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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... believe that girls and women who refuse to eat (or who binge-eat and throw up) are engaging in a selfdestructive protest against the contradictory cultural demands that they look boyishly thin, like high-fashion models—and, at the same ...
... believe that girls and women who refuse to eat (or who binge-eat and throw up) are engaging in a selfdestructive protest against the contradictory cultural demands that they look boyishly thin, like high-fashion models—and, at the same ...
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... angrier at their mothers than at the fathers who raped them, far angrier at the women who refused to believe that they were raped than at their rapists. Precisely because female-female intimacy and sympathy are so important.
... angrier at their mothers than at the fathers who raped them, far angrier at the women who refused to believe that they were raped than at their rapists. Precisely because female-female intimacy and sympathy are so important.
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... believe that psyche and soma are one, I know that viruses, parasites, bacteria, fungi, sexually transmitted diseases, and toxic chemicals are real and can cause neurological and cognitive dysfunction. Depression is real too, and has a ...
... believe that psyche and soma are one, I know that viruses, parasites, bacteria, fungi, sexually transmitted diseases, and toxic chemicals are real and can cause neurological and cognitive dysfunction. Depression is real too, and has a ...
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... believe that appearing on television is a form of “treatment”; second, by the media, which happily capitalizes on the entertainment value of such public accusations and confessions; third, by the understandable but misguided belief in ...
... believe that appearing on television is a form of “treatment”; second, by the media, which happily capitalizes on the entertainment value of such public accusations and confessions; third, by the understandable but misguided belief in ...
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... believe that the colonizer is, by nature, superior/inferior, and that the colonized cannot exist without her colonizer. Many women still believe that men are superior to women and that a woman is worthless without a man. Like others who ...
... believe that the colonizer is, by nature, superior/inferior, and that the colonized cannot exist without her colonizer. Many women still believe that men are superior to women and that a woman is worthless without a man. Like others who ...
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