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Frog Princes and Ugly Ducklings: The Rhetoric of Self-Transformation

PWR 1JD - Spring 2015 - Instructor: Davie-Kessler, J.
Last Updated: 31-Mar-2015

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Selected books on transformation and change

Here's a list of books on change from a diverse group of perspectives. Take a look at the full SEARCHWORKS records of some of the books to discover Subject Terms to use in your searches.

Self and self-transformation in the history of religions / edited by David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Green Library » Stacks » BL80.2 .T69 2002
The self in transformation / Hester McFarland Solomon.
London : Karnac 2007.
Green Library » Stacks » BF173 .J85 S656 2007
Transformations : identity construction in contemporary culture / Grant McCracken.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
Green Library » Stacks » HM1051 .M33 2008
Midlife transformation in literature and film : Jungian and Eriksonian perspectives / Steven F. Walker.
London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
Green Library » Stacks » BF724.6 .W35 2012
Body modification / edited by Mike Featherstone.
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.
Green Library » Stacks » GN419.15 .B63 2000
In the flesh : the cultural politics of body modification / Victoria L. Pitts.
1st Palgrave Macmillan ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Green Library » Stacks » GN419.15 .P57 2003
The legal, medical, and cultural regulation of the body [electronic resource] : transformation and transgression / edited by Stephen W. Smith, Ronan Deazley.
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2009.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Transgender migrations : the bodies, borders, and politics of transition / edited by Trystan T. Cotten.
New York : Routledge, 2012.
Green Library » Stacks » HQ77.9 .T71587 2012
Ethical transformations for a sustainable future / Olivier Urbain and Deva Temple, editors.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2011.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » GE42 .E798 2011
The psychology of appearance [electronic resource] / Nichola Rumsey and Diana Harcourt.
Maidenhead, England ; New York : Open University Press, 2005.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

Selected databases

When you are just starting, it's a good idea to use the ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER database. Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for articles to support your research.  

Sociology [electronic resource] : a SAGE full-text collection.
Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [200-?]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Annual reviews [electronic resource] / Annual Reviews, Inc.
Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Film & television literature index [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Publishing, c2006-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

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