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Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World: Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice (Needham Research Institute Series)
by Laurent PordiéThe popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a global phenomenon. This book analyses Tibetan medicine in the 21st century by considering the contemporary reasons that have led to its diversity and by bringing out the common orientations of this medical system. Using case studies that examine of the social, political and identity dynamics of Tibetan medicine in Nepal, India, the PRC, Mongolia, the UK and the US, the contributors to this book answer the following three, fundamental questions: What are the modalities and issues involved in the social and therapeutic transformations of Tibetan medicine? How are national policies and health reforms connected to the processes of contemporary redefinition of this medicine? How does Tibetan medicine fit into the present, globalized context of the medical world? Written by experts in the field from the US, France, Canada, China and the UK this book will be invaluable to students and scholars interested in contemporary medicine, Tibetan studies, health studies and the anthropology of Asia. 'Winner of the ICAS Colleagues Choice Award 2009"
Tibetan Nation: A History Of Tibetan Nationalism And Sino-tibetan Relations
by Warren SmithThis detailed history offers the most comprehensive account available of Tibetan nationalism, Sino-Tibetan relations, and the issue of Tibetan self-determination. Warren Smith explores Tibet's ethnic and national origins, the birth of the Tibetan state, the Buddhist state and its relations with China, Tibet's quest for independence, and the Chinese takeover of Tibet after 1950. Focusing especially on post-1950 Tibet under Chinese Communist rule, Smith analyzes Marxist-Leninist and Chinese Communist Party nationalities theory and policy, their application in Tibet, and the consequent rise of Tibetan nationalism. Concluding that the essence of the Tibetan issue is self-determination, Smith bolsters his argument with a comprehensive analysis of modern Tibetan and Chinese political histories.
Tibetan Rituals of Death: Buddhist Funerary Practices (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)
by Margaret GouinThis book describes and analyses the structure and performance of Tibetan Buddhist death rituals, and situates that performance within the wider context of Buddhist death practices generally. Drawing on a detailed and systematic comparative survey of existing records of Tibetan funerary practices, including historical travel accounts, anthropological and ethnographic literature, Tibetan texts and academic studies, it demonstrates that there is no standard form of funeral in Tibetan Buddhism, although certain elements are common. The structure of the book follows the twin trajectories of benefiting the deceased and protecting survivors; in the process, it reveals a rich and complex panoply of activities, some handled by religious professionals and others by lay persons. This information is examined to identify similarities and differences in practices, and the degree to which Tibetan Buddhist funeral practices are consistent with the mortuary rituals of other forms of Buddhism. A number of elements in these death rites which at first appear to be unique to Tibetan Buddhism may only be ‘Tibetan’ in their surface characteristics, while having roots in practices which pre-date the transmission of Buddhism to Tibet. Filling a gap in the existing literature on Tibetan Buddhism, this book poses research challenges that will engage future scholars in the field of Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism and Anthropology.
Tibetan Sacred Dance: A Journey into the Religious and Folk Traditions
by Ellen PearlmanThe first book to explore the significance and symbolism of the sacred and secular ritual dances of Tibetan Buddhism.• Lavishly illustrated with color and rare historic photographs depicting the dances, costumes, and masks.• Looks at both sacred (cham) and folk (achi lhamo) forms and their role in the development, practice, and culture of Tibetan Buddhism.From the time Buddhism entered the mythical land of the snows, Tibetans have expressed their spiritual devotion and celebrated their culture with dance. Only since the diaspora of the Tibetan people have outsiders witnessed these performances, and when they do, no one explains why these dances exist and what they really mean. Ellen Pearlman, who studied with Lobsang Samten, the ritual dance master of the Dalai Lama's Namgyal monastery in India, set out to discover the meaning behind these practices. She found the story of the indigenous shamanistic Bon religion being superseded by Buddhism--a story full of dangerous and illicit liaisons, brilliant visions, secret teachings, betrayals, and unrevealed yogic practices. Pearlman examines the four lineages that developed sacred cham--the secret ritual dances of Tibet's Buddhist monks--and achi lhamo storytelling folk dance and opera. She describes the mental and physical process of preparing for these dances, the meaning of the iconography of the costumes and masks, the spectrum of accompanying music, and the actual dance steps as recorded in a choreography book dating back to the Fifth Dalai Lama in 1647. Beautiful color photographs from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts and Pearlman's own images of touring monastic troupes complement the rare historic black-and-white photos from the collections of Sir Charles Bell, chief of the British Mission in Tibet during the life of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama.
Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective
by Chih-Yu Shih Yu-Wen ChenPolitics, history, and religion have long lent Tibet a glamorous air, particularly in the West. But Tibet can be understood in an astonishingly wide variety of other ways, including linguistic, ecological, environmental and climatological, geographical, geological, economic, biologic, sociologic, medicinal. Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective touches on all the elements of the Tibet issue, offering invaluable insight to a wide variety of readers, from specialists to those with a general interest in the topic. By putting readers into the shoes of all the stakeholders, from the Dalai Lama in his home in exile and the various Tibetan exile communities, to decision makers in Beijing, New Delhi, Washington and London, the issues at stake come into bold relief. Furthermore, the book examines the potential opportunities that lay ahead, documents where and how Tibetans have been dispersed and offers a glimpse into the social and political undercurrents sending shudders through this exiled nation. With the chasm between exiles and indigenous Tibetans growing ever-larger, what challenges do Tibetans confront just to remain Tibetan? And how will this shape the future of their political movement? The book provides a timely re-examination of the contemporary predicament of Tibetans, both in and out of Tibet.This book was published as two special issues of Asian Ethnicity.
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources: Translated From The Tibetan Of The Kah-gyur (classic Reprint) (Trubner's Oriental Ser. #No. 52)
by F. Anton von SchiefnerFirst Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Tibetans: Conversion, Contestation And Memory (Peoples of Asia #2)
by Matthew T. KapsteinThis book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Tibet, its culture and history. A clear and comprehensive overview of Tibet, its culture and history. Responds to current interest in Tibet due to continuing publicity about Chinese rule and growing interest in Tibetan Buddhism. Explains recent events within the context of Tibetan history. Situates Tibet in relation to other Asian civilizations through the ages. Draws on the most recent scholarly and archaeological research. Introduces Tibetan culture – particularly social institutions, religious and political traditions, the arts and medical lore. An epilogue considers the fragile position of Tibetan civilization in the modern world.
Tibeton Yoga & Its Secret Doc
by Evans-WentzFirst Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Tick... Tick... Tick...: The Long Life and turbulent times of Sixty Minutes
by David BlumAn insider's view of the most successful show in the history of TV, 60 Minutes. The most popular TV show in America isn't American Idol, and it's not Survivor. Month in, month out, the most–watched program in America is 60 Minutes, drawing a staggering 25 million viewers in an average week. For its entire 34–year history, 60 Minutes was the brainchild (and personal fiefdom) of Don Hewitt, the take–no–prisoners visionary who hustled the show into being and kept it afloat with a mixture of chutzpah, tough talk, scheming, and journalistic savvy. But now that Hewitt is 80 and grudgingly considering retirement, the show's direction is increasingly up for grabs, and the transition will surely be marked by some serious fireworks. As author David Blum provides a fly–on–the–wall perspective on the show's upheavals, he'll also trace its past; although the show has aired some 5,000 pieces and has made household names of Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley, Leslie Stahl, and Morley Safer, much of the backstage story––the passionate pursuit of stories, the behind–the–scenes wrangling, and the stars' prima donnish behavior––has gone untold. With full access to the producers, stars, and executives, Blum will give readers an unprecedented view of the personalities and events that have shaped 60 Minutes – and a new perspective on how current events become news.
Tidal Wave
by Sara EvansAs recently as 1960 few women worked outside the home, married women could not borrow money in their own names, schools imposed strict quotas on female applicants, and sexual harassment did not exist as a legal concept. In Tidal Wave, Sara M. Evans, one of our foremost historians of women in America, draws on an extraordinary range of interviews, archives, and published sources to tell for the first time the incredible story of the past forty years in women's history. Encompassing the so-called Second Wave of feminism (1960s and 1970s) and the Third Wave (1980s and 1990s), Evans challenges traditional interpretations of women's history at every turn. Covering politics, economics, popular culture, marriage, and family, and including the perspectives of women ranging from leaders of NOW to little-known women who simply wanted more out of their lives, Tidal Wave paints a vast canvas of a society in upheaval. The movement's shocking success is evinced, Evans notes, by the simple fact that we now live in a country in which all women are feminists, in practice if not in name.
