Women and MadnessChicago Review Press, 4 set 2018 - 432 pagine Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print, this completely revised and updated edition adds perspectives on eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychology, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more. |
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... Plath. Excerpts from. e. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath copyright © 1971 by Harper & Row, Inc., published by Faber & Faber, copyright © 1966 by Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Inc., and Olwyn Hughes. Excerpts from Wilheim ...
... Plath. Excerpts from. e. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath copyright © 1971 by Harper & Row, Inc., published by Faber & Faber, copyright © 1966 by Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Inc., and Olwyn Hughes. Excerpts from Wilheim ...
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... Plath, the actress Frances Farmer, and the ctionally named Ellen West—had done “hard time,” psychiatrically speaking. Despite their beauty, genius, and class/skin privilege, none were helped, and all were deeply hurt by institutional ...
... Plath, the actress Frances Farmer, and the ctionally named Ellen West—had done “hard time,” psychiatrically speaking. Despite their beauty, genius, and class/skin privilege, none were helped, and all were deeply hurt by institutional ...
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... Plath Hughes (1932–1963) HOW DID AMERICAN WOMEN GET INTO ASYLUMS IN THE PAST ? e answer is: against their will and without prior notice. Here is what happened. Suddenly, unexpectedly, a perfectly sane woman might nd herself being ...
... Plath Hughes (1932–1963) HOW DID AMERICAN WOMEN GET INTO ASYLUMS IN THE PAST ? e answer is: against their will and without prior notice. Here is what happened. Suddenly, unexpectedly, a perfectly sane woman might nd herself being ...
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... Plath— were hospitalized for various psychiatric “symptoms.” All were uncommonly stubborn, talented, and aggressive. Some became socially withdrawn: they no longer cared how they “looked,” they refused to eat, they became sexually ...
... Plath— were hospitalized for various psychiatric “symptoms.” All were uncommonly stubborn, talented, and aggressive. Some became socially withdrawn: they no longer cared how they “looked,” they refused to eat, they became sexually ...
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... Plath marriages were consecrated in darkness. Unlike Psyche, however, they failed— or refused—to complete the maiden's pilgrimage toward divine marriage and motherhood. Esther Greenwood, Plath's heroine in her autobiographical novel. e.
... Plath marriages were consecrated in darkness. Unlike Psyche, however, they failed— or refused—to complete the maiden's pilgrimage toward divine marriage and motherhood. Esther Greenwood, Plath's heroine in her autobiographical novel. e.
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