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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... Zelda Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Lara Jefferson, and Sylvia 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 ...
... Zelda Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Lara Jefferson, and Sylvia 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 ...
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... Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Mrs. Sylvia 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 ...
... Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Mrs. Sylvia 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 ...
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... Zelda Fitzgerald and Sylvia 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 Some became socially withdrawn: they no longer cared how they “looked,” they refused to eat ...
... Zelda Fitzgerald and Sylvia 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 Some became socially withdrawn: they no longer cared how they “looked,” they refused to eat ...
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... Zelda's dancing lessons as pathetic and foolish. Nancy Milford, in her excellent biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, 10 quotes Scott's letter to Dr. Forel, one of Zelda's psychiatrists, in which Scott complains that for the last six months ...
... Zelda's dancing lessons as pathetic and foolish. Nancy Milford, in her excellent biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, 10 quotes Scott's letter to Dr. Forel, one of Zelda's psychiatrists, in which Scott complains that for the last six months ...
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Phyllis Chesler. Zelda had taken no interest in their child.* Dr. Forel pointed out that before Zelda had become “devoted” to the ballet, she had devoted herself to her tasks as a wife and mother. He described her increasing absorption ...
Phyllis Chesler. Zelda had taken no interest in their child.* Dr. Forel pointed out that before Zelda had become “devoted” to the ballet, she had devoted herself to her tasks as a wife and mother. He described her increasing absorption ...
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