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Author: Casey Ryan Kelly
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813575133
Size: 38.98 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2016-03-08
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Abstinence Cinema eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Abstinence Cinema comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the evangelical movement’s abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from Easy A to Taken. Casey Ryan Kelly tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. As he demonstrates, these movies are particularly disempowering for young women, concocting plots in which the decision to refrain from sex until marriage is the young woman’s primary source of agency and arbiter of moral worth. Locating these regressive sexual politics not only in expected sites, like the Twilight films, but surprising ones, like the raunchy comedies of Judd Apatow, Kelly makes a compelling case that Hollywood films have taken a significant step backward in recent years. Abstinence Cinema offers close readings of movies from a wide spectrum of genres, and it puts these films into conversation with rhetoric that has emerged in other arenas of American culture. Challenging assumptions that we are living in a more liberated era, the book sounds a warning bell about the powerful cultural forces that seek to demonize sexuality and curtail female sexual agency.

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Book Detail:
Author: Casey Ryan Kelly
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813575125
Size: 42.41 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2016-03-08
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Abstinence Cinema eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Abstinence Cinema comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the evangelical movement’s abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from Easy A to Taken. Casey Ryan Kelly tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. As he demonstrates, these movies are particularly disempowering for young women, concocting plots in which the decision to refrain from sex until marriage is the young woman’s primary source of agency and arbiter of moral worth. Locating these regressive sexual politics not only in expected sites, like the Twilight films, but surprising ones, like the raunchy comedies of Judd Apatow, Kelly makes a compelling case that Hollywood films have taken a significant step backward in recent years. Abstinence Cinema offers close readings of movies from a wide spectrum of genres, and it puts these films into conversation with rhetoric that has emerged in other arenas of American culture. Challenging assumptions that we are living in a more liberated era, the book sounds a warning bell about the powerful cultural forces that seek to demonize sexuality and curtail female sexual agency.

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Author: Arpi Sarkis Khatcherian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 71.24 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2017
Category: Alcoholism in motion pictures
Language: en
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Download PDF The Images Of Alcohol And Abstinence In Egyptian Films eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Abstract: Images of alcohol consumption, drunkenness, inebriation, and abstinence have permeated Egyptian films since the industry’s formative years. This study aimed at uncovering the extent and nature of alcoholic content in Egyptian cinema and the possible health implications of such depictions using the perspective of media-influenced perceptions of social reality and the lens of social cognitive theory. For this purpose, the study analyzed the depiction of alcohol in Egyptian films beginning in 1952 till 2015. Content analysis of a stratified random sample of 337 Egyptian films was conducted using the standardized and tested tool developed by The Annenberg-Robert Wood Johnson Coding of Health and Media Project (CHAMP). The unit of analysis was the five-minute segment which provides a uniform and easily identifiable base for comparison. Coding was preceded by a series of seven in-depth interviews with industry experts to contextualize research findings along with historical and sociopolitical changes in Egypt. A total of 1,786 five-minute segments were coded for their alcohol content with 47 films (14%) being alcohol-free. Alcohol was found to be a constant and consistent feature of Egyptian cinema across time and genres. The rate and explicitness of alcohol depiction in films was found to have decreased over the years. It was found that drinking usually occurred by the most significant characters in films and was more often by men. Brand visibility was also a regular feature especially for beers followed by spirits, raising concerns about observational mediated modeling as postulated by social cognitive theory. Moreover, the positive psychological effects of drinking were more commonly shown compared to the negative physiological consequences of alcohol consumption. It was found that less explicit and more explicit depictions of drinking were almost on par, potentially affecting popular beliefs about alcohol as postulated by the perceptions of social reality perspective.

