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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... Culture: Women Alone Female Psychology in Our Culture: Women in Groups Amazon Societies: Visions and Possibilities e Problem of Survival: Power and Violence Some Psychological Prescriptions for the Future irteen Questions NOTES ...
... Culture: Women Alone Female Psychology in Our Culture: Women in Groups Amazon Societies: Visions and Possibilities e Problem of Survival: Power and Violence Some Psychological Prescriptions for the Future irteen Questions NOTES ...
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... cultural education. I knew that what I was being taught was neither useful nor true. At this point, I'd been attending feminist meetings almost nonstop for two years, surrounded by other women who were equally passionate, condent, vocal ...
... cultural education. I knew that what I was being taught was neither useful nor true. At this point, I'd been attending feminist meetings almost nonstop for two years, surrounded by other women who were equally passionate, condent, vocal ...
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... culture as a “girl poisoning” culture that places impossible and contradictory demands on young women; they respond by becoming “female impersonators,” and by obsessing over their weight. As we entered the twenty- rst century, college ...
... culture as a “girl poisoning” culture that places impossible and contradictory demands on young women; they respond by becoming “female impersonators,” and by obsessing over their weight. As we entered the twenty- rst century, college ...
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... cultural demands that they look boyishly thin, like high-fashion models—and, at the same time, look sexy and seductive. Some say that controlling one's weight is an attempt to gain control when one's life seems otherwise out of control ...
... cultural demands that they look boyishly thin, like high-fashion models—and, at the same time, look sexy and seductive. Some say that controlling one's weight is an attempt to gain control when one's life seems otherwise out of control ...
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... culture and consciousness had shaped human psychology for thousands of years. I was charting the psychology of women who, as a caste, did not control the means of production or reproduction and who were, in addition, routinely shamed ...
... culture and consciousness had shaped human psychology for thousands of years. I was charting the psychology of women who, as a caste, did not control the means of production or reproduction and who were, in addition, routinely shamed ...
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