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Encyclopedically learned, up-to-date, authoritative, and altogether the best introduction to the subject that exists in any language."—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex

Encyclopedically learned, up-to-date, authoritative, and altogether the best introduction to the subject that exists in any language."—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex

Über Stereotype und gelebte Erfahrungen: Was es bedeutet, im 21. Jahrhundert jüdisch zu sein.Sander L. Gilman wurde mit seinem Buch über den jüdischen Selbsthass berühmt. In der aktuellen Essay-Sammlung blickt er aus einer sehr persönlichen Perspektive auf Fragen jüdischer Identität in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Angefangen vom jüdischen Humor über das Verhältnis des Judentums zum Alkohol bis hin zu aktuellen Vorwürfen, orthodoxe Jüdinnen und...

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The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illnessIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gi...

. Interweaving the history of posture with our developing knowledge of anatomy and cultural history, and fully illustrated with an array of striking images, Stand Up Straight! is the first comprehensive history of the upright body at rest and in movement.

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The modern world is faced with a terrifying new 'disease', that of 'obesity'. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition have all defined a point beyond which excess weight is unacceptable, ugly or corrupting. This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and ficti...

Friedrich Maximilian Klingers 1798 erschienener Roman »Geschichte eines Teutschen der neusten Zeit« ist ein bedeutendes Zeugnis der Rousseau-Rezeption seines Verfassers und dessen Auseinandersetzung mit der Französischen Revolution. Entstanden in St. Petersburg, war das Manuskript für die erste autorisierte Ausgabe im Juli 1797 fertiggestellt. Klinger arbeitete seit Anfang der 90er Jahre an einem Zyklus von zehn philosophischen Romanen. Der »...

In an era of attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not taught anymore!") and the left ("Why teach dead white males?"), a distinguished teacher and scholar presents a series of closely interconnected exercises in understanding the present state and future possibilities of the humanities.

There is no category of supposed human beings that comes closer to the orangutan than does a Polish Jew", said a Bavarian writer, reflecting the eighteenth-century view that Jews were profoundly flawed. The Jewish body, popular opinion held, was malformed - from feet to nose - and predisposed to a host of illnesses ranging from the plague to hysteria. The Jewish soul had a peculiar stench. The Jewish libido had a tendency toward incest. The Je...

A pioneering interdisciplinary scholar examines the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes of the Jew's body in 20th-century art and literature.

An illuminating account of an exemplary life."--Katie Trumpener, Yale UniversityJurek Becker, the author of the first comic novel on the Holocaust, "Jacob the Liar, " and other highly acclaimed works, was one of West Germany's most famous exiles from the GDR. A survivor of the Shoah-his mother died in a Nazi death camp-and witness to the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, Becker endured most of the trials that Jews experienced in Europe from...

Inscribing the Other focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who have still wished to address it: Goethe, Freud, Wilde, Heine, Nietzsche, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others. In thirteen probing, provocative essays Sander L. Gilman reinterprets their writing as it reveals their efforts to come to terms with their real or imagined sense of difference.

Explores the historical relationship of physical beauty to happiness, looking at the connection through a study of the practice and popularity of aesthetic surgery.

Explores the questions and doubts surrounding the revitalisation of Jewish life in Germany since the fall of the Wall. The volume includes topics such as the social and institutional role of Jews, the role of religion in daily life, and gender and culture in post-Wall Jewish writing.

Explores the questions and doubts surrounding the revitalisation of Jewish life in Germany since the fall of the Wall. The volume includes topics such as the social and institutional role of Jews, the role of religion in daily life, and gender and culture in post-Wall Jewish writing.

In this fascinating book, Sander L. Gilman traces the history of how sexuality has been represented in Western civilization since the advent of Christianity. In so doing, he shows how these cultures define themselves and are shaped by their concepts of beauty and ugliness, masculinity and femininity, health and sickness, the sacred and profane. Gilman demonstrates how such concepts are elements in the greater tapestry of Western culture, throu...