Tides: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams
by Philip M. SmithTides: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams prepares the reader for the Officer of the Watch and Master/Mate certificates required by all officers on commercial seagoing vessels. From the formation of tides and tidal stream data, right through to practice questions with answers, and even mock exam papers, this book will provide you with all the reference material you need in order to pass your exams.
Tides of Empire: Religion, Development, and Environment in Cambodia (Asian Anthropologies #10)
by Courtney WorkAt the forested edge of Cambodia’s development frontier, the infrastructures of global development engulf the land and existing social practices like an incoming tide. Cambodia’s distinctive history of imperial surge and rupture makes it easier to see the remains of earlier tides, which are embedded in the physical landscape, and also floating about in the solidifying boundaries of religious, economic, and political classifications. Using stories from the hybrid population of settler-farmers, loggers, and soldiers, all cutting new social realities from the water and the land, this book illuminates the contradictions and continuities in what the author suggests is the final tide of empire.
The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism
by Bonnie Laughlin-SchultzJohn Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown’s raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution. Less well known is his devotion to his family, and they to him. Two of Brown’s sons were killed at Harpers Ferry, but the commitment of his wife and daughters often goes unacknowledged. In The Tie That Bound Us, Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz reveals for the first time the depth of the Brown women’s involvement in his cause and their crucial roles in preserving and transforming his legacy after his death.As detailed by Laughlin-Schultz, Brown’s second wife Mary Ann Day Brown and his daughters Ruth Brown Thompson, Annie Brown Adams, Sarah Brown, and Ellen Brown Fablinger were in many ways the most ordinary of women, contending with chronic poverty and lives that were quite typical for poor, rural nineteenth-century women. However, they also lived extraordinary lives, crossing paths with such figures as Frederick Douglass and Lydia Maria Child and embracing an abolitionist moral code that sanctioned antislavery violence in place of the more typical female world of petitioning and pamphleteering.In the aftermath of John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, the women of his family experienced a particular kind of celebrity among abolitionists and the American public. In their roles as what daughter Annie called “relics” of Brown’s raid, they tested the limits of American memory of the Civil War, especially the war’s most radical aim: securing racial equality. Because of their longevity (Annie, the last of Brown’s daughters, died in 1926) and their position as symbols of the most radical form of abolitionist agitation, the story of the Brown women illuminates the changing nature of how Americans remembered Brown’s raid, radical antislavery, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War.
Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What We Wanted Made Women Miserable
by Andrea TantarosFifty years after Betty Friedan unveiled The Feminine Mystique, relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional. If women are more liberated than ever before, why aren't they happier? In this shocking, funny, and bluntly honest tour of today’s gender discontents, Andrea Tantaros, one of Fox News' most popular and outspoken stars, exposes how the rightful feminist pursuit of equality went too far, and how the unintended pitfalls of that power trade have made women (and men!) miserable.In a covetous quest to attain the power that men had, women were advised to work like men, talk like men, party like men, and have sex like men. There’s just one problem: women aren’t men. Instead of feeling happy with their newfound freedoms, females today are tied up in knots, trying to strike a balance between their natural, feminine and traditional desires and what modern society dictates—and demands—through the commandments of feminism. Revealing the mass confusion this has caused among both sexes, Tantaros argues that decades of social and economic progress haven’t brought women the peace and contentedness they were told they'd gain from their new opportunities. The pressure both to have it all and to put forth the perfectly post-worthy, filtered life for social media and society at large has left women feeling twisted. Meanwhile, in their rightful quest for equality, women have promoted themselves at the expense of their male counterparts, leaving both genders frayed and frustrated. In this candid and humorous romp through the American cultural landscape, Tantaros reveals how gaining respect in the office - where women earned it - made them stop demanding it where they really wanted it: in their love lives. The impact of this power trade has been felt in every way, from sex to salaries, to dating and marriage, to fertility and female friendships, to the personal details they share with each other. As a result, we've lost the traditional virtues and values that we all want, regardless of our politics: intimacy, authenticity, kindness, respect, discretion, and above all commitment. With scathing wit -- and insights born of personal experience -- Tantaros explores how women have taken guys off the hook in dating (much to their own detriment) and exposes how we’ve become a nation averse to intimacy and preoccupied with porn, one that has traded kindness for control, intimacy for sexting, and monogamy for polygamy. Sorry romance. Sorry decency and manners. Long talks over the telephone have been supplanted by the "belfie." All this indicates a culture that's devolving, not evolving. And it’s only getting worse. Tied Up in Knots is a no-holds-barred gut check for the sexes and a wake-up call for a society that has decayed -- faster than anyone thought possible. It’s time to remember what we all really want out of work, love and life. Only then can we finally begin untying those knots.
