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Designed for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, this volume focuses on those contributions directly relevant to the clinical situation, without neglecting fundamental descriptive and theoretical contributions.

Proposes an ambitious solution to the problem of how the Constitution impacts national security: a First Amendment that makes sure the voices of opposition are heard.

Reveals the varied and powerful lives led by black women in nineteenth century New York

Details the complexities of the modern-day workplace

Focuses on the efforts among the Southern and Northern Methodist churches to create a unified national Methodist church, and how their plan for unification came to institutionalize racism and segregation in unprecedented ways.

More than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still stands - along with her close friend Susan B Anthony - as the major icon of the struggle for women's suffrage. This title reintroduces, contextualizes, and critiques Stanton's numerous contributions to modern thought.

By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, this title includes essays that bring Asian American studies, in all its richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. It is suitable for understanding Asian American popular culture and also contemporary US culture writ large.

An authoritative collection of writings from a prominent public intellectual.

Most fathers parent less than most mothers. This book explores the barriers to redefinition, including concepts of masculinity, the interconnections between fathers and mothers, male violence and homophobia. It offers a progressive view on how men, and society at large, can change understandings and practices of fatherhood.

Controversy about women in the military continues, yet women's relations with the military go far beyond whether they serve in the ranks. This book examines the experiences of women outside of the military, such as "comfort women" near US bases, women engaged in peacework, and women workers affected by military spending in the federal budget.

Firearms have long been at the core of our national narratives. This title documents and analyzes the history of firearms in America, exploring various aspects of gun manufacture, ownership, and use - and importantly, the cultural and political implications which this history reveals.

Discusses the American racial scene, touching on such issues as the role of minorities in an age of global markets and competition, the black left, the rise of the black right, black crime, feminism, law reform, and the economics of racial discrimination.

Offers insight into the primary concerns of both the religious leaders and the laity in nineteenth century America

Discusses how the demand for donor eggs and sperm has spawned a booming industry in the US with few rules

Brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work spans the interdisciplinary fields of Chicana/o studies and cultural studies. This work provides an overview of the debates, locating Chicana/o cultural criticism at the intersections of these fields.

Explores how widows were portrayed in early American culture, and how widows themselves responded to their unique role

The essays in Queer Globalizations bring together scholars of postcolonial and lesbian and gay studies in order to examine from multiple perspectives the narratives that have sought to define globalization.

Takes us into the world of independent journalists, and the daily challenges they face confronting dictators, hostile military, and narcoterrorists. This book explores the dilemmas and strategies of journalists who persevere in the face of war, repressive governments, and criminal aggression, with particular emphasis on the role of the Internet.

Based on 46 interviews with formerly addicted individuals, this book examines their reasons for avoiding treatment, the strategies they employed to break away from their dependencies, the circumstances that facilitated untreated recovery, and implications of recovery without treatment for treatment professionals and for prevention and drug policy.

Examines how American law purports to reflect - and actively promotes - a laissez-faire capitalism that disproportionately benefits the entrepreneurial class. This title proposes that the quality of American life depends also on fairness and equality rather than simply the single-minded and formulaic pursuit of efficiency and utility.

John Edward Bruce, a premier black journalist from the late 1800's until his death in 1924, was a vital force in the popularization of African American history. "Bruce Grit," as he was called, wrote for such publications as Marcus Garvey's nationalist newspaper, The Negro World. This book collects the study of African American themes.

A study that explores the influence of social change on Proust's vision. Concentrating on the motif of speed, it establishes the centrality of the modern world to the novel's main themes and produces a far- reaching synthesis that demonstrates the work's profound structural unity.

These papers address the central question of how classical Christian images of Jews have been acted out or muted in interreligious encounters in the USA. The book is organized according to the salient issues that divide Jews from the Christian majority, with sections on anti-Semitism.

How, for example did African Americans, feminists, and labor activists respond to the Titanic disaster? Why did the El train crash take on such symbolic meaning for the citizens of Chicago? In what ways did the San Francisco earthquake reaffirm rather than challenge a predominant faith in progress? This title deals with these questions.

Presents 84 selections, most of which are notable examples of oratory on such subjects as nationalism, religious faith, individual liberty, freedom, and slavery. This book includes pieces by Washington, Franklin, Milton, Socrates, and Cicero, as well as heroic poetry and dramatic dialogues.

Demonstrates that speech is a more complicated and dynamic notion than we often assume. This book covers issues such as government restrictions on hate speech and obscene and indecent speech; the constitutionality of campaign finance reform; and the treatment to be accorded new technologies of communication under the Constitution.

Writer, artist, Manhattan gallery owner, and co-editor of the Little Review, Jane Heap was one of the most dynamic figures of the international avant garde. Focusing primarily on the letters written by Heap to Florence Reynolds, this title includes her correspondence that spans the years from 1908-1949.

On May 29, 1917, Mrs E M Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures - our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German shot.

Examines concrete battlefield tactics, army regulations, and theoretical works on war to demonstrate that as a cultural construction, warfare and ways of warfare can be transnational and can influence other nations

Featuring contributions from lawyers and legal commentators who claim that during Chief Justice William Rehnquist's nineteen-year tenure, the Supreme Court failed to adequately protect civil liberties and civil rights, this title examines eight cases heard by the Rehnquist Court.