false 22498 540841 193156132X 9781931561327 8 <![CDATA[In My Mother's House: A Memoir]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175639557m/540841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175639557s/540841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/540841.In_My_Mother_s_House_A_Memoir 4.03 38 22498 3.75 225 28 1983 410169 0060925043 9780060925048 0 <![CDATA[The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174508874m/410169.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174508874s/410169.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410169.The_Hungry_Self_Women_Eating_and_Identity 3.50 34 22498 3.75 225 28 1985 410170 0060925051 9780060925055 6 <![CDATA[The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174508874m/410170.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174508874s/410170.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410170.The_Obsession_Reflections_on_the_Tyranny_of_Slenderness 3.75 32 The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies--a book about the meaning of food and its rejection.

]]> 22498 3.75 225 28 1981 562008 1565121635 9781565121638 2 <![CDATA[My Life as a Boy: A Woman's Story]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175809136m/562008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175809136s/562008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/562008.My_Life_as_a_Boy_A_Woman_s_Story 3.60 30 My Life As a Boy is a classic romance--a memoir of Kim Chernin's star-crossed love affair with the bewitching Hadamar, which began as a friendship in Berkeley in the late 1970s, when both women were on the verge of leaving their husbands and changing their lives. For Hadamar, who had "never made an unconventional decision in her whole life," the erotic subtext of their romantic dinners out and talks until dawn was satisfaction enough. But Chernin was developing a new boyish persona that needed to push forward, to pursue, to possess. Even her looks began to change, and she found a slender, assertive self emerging, ready to scale the garden wall and climb a ladder into her beloved's window. Hadamar's eventual betrayal of Chernin comes as no surprise to the reader, nor does Chernin's admission that Hadamar was not the love of her life. After her first despairing days alone, Chernin begins to sense "in the inexorable thrust" of her own development "the promise of power, liberation, license, opportunity"--the stirrings of her new response to women, and the potential it holds. A strange, dreamy memoir that reads like a novella of fated love. --Regina Marler]]> 22498 3.75 225 28 1997 269242 0060925035 9780060925031 0 <![CDATA[Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173294422m/269242.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173294422s/269242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269242.Reinventing_Eve_Modern_Woman_in_Search_of_Herself 3.89 19 22498 3.75 225 28 1987 410175 0140284664 9780140284669 6 <![CDATA[The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174508877m/410175.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174508877s/410175.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410175.The_Woman_Who_Gave_Birth_to_Her_Mother 3.19 16 The Hungry Self and In My Mother's House, has already written extensively about her own mother. She has also collected countless mother stories--stories that have the force of myth that are told by women about their mothers. In this intriguing book, Chernin asserts that in order for daughters to become complete individuals, they must, in some sense, psychically "birth" their own mothers. In explaining this provocative theory, she presents characteristic elements of the mother story, including idealization, blame, guilt, forgiveness, and letting go ("giving birth"). She then challenges the reader to trace these elements and identify the themes in six "real but invented" portraits of women and their mothers. During this moving and sometimes confusing process, readers will eventually come to a new level of understanding about the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship--leaving any candy-coated, romanticized vision far behind. The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother--beautifully written and often painful to read--generates more questions about mothers and daughters than it answers, but you'll never look at a mother-daughter story in the same way again. --Ericka Lutz ]]> 22498 3.75 225 28 1998 40092 081291676X 9780812916768 0 <![CDATA[Sex and Other Sacred Games]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40092.Sex_and_Other_Sacred_Games 4.33 9 22498 3.75 225 28 1989 562022 1565121007 9781565121003 1 <![CDATA[In My Father's Garden: A Daughter's Search for a Spiritual Life]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175809198m/562022.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175809198s/562022.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/562022.In_My_Father_s_Garden_A_Daughter_s_Search_for_a_Spiritual_Life 4.11 9 22498 3.75 225 28 1996 1050900 0060171189 9780060171186 0 <![CDATA[A Different Kind of Listening: My Psychoanalysis and Its Shadow]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1050900.A_Different_Kind_of_Listening_My_Psychoanalysis_and_Its_Shadow 3.50 6 The Obsession and The Hungry Self explains how she worked through and came to terms with her emotional life. National ad/promo. Tour.]]> 22498 3.75 225 28 1995 562007 0060971134 9780060971137 2 <![CDATA[The Flame Bearers: A Novel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/562007.The_Flame_Bearers_A_Novel 4.00 5 22498 3.75 225 28 1986 410176 1931223009 9781931223003 0 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174508877m/410176.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174508877s/410176.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410176.The_Girl_Who_Went_and_Saw_and_Came_Back 4.67 3 22498 3.75 225 28 2002 323917 0704344149 9780704344143 0 <![CDATA[Crossing the Border: An Erotic Journey]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173754523m/323917.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173754523s/323917.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323917.Crossing_the_Border_An_Erotic_Journey 4.33 3 Naomi Wolf
More than twenty years ago, Kim Chernin set out on a journey, leaving behind a husband and young daugher. The story of this journey, which took her to a border kibbutz in Israel, becomes a mysterious tale of erotic awakening. Rich and multilayered, and as suspenseful as fiction, CROSSING THE BORDER is a tale of passion lived to its extreme. As lyrical as the writing of Marguerite Duras and as daring as the work of Jeanette Winterson, CROSSING THE BORDER is certain to provoke and captivate.]]> 22498 3.75 225 28 1994 562025 0903400804 9780903400800 0 <![CDATA[The Hunger Song]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/562025.The_Hunger_Song 5.00 1 22498 3.75 225 28 1983 562017 0704339145 9780704339149 0 <![CDATA[Womansize]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/562017.Womansize 3.00 1 22498 3.75 225 28 1983 3076387 0060186445 9780060186449 0 <![CDATA[Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3076387.Cecilia_Bartoli_The_Passion_of_Song 3.00 1 Cecilia Bartoli--The Passion of Song is really two books in one. The first is author Kim Chernin's account of a growing fascination with Bartoli's voice and the desire to meet the singer and interview her about her art. The second is a performance guide by coauthor Renate Stendhal that traces the singer's career from its beginnings on Italian television to her debuts at La Scala and the Met.

