Young-Bruehl Elisabeth. The Anatomy of Prejudices

Harvard University Press, 1996. — 631 p. — ISBN 9780674031913.In this deeply thoughtful book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl turns a critical lens on prejudice. Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, 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. Startling, challenging, and courageous, this work offers an unprecedented analysis of prejudice.Prologue
Introduction: Studying Prejudices
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
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
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