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Author: Tom Perrotta
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307370933
Size: 48.19 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2010-06-25
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Abstinence Teacher eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “Some people enjoy it.” That was all Ruth had said. Even now, when she’d had months to come to terms with the fallout from this remark, she still marveled at the power of those four words, which she’d uttered without premeditation and without any sense of treading on forbidden ground. (p. 11) Thanks to an off-hand remark made during a class discussion of oral sex, sex-ed teacher Ruth Ramsey finds herself a target of the Christian evangelicals who are increasingly influencing the schoolboard of suburban Stonewood Heights. Forced to attend remedial sessions with a smug “Virginity Consultant,” Ruth is isolated and alone, caught in the polarized red-versus-blue landscape of present-day American suburbia. It’s like “living in a horror movie,” she thinks, “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or something. You never knew who they were going to get to next.” Divorced and sharing custody of her daughters with her ex, and sometimes attempting a futile date, Ruth spends many a lonely weekend wondering how her bleak existence came to be. Then one morning at her daughter’s soccer game, Ruth meets Tim Mason, a cute forty-something volunteer coach. Ruth feels an instant attraction to Tim, but when he draws the girls together for a spontaneous prayer circle after the game, she angrily yanks her daughter away from the proceedings, placing herself once again in the sights of the evangelicals. But Ruth has another unexpected problem: she can’t seem to get a handle on Tim, her supposed adversary, who keeps appearing at her front door. A recovering addict whose bottoming-out cost him his home and his marriage, Tim found his way to the Tabernacle of the Gospel Truth through the intervention of Pastor Dennis, the charismatic preacher who put Tim’s shattered life back together in an approximation of happiness. Thanks to Pastor Dennis, Tim is now married to Carrie, a fellow Tabernacler who is attractive and attentive, if robotic. He plays guitar at the weekly prayer sessions in a sanitized reenactment of his days in a Grateful Dead cover band. He holds a respectable if unfulfilling job as a loan officer, well aware of the irony of the post for a man with his history. He is grateful for the help he has received from his church community and Pastor Dennis. But he can’t shake the yearning for something more, and a nagging attraction to that troublesome sex-ed teacher.... With The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta wades into the murky waters of contemporary American suburbia, fully deploying his proven gift for describing the panic lurking beneath its seemingly placid surface. Already widely known to book and movie audiences for his scathing satire mixed with remarkable compassion in works including Election and Little Children (both adapted for film, Little Children garnering Perrotta an Oscar nomination), this novel once again proves, as declared by the Los Angeles Times, “Perrotta’s balance of humor and pathos has no equal.”

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Book Detail:
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822200048
Size: 37.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1989
Category: Drama
Language: en
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Download PDF Abstinence eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. THE STORY: The place is the front hall of a very chic Manhattan apartment, where the hostess, Winnie, is giving a party for one of her pet charities-in this case, Liars Anonymous. A late arrival, who is intercepted by the worldly wise maid, Martha, is one Danna-who claims to be both on the wagon and a very dear friend of Winnie. She is also, as it develops, rather close to Winnie's husband, Lon, as well (they claim to have shared a wild night of passion involving the bizarre use of vegetables). But if Lon is a philanderer, Winnie, according to Danna, is worse; and then there is Joe, a handsome rogue who informs the others that he is an incredibly rich physicist, has climbed Mount Everest solo, has a titled wife, and who sweeps Danna off her feet. As the conversation grows more dazzling (and the lies more extravagant) only Martha, the maid, remains unfazed by the whole mad scene-after all, she has seen it all many times before, and who cares what these crazy people do or say anyway?

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Author: Jessica Fields
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 15.23 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2008
Category: Sex instruction for children
Language: en
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Download PDF Risky Lessons eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Risky Lessons brings readers inside three North Carolina middle schools to show how students and teachers support and subvert the official curriculum through their questions, choices, viewpoints, and reactions. Most important, the book highlights how sex education's formal and informal lessons reflect and reinforce gender, race, and class inequalities.

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Book Detail:
Author: Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205119X
Size: 59.48 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2019-03-02
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Homeland Maternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestation--both a powerful form of cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis and perceived vulnerability, motherhood and nation have become intimately entwined, dangerously positioning national security as reliant on the control of women's bodies. Drawing on feminist scholarship and critical studies of security culture, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz explores homeland maternity by calling our attention to the ways that authorities see both non-reproductive and "overly" reproductive women's bodies as threats to social norms--and thus to security. Homeland maternity culture intensifies motherhood's requirements and works to discipline those who refuse to adhere. Analyzing the opt-out revolution, public debates over emergency contraception, and other controversies, Fixmer-Oraiz compellingly demonstrates how policing maternal bodies serves the political function of securing the nation in a time of supposed danger--with profound and troubling implications for women's lives and agency.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jon Towlson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476615330
Size: 41.95 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2014-03-13
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Subversive Horror Cinema eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma—the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post–9/11—and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror—from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska—have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the decades from the 1930s onward it examines the work of producers and directors as varied as George A. Romero, Pete Walker, Michael Reeves, Herman Cohen, Wes Craven and Brian Yuzna and the ways in which films like Frankenstein (1931), Cat People (1942), The Woman (2011) and American Mary (2012) can be considered “subversive.”

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Book Detail:
Author: David Greven
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403977119
Size: 17.51 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2005-09-02
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Men Beyond Desire eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and comes up with some startling findings. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men, eschewing both marriage and male friendship, strive to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Examining the work of traditional authors - Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Cooper, Irving, Stowe - Greven discovers highly untraditional and transgressive representations of desire and sexuality. Objects of desire from both women and other men, the inviolate males discussed in this study overturn established gendered and sexual categories, just as this study overturns archetypal assumptions about American manhood and American literature.

