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Restless Cities
by Matthew Beaumont, Gregory Dart, Contributor-Marshall Berman, Contributor-Iain Borden, Contributor-Kasia Boddy, Contributor-Patrick Keiller, Contributor-Esther Leslie, Contributor-Geoff Dyer, Contributor-Michael Newton, Contributor-Rachel Bowlby, Contributor-Chris Petit, Contributor-Iain Sinclair, Contributor-Michael Sayeau, Contributor-David Trotter, Contributor-Michael Sheringham, Mark W. Turner
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2010 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-405-3, ISBN: 1-84467-405-3

"The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a city-symphony to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, "Restless Cities" traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis. With explorations of phenomena including nightwalking, urbicide, property, commuting and recycling, this wide-rangi ..."






Questioning Judaism(1st Edition)
Interviews by Elisabeth Weber (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Elisabeth Weber, Jacques Derrida, Rachel Bowlby, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Leon Poliakov, Luc Rosenzweig, Rita Thalmann, Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2004 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-4220-7, ISBN: 0-8047-4220-0

"In the wake of the Dreyfus affair and the Shoah, many French intellectuals have maintained rich and complex relationships with Judaism, beyond as well as within the religious dimension. Whether they approach it via history, philosophy, biblical studies or sociology, or following a personal itinerary, many contemporary intellectuals are deeply involved in Jewish culture.Interviewed at length by Elisabeth Weber, this volume presents the m ..."






Talking Walking
Essays in Cultural Criticism (Critical Voices)
by Rachel Bowlby
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Sussex Academic Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-84519-911-1, ISBN: 1-84519-911-1

""Bowlby's work brilliantly insists on the relevance of cultural critique to our own everyday lives."--Prof. Josephine McDonagh, King's College London *** "This is a wonderfully readable, eloquent, wise, witty, and absorbing book."--J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Prof. Emeritus, U. of California, Irvine *** When something called 'theory' first broke on to the seemingly stagnant scene of literary studies, it offered bright new ways and f ..."






Virginia Woolf(1st Edition)
(Longman Critical Readers)
by Rachel Bowlby
Hardcover, 214 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-16330-0, ISBN: 1-138-16330-9

"Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions about writing, literary traditions and the differences of the sexes. The collection includes pieces by such well-known writers as Gillian Beer, Mary Jacobus, Peggy Kamuf and Catharine Stimpson. With a substantial Introduction, headnotes to each piece and ful ..."






A Child of One's Own(1st Edition)
Parental Stories
by Rachel Bowlby
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-872812-2, ISBN: 0-19-872812-3

"Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of childhood, it is just a background. But in recent decades, far-reaching changes in typical family forms and in procreative possibilities (through reproductive technologies) have brought out new questions. Why do people want (or not want) t ..."






A Child of One's Own(1st Edition)
Parental Stories
by Rachel Bowlby
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-960794-5, ISBN: 0-19-960794-X

"Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of childhood, it is just a background. But in recent decades, far-reaching changes in typical family forms and in procreative possibilities (through reproductive technologies) have brought out new questions. Why do people want (or not want) t ..."






A Child of One's Own
Parental Stories
by Rachel Bowlby
256 Pages, Published 2013 by Oup Oxford
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-150184-5, ISBN: 0-19-150184-0

"Derrida is responding to a question from the psychoanalytic historian Elisabeth Roudinesco about the significance of the new verifiability of paternity, via DNA testing. Roudinesco suggests that the availability of ... Park discussed above (pp. 170–1) which also addresses the difficulty of dislodging an established 'growth' of rearing influences: 'the man who means to make you love him... must have very up-hill work, for there are ..."






The Biology of Clinical Encounters
Psychoanalysis As a Science of Mind
by John E. Gedo, Rachel Bowlby
216 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-88382-0, ISBN: 1-134-88382-X

"Psychoanalysis as a Science of Mind John E. Gedo. A Abraham, K., 29 Alexander, F., 26, 149 Aquinas, T., 154 Arlow, J., 26 B Baker, H., 135 Baker, M, 135 Basch, M., 7,37, 135 Benedesk, ... 117 E Edelson, M., 151 Eissler, K., 33,97, 109, 111, 117, 150, 166 Emde, R., 8 Erikson, E., 27 Erle, J., 100, 112, 114, 126n F Fairbairn, ..."






