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The anatomy of prejudices

Title: The anatomy of prejudices / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.
Author: Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.

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632 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Young-Bruehl finds a history riddled with assumptions, generalizations, and cliches. The Anatomy of Prejudices proposes a fresh start, and suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill.
Young-Bruehl draws on theoretical and clinical, historical, and empirical literatures to show us prejudices from a variety of angles: there are those that help protect a group's identity (ethnocentrisms) and those that project a group identity (ideologies of desire); there are prejudices as socioeconomic phenomena, attitudes toward governments, products of historical periods, social mechanisms of defense, sexual fantasy structures, and puberty rites.
Among the many forms of prejudice, Young-Bruehl pays particular attention to four - antisemitism, racism, sexism, and homophobia - which she exposes in their distinctiveness and their similarities.

Subject

Prejudices

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 591-618) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Studying Prejudices -- 1. Theories of Prejudice: A Preliminary Classification -- 2. What Happened to the "Prejudiced Personality" -- 3. Sociology Surveys the American Dilemma -- 4. The Prejudice That Is Not One -- 5. The Homophobias -- 6. "Social Character" in Search of a Theory -- 7. Character Types and Their Ideologies of Desire -- 8. Origins and Developmental Lines: Children and Prejudice -- 9. Adolescence and the Aims of Hatreds -- 10. Shared Prejudices, Societal Styles -- 11. Constructing Ideal Types -- 12. The Body and Soul of Narcissism -- 13. Varieties of Silencing -- 14. On Resistance to Hysterical Repression -- 15. Feeling the Contradictions of Sexism and Being the Targets of Homophobias.

ISBN

0674031903 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

95043754

OCLC

ocm33244520

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Columbia University Libraries