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On Christmas day, 1993, a 59-year-old British woman gave birth to healthy twins. In Italy the very same week, a black woman bore a white baby, produced from the semen of her white husband and an egg donated by a white woman. Heated debates ensued across the United States and Europe. Fifteen years ago the very idea of conception outside a woman's ......
The reissue of this anthology serves as a provocative and wide-ranging reminder of American gay and lesbian culture in the days before gay life became chic. It demonstrates the influence of gays and lesbians on language, literature, theatre, poetry, dance, music and the arts.
The American Soldier in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
This title examines America's first foreign war, the Mexican War of 1846-1848, through the daily experiences of the American soldier in battle, in camp and on the march.
English law has long served as a model for other Commonwealth jurisdictions with common law systems. Using a wealth of incisive articles, Michael Arnheim compares the system in England with comparable systems in other countries. Tackling issues of precedent, the definition of justice, and the limits of law, Arnheim illuminates the clash which ......
The concepts of representation and narratives have played a key role in the development of psychoanalysis, clinical research and theoretical speculation. This title analyzes the growth of representation and narratives in the history and practice of psychoanalysis.
Illustrates how Jewish identity is inextricably linked to the physical, showing how racial identity both reflects and defines Jewishness. This title examines Holocaust remembrance, in the wake of Holocaust denial, as an act of revolt.
A text on oppression among women. Women's interests are not always aligned: race, class and sexuality complicate the equation and one feminist may be a political opponent of another feminist. This anthology addresses the dilemma from various feminist perspectives.
Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. This book examines the social, political, and psychological ramifications of this phenomenon, as evidenced in a range of texts.
This is a psychoanalytic study of George Eliot's fiction. It focuses centrally on aggression in Eliot's novels, drawing on the clinical work of psychoanalyists. The author argues that Eliot's is a hidden aggression, and demonstrates the ways in which this aggression is manifested in her characters.
