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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... examples this book may not have been written just now. I thank Natalie Bravermen, Louise Brown, Lillian Chesler, Catherine Clowery, Bici Forbes, Mary Shartle, Martha Hicks, and Angie Waltermath for their secretarial assistance. I thank ...
... examples this book may not have been written just now. I thank Natalie Bravermen, Louise Brown, Lillian Chesler, Catherine Clowery, Bici Forbes, Mary Shartle, Martha Hicks, and Angie Waltermath for their secretarial assistance. I thank ...
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... example, we were taught to view the normal female (and human) response to sexual violence, including incest, as a psychiatric illness. We were taught to blame the victim for what had happened to her. Relying on a supercial understanding ...
... example, we were taught to view the normal female (and human) response to sexual violence, including incest, as a psychiatric illness. We were taught to blame the victim for what had happened to her. Relying on a supercial understanding ...
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... . We hadn't learned it elsewhere. For example, I had a brand-new Ph.D., had completed a hospital internship, and was still enrolled in a psycho-analytic training institute—but I knew almost nothing about how to help another.
... . We hadn't learned it elsewhere. For example, I had a brand-new Ph.D., had completed a hospital internship, and was still enrolled in a psycho-analytic training institute—but I knew almost nothing about how to help another.
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... examples of women who embody all the human (not merely the feminine or biologically maternal) possibilities. It is also no accident that I did not fully examine the “dark” side of Demeter and Persephone's relationship or other primal ...
... examples of women who embody all the human (not merely the feminine or biologically maternal) possibilities. It is also no accident that I did not fully examine the “dark” side of Demeter and Persephone's relationship or other primal ...
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... example, Elizabeth T. Stone (1842), of Massachusetts, described the mental asylum as “a system that is worse than slavery”; Adriana Brinckle (1857), of Pennsylvania, described the asylum as a “living death,” lled with “shackles ...
... example, Elizabeth T. Stone (1842), of Massachusetts, described the mental asylum as “a system that is worse than slavery”; Adriana Brinckle (1857), of Pennsylvania, described the asylum as a “living death,” lled with “shackles ...
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