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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... Predator Act that allows the state to commit a sex offender to a mental asylum—perhaps indenitely—until he can show “that he is no longer dangerous” nor subject to “irresistible impulses.” e decision stresses that such civil.
... Predator Act that allows the state to commit a sex offender to a mental asylum—perhaps indenitely—until he can show “that he is no longer dangerous” nor subject to “irresistible impulses.” e decision stresses that such civil.
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... commit adultery, want divorces, choose to be celibate, have abortions, use birth control, choose to have a child out of wedlock, choose to breast-feed against expert advice, or expect men to be responsible for 50 percent of the child ...
... commit adultery, want divorces, choose to be celibate, have abortions, use birth control, choose to have a child out of wedlock, choose to breast-feed against expert advice, or expect men to be responsible for 50 percent of the child ...
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... committed. As eloquently articulated by Jacobo Timerman, the Argentinian political “prisoner without a name” and torture victim, “ e Holocaust will be understood not so much for the number of victims as for the magnitude of the silence ...
... committed. As eloquently articulated by Jacobo Timerman, the Argentinian political “prisoner without a name” and torture victim, “ e Holocaust will be understood not so much for the number of victims as for the magnitude of the silence ...
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... commit the rst act of violence earth's children had ever known. A erwards, the three sisters agreed that he was old enough to be Persephone's father. Perhaps he was: who else could he be? ere were no known male parents ... and thus ...
... commit the rst act of violence earth's children had ever known. A erwards, the three sisters agreed that he was old enough to be Persephone's father. Perhaps he was: who else could he be? ere were no known male parents ... and thus ...
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... committed suicide when they were in their early thirties. Zelda Fitzgerald burned to death in a mental asylum re. Elizabeth Packard managed to escape a er three years in an Illinois asylum. She published an account of her hospital ...
... committed suicide when they were in their early thirties. Zelda Fitzgerald burned to death in a mental asylum re. Elizabeth Packard managed to escape a er three years in an Illinois asylum. She published an account of her hospital ...
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