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Book Detail:
Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476637601
Size: 26.29 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2019-10-16
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Fourth Wave Feminism In Science Fiction And Fantasy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.  Fourth wave feminism has entered the national conversation and established a highly visible presence in popular media, especially in cutting-edge science fiction and fantasy films and television series. Wonder Woman, the Wasp, and Captain Marvel headline superhero films while Black Panther celebrates nonwestern power. Disney princesses value sisterhood over conventional marriage. This first of two companion volumes addresses cinema, exploring how, since 2012, such films as the Hunger Games trilogy, Mad Max: Fury Road, and recent Star Wars installments have showcased women of action. The true innovation is a product of the Internet age. Though the web has accelerated fan engagement to the point that progressivism and backlash happen simultaneously, new films increasingly emphasize diversity over toxic masculinity. They defy net trolls to provide stunning role models for viewers across the spectrum of age, gender, and nationality.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kendall R. Phillips
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030741362
Size: 19.85 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2021-09-27
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF A Cinema Of Hopelessness eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book explores the circulation of anger and hostility in contemporary American culture with particular attention to the fantasy of refusal, a dream of rejecting all the structures of the contemporary political and economic system. Framing the question of public sentiment through the lens of rhetorical studies, this book traces the circulation of symbols that craft public feelings in contemporary popular cinema. Analyzing popular twenty-first century films as invitations to a particular way of feeling, the book delves into the way popular sentiments are circulated and intensified. The book examines dystopian films (The Purge, The Cabin in the Woods), science fiction (Snowpiercer), and superhero narratives (the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Joker). Across these varied films, an affective economy that emphasizes grief, betrayal, refusal, and an underlying rage at the seeming hopelessness of contemporary culture is uncovered. These examinations are framed in terms of ongoing political protests ranging from Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, and the 6th January 2021 invasion of the US Capitol Building.

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Book Detail:
Author: Casey Ryan Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814214329
Size: 34.84 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2020
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Language: en
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Download PDF Apocalypse Man eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Examines white masculine victimhood by looking at the rhetoric of gender-motivated mass shooters, white supremacists, online misogynist and incel communities, survivalists and doomsday preppers, gun culture and political rallies, and political demagogues"-Provided by publisher"--

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Book Detail:
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556091494
Size: 66.82 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1997
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Language: en
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Download PDF Abstinence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Hanne Blank
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596910119
Size: 43.31 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2008-03-04
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Virgin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A provocative social history examines the history of virginity and of noted virgins in Western culture, describing the unique fascination civilization has had for virginity from a social, political, economic, philosophical, medical, and legal standpoint. Reprint.

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Book Detail:
Author: Grace Anyanwu
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664147659
Size: 53.43 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2021-01-04
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF I Choose To Wait eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. I’ve been there. Young, single, in a relationship and overwhelmed with the messages the media throws at our society, especially teens and young adults. We frequently hear “you should be this; you should try this; you should have sex; you should be in a relationship.” We are being bombarded with messages and ideas that tell us that having sex outside of marriage is okay, in fact, good. We are being told that having sex with multiple partners is acceptable, as long as you “use protection.” We frequently hear that being abstinent is abnormal. The truth is, being sexually abstinent is a wonderful experience and the right thing to do. As a matter of fact, being abstinent can safeguard you from the negative consequences [spiritually, mentally and physically] that come with premarital sex. Did you know that sex is not just a physical act, but it involves your total self- spirit, soul and body? I Choose to Wait is designed to inspire, encourage, advise and mentor anyone on how to live a life of purity, abstinence and holiness. This book is primarily for: - anyone who is abstinent and intends to remain so - anyone who may have been sexually active and wants to be abstinent - anyone who isn’t sure about what being abstinent means and has a desire to find out more, or - anyone who desires to share this timely message and bless lives around the world, to the glory of God.