Neither author takes a particularly critical look at Cecilia Bartoli's talents or her career, but fans of the singer will find plenty of information about their idol, from her early years studying opera under the tutelage of her mother Silvana Bazzoni, also a singer, to the master classes she now teaches in concert with Ms. Bazzoni.

]]> 22498 3.75 225 28 22500 4.14 14 1 1997 410174 1556434863 9781556434860 0 <![CDATA[Seven Pillars of Jewish Denial: Shekinah, Wagner, and the Politics of the Small (Terra Nova)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174508876m/410174.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174508876s/410174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410174.Seven_Pillars_of_Jewish_Denial_Shekinah_Wagner_and_the_Politics_of_the_Small 0.0 0 Seven Pillars of Jewish Denial set forth a justifiable criticism of Israel. Chernin explores memory, survivor's guilt, and denial as debilitating to Jewish consciousness, which cannot see criticism of Israel as morally feasible in an anti-Semitic world. In her view, creating true peace requires understanding and believing that the lives of other human beings matter more than Jewish ideology.]]> 22498 3.75 225 28 2004 6100075 1556438206 9781556438202 0 <![CDATA[Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6100075.Everywhere_a_Guest_Nowhere_at_Home_A_New_Vision_of_Israel_and_Palestine 0.0 0
Following an in-depth examination of the perspectives of both Jews and Palestinians, Chernin writes eloquently of the process by which she gradually learned to hear once-ignored Palestinian voices. By combining her knowledge of Jewish history with her insights as a psychotherapist, Chernin discovers the psychological mechanisms that have kept her and other Jews from fully comprehending the suffering of both parties in this seemingly endless conflict. She argues persuasively that by overcoming the mental blocks that prevent so many from seeing the Palestinian point of view, Jews can learn to feel empathy for them without diminishing their love and support for Israel.]]> 22498 3.75 225 28 2009 40095 0449904636 9780449904633 0 <![CDATA[Sex and Other Sacred Games: Love, Desire, Passion, and Possession]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40095.Sex_and_Other_Sacred_Games_Love_Desire_Passion_and_Possession 0.0 0 22500 4.14 14 1 22498 3.75 225 28 1990