Nyu Press: 1737 books
Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis
Which Is to Be Master?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1993
Psychoanalysis works with words, words spoken by a subject who asks that the analyst listen. This is the belief that underlies Francis Moran's rewarding exploration of a central problem in psychoanalytic theory-namely, the separation of the concepts of subject and agency.
Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis...
Transformation of Rage
Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious...
Majorities and Minorities
Nomos XXXII
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1990
In this thirty-second annual volume in the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy's NOMOS series, entitled Majorities and Minorities, thirteen distinguished contributors consider a diverse selection of topics. Included are essays on legitimacy of the majority, the utilitarian view of...
The Rag Race
How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Winner, 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society
Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies
Winner, 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council
The majority of Jewish immigrants...
Underground Codes
Race, Crime and Related Fires
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention
Americans fear crime, are rattled by race and avoid honest discussions of both. Anxiety, denial, miscommunication, and ignorance abound. Imaginary connections between minorities and crime become real, self-fulfilling prophecies...
by Melissa R. Klapper
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860—1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published—or even read—to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls’ adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
The story of John Devoy’s 1876 Catalpa rescue is a tale of heroism, creativity, and the triumph of independent spirit in pursuit of freedom. The daily log on board the whaling ship Catalpa begins with the typical recount of a crew intact and a spirit unfettered, but such quiet words deceive the...
Gender, Psychology, and Justice
The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Reveals how gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation in ways that impact the legal status and well-being of women and girls in the justice system.
Women and girls’ contact with the justice system is often influenced by gender-related assumptions and stereotypes. The justice...
An Imperialist Love Story
Desert Romances and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character...
by M. Cooper Harriss
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Examines the religious dimensions of Ralph Ellison’s concept of race
Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man provides an unforgettable metaphor for what it means to be disregarded in society. While the term “invisibility” has become shorthand for all forms of marginalization, Ellison...
Women as Wartime Rapists
Beyond Sensation and Stereotyping
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Women as Wartime Rapists reveals the stories of female perpetrators of sexual violence and their place in wartime conflict, legal policy, and the punishment of sexual violence.
Very few women are wartime rapists. Very few women issue commands to commit sexual violence. Very few women play a...
Alienated
Immigrant Rights, the Constitution, and Equality in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Throughout American history, the government has used U.S. citizenship and immigration law to protect privileged groups from less privileged ones, using citizenship as a “legitimate” proxy for otherwise invidious, and often unconstitutional, discrimination on the basis of race. While racial discrimination...
Brokering Servitude
Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America
From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 1920s, household domestic service was the single largest employer of women in the United States, and, in California, a pivotal occupation for male...
Reflections
The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and her hopes for the future. Through extensive research and scholarly detective work, authors Catherine Kudlick and...