Sander L. Gilman, Author University of Nebraska Press $19.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8032-2158-1
Psychoanalyst-turned-medical historian Gilman builds on his previous work (The Jew's Body) about historical images of Jews to offer new insights into the vexed question of Jewish ""superior"" intelligence. Gilman examines a vast array of 19th- and...
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Sander L. Gilman, Author University of Nebraska Press $27.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-8032-2183-3
Today, many people tend to think of fat as a female (or, with a nod to Susie Orbach,""feminist"") issue--or, in broader terms, as an American problem, or a class concern; there have been few considerations of the relationship between men and fat....
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Sander L. Gilman, Author Princeton University Press $70 (396p) ISBN 978-0-691-02672-5
An intriguing inquiry into how aesthetic surgery has evolved into a major area of modern medicine, this book combines cultural perspectives on the body beautiful with a medical chronology. Gilman (Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul, etc.), who...
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Sander L. Gilman, Author Routledge $0 (303p) ISBN 978-0-415-90458-2
Circumcision engages Jewish males in a powerful paradox: while establishing their religious and cultural identity, it marks them as profoundly different in others' eyes. This difference manifests itself in perceptions of the Jewish male's habits and
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Sander L. Gilman, Author Indiana University Press $29.95 (132p) ISBN 978-0-253-32573-0
This penetrating study focuses on Jewish writers in Germany and Austria who place at the center of their work the very question of what it means to be Jewish today. Among the writers examined are feminist novelist Esther Dischereit; Rafael Seligmann,
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Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas. New York Univ., $35 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4798-5612-1
At a moment when race has resurfaced as an urgent part of the American discourse, Gilman (Seeing the Insane) and Thomas (Affective Labor) critically examine shifting views on race in the social sciences during the 20th century. The authors’ central...
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Sander L. Gilman, Author, Sander L. Gilman, Author, Gilman, Author Duke University Press $32.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8223-2111-8
Arguing that pseudoscientific theories of race from the 19th and early 20th centuries still impact our current standards of beauty and ""unhappiness"" with our own bodies, prolific critic Gilman (Difference and Pathology) explores plastic surgery as
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Sander L. Gilman, Author, Eric T. Carlson, M., Introduction by University of Nebraska Press $30 (253p) ISBN 978-0-8032-7064-0
Mixing art criticism with psychology, Gilman examines how stereotypes of mental illness have been portrayed through visual images. (Sept.)
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