Ellen Herman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 218626 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ellen Herman |
| NOMBRES | Ellen |
| APELLIDO | Herman |
| FIRMA | HERMAN E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oregon |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
In the Shadow of Diagnosis
La psychologie construit le féminisme
Ce texte analyse les liens entre la psychologie et les mouvements féministes dans les États-Unis de l’après-guerre. Pendant de la démonstration que « la psychologie construit la femme », il montre que la psychologie a également façonné le féminisme contemporain en examinant plusieurs des débats et réflexions féministes qui ont mis en jeu l’expertise psychologique. De The Feminine Mystique, de Betty Friedan, aux pratiques des groupes de prise de c…
The Career of Cold War Psychology
Before Aids
Sandra Lynn Morgen
Margaret D. Jacobs. A Generation Removed
In this sequel to White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 (2009), a prize-winning comparative study on indigenous child removal in the U.S. West and Australia, Margaret D. Jacobs pursues the story into the post-1945 era. She adds a chapter on Canada, as well as brief personal interludes that reveal the historian at work. As she moves from a…
Michael Pettit. The Science of Deception
Journal Article Michael Pettit. The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America. Get access Michael Pettit. The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 311. $50.00. Ellen Herman Ellen Herman University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 5, December 2013, Pages 1536–153…
Kinship by Design
Supervising Spoiled Selfhood
This article uses child adoption to explore the science and the politics of selfhood in modern U.S. history, especially forms of spoiled selfhood associated with difference and deviance. In particular, it traces the debate about whether and how parents should inform children of their adoptive status. Why was “telling” both imperative and troublesome? What theories about normal and abnormal identity and belonging were implicated in the practice? T…
Can kinship be designed and still be normal
Secrets of the Soul
In this sweeping review of psychoanalysis in Europe and the United States, Max Weber looms as large as Sigmund Freud. Using a Weberian sensibility to probe psychoanalysis demonstrates the virtues of approaching changes in material life, social institutions, and leading ideas as historically interdependent. Channeling Weber to probe the momentous cultural difference Freud made, Eli Zaretsky believes, promises new revelations not only about psychoa…
Little strangers
The Adoption History Project
The author offers a brief description of The Adoption History Project, a Web site launched on June 1, 2003, that covers the people and organizations, issues, and studies, that shaped adoption in theory and practice throughout the 20th century. The Adoption History Project offers many brief biographical and topical sketches, a wealth of primary texts (excerpted from published and unpublished sources), numerous images, a timeline, bibliography, and…
The Paradoxical Rationalization of Modern Adoption
This article explores the campaign, during the first half of the twentieth century, to reform adoption law and rationalize adoption practice in the United States through a trinity of professional management, scientific validation, and expanded public bureaucracy. Making adoption modern entailed establishing a new paradigm, kinship by design, and then distancing that paradigm from modes of family formation that relied on commerce, sentiment, intui…
Child adoption in a therapeutic culture
An American Obsession
This overview of modern perspectives on homosexuality underscores the cultural significance of science and medicine even as it chastises physicians and other experts for building the prison of pathology inhabited by gay men and lesbians during most of the twentieth century. Presenting herself as a Foucauldian genealogist and "historian of effects" (p. 21), Jennifer Terry bluntly concludes that the "effects" of sexual science and medicine were mor…
How children turn out and how psychology turns them out
Does authentic personhood exist independently, or is it necessarily tied to contingent cultural arrangements and historical change? This review essay considers 5 recent books in history, psychology, and law that address this question. They also treat development, gender, subjectivity, therapeutic expertise, family welfare policy, and how and why children turn out as they do. These important topics in the history of modern American psychology are …
How children turn out and how psychology turns them out
Families Made by Science
This essay considers the effort to transform child adoption into a modern scientific enterprise during the first half of the twentieth century via a case study of Arnold Gesell (1880-1961), a Yale developmentalist well known for his studies of child growth and the applied technologies that emerged from them: normative scales promising to measure and predict development. Scientific adoption was a central aspiration for many human scientists, helpi…
The nervous liberals
The Difference Difference Makes
During much of the twentieth Century, adoption has relied on the paradoxical theory that differences are managed best by denying their existence. According to the "matching" paradigm that has governed modern adoption, adults who acquire children born to others must look, feel, and behave as if they had given birth themselves. In spite of intensive efforts to erase distinction, distinction endures as an obvious characteristic of kinship outside of…
Shaping Skinner's History
Feminism and Its Discontents
Journal Article Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis. By Mari Jo Buhle. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii, 432 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-29868-3.) Get access Ellen Herman Ellen Herman University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1555–1556, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568278…
Commentary
Commentary
Secrets of the Soul
In this sweeping review of psychoanalysis in Europe and the United States, Max Weber looms as large as Sigmund Freud. Using a Weberian sensibility to probe psychoanalysis demonstrates the virtues of approaching changes in material life, social institutions, and leading ideas as historically interdependent. Channeling Weber to probe the momentous cultural difference Freud made, Eli Zaretsky believes, promises new revelations not only about psychoa…
The Paradoxical Rationalization of Modern Adoption
This article explores the campaign, during the first half of the twentieth century, to reform adoption law and rationalize adoption practice in the United States through a trinity of professional management, scientific validation, and expanded public bureaucracy. Making adoption modern entailed establishing a new paradigm, kinship by design, and then distancing that paradigm from modes of family formation that relied on commerce, sentiment, intui…
Families Made by Science
This essay considers the effort to transform child adoption into a modern scientific enterprise during the first half of the twentieth century via a case study of Arnold Gesell (1880-1961), a Yale developmentalist well known for his studies of child growth and the applied technologies that emerged from them: normative scales promising to measure and predict development. Scientific adoption was a central aspiration for many human scientists, helpi…
The Career of Cold War Psychology∗
