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Emerald Points Serie de eBooks

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  • The Diversity Gap in UK Yoga

    Outsider Perspectives

    de Sally SJ Brown ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    Yoga is a popular activity that can offer multiple health and wellbeing benefits. In the United Kingdom, it is even recommended to NHS patients as part of the social prescribing system. Although widely viewed as inclusive and accessible, yoga participation in high-income countries is socially uneven – with significant under-representation of marginalised groups. The Diversity Gap in UK Yoga: ... Leer más

    $49.19 USD

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  • Yogalands

    In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World

    de Paul Bramadat ...
    Millions of people practise yoga, attracted to the mat by its promise of physical and mental benefits, social connection, and spiritual nourishment. Promoted as a way of healing the body and mind from wounds inflicted by the world, modern yoga may be a critique of the social order – an “anti-world” to which practitioners escape. Yet yoga can never free itself entirely from the compromises and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Decolonizing Yoga: from Critical to Cosmic Consciousness

    Feminist-Informed Yoga and a Jain Way of Life

    de Punam Mehta Ph.D. ...
    This book was written for diasporic South Asian women who have experienced microaggression or discrimination in modern yoga spaces in Canada or abroad. Punam Mehta, Ph.D. reveals how the yoga movement in Canada has been harmful to yoga’s grounding in Jain history, to South Asian social and cultural development, and to Jain diasporic women born and raised in Canada. She argues that marginalized ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD

  • Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change

    An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

    de Ariane M. Balizet, Jacoby Ballard, Diana York Blaine, Mary Bunn, Beth S. Catlett, Kimberly Dark, Lauren Eckstrom, Jillian Ford, Thalia González, Marcelle M. Haddix, Carol Horton, Kerrie Kauer, Roopa Kaushik-Brown, Karishma Kripalani, Punam Mehta, Steffany Moonaz, Whitney Myers, Enoch H. Page, Sarah L. Schrank, Maria Velazquez, Jennifer Musial ...
    Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change is the first collection to gather together prominent scholars on yoga and the body. Using an intersectional lens, the essays examine yoga in the United States as a complex cultural phenomenon that reveals racial, economic, gendered, and sexual politics of the body. From discussions of the stereotypical yoga body to analyses of pivotal court cases, Yoga, ... Leer más

    $44.59 USD

  • Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World

    Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice

    Edición de Laurent Pordié ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a global phenomenon. This book analyses Tibetan medicine in the 21st century by considering the contemporary reasons that have led to its diversity and by bringing out the common orientations of this ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Bioethics: The Basics

    de Alastair Campbell ...
    Series series The Basics
    Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today. Topics addressed include:the range of moral theories underpinning bioethicsarguments for the rights ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

    Critical Perspectives

    Edición de Assa Doron, Alex Broom ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides much needed insight into the relationships between health, culture, community, livelihood, and the ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Self

    de Eilis Ward ...
    This book argues that we have got it wrong in the West in our pursuit of what we consider to be ‘self’: an autonomous, self-driven, entrepreneurial entity, always on, always positive and always improving. This is a neoliberal self, a being stripped of the social. In a radical critique, this book argues that this is a deeply harmful view and is the source of much of our suffering. More, through ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Human Rights of the Third Gender in India

    Beyond the Binary

    de Lopamudra Sengupta ...
    This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their larger struggle for legal rights and dignity but also their personal hardships. It situates the issues and concerns of the Indian transgender community within a global context to explore the extent of social justice in independent India.By narrating ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Birth in the Age of AIDS

    Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India

    de Cecilia Van Hollen ...
    Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood at the beginning of the 21st century. The government of India, together with global health organizations, established an important public health initiative to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child. While this program, which targets poor women ... Leer más

    $24.59 USD

  • Women in 'New Nepal'

    Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries

    de Seika Sato ...
    Series series Nepal and Himalayan Studies
    This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with discourse analysis. Multifaceted and critical, the volume situates its narrative in the profoundly transformative period after the turn of the century when ‘New Nepal’ was rising on the horizon and sheds light on Nepali women’s experiences in multiple sites, crossing class and ethnic ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Menstruation in Nepal

    Dignity Without Danger

    Edición de Sara Parker, Kay Standing, Madhusudan Subedi ...
    This book examines the complexities of menstrual beliefs and practices in Nepal. Taking an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, it explores and promotes the rights of women, girls, and people who menstruate to a dignified and healthy menstruation.The volume• collates current research in Nepal from local academics, early career researchers, and the Dignity Without Danger research project; ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD