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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... fact, in Women and Madness, I wrote, “ e problems of being both black and female in a racist and sexist society are staggering, the permutations of violence, self-destructiveness and paranoia endless.... Racism in psychiatric diagnosis ...
... fact, in Women and Madness, I wrote, “ e problems of being both black and female in a racist and sexist society are staggering, the permutations of violence, self-destructiveness and paranoia endless.... Racism in psychiatric diagnosis ...
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... fact, have become as popular as they did—and when they did—for a wide variety of reasons. What was done in Freud's name—whether Freud intended it this way or not—sometimes supported the most backward of institutional psychiatrists ...
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... fact, concerned about the right to treatment. All these groups are important. Consumer education and legal action remain crucial in the struggle to humanize both institutional and noninstitutional life. O en those who condemn ...
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... fact, even enlightened professionals like Herman cannot themselves undertake this work without a strong support system of their own. e work of psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan is another good example of a feminist spiritual-political ...
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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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