Tief ist der Brunnen der Vergangenheit: Mythos, Logos und Person
by Gerhard DanzerDie antik griechischen Mythen haben seit Jahrhunderten viele Künstler immer wieder aufs Neue dazu animiert, sie literarisch, bildnerisch, musikalisch oder als Skulpturen darzustellen und zu interpretieren. In Mythen lassen sich jedoch auch anthropologische und tiefenpsychologische Andeutungen und Erkenntnisse aufspüren, deretwegen eine intensivere Beschäftigung mit ihnen lohnt. In den uralten Sagen, Götter- und Heroen-Geschichten begegnen uns existentielle Themen und Probleme, die auch uns Heutige bewegen – vor allem, wenn wir sie mit medizinischen, psychologischen und psychotherapeutischen Fragestellungen verknüpfen.
El tiempo material
by Giorgio VastaEl tiempo material es una novela extrema, inteligente y que se ha impuesto en Italia como la primera novela de un joven escritor especialmente talentoso. Sicilia, 1978: Italia atraviesa uno de los periodos políticos más convulsos de su historia. Aldo Moro, primer ministro italiano y líder de la Democracia Cristiana, ha sido secuestrado por las Brigadas Rojas. Tras sesenta días de cautiverio, es hallado asesinado en el maletero de un coche en pleno centro de Roma. El tiempo material es, a este nivel, una alegoría política escrita con un pulso narrativo feroz que recuerda a Leonardo Sciascia o Pier Paolo Pasolini. Ante este panorama tres jóvenes amigos, Nimbo, Raggio y Volo, deciden seguir de cerca el caso Aldo Moro. En sus mentes adolescentes los brigadistas son guerreros, magos que luchan por una Italia mejor. Las vidas de los tres amigos transcurren en una aparente normalidad, pero cuando están a solas desprecian a los italianos por su apatía y su cinismo, un odio que les llevará a cometer oscuros actos de los que terminarán arrepintiéndose. Reseña:«Una perturbadora parábola sobre los abusos del poder político.»Relevant
Tiempo mexicano
by Carlos Fuentes«Totalidad e instantaneidad son las características que Fuentes ilumina del Tiempo mexicano. Son las antípodas de su propia obra.» Pedro Ángel Palou, Revista de la Universidad Publicado originalmente en 1971, Tiempo mexicano se consolidó con los años como uno de los retratos más certeros de la idiosincrasia mexicana, uno en el que conviven la cosmogonía indígena, las heridas de la Conquista, las esperanzas de la Independencia, los retos de la Revolución y las ambiciones y promesas del México moderno. A 50 años de su publicación original, este libro sigue alimentando la reflexión sobre el desarrollo y el devenir del proyecto de nación llamado México, y constituye un acompañamiento obligado a la obra narrativa de Carlos Fuentes, que tiene como eje rector al tiempo y sus circularidades.
