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Making the Body Beautiful(Updated)
by Sander L. 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 ..."

Jewish Self-Hatred. Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews.
by Sander L. Gilman
Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 1990 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-4063-0, ISBN: 0-8018-4063-5

""'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. ..."

Freud, Race, and Gender(Reprint)
by Sander L. Gilman, Robert N. Proctor
Paperback, 293 Pages, Published 1995 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-02586-5, ISBN: 0-691-02586-X

"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 ..."

Fat(1st Edition)
A Cultural History of Obesity
by Sander L. 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 ..."

The Case of Sigmund Freud(Updated)
Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle
by Sander L. Gilman, Helen King, Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau, Elaine Gilman Showalter, Sigmund: Freud
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1994 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-4974-9, ISBN: 0-8018-4974-8

""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 ..."

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?(1st Edition)
by Susan Moller Okin, Cass R. Sunstein, Sander L. Gilman, Joseph Raz, Saskia Sassen, Yael Tamis, Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, Martha C. Nussbaum, Martha Craven Nussbaum, Jim Mccardle
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 1999 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-00432-7, ISBN: 0-691-00432-3

"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 Sander L. 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 ..."

Inscribing the Other(1st Edition)
(Texts and Contexts)
by Sander L. Gilman
Hardcover, 372 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-2134-5, ISBN: 0-8032-2134-7

"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 it reveals their efforts to come to terms with their real or imagined sense of difference. ..."

Difference and Pathology(1st Edition)
Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness
by Sander Lawrence Gilman, Helen King, Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau, Elaine Showalter
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1985 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-9332-4, ISBN: 0-8014-9332-3

"Franz von Bayros, The Servant (c. 1890) (Ithaca, N.Y., private collection). men. They cohabit with their sisters and anyone they can find. . . . And these are the Black slaves, the sons of Ham. "9 The black, both male and female, becomes by the eighteenth century an icon for deviant sexuality in general, almost always, however, paired with a white figure of the opposite sex. By the nineteenth century , as in the Olympia, or more cru ..."

Stand Up Straight!(1st Edition)
A History of Posture
by Sander L. 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 ..."

Are Racists Crazy?
How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity (Biopolitics)
by Sander L. Gilman, James M. Thomas
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2016 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-5612-1, ISBN: 1-4798-5612-6

" 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 R ..."

Obesity(1st Edition)
The Biography (Biographies of Diseases)
by Sander L. 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, ..."

Freud, Race, and Gender(1st Edition)
by Sander L. 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 ..."

Oscar Wilde's London(1st Edition)
by Wolf Von Eckardt, J. Edward Chamberlin, Sander L. Gilman
Hardcover, 285 Pages, Published 1987 by Doubleday
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-09703-1, ISBN: 0-385-09703-4

"Great book on the history of London, England at the end of the 19th Century. 200 black and white illustrations of historic photographs - street scenes, portraits, London architecture. Also illustrations of period prints, cartoons and other populat images of Londoners. Includes notes / bibliography. Black cloth hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 285 pages. Measures 7 1/4 by 10 1/2 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated."

Are Racists Crazy?(Reprint)
How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity (Biopolitics)
by Sander L. Gilman, James M. Thomas
Paperback, 393 Pages, Published 2018 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-8730-9, ISBN: 1-4798-8730-7

Face of Madness(Reprint)
Hugh W. Diamond and the Origin of Psychiatric Photography
by Sander L. 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 Sander L. 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 ..."

Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul
Race and Psychology [Paperback]
by Sander L. 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 ..."

Oscar Wilde's London(1st Edition)
by Wolf Von Eckardt, Sander L. Gilman, J. Edward Chamberlin, J. Edward Chamberlain
Hardcover, 290 Pages, Published 1997 by O'mara, Michael Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-85479-254-9, ISBN: 1-85479-254-7

"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."

Seeing the Insane(Updated)
by Sander L. Gilman, Eric T. Carlson M. D.
Paperback, 253 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-7064-0, ISBN: 0-8032-7064-X

"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 ..."

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