It is argued here that before the extensive formalization of sharia laws from the late nineteenth century onwards, Islam was prominently influenced by elements of enchantment and mysticism, mirrored in its textual portrayal of passionate and sexual relations.
Engaging with discussions surrounding the culture of disease, Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives explores politically insistent narratives of illness.
Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginalized within medieval culture, prostitution as an institution was central to the medieval understanding of what it meant to be a woman.
Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines the various positions women have filled in the church.
Moving beyond the boundaries of HIV scholarship, Modernizing Sexuality shows how Western idealizations of normative sexuality and the power of modernity intersect in U.
In this highly original text-a collaboration between a college professor, a playwright, and an artist-graphic storytelling offers an emotionally resonant way for readers to understand and engage with feminism and resistance.
Explores how Nature underlies sexuality and intimacy *; Examines how to regain intimacy in our relationships in a way that embraces our hidden wild nature and restores the sacred to our lives *; Provides sacred sex and intimacy-building practices for partners and exercises to reconnect with the intuitive intelligence of the heart, remove our emotional armor, and cultivate a deeper relationship with the Earth *; Shows how by healing our relationship with Nature and our sexuality, we move toward healing the whole planet Nature is having sex all the time--that's one of the reasons we feel so alive when we are immersed in it.
This important volume offers readers an in-depth understanding of women's sexuality around the world, bringing to light a history that is often suppressed.
A new edition of the bestseller*; The first book to reveal in the West the Taoist techniques that enable women to cultivate and enhance their sexual energy*; Reveals Taoist secrets for shortening menstruation, reducing cramps, and compressing more chi into the ovaries for greater sexual power*; Teaches the practice of total body orgasmFor thousands of years the sexual principles and techniques presented here were taught by Taoist masters in secret only to a small number of people (sworn to silence), in the royal courts and esoteric circles of China.
In the early 2000's, Mark Achtemeier embarked on a personal journey with the Bible that led him from being a conservative, evangelical opponent of gay rights to an outspoken activist for gay marriage and a fully inclusive church.
Available for the first time in English, the 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality presents Sigmund Freud's thought in a form new to all but a few ardent students of his work.
Designed for both the undergraduate and graduate classroom, this selection of important articles provides a comprehensive overview of current thought about the psychological issues affecting lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men.
The work of Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid is both groundbreaking and notoriously difficult to read, as it blends theories from post-colonial studies, queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, and feminist and liberation theologies.
Intim, explizit, echt – Sex in den Köpfen von FrauenGillian Anderson präsentiert in WANT eine spektakuläre Bestandsaufnahme der weiblichen Sexualität – mit Stimmen von Frauen aus der ganzen Welt!
A leading criminologist draws on over 30 years' experience working with sex offenders to propose a new way of understanding sexual crimesThe prevalence of sex crimes has become one of the most urgent, and most widely misunderstood, subjects of our times.
New edition of an authoritative guide to human sexual behavior from a biopsychosocial perspective The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Psychology of Human Sexuality explores the roles that biology, psychology, and the social and cultural context play in shaping human sexual behavior.
Sacred gestures of the hands and body to energize the sexual organs, increase libido, enhance pleasure, and improve overall health *; Includes exercises for men and women to tone the genitals, improve endurance, and reach orgasm without ejaculation *; Details shared exercises for couples to harmonize male and female energies *; Explains how these exercises can treat sexual problems caused by tobacco, psychotropic drugs, and alcohol Mudras have been used for thousands of years in Hinduism and Buddhism to channel the movement of energy in the body for physical enhancement and spiritual enrichment.
Idiot's Guides: Kama Sutra is a fun and insightful guide to the ancient arts of the Kama Sutra, as well as many more contemporary methods and techniques for modern lovemaking.
A tantric guide to discovering the hidden gifts of menopause *; Explains why Tantra works for menopausal women and how their bodies are naturally entering a more tantric phase focused on creative, spiritual energy *; Details tantric practices and tools to connect with the body's inner intuitive wisdom, remove the ';performance pressure' of conventional sex, and set the stage for passion and pleasure to thrive both in the bedroom and beyond *; Explores what to expect physically, emotionally, and spiritually, and in relationships As women, we live so closely to the body--through menstruation, pregnancy, birthing, motherhood, and then menopause.
Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom's mid-seventeenth-century civil wars.
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "e;bride of Christ"e; to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience.
