Originally published in 1930, "The Deaf Mute Howls" challenged the prevailing practice of teaching deaf children to speak and read lips while prohibiting the use of sign language. Albert Ballin's sharp observations in this remarkable book detail his...

Why do members of a society espouse culturally constituted beliefs that are at odds with their personal interests and experiences? In this book Melford Spiro, a psychological anthropologist, answers this question by investigating ideologies of gender...

From the perspective of developmental psychoanalysis, Jessica Benjamin, the author of "The Bonds of Love", makes the case for what she calls "gender heterodoxy" – a highly original view of the similarities and differences between the sexes. In the pr...