What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women's own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the eighteenth and early nineteenth ce...

This important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures, languages, and centuries. A work of reference as well as the definitive history of a tradition, it traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Gre...

As Jews throughout Europe faced Nazi persecution, Jewish women-wives, daughters, mothers-encountered special problems and had particular vulnerabilities. This is the first book of original scholarship devoted to women in the Holocaust. Testimonies of...

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...

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...