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En el actual contexto capitalista y patriarcal se sigue proponiendo, articulando y enalteciendo, desde los medios de comunicación y desde sus herramientas comerciales, el cuerpo de la mujer como eje central del universo femenino, atendiendo a que la belleza continúa considerándose como el atributo que por excelencia representa y encumbra a la mujer en la sociedad contemporánea. Un hecho que las revistas femeninas de alta gama españolas recogen, reflejan y difunden hasta la saciedad entre sus contenidos publicitarios, en los que se exponen modelos con unos patrones corporales extremos, patrón corporal estricto, que introducen medidas restrictivas (talla < 36, altura ? 170 centímetros y somatotipo ectomorfo) en los cuerpos de las féminas, y a los que se asocian rasgos corporales y estéticos como son: la etnia blanca, el cabello medio/largo, el color claro de los ojos, un segmento vital en el que destaca la juventud y un alto grado de perfección en el cuerpo y en el rostro de la mujer. Un proceso que ha contribuido a la difuminación y a la restricción, en cuanto a representatividad en el espacio publicitario, de otros patrones corporales femeninos que han visto mermado y restringido su espacio en pro de los patrones corporales restrictivos que se abren paso.

At the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, students learn to embalm and prepare bodies in accordance with Christian funeral traditions.

The autopsy of Samuel Johnson (1709-84) initiated two centuries of Johnsonian anatomy-both in medical speculation about his famously unruly body and in literary devotion to his anecdotal remains. Even today, Johnson is an enduring symbol of individuality, authority, masculinity, and Englishness, ultimately lending a style and a name—the Age of Johnson—to the eighteenth-century English literary canon. Loving Dr. Johnson uses the enormous popularity of Johnson to understand a singular case of author love and to reflect upon what the love of authors has to do with the love of literature. Helen Deutsch's work is driven by several impulses, among them her affection for both Johnson's work and Boswell's biography of him, and her own distance from the largely male tradition of Johnsonian criticism—a tradition to which she remains indebted and to which Loving Dr. Johnson is ultimately an homage. Limning sharply Johnson's capacious oeuvre, Deutsch's study is also the first of its kind to examine the practices and rituals of Johnsonian societies around the world, wherein Johnson's literary work is now dwarfed by the figure of the writer himself. An absorbing look at one iconic author and his afterlives, Loving Dr. Johnson will be of enormous value to students of English literature and literary scholars keenly interested in canon formation.

This article investigates the case of Jewish Spiritual Renewal (JSR) to illuminate the evolving landscape of Jewish textuality and therapeutic literacies shaped by spiritual, neoliberal, and therapeutic discourses. Based on qualitative methodology, utilizing case studies and long-term field work, it highlights the continuing importance of texts in contemporary Jewish expressions of devotion. Despite JSR’s primary focus on embodied spiritual experience, the article shows how Jewish texts are integrated into study sessions, workshops, courses, and rituals, to promote therapeutic insights and spiritual development. Aligning with other modern forms of Jewish spirituality, JSR posits that Jewish texts are valuable insofar as they facilitate personal growth and self-transformation. This is achieved through the intentional selection and performance of texts, particularly those from Jewish esoteric traditions, Kabbalah, Hasidism, and ethical literature (Musar), often interpreted in a psychological context.

The article presents the results of our independent qualitative research conducted in Polish theater circles. In-depth interviews have been conducted with fourth-year female students of acting faculties from four state theater schools and with lecturers working at these faculties. The aim of the study was to answer the question whether the theater has currently become a place where bodily images are being standardized and beauty canons reproduced. The research material gathered allows for the formulation of the following conclusions: 1) studying at a theater school significantly impacts the perception of one’s own body, 2) there is a widespread belief among the students concerning the importance of the body (and the beauty thereof) in the profession of an actor, which results in subjecting the body to some regimes, often destructive ones, 3) the pressure to have a perfect body is so strongly internalized in the theater circles that it becomes imperceptible to those who yield under this pressure.

Proportions and canons of the human body have always been an area of research mainly through art, architecture, or construction, and today, they have a significant application in product design. Research confirms that body height in most cases corresponds to the canon (head–body ratio) of 7.5 to 8 head lengths. This paper investigates the ratio of the head length (HL) to the total body height (BH, stature) of kindergarten and school-aged children, aiming to define the children’s canon inspired by the idea of the harmonic circle theory and the biomechanical model. The data were collected from 1307 children (male 676, female 631) aged 2 to 16 years in the cities of Zagreb (Croatia), Sofia (Bulgaria), and Skopje (North Macedonia). A generalized ESD test (alpha-level 0.10) and Turkey’s 1977 test were used in order to detect outliers in distributions of heights and in the distribution of ratios. Statistical significance was set at 0.05, all p values were two-sided, and the MedCalc statistical tool (version 20.110) was used. The results confirm that canonical changes follow the historical research of artists throughout the centuries, but that they change according to contemporary secular trends in children’s growth and cover HL/BH canons from 5.59 and 5.72 (2-year-old girls and boys) to 7.50 and 7.60 (15-year-old boys and girls) depending on age and gender. HL/BH ratio was significantly higher among female examinees in all age groups where difference was significant (Student’s t test, p < 0.02). In conclusion, such a calculation based on the canon is important for interdisciplinary professions. Creating an anthropological–biomechanical model based on canons, instead of time-consuming measurement, could significantly simplify the long-term collection of anthropometric data used for designing children’s products. Future detailed research is proposed.

Khushwant Singh is a well-known Indian English writer with a distinct voice in creative writing and one of the most dynamic authors in the Indian English Literature canon. He pointed aggressively at diverse social, political, administrative, and religious conflicts through his writings. He described the affairs of the common people in a sardonic style that causes readers to grin at their actions. He has the enormous potential to draw these problems out. The writer Singh's fictional works are obnoxious, charming, nostalgic, and bitter at first glance, but after a deep reading into the text and context of this writer, the reader will realise that the author Singh was never hesitant to highlight society's foolishness, idiocy, and unorthodox habits, as well as bureaucratic blunders of various dimensions. The purpose of this study is to examine the grotesque in this situation. This paper looks at \"Kusum\" and \"The Great Difference\" by Khushwant Singh. It looks at the bizarre characters, themes, settings, and symbols that are associated with the grotesque and its related aspects. It also looks at the characters' motivations and the messages behind their actions and the use of strange settings.

The introduction to the special issue of JAF “Redirecting Currents: Theoretical Wayfinding with Latinx Folkloristics and Women of Color Transnational Feminisms” approaches Latinx folklore studies from transnational feminist perspectives. The issue engages with folklore key terms used by researchers, community members, public sector workers, artists, and activists. By using an extended metaphor of aquatic movements, the introduction elucidates how lexical discontinuities and connections allow for a transparent conversation of intellectual and/or ethnographic distortions, and it acknowledges the power of writing as process and the politics of remapping the field of contemporary folklore studies. In this model, a metaphor of affective transcultural cartographies is employed to frame ideas in and of racialized spaces. The authors also discuss the poetics and historical entanglements of folklorists and postcolonial thought with the Enlightenment, and how these vexed and intimate relations are situated in language, culture, and power. The introduction summarizes the keyword essays that follow and also poses some questions about future work in folklore studies based on similar approaches.