"Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to violence. These practices and conditions are standard in some parts of the world. Do demands for multiculturalism--and certain minority group rights in particular--make them more likely to con ..."
Bertolt Brecht's Berlin(1st Edition) A Scrapbook of the Twenties by SanderL. Gilman, Wolf Von Eckardt Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-9612-1, ISBN: 0-8032-9612-6
"Flower vendor at Leip2iger Plat2 [Landes- hildstelle. West Berlin] records over
and over again. But we would first carefully close the windows and turn the
record player down. Pirate Jenny and Mack the Knife came out of London, of
course. But the airs of their songs and their antics, their enthusiastic cynicism,
reflected — to me, at least— the airs and the antics and the enthusiastic cynicism
of Berlin hetween the Kaiser and Hitle ..."
Are Racists Crazy?(Reprint) How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity (Biopolitics) by SanderL. Gilman, James M. Thomas Paperback, 393 Pages, Published 2018 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-8730-9, ISBN: 1-4798-8730-7
" The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illnessIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? ..."
Obesity(1st Edition) The Biography (Biographies of Diseases) by SanderL. Gilman Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955797-4, ISBN: 0-19-955797-7
"According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis. Is obesity a disease itself or a symptom of underlying physiological or psychological illnesses? Is it a sign of social excess and therefore not a disease in the medical sense at all? Is it really 'new'? Sander L. Gilman, a leading authority in the social and cultural history of the body, presents a fascinating account of the history of obesity, ..."
Jews in Today's German Culture(1st Edition) (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies, 1993) by SanderL. Gilman Hardcover, 132 Pages, Published 1995 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-32573-0, ISBN: 0-253-32573-0
"This is the first book to examine an emerging new German Jewish culture that has become visible since the fall of the Berlin Wall.The Shoah seemed to have erased the historical Jewish presence in German culture. Since the late 1980s, however, a once-silent and therefore relatively invisible Jewish community of the victims of the Shoah has been restructuring itself, as a new generation of German Jews enters the mainstream of German cultu ..."
"A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de siecle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. In this provocative book, Sander L. Gilman argues that Freud's internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis. Examining a variety of scientific writings, Gilman discusses the ..."
""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 hysteria. The Jewish soul had a peculiar stench. The Jewish libido had a tendency toward inces ..."
""'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 has the great merit of a quite unusual breadth of reference."--'Times Literary Supplement. ..."
The Case of Sigmund Freud(1st Edition) Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle by Professor SanderL. Gilman Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1993 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-4535-2, ISBN: 0-8018-4535-1
""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 the most original and stimulating cultural historians of his generation... A rich... account t ..."
"It was organized by Sander L. Gilman, the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service
Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago,
andTodd Herzog, of the Department of Germanic Studies there, with the
assistance of Hillarv Hope Herzog, Sharlyn Rhee, James Cantranella, Anke
Pinkert, and Ashley Passmore. The spiritus rector of this event was the German
counsel -general in Chicago, Michael Engelhard. A true pol ..."
Stand Up Straight!(1st Edition) A History of Posture by SanderL. Gilman Hardcover, 424 Pages, Published 2018 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78023-924-8, ISBN: 1-78023-924-6
"Our bodies are not fixed. They expand and contract with variations in diet, exercise, and illness. They also alter as we age, changing over time to be markedly different at the end of our lives from what they were at birth. In a similar way, our attitudes to bodies, and especially posture—how people hold themselves, how they move—are fluid. We interpret stance and gait as healthy or ill, able or disabled, elegant or slovenly, beautiful ..."
Face of Madness(Reprint) Hugh W. Diamond and the Origin of Psychiatric Photography by SanderL. Gilman, John Conolly, Hugh W. Diamond Hardcover, 126 Pages, Published 2015 by Echo Point Books & Media ISBN-13: 978-1-62654-239-6, ISBN: 1-62654-239-2
"Today the use of photography (and its extension, video) in psychiatry is a common practice. But in the 1850s, when pioneering medical photographer and psychiatrist Dr. Hugh W. Diamond was behind the camera, this technique was an innovative application of art to science, reflecting and expanding the contemporary interest in physiognomic characteristics. In The Face of Madness, notable scholar Sander Gilman has curated a unique exhibition ..."
Fat Boys A Slim Book by SanderL. Gilman, Gene A. Budig Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 2011 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-7123-4, ISBN: 0-8032-7123-9
"The fat man—a cultural icon, a social enigma, a pressing medical issue—is the subject of this remarkably rich book. The figures that Sander L. Gilman considers, from the ugly fat man with the beautiful sylph trapped inside to the smart fat boy to the aging body desirous of rejuvenation, appear and reappear in different guises throughout Western culture. And as is often true, such marginal cases help define the shifting center of our dre ..."
Fat(1st Edition) A Cultural History of Obesity by SanderL. Gilman Paperback, 237 Pages, Published 2008 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4441-7, ISBN: 0-7456-4441-4
"The modern world is faced with a terrifying new ‘disease’, that of ‘obesity’. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition have all defined a point beyond which excess weight is unacceptable, ugly or corrupting. This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and ..."
Making the Body Beautiful(Updated) by SanderL. Gilman Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2000 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-07053-7, ISBN: 0-691-07053-9
"Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Sander Gilman seeks to explain why by presenting the first systematic world history ..."
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul Race and Psychology [Paperback] by SanderL. Gilman Paperback, 179 Pages, Published 1998 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2144-6, ISBN: 0-8223-2144-0
"In 1992, 30,000 women in the United States had their breasts enlarged; 8,000
had them lifted and 40,000 had them reduced; 16,000 men and women had
tummy tucks; 20,000 had chemical peels; 40,000 had collagen injections to fill
out wrinkles; 50,000 had nose jobs; 50,000 had liposuction to remove fat; and
60,000 had eyelid corrections.2 Ronald E. Iverson, president of the American
Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, presen ..."
"This volume provides a portrait of the city in which Oscar Wilde became famous and which he celebrated in so many of his plays and books. The text is illustrated with photographs and drawings giving an authoritative account of a writer in the London he loved."
"Ilza Veith (see Icons of Madness, note 23) makes passing mention of Charcot's
interest in the visual arts but does not relate this interest to his schematic
representation of hysteria. 2. Henry Meige, "Charcot artiste," Nouvelle Iconog-
raphie de la Salpetriere 9 (1898). 3. Cited by Guillain (see note 1 above), 9. 4.
See Paul Guilly, Duchenne de Boulogne (Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1936). 5. This
preface, signed by Bourneville, is pub ..."
Freud, Race, and Gender(1st Edition) by SanderL. Gilman Hardcover, 290 Pages, Published 1993 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-03245-0, ISBN: 0-691-03245-9
" A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de siècle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. In this provocative book, Sander L. Gilman argues that Freud's internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis. Examining a variety of scientific writings, Gilman discusses ..."