How long does it take to read The Anatomy of Prejudices?
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
The Anatomy of Prejudices by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl takes about 11 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1996. 636 pages, about 174,900 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Young-Bruehl finds a history riddled with assumptions, generalizations, and cliches. The Anatomy of Prejudices proposes a fresh start, and suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill. Young-Bruehl draws on theoretical and clinical, historical, and empirical literatures to show us prejudices from a variety of angles: there are those that help protect a group's identity (ethnocentrisms) and those that project a group identity (ideologies of desire); there are prejudices as socioeconomic phenomena, attitudes toward governments, products of historical periods, social mechanisms of defense, sexual fantasy structures, and puberty rites. Among the many forms of prejudice, Young-Bruehl pays particular attention to four - antisemitism, racism, sexism, and homophobia - which she exposes in their distinctiveness and their similarities.
Subjects: Prejudices, Vooroordelen, Prejudice, Préjugés, Antisemitism, Racism
