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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... heterosexual, and monogamous. We also learned that it was mothers—not fathers, genetic predisposition, accidents, and/or poverty—who caused neurosis and psychosis. None of my professors ever said that women (or men) were oppressed, or ...
... heterosexual, and monogamous. We also learned that it was mothers—not fathers, genetic predisposition, accidents, and/or poverty—who caused neurosis and psychosis. None of my professors ever said that women (or men) were oppressed, or ...
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... , I interviewed the real experts: women who had been psychiatric and psychotherapy patients. I interviewed white women and women of color, heterosexual women and lesbians, middle-class women and women on welfare, women who ranged in age.
... , I interviewed the real experts: women who had been psychiatric and psychotherapy patients. I interviewed white women and women of color, heterosexual women and lesbians, middle-class women and women on welfare, women who ranged in age.
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... heterosexual, middle-class, educated women. By denition, such theories rendered both poor and wealthy women “other.” In my time, psychotherapists were trained to “analyze” late fee payments as resistance to therapy. However, in 1996 ...
... heterosexual, middle-class, educated women. By denition, such theories rendered both poor and wealthy women “other.” In my time, psychotherapists were trained to “analyze” late fee payments as resistance to therapy. However, in 1996 ...
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... heterosexual counterpart. Many Latina Catholics and Asian women may feel too ashamed to report rape; they may not even think of it as “rape” but as “sex” (which is culturally forbidden to them outside of marriage, but not to men). If ...
... heterosexual counterpart. Many Latina Catholics and Asian women may feel too ashamed to report rape; they may not even think of it as “rape” but as “sex” (which is culturally forbidden to them outside of marriage, but not to men). If ...
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... (heterosexual) bodies. Goddesses such as Athena, Diana, or the Catholic Madonna are virgins, i.e., either unmarried or childless, (hetero) sexually uninvolved, or “innocent” of experience. Psychologically speaking, in Amazon society, a ...
... (heterosexual) bodies. Goddesses such as Athena, Diana, or the Catholic Madonna are virgins, i.e., either unmarried or childless, (hetero) sexually uninvolved, or “innocent” of experience. Psychologically speaking, in Amazon society, a ...
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