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1. |  | Title: Freud and his critics Author: Robinson, Paul A 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Psychology | PsychiatryPublisher's Description: Wars against Freud have been waged along virtually every front during the past decade. Now Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable critics, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. |  | Title: Our mother-tempers Author: Levy, Marion J. (Marion Joseph) 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in making us the kind of people we are. By the age of three, four, or five, virtually all children have learned to walk, talk, eat, sleep, control bodily functions, interact with othe . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. |  | Title: Reshaping the psychoanalytic domain: the work of Melanie Klein, W.R.D. Fairbairn, and D.W. WinnicottAuthor: Hughes, Judith M Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | PsychiatryPublisher's Description: Tracing the line of succession from Sigmund Freud, through Melanie Klein to Fairbairn and Winnicott, Judith Hughes demonstrates the internal development of the British school of psychoanalysis and the coherence of its legacy. Both lay reader and professional will find the book illuminating. Similar Items | 4. |  | Title: Lives together/worlds apart: mothers and daughters in popular culture Author: Walters, Suzanna Danuta Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Gender Studies | Popular Culture | American Studies | Gender Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge , Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played b . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. |  | Title: Mother without child: contemporary fiction and the crisis of motherhood Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Literature | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Women's Studies | American Literature | Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon. Unlike traditional . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. |  | Title: Death is that man taking names: intersections of American medicine, law, and cultureAuthor: Burt, Robert 1939- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | Health Care | History of Medicine | Ethics | ReligionPublisher's Description: The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right to die" - initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted suicide. T . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | Title: Strong mothers, weak wives: the search for gender equality Author: Johnson, Miriam M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In Strong Mothers, Weak Wives she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into g . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. |  | Title: Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of deathAuthor: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethics | Sociology | Sociology | Ethics | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Ethnic StudiesPublisher's Description: Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. |  | Title: Making modern mothers: ethics and family planning in urban GreeceAuthor: Paxson, Heather 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Anthropology | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper indi . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. |  | Title: Hysteria beyond Freud Author: Gilman, Sander L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Literature | Women's Studies | Psychiatry | MedicinePublisher's Description: "She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others - especially women. How has this medical concept assumed its power? What cultural purposes . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. |  | Title: Loss: the politics of mourningAuthor: Eng, David L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | History | Philosophy | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss - of warfare, disease, and political strife - this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing t . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. |  | Title: In search of god the mother: the cult of Anatolian CybeleAuthor: Roller, Lynn E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | Ancient History | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Religion | Comparative ReligionsPublisher's Description: This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. |  | Title: Three mothers, three daughters: Palestinian women's stories Author: Gorkin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three of their daughters, affords an unparalleled view into the daily lives of women who have lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent and rapidly changing era. In recording these stories, Michael Gork . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. |  | Title: The rest is silence: death as annihilation in the English Renaissance Author: Watson, Robert N Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance LiteraturePublisher's Description: How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet , and through plays o . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. |  | Title: Aging, death, and human longevity: a philosophical inquiryAuthor: Overall, Christine 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: With the help of medicine and technology we are living longer than ever before. As human life spans have increased, the moral and political issues surrounding longevity have become more complex. Should we desire to live as long as possible? What are the social ramifications of longer lives? How does . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. |  | Title: Not our kind of girl: unraveling the myths of Black teenage motherhoodAuthor: Kaplan, Elaine Bell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Social Science | Gender Studies | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: One of the most worrisome images in America today is that of the teenage mother. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom. Elaine Bell Kaplan's affecting and insightful book dispels common p . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. |  | | 18. |  | Title: Sensory biographies: lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo BuddhistsAuthor: Desjarlais, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Buddhism | AgingPublisher's Description: Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. |  | Title: Permitted and prohibited desires: mothers, comics, and censorship in JapanAuthor: Allison, Anne 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Popular Culture | JapanPublisher's Description: This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes - or obentos - that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. |  | Title: Deep politics and the death of JFKAuthor: Scott, Peter Dale Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s Am . . . [more]Similar Items |
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