Research Article| October 01 1995 The Career of Cold War Psychology∗ Ellen Herman Ellen Herman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 53–85. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-63-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ellen Herman; The Career of Cold War Psychology∗. Radical History Review 1 October 1995; 1995 (63): 53–85. doi: https://doi.org/10.…
Commentary
The Founders of Humanistic Psychology. Roy José DeCarvalho
Good Gays and Bad
Research Article| May 01 1993 Good Gays and Bad: The Respectability Question in Gay and Lesbian History Ellen Herman Ellen Herman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (56): 144–148. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1993-56-144 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ellen Herman; Good Gays and Bad: The Respectability Question in Gay and Lesbian History. Radi…
The Romance of American Psychology
Psychological insight is the creed of our time. A quiet academic discipline two generations ago, psychology has become a voice of great cultural authority, informing everything from family structure to government policy. How has this fledgling science become the source of contemporary America's most potent ideology? In this groundbreaking book--the first to fully explore the political and cultural significance of psychology in post-World War II A…
The Career of Cold War Psychology∗
Research Article| October 01 1995 The Career of Cold War Psychology∗ Ellen Herman Ellen Herman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 53–85. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-63-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ellen Herman; The Career of Cold War Psychology∗. Radical History Review 1 October 1995; 1995 (63): 53–85. doi: https://doi.org/10.…
The Science of Human Worth
The Science of Human Worth Ellen Herman (bio) Edward J. Larson. Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 252 pp. Notes and index. $35.00. “Everyone knew my family, knew we were trash,” writes Dorothy Allison in a recent essay about her roots in Greenville, South Carolina, also the subject of her intensely moving novel, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992). Shame was the central fact of her youn…
A History of Psychiatry
Journal Article A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac, By Edward Shorter. (New York: Wiley, 1997. xii, 436 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-471-15749-X.) Get access Ellen Herman Ellen Herman University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1033–1034, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953108 Published: 01 D…
No mercy
Commentary
Commentary
The Romance of American Psychology
Journal Article The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts. By Ellen Herman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiv, 406 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-08598-1.) Get access Robert H. Abzug Robert H. Abzug University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 738–739, https://doi.org/10…
Shaping Skinner's History
Feminism and Its Discontents
Journal Article Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis. By Mari Jo Buhle. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii, 432 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-29868-3.) Get access Ellen Herman Ellen Herman University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1555–1556, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568278…
The Difference Difference Makes
During much of the twentieth Century, adoption has relied on the paradoxical theory that differences are managed best by denying their existence. According to the "matching" paradigm that has governed modern adoption, adults who acquire children born to others must look, feel, and behave as if they had given birth themselves. In spite of intensive efforts to erase distinction, distinction endures as an obvious characteristic of kinship outside of…
An American Obsession
This overview of modern perspectives on homosexuality underscores the cultural significance of science and medicine even as it chastises physicians and other experts for building the prison of pathology inhabited by gay men and lesbians during most of the twentieth century. Presenting herself as a Foucauldian genealogist and "historian of effects" (p. 21), Jennifer Terry bluntly concludes that the "effects" of sexual science and medicine were mor…
How children turn out and how psychology turns them out
Does authentic personhood exist independently, or is it necessarily tied to contingent cultural arrangements and historical change? This review essay considers 5 recent books in history, psychology, and law that address this question. They also treat development, gender, subjectivity, therapeutic expertise, family welfare policy, and how and why children turn out as they do. These important topics in the history of modern American psychology are …
How children turn out and how psychology turns them out
Families Made by Science
This essay considers the effort to transform child adoption into a modern scientific enterprise during the first half of the twentieth century via a case study of Arnold Gesell (1880-1961), a Yale developmentalist well known for his studies of child growth and the applied technologies that emerged from them: normative scales promising to measure and predict development. Scientific adoption was a central aspiration for many human scientists, helpi…
The nervous liberals
The Paradoxical Rationalization of Modern Adoption
This article explores the campaign, during the first half of the twentieth century, to reform adoption law and rationalize adoption practice in the United States through a trinity of professional management, scientific validation, and expanded public bureaucracy. Making adoption modern entailed establishing a new paradigm, kinship by design, and then distancing that paradigm from modes of family formation that relied on commerce, sentiment, intui…
Child adoption in a therapeutic culture
The Adoption History Project
The author offers a brief description of The Adoption History Project, a Web site launched on June 1, 2003, that covers the people and organizations, issues, and studies, that shaped adoption in theory and practice throughout the 20th century. The Adoption History Project offers many brief biographical and topical sketches, a wealth of primary texts (excerpted from published and unpublished sources), numerous images, a timeline, bibliography, and…
Little strangers
Can kinship be designed and still be normal
Secrets of the Soul
In this sweeping review of psychoanalysis in Europe and the United States, Max Weber looms as large as Sigmund Freud. Using a Weberian sensibility to probe psychoanalysis demonstrates the virtues of approaching changes in material life, social institutions, and leading ideas as historically interdependent. Channeling Weber to probe the momentous cultural difference Freud made, Eli Zaretsky believes, promises new revelations not only about psychoa…
Supervising Spoiled Selfhood
This article uses child adoption to explore the science and the politics of selfhood in modern U.S. history, especially forms of spoiled selfhood associated with difference and deviance. In particular, it traces the debate about whether and how parents should inform children of their adoptive status. Why was “telling” both imperative and troublesome? What theories about normal and abnormal identity and belonging were implicated in the practice? T…
Sociology (24 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Psychoanalysis (14 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (9 obras) · History (9 obras) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (8 obras) · Anthropology (8 obras)