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The Conflict

How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

By: Elisabeth Badinter

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The Conflict

How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

By: Elisabeth Badinter

In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhood Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women's equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is "natural." Attachment parenting, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and especially breast-feeding—these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an extent not seen since the 1950s. Badinter argues that the taboos now surrounding epidurals, formula, disposable diapers, cribs—and anything that distracts a mother's attention from her offspring—have turned childrearing into a singularly regressive force. In sharp, engaging prose, Badinter names a reactionary shift that is intensely felt but has not been clearly articulated until now, a shift that America has pioneered. She reserves special ire for the orthodoxy of the La Leche League—an offshoot of conservative Evangelicalism—showing how on-demand breastfeeding, with all its limitations, curtails women's choices. Moreover, the pressure to provide children with 24/7 availability and empathy has produced a generation of overwhelmed and guilt-laden mothers—one cause of the West's alarming decline in birthrate. A bestseller in Europe, The Conflict is a scathing indictment of a stealthy zealotry that cheats women of their full potential.

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1429996919

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The Conflict

How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

By: Elisabeth Badinter

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How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

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Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel

By: Elisabeth Krimmer

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Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel

By: Elisabeth Krimmer

The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, not least in Germany. Even today, resistance to women holding power is embedded in literary, cultural, and historical values that presume a fundamental opposition between the adjective "female" and the substantive "leader." Women who do achieve positions of leadership are faced with a panoply of prejudicial misconceptions: either considered incapable of leadership (conceived of as alpha-male behavior), or pigeonholed as suited only to particular forms of leadership (nurturing, cooperative, egalitarian, communicative, etc.). Focusing on the German-speaking countries, this volume works to dismantle the prevailing disassociation of women and leadership across a range of disciplines. Contributions discuss literary works involving women's political authority and cultivation of community from Maria Antonia of Saxony to Elfriede Jelinek; women's social activism, as embodied by figures from Hedwig Dohm to Rosa Luxemburg; women in political film, environmentalism, neoliberalism, and the media from Leni Riefenstahl to Petra Kelly to Maren Ade; and political leaders Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel. The essays achieve a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform ideas and realities of German female leadership. CONTRIBUTORS: Dorothee Beck, Seth Berk, Friederike Brühöfener, Margaretmary Daley, Aude Defurne, Helga Druxes, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, Anke Gilleir, Rachel J. Halverson, Peter Hudis, Elisabeth Krimmer, Stephen Milder, Joyce Marie Mushaben, Lauren Nossett, Patricia Anne Simpson, Almut Spalding, Inge Stephan, Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker. ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German and Chairperson of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Camden House (NY)

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1640140654

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Unbowed

An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism

By: Khalida Messaoudi,Elisabeth Schemla

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An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism

By: Khalida Messaoudi,Elisabeth Schemla

2. The Islam of My Youth

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812216571

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9780812216578

XY, on Masculine Identity

By: Elisabeth Badinter,Peter Brooker

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XY, on Masculine Identity

By: Elisabeth Badinter,Peter Brooker

An internationally acclaimed philosopher and historian draws on biological examples, historical and sociological analyses, fiction, and biography to delineate the new man, suggesting that men need new role models and space for expression of male vulnerability. UP.

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European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

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023108434X

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9780231084345

Jacques Lacan & Co

A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco

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A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco

Roudinesco provides a finely drawn map of the intellectual debates within French psychoanalysis, especially under the influence of the German emigrés during the 1930s and 1940s. She is a good historian, in that she provides not only a narrative history but also extensive passages from Lacan's own oral-history interviews with the various figures, so that we have not only her commentary but some flavor of the original documentation. Many of the quotes are gems."—Sander I. Gilman, Bulletin of the History of Medicine

