How Long to Read Private Practices

How Long Does it Take to Read Private Practices?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read Private Practices by Naoko Wake

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Private Practices examines the relationship between science, sexuality, gender, race, and culture in the making of modern America between 1920 and 1950, when contradictions among liberal intellectuals affected the rise of U.S. conservatism. Naoko Wake focuses on neo-Freudian, gay psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan, founder of the interpersonal theory of mental illness. She explores medical and social scientists' conflicted approach to homosexuality, particularly the views of scientists who themselves lived closeted lives. Wake discovers that there was a gap--often dramatic, frequently subtle--between these scientists' "public" understanding of homosexuality (as a "disease") and their personal, private perception (which questioned such a stigmatizing view). This breach revealed a modern culture in which self-awareness and open-mindedness became traits of "mature" gender and sexual identities. Scientists considered individuals of society lacking these traits to be "immature," creating an unequal relationship between practitioners and their subjects. In assessing how these dynamics--the disparity between public and private views of homosexuality and the uneven relationship between scientists and their subjects--worked to shape each other, Private Practices highlights the limits of the scientific approach to subjectivity and illuminates its strange career--sexual subjectivity in particular--in modern U.S. culture.

How long is Private Practices?

Private Practices by Naoko Wake is 281 pages long, and a total of 70,531 words.

This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Private Practices Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 25 minutes to read Private Practices aloud.

What Reading Level is Private Practices?

Private Practices is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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