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Book Detail:
Author: Christy Baca
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449756905
Size: 30.88 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2012-07
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF Saying Yes To Saying No eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Saying Yes! to Saying No, moved me to being convicted of how calloused I had become to the influences in our world today, and yet I felt challenged to take a stand against those same influences for my sons. If you have children or grandchildren, you will want to teach them to "Say No" when it counts, and this book will give you the tools to start now!" - Ryan Knight, D.C. Sex is going to become a part of everyone's life at some point. Are you one of the 90% of parents who wish they knew what to say when it came to talking to your son or daughter about sex? Saying Yes! to Saying No addresses issues like sexting, pornography, boundaries in dating, and much more. Saying Yes! to Saying No will give you tools to start developing the conversation of sexual intimacy from age three, building on that conversation through your son or daughter's young adult years. Powerful Scriptures are placed in each chapter to remind you of the promises God has given you as a parent. To book Christy for your next event – [email protected]

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Book Detail:
Author: Kelly Wilz
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498588697
Size: 28.52 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2019-12-15
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Language: en
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Download PDF Resisting Rape Culture Through Pop Culture eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture: Sex After #MeToo provides audiences with constructive models of affirmative consent, tender masculinity, and pleasure in popular culture that work to challenge toxic dominant and hegemonic constructions. While numerous scholars have illustrated the many ways mediated culture shape social understandings of sexual violence, this book analyzes texts that might serve to resist rape culture. This project locates how these texts manufacture cinematic or televisual narratives and in turn work to create new realities that encourage cultural and social change. Kelly Wilz analyzes the ways in which we, as a culture, tend to understand sex through visual media and dominant cultural myths, while highlighting productive texts which might serve as a possible corrective to the ways in which sex is ritualized by rules that legitimize violence. Through the lens of productive criticism, Wilz examines how language and dominant ideologies around rape culture and rape myths reinforce systemic violence, and how visual texts might work to reimagine how we might disrupt those ideologies and create new ways to engage in conversations around intimacy and violence. By centering the voices within the #MeToo movement, who actively work to de-normalize sexual assault and abuse, these models provide a useful counter to the deluge of dehumanizing narratives about survivors and sexualized violence. Scholars of pop culture, women’s studies, media studies, and social justice will find this book particularly useful.

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Book Detail:
Author: Manuel Almagro-Jiménez
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823302337
Size: 30.62 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2020-10-05
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF From Page To Screen Vom Buch Zum Film eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For a long time now, women have struggled for the vindication of their rights and for their visibility. This struggle may seem a story of success, maybe not complete or equal for all women, but at least one which slowly but surely carries with it the promise of equality for all women. However, a closer look reveals that in various fields of culture the representation of women frequently undergoes a manipulation which makes the image of women lose the intention initially attempted. This is often the case with adaptations of literary texts to the screen, when the initial literary message is changed because of, for example, marketing demands or some ideological stance. Rarely do we find the opposite case where the indifferent or emasculated original female characters are turned into guardians and/or apologists of feminine power. The present volume focuses precisely on the way in which the image of women is modified in films and TV series, when compared with the original literary texts.

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Book Detail:
Author: Martin Seel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150172486X
Size: 52.10 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2018-07-15
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF The Arts Of Cinema eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Explores film's connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. He explores the cinema's singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples from a diverse range of films--from Antonioni and Hitchcock to The Searchers and The Bourne Supremacy--to demonstrate the many ways this potential can be realized"--

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Book Detail:
Author: Mark D. Regnerus
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195320948
Size: 71.88 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2007-03
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
View: 1933
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Download PDF Forbidden Fruit eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Americans remain deeply ambivalent about teenage sexuality. Many presume that such uneasiness is rooted in religion. But how exactly does religion contribute to the formation of teenagers' sexual values and actions? What difference, if any, does religion make in adolescents' sexual attitudes and behaviors? Are abstinence pledges effective? What does it mean to be "emotionally ready" for sex? Who expresses regrets about their sexual activity and why?Tackling these and other questions, Forbidden Fruit tells the definitive story of the sexual values and practices of American teenagers, paying particular attention to how participating in organized religion shapes sexual decision-making. Merging analyses of three national surveys with stories drawn from interviews with over 250 teenagers across America, Mark Regnerus reviews how young people learn-and what they know-about sex from their parents, schools, peers and other sources. He examines what experiences teens profess to have had, and how they make sense of these experiences in light of their own identities as religious, moral, and responsible persons.Religion can and does matter, Regnerus finds, but religious claims are often swamped by other compelling sexual scripts. Particularly interesting is the emergence of what Regnerus calls a new middle class sexual morality which has little to do with a desire for virginity but nevertheless shuns intercourse in order to avoid risks associated with pregnancy and STDs. And strikingly, evangelical teens aren't less sexually active than their non-evangelical counterparts, they just tend to feel guiltier about it. In fact, Regnerus finds that few religious teens have internalized or are even able to articulate the sexual ethic taught by their denominations. The only-and largely ineffective-sexual message most religious teens are getting is, "Don't do it until you're married." Ultimately, Regnerus concludes, religion may influence adolescent sexual behavior, but it rarely motivates sexual decision making.

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