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University of Chicago Press

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0226729974

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The Sovereign Self

Pitfalls of Identity Politics

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco

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The Sovereign Self

Pitfalls of Identity Politics

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco

The toppling of statues in the name of anti-racism is disconcerting, as is the violence sometimes displayed towards others in the name of gender equality. The emancipation movements of the past seem to have undergone a subtle transformation: the struggle now is not so much to bring about progress but rather to denounce offenses, express indignation, and assert identities, sometimes in order to demand recognition. The individual’s commitment to self-definition and self-appreciation, understood as the exercise of a sovereign right, has become a distinctive sign of our time. Elisabeth Roudinesco takes us into the darker corners of identity thinking, where conspiracy theories, rejection of the other, and incitement to violence are often part of the mix. But she also points to several paths that could lead us away from despair and toward a possible world in which everyone can adhere to the principle according to which “I am myself, that’s all there is to it” without denying the diversity of human communities or essentializing either universality or difference. This bold and courageous interrogation of identity politics will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the state of our world today.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509551247

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Real Recognition

What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity

By: Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl

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Real Recognition

What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity

By: Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on racialization, disability, and gender, Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl argues in favor of a close relation between aesthetic appeals to recognition and the political dimensions of literary texts. Moreover, she proposes a framework bent on experience and relations, as opposed to identity and status, for articulating new fruitful understandings of how literary texts call for aesthetic and social recognition. Based on this, she argues that literary texts can make readers get what social validation is about – and thereby help us redefine a key concept in the social sciences. Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at the University of Southern Denmark in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen. Chapter 3 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000649504

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Why Psychoanalysis?

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco

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Why Psychoanalysis?

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco

Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis-Freud's so-called talking cure-when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic of distress addressed only by an increasing reliance on prescription drugs. Far from contesting the efficacy of new medications like Prozac, Zoloft, and Viagra in alleviating the symptoms of any number of mental or nervous conditions, Roudinesco argues that the use of such drugs fails to solve patients' real problems. In the man who takes Viagra without ever wondering why he is suffering from impotence and the woman who is given antidepressants to deal with the loss of a loved one, Roudinesco sees a society obsessed with efficiency and desperate for the quick fix. She argues that "the talking cure" and pharmacology represent not just different approaches to psychiatry, but different worldviews. The rush to treat symptoms is itself symptomatic of an antiseptic and depressive culture in which thought is reduced to the firing of neurons and desire is just a chemical secretion. In contrast, psychoanalysis testifies to human freedom and the power of language.

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Columbia University Press

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0231518420

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Madness and Revolution

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco

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Madness and Revolution

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco

‘An impure Joan of Arc’ or ‘a radiant Penthesilea’—Theroigne de Mericourt remains one of the most misrepresented figures of the French revolution. Theroigne loved the Revolution; she refused the roles prescribed by her sex; and, at the age of thirty-one, she lost her reason. From these three facts, historians have woven tenacious myths about women, madness and revolution which reveal more about their own phantasms and allegiances than about Theroigne herself. Elisabeth Roudinesco’s exploration of Theroigne’s life and afterlife restores a much-wronged woman to her rightful place in history. After vividly tracing Theroigne’s life, Roudinesco applies psychoanalysis to history, and history to psychiatry. She analyses the founding fathers of the asylum and the historians of the French Revolution, using their own assessments of Theroigne as revealing evidence. Her book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the French Revolution, early feminism and the birth of the modern asylum.

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Verso

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0860915972

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Questioning Judaism

Interviews by Elisabeth Weber

By: Jacques Derrida,Elisabeth Weber

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Questioning Judaism

Interviews by Elisabeth Weber

By: Jacques Derrida,Elisabeth Weber

This volume presents the meditations of seven well-known French thinkers on the special relations of their own intellectual pursuit to Judaism.

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Stanford University Press

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0804742200

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The Normal Chaos of Love

By: Ulrich Beck,Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

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The Normal Chaos of Love

By: Ulrich Beck,Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745692400

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The Conflict

The Conflict

The Conflict

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Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

Unbowed

Unbowed

XY, on Masculine Identity

XY, on Masculine Identity

Jacques Lacan & Co

Jacques Lacan & Co

The Sovereign Self

The Sovereign Self

Real Recognition

Real Recognition

Why Psychoanalysis?

Why Psychoanalysis?

Madness and Revolution

Madness and Revolution

Questioning Judaism

Questioning Judaism

The Normal Chaos of Love

The Normal Chaos of Love

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