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Challenging Gender Fluidity: A Critical Examination Of The Western Gender Identity Movement
Get PDFThis article embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the genesis of gender identity and its profound repercussions, specifically in the West. It delves into the intricate web of public perception, where eternal verities of identity are increasingly regarded as social constructs. I confront the pressing issue of whether transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women's sports, a matter with far-reaching implications. Similarly, the complex question of whether transgender inmates should be housed in women's prisons has also been addressed. Within this preposterous tapestry of gender identity, I also draw attention to the personal experiences of individuals who have undergone gender transitions but subsequently expressed deep regret over their decisions, followed by the decision to close the Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic. The article concludes by presenting a set of proposed legal safeguards designed to protect the interest of children, who will play a pivotal role in shaping India's future.
Keywords: gender identity, transgender athletes, transgender inmates, gender reassignment, John Money, detransitioning, gender dysphoria, puberty blockers, identity politics, Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic
A catalog of Famicom and Disk System video games (1985-1994)
Get PDFcirca 350 early console video games, based on GameCenter CX’s chronology
segments, mainly Nintendo Famicom, secondarily Disk System; first year of
the Game Boy included
Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593)
No full textFrom antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and their modes of preparation. In the late Renaissance, Galenic physicians and naturalists, such as Leonhart Fuchs and Pietro Andrea Mattioli, attempted to explain these pharmacological properties or “faculties” at the intersection of medicine, botany, and natural philosophy. This chapter examines the case of the Italian physician and botanist Andrea Cesalpino. His pharmacological treatise De medicamentorum facultatibus [On the Faculties of Drugs, 1593] was particularly significant for its reception of ancient and medieval texts on drug properties, materia medica, and the role of the senses in the knowledge of bodies
Novel Dialogue 5.2 Writing the Counter-book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)
No full textEugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world’s worst job interview? Or is it a searing indictment of ethno-nationalist Zionism–and the strange act of pretense whereby American Jewish writers and thinkers in postwar America pretended that Israel and its more extreme ethno-nationalist strains didn’t concern them?
Cohen dramatizes the return of that repressed by imagining the family of the Benzion Netanyahu (actual medieval Spanish historian and father of Israel’s past and present Prime Minister Bibi) landing itself on a would-be assimilated American Jewish family ripped straight from the pages of a Philip Roth or Bernard Malamud novel.
With John and Eugene, Joshua dissects the legacy of earlier American Jewish writers like Cynthia Ozick, and offers finer details of how Ze’ev Jabotinksy‘s bellicose views would ultimately take hold in Israel, wisecracking his way to a literally jaw-dropping conclusion…
Review: A Tender Spirit, a Vital Form: Arlene Burke-Morgan & Clarence Morgan
Get PDFBook review of A Tender Spirit, a Vital Form: Arlene Burke-Morgan & Clarence Morgan by Howard Oransky, editor. University of Minnesota Press, February 2023. 168 p. Ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1390-8, $34.95. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-tender-spirit-a-vital-form. Reviewed September 2023 by Virginia Seymour, Head Librarian of Research and Instruction, Savannah College of Art and Design, [email protected]
Using Word Embeddings for Identifying Emotions Relating to the Body in a Neo-Assyrian Corpus
No full textResearch into emotions is a developing field within Assyriology, and NLP tools for Akkadian texts offers new perspectives on the data. We use PMI-based word embeddings to explore the relationship between parts of the body and emotions. Using data downloaded from Oracc, we ask which parts of the body were semantically linked to emotions. We do this through examining which of the top 10 results for a body part could be used to express emotions. After identifying two words for the body that have the most emotion words in their results list (libbu and kabattu), we then examine whether those emotion words were indeed used in this manner in the Neo-Assyrian textual corpus. The results indicate that of the two body parts, kabattu was semantically linked to happiness and joy, and had a secondary emotional field of anger
A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing
Get PDFThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The situation is reversed in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Zoroastrianism, where spiritual heaviness is associated with virtue and/or good deeds must outweigh bad ones. Although these four religions favour downward movement of the balance pan, they situate their positive afterlife realms on high and their negative ones in the underworld. Curiously, Egyptian and Christian psychostasias may feature a similar “tipping of the balance” by its custodian in favour of the deceased, and both Hinduism and Christianity harbour instances of physical weighing being used to decide the fate of living persons
Truffle Pigs: An approach to two-shot instruction in Entrepreneurship 190
No full textHow do you engage 300 students in meaningful library instruction? This blog post describes my current practice for working with this class, Entrepreneurship 190