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1. |  | Title: Speaking the unspeakable: religion, misogyny, and the uncanny mother in Freud's cultural texts Author: Jonte-Pace, Diane E. (Diane Elizabeth) 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Literature | Gender Studies | Jewish Studies | PsychologyPublisher's Description: In this bold rereading of Freud's cultural texts, Diane Jonte-Pace uncovers an undeveloped "counterthesis," one that repeatedly interrupts or subverts his well-known Oedipal masterplot. The counterthesis is evident in three clusters of themes within Freud's work: maternity, mortality, and immortalit . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. |  | 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 | 3. |  | Title: The wood duck and the mandarin: the northern wood ducksAuthor: Shurtleff, Lawton L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Zoology | Environmental Studies | BiologyPublisher's Description: This is a story of conservation told through the natural histories of two of the world's most fascinating birds, the Wood Duck of North America and the Mandarin of Asia. The only two species in their genus ( Aix ), these Northern Wood Ducks are native to different continents but have long been kept . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. |  | Title: William Faulkner and the tangible past: the architecture of Yoknapatawpha Author: Hines, Thomas S Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | Literature | American Literature | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The world of William Faulkner is seen from a new perspective in Thomas Hines's imaginative and many-faceted study. Hines assesses the impact of the built environment on Faulkner's consciousness and shows how the architecture of the writer's fictional county of Yoknapatawpha reflects the actual archi . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. |  | Title: William Grant Still: a study in contradictions Author: Smith, Catherine Parsons 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Composers | African American Studies | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still (1895-1978) was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers." He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood; major symphony orchestras performed his concert works; and an opera, written in collaboration with Langston Hughes, . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. |  | Title: Wising up the marks: the modern William Burroughs Author: Murphy, Timothy S 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: William S. Burroughs is one of the twentieth century's most visible, controversial, and baffling literary figures. In the first comprehensive study of the writer, Timothy S. Murphy places Burroughs in the company of the most significant intellectual minds of our time. In doing so, he gives us an imm . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | Title: Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896Author: Amanat, Abbas Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had occupied the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed remarkable resilience in the face of dilemmas and . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. |  | Title: One step from the White House: the rise and fall of Senator William F. Knowland Author: Montgomery, Gayle B 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: During the Cold War years of the 1950s, William F. Knowland was one of the most important figures in American politics. As the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, the wealthy California newspaper heir was recognized and respected by millions. His influence with President Eisenhower led to Earl War . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. |  | Title: William Mulholland and the rise of Los AngelesAuthor: Mulholland, Catherine 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct - a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal - that brought . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. |  | Title: The ciné goes to town: French cinema, 1896-1914Author: Abel, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | French Studies | European History | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: This updated edition of Richard Abel's magisterial history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914 is based on extensive investigation of rare archival films and documents. Similar Items | 11. |  | Title: From savage to Negro: anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954Author: Baker, Lee D 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | SociologyPublisher's Description: Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions - Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine establis . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. |  | 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 | 13. |  | Title: Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Autobiography | Education | African HistoryPublisher's Description: William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, "across the line," in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 el . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. |  | Title: Dateline Soweto: travels with black South African reporters Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | African Studies | Social Problems | Politics | African HistoryPublisher's Description: Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited seve . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. |  | Title: Unheroic conduct: the rise of heterosexuality and the invention of the Jewish manAuthor: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Jewish Studies | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. |  | | 17. |  | Title: Stravinsky and the Rite of spring: the beginnings of a musical language Author: Van den Toorn, Pieter C 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Music | ComposersSimilar Items | 18. |  | Title: Stravinsky and the Russian traditions: a biography of the works through MavraAuthor: Taruskin, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music.During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this long-awaited study, he defines Stravinsk . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. |  | Title: Thinking fragments: psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodernism in the contemporary West Author: Flax, Jane Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Gender Studies | Psychiatry | Political Theory | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: Thinking Fragments provides a brilliant critique of psychoanalytic, feminist, and postmodern theory. Examining the writings of Freud, Winnicott, Lacan, Chodorow, Irigaray, Derrida, Rorty, and Foucault, among others, Flax conducts a "conversation" among psychoanalysts, feminist thinkers, and postmode . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. |  | Title: Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914Author: Frank, Stephen 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems | European History | Law | CriminologyPublisher's Description: This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between . . . [more]Similar Items |
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