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Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck
Peter L. RudnytskyAcknowledgments. That this book should appear in a series edited by Sander Gilman and George Makari has for me a feeling of inevitability. Like many others, I owe much of my good fortune in the academic profession to Sander Gilman.
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
Sander L. GilmanThis fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
Sander L. GilmanThis fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
Multiculturalism and the Jews
Sander GilmanIn this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.
Multiculturalism and the Jews
Sander L. GilmanIn this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.
Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference
Sander L. GilmanIn this timely study Sander Gilman demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide "healthy" bodies from ones that are ill.
Obesity: The Biography
Sander L. GilmanSander L. Gilman, a leading authority in the social and cultural history of the body, presents a fascinating account of the history of obesity, looking at the changing attitudes towards the body, from regarding it as 'God's temple' to more ...
The Jew's Body
Sander L. GilmanDrawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose.
Seeing the Insane
Sander L. GilmanSeeing the Insane is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both reflected and shaped the perception and treatment of the mentally disturbed.
Sexuality: An Illustrated History
Sander L. GilmanThe first book of its type, this beautifully illustrated work contains 328 plates, many heretofore unknown, which comprise the visual tradition of human sexuality.
Multiculturalism and the Jews
Sander GilmanOn Senoçak, see Leslie A. Adelson, “Back to the Future: Turkish Remembrances of the GDR and Other Phantom Pasts,” in The Cultural After-Life of East Germany: New TransnationalPerspectives, ed. Leslie A. Adelson (Washington, ...
Fat Boys: A Slim Book
Sander L. GilmanHe is the picture of wealth and plenty?or the bloated, malnourished emblem of poverty. He is the fat man?a cultural icon, a social enigma, a pressing medical issue?and he is the subject of this remarkably rich book.
August Sander: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
August Sander"The approximately fifty plates featured in In Focus: August Sander are some of the most striking from the J. Paul Getty Museum's more than twelve hundred pictures by the artist.
Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia
Sander L. GilmanWadden,ThomasA. and Berkowitz,Robert I.(1995) “VeryLowCalorie Diets,”in KellyD.Brownell and Christopher G. Fairburn (eds), Eating Disorders and Obesity :AComprehensive Handbook, New York: Guilford Press, pp. 534–8. Waller,Glenn ...
When the War Was Over: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, ...
PreviewFor their helpful comments on draft versions, I wish to thank Simon Evans, Sander L. Gilman, Diane Neumaier, Glenda Sluga, and Gavin Williams. Finally, my thanks are due to my interviewees: Marion Einhorn, Ursel Herzberg, Erika Herzfeld, ...
Smoke: A Global History of Smoking
Sander L. GilmanAn incisive collection of essays and more than three hundred illustrations examines the global history and culture of smoking in various traditions and places, from opium dens in Victorian England to Havana cigars, documenting smokers of ...
Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient
Sander L. GilmanThis is a book of many firsts--the first wide-ranging study of Kafka from the standpoint of the history of the body; the first attempt to understand Kafka's writing through turn-of-the-century discourse about the Jewish body; the first ...
Jacques Lacan & Co: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, ...
Elisabeth RoudinescoMany of the quotes are gems."—Sander I. Gilman, Bulletin of the History of Medicine A bestseller in its French edition, this work has been hailed as both an authoritative history of French psychoanalysis and the best book on the life and ...
Culture and Dialogue: Volume 3, Issue Number 1 - March 2013
Preview60See Sander L. Gilman, The Jew's Body (London and New York: Routledge, 1991), on this anti-Semitic rhetoric; Falk, Antisemitism, 28, quoted above. 61 Nancy Bombaci, Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture: Nathanael West, Djuna ...
D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait
Brett KahrMrs Joyce Coles, Ms Irmi Elkan, Dr Susanna Isaacs Elmhlrst, Professor Sander Gilman, Professor Jean Goodwin, Dr Athol Hughes, Dr Jennifer Johns, Mr Harry Karnac, Ms Pearl King, Dr George Makari, Ms Susie Orbach, Dr Jonathan Pedder , ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts
Jennifer S. Tuttle"Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts represents a new phase of feminist scholarhip in recovery, drawing readers' attention to Gilman's lesser-known works from fresh perspectives that revise what we thought we knew about the ...
The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman" Together, these impressive works throw new light on Gilman as a writer of fiction.
A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"
Gale, Cengage LearningGolden, Catherine. “'Overwriting' the Rest Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Literary Escape from S. Weir Mitchell's Fictionalization of Women,” in Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall, 1992, pp.
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up ...
Susan Jane GilmanTales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless Susan Jane Gilman ... —Cheryl Peck, author of Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs “If David Sedaris married most of the cast of TheBreakfast Club,the resulting child just might be Susan Jane Gilman.
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader
Charlotte Perkins GilmanTHE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers.
The Dog with the Old Soul: True Stories of the Love, Hope ...
Jennifer Basye SanderSander, Jennifer Basye, 1958The dog with the old soul : true stories of the love, hope, and joy animals bring to our lives / Jennifer Basye Sander. p. cm. ISBN 978 -0-373-89262-4 (pbk.) 1. Dogs—Anecdotes. 2. Pet owners—Anecdotes. 3.
Guide to Reprints
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Women and Economics
Charlotte Perkins GilmanIt is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman’s writing, the book touched a few dominant themes: the transformation of marriage, the family, and the home, with her central argument: “the economic ...
Families, Marriages, and Children
Charlotte Perkins GilmanTranscending her era, Gilman speaks with wit, insight, and candor to twenty-first century readers about many controversial aspects of family, and family life.
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