Why do members of a society espouse culturally constituted beliefs that are at odds with their personal interests and experiences? In this book Melford Spiro, a psychological anthropologist, answers this question by investigating ideologies of gender...

From the perspective of developmental psychoanalysis, Jessica Benjamin, the author of "The Bonds of Love", makes the case for what she calls "gender heterodoxy" – a highly original view of the similarities and differences between the sexes. In the pr...

Karen Horney (1885-1952) is regarded by many as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the twentieth century. Her early work, in which she quarreled with Freud's views on female psychology, established her as the first great psychoanaly...

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For the parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children, this step-by-step guide offers hundreds of ideas and methods that work with children aged three to 12. It provides play activities to help parents enhance communication, solve problems and strengt...

Today's Jewish women, successfully availing themselves of the increased educational and occupational opportunities that feminism has encouraged, feel a new sense of self and entitlement. Yet as feminist advances have opened possibilities, they also h...

For sale in CIS only! Sex' emerged as an independent field of study during the New Culture Movement (1915-21). The anatomy of the reproductive system, the physiology of internal secretions, the nature of sex, the determination of sexual differences,...

In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness – on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality – is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousnes...

Arden Neisser's classic on American Sign Language (ASL) is again available, with a new prologue. "The Other Side of Silence" chronicles the culture and issues of the Deaf community through telling interviews and research from across the country. In w...

Charlotte Himber counts herself among 22 million Americans who have signficant hearing loss. Like 40 per cent of those with hearing loss, hers grew worse as she became older. In this book, she shares her first-hand experience, her feelings and the kn...