A Child of One's Own
Parental Stories
by Rachel Bowlby
256 Pages, Published 2013 by Oup Oxford
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-150185-2, ISBN: 0-19-150185-9

"22 In 1987, the sociologist Francoise Laborie made an interesting case for surrogacy as simpler for the intending mother than IVF, because it avoids all the laborious treatments and likely failures of that procedure. She does not consider ' full' surrogacy (which requires IVF), and argues instead that 'in this method of procreation, there is nothing medical or technological; you only need a syringe to inseminate the carrying mother ..."






Statistics(3rd Edition)
The Essentials for Research
by Henry E. Klugh, Rachel Bowlby
Digital, 456 Pages, Published 2013 by Psychology Press Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-92869-9, ISBN: 1-134-92869-6

"The Essentials for Research Henry E. Klugh. test of learning ability. We arrange ... of groups of equivalent learning ability. Consider yet another example: suppose we investigate the effect of biofeedback training on stress reduction. We test each person's stress level initially and again after a course of biofeedback training."






Still Crazy After All These Years(1st Edition)
(Routledge Revivals): Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis (Volume 8)
by Rachel Bowlby
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2010 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-57129-6, ISBN: 0-415-57129-4

"The starting point for this book, first published in 1992, is a question of rhetoric – as much in the writings of feminism as in other writing about women. How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in which we think about what a woman is, or where women might be going, whether individually or collectively? Some possible answers, as well as more questions, are offered in this ..."






Still Crazy After All These Years(1st Edition)
(Routledge Revivals): Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis
by Rachel Bowlby
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2010 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-57306-1, ISBN: 0-415-57306-8

"The starting point for this book, first published in 1992, is a question of rhetoric – as much in the writings of feminism as in other writing about women. How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in which we think about what a woman is, or where women might be going, whether individually or collectively? Some possible answers, as well as more questions, are offered in this ..."






Freudian Mythologies
Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities
by Rachel Bowlby
Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-281-16442-1, ISBN: 1-281-16442-9






Routledge Revivals(1st Edition)
Just Looking Vol. 10 : Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola Volume 10
by Rachel Bowlby
Hardcover, 188 Pages, Published 2009 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-57279-8, ISBN: 0-415-57279-7

"Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, Just Looking ,first published in 1985, addresses itself to a central paradox of the ..."






Just Looking(1st Edition)
(Routledge Revivals): Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
by Rachel Bowlby
Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2009 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-57315-3, ISBN: 0-415-57315-7

"The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, Just Looking, first published in 1985, addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesi ..."






Freudian Mythologies
Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities : Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities
by Rachel Bowlby
Published 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-153366-2, ISBN: 0-19-153366-1






Adventures in Realism(1st Edition)
by Matthew Beaumont, Simon Dentith, Andrew Hemingway, Fredric Jameson, Nancy Armstrong, Rachel Bowlby, Sally Ledger, Esther Leslie, George Levine, Michael Lowy
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Wiley-Blackwell
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-3577-1, ISBN: 1-4051-3577-8

"Adventures in Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the visual arts is also addressed. Comprises 16 newly–commissioned essays written by a distinguished group of contributors, including Slavoj Zizek and Frederic Jameson Provides the historical, cultural, intellectual, and li ..."






Freudian Mythologies(1st Edition)
Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities
by Rachel Bowlby
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Oxford University Press, Usa
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927039-2, ISBN: 0-19-927039-2

"More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest and parricide represented the fulfilment of universal and long forgotten childhood wishes. The Oedipus complex - child, mother, father - suited the nuclear families of the mid-twentieth century. But a century after the arrival of the psychoana ..."






Freudian Mythologies
Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities
by Rachel Bowlby
Published 2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4294-9293-5, ISBN: 1-4294-9293-7






Difference
Reading with Barbara Johnson (Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies)
by Dr Elizabeth Weed, Ellen Rooney, Naomi Schor, Rachel Bowlby, Pamela L. Caughie, Mary Wilson Carpenter, Lee Edelman, Jane Gallop
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2006 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6657-7, ISBN: 0-8223-6657-6

"This special issue of "differences" celebrates the work of the contemporary feminist literary critic and theorist, Barbara Johnson, whose work has been revolutionary in foregrounding concepts of 'difference'. Johnson's is a unique method of literary reading in which literature becomes, again in her words, 'a mode of cultural work, the work of giving-to-read those impossible contradictions that cannot yet be spoken'.The contributors to t ..."



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