Tiempos rojos: El impacto de la Revolución rusa en la argentina
by Hernán CamareroA cien años de la toma del Palacio de Invierno por los bolcheviques de Lenin, ¿qué efectos tuvo en la historia del país este hecho trascendental para el mundo? La Revolución Rusa de 1917 conmovió al mundo. Sus ecos llegaron a la Argentina en un período convulsivo de su historia, con huelgas combativas y la feroz represión de una elite que entró en pánico. Fueron los efímeros "tiempos rojos", y nadie resultó indiferente a ellos. En el Estado, la gran prensa, los círculos influyentes de la economía, la Iglesia y las derechas hubo una reacción, y en el movimiento obrero y las izquierdas, otra muy diferente. Socialistas, anarquistas y sindicalistas oscilaron entre el distanciamiento y el apoyo crítico. El Partido Comunista surgió en adhesión a la insurrección bolchevique y en vínculo con la Komintern, con sede en Moscú. En esta gran obra, el historiador Hernán Camarero revisa la dinámica del proceso iniciado en Petrogrado y su impacto en el país gobernado por Yrigoyen. Tiempos rojos aporta una reconstrucción detallada y novedosa de estos temas, y también aborda la simpatía que la Revolución concitó en el mundo intelectual y cultural, donde incluso un joven Jorge Luis Borges mostró entusiasmo por la gesta maximalista.Isidoro Gilbert
Tiere – Medien – Sinne: Eine Ethnographie bioakustischer Feldforschung (Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology)
by Judith WillkommWieso braucht man ein Schlauchboot, um Vögel aufzunehmen? Warum muss ein Lautsprecher wie eine Nachtigall klingen? Wie kann man Fledermaus-Laute gleichzeitig sehen und hören? Im Feld werden die Dinge erforscht, wo sie sind, wie sie sind und wenn sie stattfinden. Da sie dadurch nicht so leicht zu kontrollieren sind wie im Labor, müssen für die Datenerhebung andere Strategien gefunden werden. Dabei kommt es zu einem besonderen Wechselspiel zwischen menschlichen Sinnen und technischen Medien. Diese Verflechtung macht Judith Willkomm in ihrer Ethnographie über bioakustische Feldstudien beschreibbar. Mit ihrem Forschungsansatz kombiniert sie ethnographische Methoden mit medientheoretischen Perspektiven und hebt dadurch die alltägliche Dimension von Medienpraktiken an der Schnittstelle zwischen Mensch und Maschine hervor.
Tiergestützte Interventionen im Justizvollzug
by Sandra Wesenberg Lena Scheidig Frank NestmannIn diesem Band werden erstmals auf wissenschaftlicher Basis die Möglichkeiten tiergestützter Interventionen im Strafvollzug ausgeleuchtet. Verschiedene Forschungsprojekte und Best-Practice-Beispiele aus Deutschland, Österreich, Frankreich, Italien, Luxemburg und der Schweiz geben Auskunft über Gelingensbedingungen und erfolgreiche Strategien wie auch Hindernisse und Grenzen tiergestützter Arbeit im Jugendarrest, in Justizvollzuganstalten oder in forensischen Kliniken. Die verschiedenen Beiträge zeigen eindrücklich, wie der Einbezug von Hunden, Pferden, Eseln oder Hühnern die Resozialisierung von jugendlichen wie erwachsenen Inhaftierten befördern kann.
Tierra de todos
by Jorge RamosEstados Unidos es un país que hoy tiene habitantes de primera y de segunda clase. Esto tiene que cambiar, y pronto. Hay 12 millones de indocumentados, pero también hay una esperanza: la promesa que Barack Obama le hizo a Jorge Ramos de que durante su primer año como presidente apoyaría una reforma migratoria. Tierra de todos es un libro urgente y necesario, que pretende ayudar a que se realice esta reforma. Este es un libro que da voz a los que no la tienen. Un libro que todo inmigrante debe tener y, sobre todo, este es un libro que todos los que critican a los inmigrantes deben leer, para que entiendan que Estados Unidos es un mejor país gracias a todas las personas que vinieron de otros países.
