Wendy Kaminer, Author . Beacon $15 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8070-4411-7
"Live Free or Die," New Hampshire's grammar-challenged state motto, sounds worthy enough on the surface. But defining and ensuring freedom are infinitely more difficult and crucial than stamping slogans on license plates, as social...
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Wendy Kaminer, Author . Beacon $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8070-4430-8
Kaminer (Free for All
) weighs in on her disillusionment with the ACLU after serving on the national board in post-9/11 America. She contends that under the stewardship of Anthony Romero, who stepped into the executive director position one week...
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Wendy Kaminer, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (180p) ISBN 978-0-679-74585-3
Kaminer takes witty potshots at the omnipresent self-help programs and authors that are giving psychotherapists a run for their money. (Apr.)
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Wendy Kaminer, Author Pantheon Books $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-44243-1
In this provocative collection of eight essays, social critic Kaminer grapples with the many manifestations of ""irrationalism""--believing in something without material proof--in contemporary culture. The targets for her witty, unsparing critiques...
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Wendy Kaminer, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $20.33 (250p) ISBN 978-0-201-09234-9
Unlike egalitarian feminists who demand full economic equality, ``protectionist feminists,'' those who appeal for special maternity benefits and child-care laws, would settle for less, according to Kaminer, a jounalist and lawyer who teaches writing
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Wendy Kaminer, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $18.9 (180p) ISBN 978-0-201-57062-5
Kaminer takes potshots at the omnipresent 12-step self-help groups that are threatening to put psychotherapists out of work. She dismisses the rhetoric and religiosity of the programs, finds their intimacy manufactured and their emphasis on ``higher
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Wendy Kaminer, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $22 (292p) ISBN 978-0-201-62274-4
Kaminer segues from I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional to assess with insight and irony contradictions in our criminal justice system. ``[W]e tend to alternate between judging too harshly... and not judging at all,'' she concludes, finding that
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Wendy Kaminer, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-201-48914-9
This is an aggravating collection by a tough-minded thinker, who quite accurately describes herself as having ""a compulsion to hold forth."" Kaminer (I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional) holds forth on such topics as sex, feminism, politics,...
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