Sentences with phrase «cultural myth»

We share a strange, ill - informed cultural myth that shy guys are all looking for highly assertive women.
I believe, instead, that the source of shared cultural myths lies in individual developmental psychology.
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The Savannah artist subverts hierarchies, blends cultures and species, and rewrites cultural myths in his solo show titled Romance 2020 at Marcia Wood Gallery.
During the half - time show, the second dominant American cultural myth is manifest.
«Show me the money» or «do what you love» are both compelling philosophies,... but they are loaded with cultural myth,» he says.
«It's based in deep - seated cultural myth, hatred and a lack of grounding in ecology and the natural sciences.»
Allure is dark and disturbing but the tendency is to reinforce two unfortunate cultural myths: the so - called «lesbian molester» and a connection between incest and pedophilia.
Dominic Cooke's On Chesil Beach, adapted from a dour novella by Ian McEwan, transforms cultural myth into hard fact, framing the marriage bed as not a venue for bawdy larks, but face - clawing torment.
And the most common, familiar elements of each of these private Quests serve as the shared basis for broad cultural myths.
Props and costume are combined with song, text and other activities creating rituals that often reference cultural myths and history.
Pica approaches such heavy - duty topics, as well as the uncertainties of communication at large, with a keen wit and an infectious sense of play, quietly undermining cultural myths and clichés and poetically exploiting the perpetual gap between reality and its representation.
This prevailing cultural myth is challenged, and rightly so in my opinion, by Reid's particular insight into the way most people's careers actually develop.
Cultural myth suggests that men do not invest much of themselves in marriage.
Rather than offering an eye - opening perspective on the inner workings of the family, they argued, family therapists were too often guilty of perpetuating the same cultural myths about men and women that got families in trouble in the first place.
Contrary to previous cultural myths, women can be aroused to a high, sustained level of sexual excitement.
From leading parenting expert Alyson Schafer, Breaking the Good Mom Myth breaks down personal and cultural myths about motherhood while empowering mothers everywhere
And in many ways that cultural myth is not attractive to women.
We created a cultural myth around this, that you have to be that way to be successful.
American religion always manages to reflect our cultural myths, and the great purveyor of the American Success Syndrome in our own era is the popular Protestant minister Norman Vincent Peale.
Cultural myths and values are sold to us not through recreation alone; they also are sold through information.
Declaring a religious / cultural myth to be a theory demonstrates ignorance of both science and faith — and in its way — the most profound contempt for both.
There is a third answer that most people ignore, «I don't know but I see no reason to act like there is a god until more than cultural myths are provided as evidence.»
She is a cultural myth that defines — and confines — ways of being in the world for women of African descent.»
Modern Education says we can start passing around best care information, and avoid the common pitfalls of cultural myths.
Our society subscribes to the cultural myth that men should be stoic and tough things out, notes Dr. Courtenay.
With the growing overuse of technology, surgery and drugs in childbirth and the underuse of natural comfort measures, water, midwives, rebozo techniques and doulas, Orgasmic Birth brings a challenge to our cultural myths that safety resides in more technology, while science tells us for most MotherBaby's less is more in childbirth.
Orgasmic Birth brings the ultimate challenge to our cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth.
It doesn't help that there are cultural myths and stereotypes clouding the issue.
A great sense of empowerment is restored as mothers become better able to resist the pulls of their personal and cultural myths, and instead begin parenting with greater intention and in ways that are more suitable to proper child guidance.
It's difficult to navigate through the cultural myths and subtle messages about dieting, not to mention all of the advertising and products marketed at women that can trick you into buying things that don't really help you get healthier, lose fat or get lean.
With the growing overuse of technology, surgery and drugs in childbirth and the underuse of natural comfort measures, water, midwives, rebozo techniques and doulas, Orgasmic Birth brings a challenge to our cultural myths that safety resides in more technology, while science tells us for most MotherBaby's less is more in childbirth.
Women are often told this though... and it becomes their birth story, feeding the cultural myth.
But the more the cultural myth of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl expanded, the more my ambivalence about it grew.»
Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Dr. Brené Brown dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.
On Immunity: An Inoculation By Eula Biss Graywolf • $ 16 • ISBN 9781555977207 In a slender, beautifully written volume that was named one of the best books of 2014 by publications ranging from the New York Times to Entertainment Weekly, Bliss explores our long - standing fear of vaccines and our cultural myths about the nature of immunity.
His grand metal sculptures and large - scale narrative paintings are informed by popular iconography of political, social and historical realities, cultural myths and the Candi reliefs at Sukuh Temple.
Indonesian artist, Entang Wiharso's grand metal sculpture, Double Happiness # 2 (2013), is informed by popular iconography of political, social and historical realities, and cultural myths.
Peter Simek wrote < > With all due respect, I don't believe Mr. Simek did in depth research on this subject or he would quickly have learned that this is not factual history but rather a new popular «cultural myth» that appeared on the scene in 1999 with the publication of the book «Hidden in Plain View» by art history professor Raymond Dobin and oral historian Jacqueline Tobin.
The artists use as points of departure a wide spectrum of inspiration from personal, archival material to cultural myth and memory, both real and imagined.
From the cultural myths of folklore, to the Old and New testaments, Kabbalah, alchemy, philosophy and the poetry of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, Kiefer's work wrestles with the darkness of German history and considers the complex relationship between art and spirituality.
It will feature works dating from the early 1960's to the 1980's, including significant examples of his major themes: the American road, the industrial landscape and cultural myths.
Kiefer's monumental archive of human memory gives overt material presence to a broad range of cultural myths and metaphors — from the Old and New Testaments, the Kabbalah, and ancient Roman history to the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan.
Inspired by sources ranging from the cultural myths of folklore, to the Old and New Testaments, Kabbalah, alchemy, philosophy and the poetry of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, Kiefer's work considers the complex relationship between art and spirituality.
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