Tierra sin Dios: Crónica del desgobierno y la guerra en Michoacán
by J. Jesús LemusUna intensa crónica periodística que aborda los acontecimientos históricos que dieron origen al estado fallido en que se convirtió Michoacán en los últimos años. Tras la publicación de Los malditos, Jesús Lemus ha adquirido gran reconocimiento como autoridad en la investigación sobre los orígenes de la problemática que abruma a Michoacán. Con riguroso sentido periodístico, Tierra sin Dios hace un recuento de los hechos más importantes ocurridos en este estado, a fin de poder entender su actual situación de desgobierno. Éste es el resultado de un intenso quehacer periodístico de Jesús Lemus, quien se aproxima a fenómenos sociales en Michoacán tan relevantes en los últimos años como el surgimiento de los grupos de autodefensas y la abrasadora presencia del crimen organizado. He aquí la visión más cercana de la violencia, el abandono del gobierno estatal, la impunidad y la corrupción oficiales en los que se encuentra sumida la población del estado. Tierra sin Dios es una visión distinta, e incluso opuesta, a la cobertura otorgada al caso de Michoacán por algunos medios informativos de corte nacional e internacional. Un libro que comienza con un breve recorrido de los últimos diez gobiernos estatales, y que aborda con puntualidad tanto el debilitamiento de las instituciones, como el asalto al poder por parte de los cárteles de la droga.
Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (Citizenship and Migration in the Americas #8)
by Steven W. BenderOne of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one's family and prove one's prosperity. Particularly for immigrant families, home ownership is a way to assimilate into American culture and community. However, Latinos, who make up the country's largest minority population, have largely been unable to gain this level of inclusion. Instead, they are forced to cling to the fringes of property rights and ownership through overcrowded rentals, transitory living arrangements, and, at best, home acquisitions through subprime lenders.In Tierra y Libertad, Steven W. Bender traces the history of Latinos' struggle for adequate housing opportunities, from the nineteenth century to today's anti-immigrant policies and national mortgage crisis. Spanning southwest to northeast, rural to urban, Bender analyzes the legal hurdles that prevent better housing opportunities and offers ways to approach sweeping legal reform. Tierra y Libertad combines historical, cultural, legal, and personal perspectives to document the Latino community's ongoing struggle to make America home.
Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences
by Sarah SchulmanAlthough acceptance of difference is on the rise in America, it's the rare gay or lesbian person who has not been demeaned because of his or her sexual orientation, and this experience usually starts at home, among family members.Whether they are excluded from family love and approval, expected to accept second-class status for life, ignored by mainstream arts and entertainment, or abandoned when intervention would make all the difference, gay people are routinely subjected to forms of psychological and physical abuse unknown to many straight Americans."Familial homophobia," as prizewinning writer and professor Sarah Schulman calls it, is a phenomenon that until now has not had a name but that is very much a part of life for the LGBT community. In the same way that Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will transformed our understanding of rape by moving the stigma from the victim to the perpetrator, Schulman's Ties That Bind calls on us to recognize familial homophobia. She invites us to understand it not as a personal problem but a widespread cultural crisis. She challenges us to take up our responsibilities to intervene without violating families, community, and the state. With devastating examples, Schulman clarifies how abusive treatment of homosexuals at home enables abusive treatment of homosexuals in other relationships as well as in society at large.Ambitious, original, and deeply important, Schulman's book draws on her own experiences, her research, and her activism to probe this complex issue-still very much with us at the start of the twenty-first century-and to articulate a vision for a more accepting world.
Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences
by Sarah SchulmanAlthough acceptance of difference is on the rise in America, it’s the rare gay or lesbian person who has not been demeaned because of his or her sexual orientation, and this experience usually starts at home, among family members.<P> Whether they are excluded from family love and approval, expected to accept second-class status for life, ignored by mainstream arts and entertainment, or abandoned when intervention would make all the difference, gay people are routinely subjected to forms of psychological and physical abuse unknown to many straight Americans.<P> “Familial homophobia,” as prizewinning writer and professor Sarah Schulman calls it, is a phenomenon that until now has not had a name but that is very much a part of life for the LGBT community. In the same way that Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will transformed our understanding of rape by moving the stigma from the victim to the perpetrator, Schulman’s Ties That Bind calls on us to recognize familial homophobia. She invites us to understand it not as a personal problem but a widespread cultural crisis. She challenges us to take up our responsibilities to intervene without violating families, community, and the state. With devastating examples, Schulman clarifies how abusive treatment of homosexuals at home enables abusive treatment of homosexuals in other relationships as well as in society at large.<P> Ambitious, original, and deeply important, Schulman’s book draws on her own experiences, her research, and her activism to probe this complex issue—still very much with us at the start of the twenty-first century—and to articulate a vision for a more accepting world.