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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... bodies, behind their dreaming drugged eyes, above all, inside a net of wants and needs that made it impossible for them to think of anything else. Doris Lessing. e. Four-Gated City Acknowledgements 2005 Introduction MADNESS Demeter and ...
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... body-restraints, the long periods in their own lth and in solitary connement, the absence of kindness or reason —which passed for “treatment.” ese historical accounts brought tears to my eyes. I found an extraordinary rst-person ...
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... body may be a way to avoid negative stereotypes of high-achieving women as lonely, ruthless, unfeminine, or ... bodies than with changing history by a few inches, that they are living in a nonpolitical (postfeminist) era, and that, as ...
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... bodies is as important as sexual pleasure, and that we must be able to defend “our bodies, ourselves” against violent or unwanted invasions—like rape, battery, unwanted pregnancy, or unwanted sterilization. As feminist clinician Janet ...
... bodies is as important as sexual pleasure, and that we must be able to defend “our bodies, ourselves” against violent or unwanted invasions—like rape, battery, unwanted pregnancy, or unwanted sterilization. As feminist clinician Janet ...
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... body and quite o en out of her mind, to render her incapable of resistance. e effects of terror on men at war and in enemy captivity are similar to the trauma suffered by women at home in violent “domestic captivity.” Rape has been ...
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Women and Madness |
| Autore | Phyllis Chesler |
| Edizione | ristampa |
| Editore | Chicago Review Press, 2018 |
| ISBN | 164160039X, 9781641600392 |
| Lunghezza | 432 pagine |
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