KIVY, PETER (1997), Philosophies of Arts: An Essay in Differences, Cambridge University Press.  This text traces the history of the attempt to uncover what fine arts have in common and shows that the definitional project has been unsuccessful, with music being the stumbling block, to suggest exploring the differences among the arts instead of engaging in an obsessive quest for sameness. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (1986), Jewish Self-Hatred:  Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews, The Johns Hopkins University Press.  This book examines the historiography of Jewish self-hatred and traces the response of Jewish writers, from the High Middle Ages to contemporary America, to the charge that Jews are unable to command the language of the larger society in which they live. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (1982), On Blackness without Blacks:  Essays on the Image of the Black in Germany, Yale Afro-American Studies, G. K. Hall.

SANDER, GILMAN (1988), Disease and Representation:  Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS, Ithaca, Cornell University Press.  The author examines the depiction of disease in various media to show how some images have persisted over time in an attempt to order the frightening aspect of disease through culture and science. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (1995), Health and Illness:  Images of Difference, Reaktion Books.  This book looks at the construction of visual stereotypes or images of difference by focusing on how images of "beauty" and "ugliness" are used to construct the artificial boundaries between the "healthy" body and the "ill" body, while exploring how cultural fantasies come to be defined by visual aesthetic criteria. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (1995), Picturing Health and Illness:  Images of Difference, The Johns Hopkins University Press.  This study of visual sources shows how the perception of the "beautiful body" is charged with anxieties about contagion and ugliness. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (1998), Love + Marriage = Death: And Other Essays on Representing Difference, Stanford University Press.  This text deals with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and the categories of difference as represented in texts and focus on the question of the constructions of the body in art and literature. (For more information click on the provided link)