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The Anatomy of Prejudices

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

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ISBN 9780674031913

Publication Date: 02/19/1998

640 pages

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Prologue
Introduction: Studying Prejudices
I. A Critique of Pure Overgeneralization
- Theories of Prejudice: A Preliminary Classification
- What Happened to the “Prejudiced Personality”
- Sociology Surveys the American Dilemma
- The Prejudice That Is Not One
- The Homophobias
II. Starting Again: Prejudices—In the Plural
- “Social Character” in Search of a Theory
- Character Types and Their Ideologies of Desire
- Origins and Developmental Lines: Children and Prejudice
- Adolescence and the Aims of Hatreds
- Shared Prejudices, Societal Styles
- Constructing Ideal Types
- The Body and Soul of Narcissism
III. Current Ideologies: The Victims Speak
- Varieties of Silencing
- On Resistance to Hysterical Repression
- Feeling the Contradictions of Sexism and Being the Targets of Homophobias
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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