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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... Behavior, cites studies that suggest that despite deinstitutionalization, involuntary commitments are as high now as they once were. He says, “Many persons are informally but effectively coerced, coerced by threats, are not aware of ...
... Behavior, cites studies that suggest that despite deinstitutionalization, involuntary commitments are as high now as they once were. He says, “Many persons are informally but effectively coerced, coerced by threats, are not aware of ...
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... behavior from whose eloquence and exhausting demands society protects itself through “reason” and force. is is a book about the dramatically increasing numbers of American girls and women of all classes and races, who are seen, or who ...
... behavior from whose eloquence and exhausting demands society protects itself through “reason” and force. is is a book about the dramatically increasing numbers of American girls and women of all classes and races, who are seen, or who ...
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... behaviors—and ideals as self-sacrice, masochism, reproductive narcissism, compassionate “maternality,” dependency, sexual timidity, sexual frigidity and sexual promiscuity, fatherworship—and the overwhelming dislike and devaluation of ...
... behaviors—and ideals as self-sacrice, masochism, reproductive narcissism, compassionate “maternality,” dependency, sexual timidity, sexual frigidity and sexual promiscuity, fatherworship—and the overwhelming dislike and devaluation of ...
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... behavior is not particularly valued or understood in our culture. Help-seekers are pitied, mistrusted, tranquilized, physically beaten, given shock therapy, lied to, yelled at, and ultimately neglected—and all “for their own good.” Many ...
... behavior is not particularly valued or understood in our culture. Help-seekers are pitied, mistrusted, tranquilized, physically beaten, given shock therapy, lied to, yelled at, and ultimately neglected—and all “for their own good.” Many ...
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... behavior—or its effects on him—as embarrassing and “maddening” he still recognized a certain boldness and honesty in Zelda's actions. In describing her, Scott's tone ranges from self-pity and impatience with Zelda's stubborn ...
... behavior—or its effects on him—as embarrassing and “maddening” he still recognized a certain boldness and honesty in Zelda's actions. In describing her, Scott's tone ranges from self-pity and impatience with Zelda's stubborn ...
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