely, that attempts to identify care or problematize it often end up staying it, even when that staidness expresses complexity. By turning to the concept of the remnant and bringing to the anthropological work on care the framework of attachment, these authors elucidate something that may be shifting, ephemeral, deceptive, haunting, or compromised, but, in its changeling nature, reveals a persistent facet of intersubjectivity and the means by which people tack together a world in relation.
Ethnographies of Loss, Longing, and the Afterlives of Care
Remnants of Attachment
AvRebecca J. Lester,Lauren Cubellis
E-bok
Engelska, 2026
813 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
The anthropological work on care has sought to diversify conceptualizations of the concept, to challenge how we recognize it and identify its happening, and to critique its complicities and caveats. This volume revolutionizes this framing by articulating a mode of care that remains dynamic, and which acknowledges the changeability of care and caring over time and place. These authors address a fundamental tension in the theoretical and conceptual of work of care to date; namely, that attempts to identify care or problematize it often end up staying it, even when that staidness expresses complexity. By turning to the concept of the remnant and bringing to the anthropological work on care the framework of attachment, these authors elucidate something that may be shifting, ephemeral, deceptive, haunting, or compromised, but, in its changeling nature, reveals a persistent facet of intersubjectivity and the means by which people tack together a world in relation.
Ethnographies of Loss, Longing, and the Afterlives of Care
Remnants of Attachment
AvLauren Cubellis,Rebecca J. Lester
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 478 kr
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The anthropological work on care has sought to diversify conceptualizations of the concept, to challenge how we recognize it and identify its happening, and to critique its complicities and caveats. This volume revolutionizes this framing by articulating a mode of care that remains dynamic, and which acknowledges the changeability of care and caring over time and place. These authors address a fundamental tension in the theoretical and conceptual of work of care to date; namely, that attempts to identify care or problematize it often end up staying it, even when that staidness expresses complexity. By turning to the concept of the remnant and bringing to the anthropological work on care the framework of attachment, these authors elucidate something that may be shifting, ephemeral, deceptive, haunting, or compromised, but, in its changeling nature, reveals a persistent facet of intersubjectivity and the means by which people tack together a world in relation.

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Rebecca J. Lester – författare

Jesus in Our Wombs

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