This dissertation explores the representation of masculinity and the male body in the Hebrew prophets. Bringing together a close analysis of biblical prophetic texts with contemporary theoretical work on masculinity, embodiment, and prophecy, I argue that the male bodies of the …
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Monstrous Fictions of the Human considers the body as a site of decision between human and monster. Fictions of making and unmaking bodies deemed human or otherwise reveal the tenuous nature of distinctions upon which these definitions are constructed. Such fictions insist on th…
Assuming that ancient traditions were at the very heart of medieval Jewish practices, I question to what extent the care for the dead in medieval Ashkenaz continued and to what extent it differed from the treatment of the body in earlier periods. Were the halakhic norms regardin…
Adults regularly adopt new identities as members of transcommunal associations anthropologically termed sodalities. This study investigates strategies of inclusivity in one such organization, Persatuan Gerak Badan [Body Movement Association, PGB], a school based in Bogor, Indone…
This dissertation examines the ways in which the notion of the postcolonial correlates to Judith Halberstam's idea of queer space and time where, in "[detaching] queerness from sexuality" (1), chronologies represent a "diminishing future [which] creates a new emphasis on the her…
In this thesis I discuss a puzzle originally introduced by Chrysippus of Soli, the third head of the Stoic school who lived during the II to III century B.C. The puzzle involves two individuals in one body: an impossibility. In this work I will offer an argument aiming to elucid…
This dissertation investigates the material and symbolic production of Unani (Greco-Arab) medicine in contemporary India. Unani is a system of medicine derived from the humoral theory of Hippocrates (460–370 B.C.), and makes use of plant, animal and mineral-based drugs to cure c…
Sexual health education has, and will continue to be, an issue that the international community confronts regularly. It has been recognized widely that sexual health is an important aspect of reproductive rights, as well psychological and physical well being. In Iran, the same c…
Few images from ancient Egypt more poignantly express the extraordinary differences between modern and ancient notions of the sacred than the juxtaposition of Mary and babe, or Christ on a cross, with ithyphallic Min (or Mut!) or Hapi with liquid streaming from his breasts. For …
The long nineteenth century was characterized by advances in medical, biological and technological knowledge that often complicated definitions of human life and blurred the lines between life and death. These changes impacted both beliefs and practices surrounding the human bod…
This thesis concerns the struggles over the production of the truth of state violence in Turkey in the three decades following the infamous 1980 military coup. Specifically, it focuses on cases of torture and enforced disappearance, two forms of violence which the state not only…
This dissertation examines the ways in which Sudanese women employed their everyday dress as a public platform for constructing new national and gendered identities during the nationalist and independence periods of the early twentieth century. Though formally excluded from the …
Using feminist poststructuralist and postcolonial lenses, I explore how young Lebanese-Canadian women construct health, obesity, and the body within the context of the dominant obesity discourse, which over-emphasizes supposed links between inactivity, nutrition, obesity, and he…
Depictions of bodies deviating from the norm due to disease or fantastic abilities can look back on a long-standing tradition in the literature of German-speaking countries. Nonetheless, the abundance of particularly female characters who transgress norms in post-1945 novels, an…
As myriad opinions on the concept of the soul survive from antiquity, it is unlikely that the topic held only a simple theoretical significance. In fact, Greco-Roman philosophers show that the soul (psyche ) is important not only for the delineation of anthropology, but also bec…
This manuscript reconsiders the body in literature and visual representation as a physical and gesticulative domain for rethinking the constructions of gender, nationalism, and sexuality. Primarily, examining contemporary literary production, I argue that the body in contemporar…
This study investigates writings about "people of blights" ( ahl al-'ahat in Arabic) - a category that included physically different, disabled and ill individuals - that circulated among a group of Muslim male scholars connected by the social bonds of friendship and academic men…
The journey of this study connected my vision for social justice to my long lived struggles with the hijab discourse in Islamic Arab cultures. This study explored how four Muslim young girls expressed and negotiated the meanings of their bodily experiences. This study took place…
