Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout her career as a writer and activist, Polacheck (1882-1967) never forgot the immigrant neighborhoods, the markets, and the scents and sounds of Chicago's West Side. Here, in charming and ......
Approaches the development of psychoanalytic theories of women on two fronts: the psychoanalytic and the political. This book draws attention to the influence of the Women's Liberation Movement on psychoanalytic theory.
Beginning with Tennyson's In Memoriam and continuing by way of Hopkins and Swinburne to the novels of Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy, Richard Dellamora draws on journals, letters, censored texts, and pornography to examine the cultural construction of masculinity in Victorian literature. Central to the struggle over the meaning of masculine desire ......
Greater knowledge of women's experience, this book argues, will enable all caregivers-whether female or male-to provide better pastoral care when the gender-specific presuppositions of that care are examined. Nine women collaborate to explore how women's life experience both necessitates and models a new, systematic pastoral care. It is the first ......
Lesbian writers include some of the most innovative and adventurous writers of this century, but only recently have they been given their due attention in terms of critical study. This book is the first anthology to discuss the subject of lesbianism as it relates to the critical interaction among readers, writers, and literary critics. It ......
This volume provides an explanation of contemporary sex stereotypes and the degree to which they prevail in different cultures. The authors provide data that covers 30 countries, testing both children and adults. They examine their findings from three theoretical perspectives: affective meanings, ego studies and psychological needs. Finally, they examine the practical implications of cultural sex stereotypes. The revised edition includes the findings of additional studies employing the authors' sex stereotypes assessment methods which have been conducted since the publication of the original edition in 1982. In addition, new adult sex stereotypes data from Singapore and Portugal have been added to Appendix A, and comparison variable data for these two countries have been added to Appendix D.
Biography of Skeffington who was advocate for women's suffrage and outspoken feminist and peace activist Nationalist, pacifist, socialist, and above all feminist, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington was one of the most significant Irishwomen of the first half of the twentieth century. Her career spanned nearly five decades--decades marked by political ......
These essays from a variety of authors address issues of sexuality in modern lives, including the roles of men and women, friendship, the single life, temporary relationships, and marriage.
