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Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love more books like this

by Kara Walker, Professor Sander L Gilman (Text by), Thomas McEvilley (Text by)

Text by Philippe Vergne, Sander Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr, Kevin Young, Yasmil Raymond.

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Seeing the Insane

Seeing the Insane more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

"Seeing 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.

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Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews

Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

"Jewish Self-Hatred has all the qualities of a master work by a seminal mind. It is a contribution of the first rank and should be regarded as one of the finest studies we are likely to see for a long time of a remarkable and sobering cultural phenomenon." -- Chaim Potok, Philadelphia Inquirer. "A broad panorama of antisemitism... Gilman's volume ...

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Heinrich Heine and the Occident: Multiple Identities, Multiple Receptions more books like this

by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Sander L Gilman

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Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS

Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

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Fat Boys: A Slim Book

Fat Boys: A Slim Book more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

He is the epitome of health--or a walking time bomb. He is oversexed--or sexless. He is jolly--or hiding the tears of a clown. He 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. ...

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Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery

Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

In this cross-cultural history of the basic motivations for aesthetic surgery, a biologist examines a variety of procedures and notions of beauty, including European nose-reductions of 16th-century syphilitics, the Nazis' obsession with the Aryan ideal, and transexual surgery of the 1990s.

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Freud, Race, and Gender

Freud, Race, and Gender more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

Gilman agrues that Freud dealt with his anxiety about himself as a Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world by projecting it onto other cultural "inferiors"--such as women. This fresh view of the beginnings of psychoanalysis will interest readers of history, Jewish studies, gender studies, literature, and others. Halftones.

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Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996

Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996 more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman (Editor), Professor Jack Zipes (Editor)

"These essays provide a comprehensive historical perspective on most aspects of Jewish culture in German-speaking lands. An in-depth look at a vanished world".--Jehuda Reinharz, President, Brandeis University. "An extraordinary work that will be a classic reference for Jewish and German cultural studies".--Maria Tatar, Harvard University.

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Love + Marriage = Death: And Other Essays on Representing Difference

Love + Marriage = Death: And Other Essays on Representing Difference more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

A pioneering interdisciplinary scholar examines the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes of the Jew' s body in 20th-century art and literature.

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Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of His Contemporaries

Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of His Contemporaries more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman (Editor), David J Parent (Translator)

In Conversation with Nietzsche, Sander Gilman and David Parent present a fascinating selection of memoirs, anecdotes, and informal recollections by friends and acquaintances of Nietzsche, translated by Parent from the definitive German collection. Gilman's selections carefully balance documents concerning Nietzsche's personal life with others on ...

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Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

In a series of interlinked essays, Sander Gilman reimagines Jewish identity as that of people living on a frontier rather than in a diaspora.

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Jurek Becker: A Life in Five Worlds more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

Jurek Becker, the author of the first comic novel on the Holocaust, "Jacob the Liar," and other highly acclaimed works, was one of West Germany's most famous exiles from the GDR. A survivor of the Shoah-his mother died in a Nazi death camp-and witness to the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, Becker endured most of the trials that Jews ...

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Psychological Writings and Letters more books like this

by Sigmund Freud, Professor Sander L Gilman (Introduction by)

This collection--introduced by Gilman--culls theoretical work and personal correspondence from throughout Freud's career.

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Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

An exploration of the widespread and timeless stereotype of superior Jewish intelligence, Sander Gilman's study explores not only how this image has been constructed, but how that image has both hurt and helped Jews and Gentiles alike. In the long history of anti-Semitism, even positive attributes can be manipulated for negative ends, and the ...

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Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

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Inscribing the Other more books like this

by Sander L Gilman

Inscribing the Other focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who have still wished to address it: Goethe, Freud, Wilde, Heine, Nietzsche, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others. In thirteen probing, provocative essays Sander L. Gilman reinterprets their writing as ...

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On European Ground more books like this

by Alan Cohen, Professor Sander L Gilman, Jonathan Bordo

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Face of Madness more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman (Editor), Hugh W Diamond

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The Fortunes of the Humanities: Thoughts for After the Year 2000 more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

In an era of attacks on the humanities by the right (" Goethe is not taught anymore!" ) and the left (" Why teach dead white males?" ), a distinguished teacher and scholar presents a series of closely interconnected exercises in understanding the present state and future possibilities of the humanities.

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Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient more books like this

by Sander L Gilman

This 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 attempt to write a history of the period's debates about ritual slaughter and animal rights; and the first ...

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The Jew's Body more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

Drawing 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. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions as the myth of the cloven foot and Jewish ...

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The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Sihcle more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

"Mr. Gilman's work is the most convincing account of how Freud's anxiety about being Jewish is reflected in his work. After reading Mr. Gilman's exhaustive treatment, one cannot help seeing Freud as struggling to formulate a response to the Viennese notions of Jewishness in which he was inescapably steeped."--New York Times. "Gilman [is] one of ...

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The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Sia]cle more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman

"There is no category of supposed human beings that comes closer to the orangutan than does a Polish Jew", said a Bavarian writer, reflecting the eighteenth-century view that Jews were profoundly flawed. The Jewish body, popular opinion held, was malformed - from feet to nose - and predisposed to a host of illnesses ranging from the plague to ...

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Reading Freud's Reading more books like this

by Professor Sander L Gilman, Jutta Birmele (Editor), Jay Geller (Editor)

Specialists from a wide range of areas--from the history of medicine, to literary scholarship, to the history of classical scholarship--spent two months working on the questions raised by Freud's reading and his library at the Freud Museum in London. Together they present a detailed look at the implication of how and what Freud read, including the ...

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