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Gender Studies

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Freudian Slips

Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

Sex between Body and Mind

Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s

By Katie Sutton
Subjects: History, Gender Studies, German Studies, Psychology
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A groundbreaking cross-disciplinary account of how sex became an object of scientific study in modernity
 

Not Straight from Germany

Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld

Edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm, and Rainer Herrn
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, German Studies, Psychology, Art
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present

Embroidering the Scarlet A

Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

By Janet Mason Ellerby
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology

The first book-length study of changing cultural representations of unwed mothers in American fiction and film, from The Scarlet Letter to Juno

Lost and Found

The Adoption Experience

3rd Edition, Expanded and Updated

By Betty Jean Lifton
Subjects: Psychology, Sociology, Gender Studies

Explores the obstacles and issues that adoptees, orphans, and foster children face when they have been separated from a parent or denied the right to know their origins

The Color of Privilege

Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism

By Aida Hurtado
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, African American Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Latinx Studies

Sheds new light on women's differing responses to feminism according to factors of ethnicity and race

Telling Incest

Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire

By Janice Doane & Devon Hodges
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

An exploration of how specific historical contexts, narrative conventions, and cultural politics shape the ways that stories of incest are told and heard

Cutting the Body

Representing Woman in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis

By Eliane DalMolin
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance, Psychology
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the notion of the cut in poetry, film, and psychoanalysis and how it might be linked to male creativity

Theorizing Self in Samoa

Emotions, Genders, and Sexualities

By Jeannette Marie Mageo
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Psychology

Proposes a new method for discussing variations in the experience of self across cultures

Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology

Notes on a Liminal Science

By Jill G Morawski
Subjects: Gender Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

From Klein to Kristeva

Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother

By Janice Doane & Devon Hodges
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

The Daughter's Dilemma

Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel

By Paula Marantz Cohen
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, 19th Century Literature

An interdisciplinary investigation into the daughter's role in 19th-century families and their fictional representations.

Justice, Gender, and Affirmative Action

By Susan D. Clayton & Faye J. Crosby
Subjects: Psychology, Political Science, Sociology, Gender Studies

Disruptive Voices

The Possibilities of Feminist Research

By Michelle Fine
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Education

Provocative essays on the ways feminist approaches to research can unite research practice and social action

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