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  • The Antipatriarchal Jesus

    Psychoanalysis, Christianities, Love, Ethics, and Democracy

    by David A. J. Richards ...
    Many—both religious and nonreligious— find Jesus one of the most compelling figures in human history. Richards came to his view of Jesus from an outsider’s perspective, as a gay and nonreligious man, inspired by the psychoanalyst Winnicott’s understanding of both psychoanalysis and Jesus and its illumination of his own struggles to equal love. Many may find in this book how and why Jesus so moves ... Read more

    $28.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Holding a Mirror up to Nature

    Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeare

    by James Gilligan, David A.J. Richards ...
    Shakespeare has been dubbed the greatest psychologist of all time. This book seeks to prove that statement by comparing the playwright's fictional characters with real-life examples of violent individuals, from criminals to political actors. For Gilligan and Richards, the propensity to kill others, even (or especially) when it results in the killer's own death, is the most serious threat to the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves:

    A Memoir

    by David A.J. Richards ...
    Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He has been a prominent advocate of gay rights and feminism, which joins men and women in resistance. A gay man born into an Italian American family in New Jersey, he relates in this book his own experience on how the initiation of boys into patriarchy ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Darkness Now Visible

    Patriarchy's Resurgence and Feminist Resistance

    by Carol Gilligan, David A. J. Richards ...
    In the fall of 2016 those promoting patriarchal ideals saw their champion Donald Trump elected president of the United States and showed us how powerful patriarchy still is in American society and culture. Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy's Resurgence and Feminist Resistance explains how patriarchy and its embrace of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and violence are starkly visible and ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.

    Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies

    by David A. J. Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    In Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.: Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies, David A. J. Richards offers an investigative comparison of two central figures in late eighteenth-century constitutionalism, Edmund Burke and James Madison, at a time when two great constitutional experiments were in play: the Constitution of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the U.S. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Deepening Darkness

    Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future

    by Carol Gilligan, David A. J. Richards ...
    Why is America again unjustly at war? Why is its politics distorted by wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage? Why is anti-Semitism still so powerfully resurgent? Such contradictions within democracies arise from a patriarchal psychology still alive in our personal and political lives in tension with the equal voice that is the basis of democracy. This book joins a psychological approach with ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Italian American

    The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity

    by David A.J. Richards ...
    When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black.The first study of its kind, Italian American explores the acculturation process of Italian immigrants in terms of then-current patterns of ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • The Case for Gay Rights

    From Bowers to Lawrence and Beyond

    by David A. J. Richards ...
    As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion. In response, David Richards, a widely respected legal scholar and long-time champion of gay rights, reflects upon the constitutional and democratic principles—relating to privacy, intimate life, free speech, tolerance, and conscience ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Why Love Leads to Justice

    Love across the Boundaries

    by David A. J. Richards ...
    This book tells the stories of notable historical figures who, by resisting patriarchal laws condemning adultery, gay and lesbian sex, and sex across the boundaries of religion and race, brought about lasting social and political change. Constitutional scholar David A. J. Richards investigates the lives of leading transgressive artists, social critics, and activists including George Eliot, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire

    Liberal Resistance and the Bloomsbury Group

    by David A. J. Richards ...
    This book argues that there is an important connection between ethical resistance to British imperialism and the ethical discovery of gay rights. It examines the roots of liberal resistance in Britain and resistance to patriarchy in the USA, showing the importance of fighting the demands of patriarchal manhood and womanhood to countering imperialism. Advocates of feminism and gay rights are key ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Age of Obama

    “Suddenly,…All the Truth Was Coming Out”

    by David A.J. Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
    David A. J. Richards’s Resisting Injustice and The Feminist Ethics of Care in The Age of Obama: "Suddenly,…All The Truth Was Coming Out" builds on his and Carol Gilligan’s The Deepening Darkness to examine the roots of the resistance movements of the 1960s, the political psychology behind contemporary conservatism, and President Obama’s present-day appeal as well as the reasons for the reactionary ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law

    Obama's Challenge to Patriarchy's Threat to Democracy

    by David A. J. Richards ...
    Why, from Reagan to George Bush, have fundamentalists in religion and in law (originalists) exercised such political power and influence in the United States? Why has the Republican Party forged an ideology of judicial appointments (originalism) hostile to abortion and gay rights? Why and how did Barack Obama distinguish himself among Democratic candidates not only by his opposition to the Iraq ... Read more

    $36.09 USD