- The Anatomy of Prejudices
- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
- Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 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.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Behind the Mask
- Dana Crowley Jack
- Drawing from in-depth interviews with sixty women of different ages and ethnic and class backgrounds--police officers, attorneys, substance abusers, homemakers, artists--Dana Jack provides a rich account of how women explain (or explain away) their own hidden or actual acts of hurt to others. With sensitivity but without sentimentality, Jack gives readers a range of compelling stories of how women channel, either positively or destructively, their own powerful force and of how they resist and retaliate in the face of others' aggression in a society that expects women to be yielding, empathetic, and supportive.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- The Cue for Passion
- Gail Holst-Warhaft
- Using traditional mourning rituals as an instructive touchstone, Gail Holst-Warhaft explores the ways sorrow is managed in our own times and how mourning can be manipulated for social and political ends. It might be argued that modern society has largely abdicated its role in managing sorrow. In The Cue for Passion, however, we see that some communities, moved by the intensity of their grief, have utilized it to gain ground for their own agendas.
- Hardcover 2000
- Why People Die by Suicide
- Thomas Joiner
- Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well as personal experience, Thomas Joiner provides the most coherent and persuasive explanation ever given of why and how people overcome life's strongest instinct, self-preservation. He tests his theory against diverse facts about suicide rates among men and women; white and African-American men; anorexics, athletes, prostitutes, and physicians; members of cults, sports fans, and citizens of nations in crisis.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007