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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... human race, as visitors, from a space ship might see them.... But the most frightening thing about them was this: that they walked and moved and went about their lives in a condition of sleepwalking: they were not aware of themselves ...
... human race, as visitors, from a space ship might see them.... But the most frightening thing about them was this: that they walked and moved and went about their lives in a condition of sleepwalking: they were not aware of themselves ...
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... human response to trauma. For 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 ...
... human response to trauma. For 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 ...
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... human role models; we repress them at our own peril. Both women and men are strengthened by examples of women who embody all the human (not merely the feminine or biologically maternal) possibilities. It is also no accident that I did ...
... human role models; we repress them at our own peril. Both women and men are strengthened by examples of women who embody all the human (not merely the feminine or biologically maternal) possibilities. It is also no accident that I did ...
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... 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: sexually and in other ways. I was ...
... 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: sexually and in other ways. I was ...
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... human progress to allow Reformers to be treated as Monomaniacs ... if the Pioneers of truth are thus liable to lose their personal liberty ... who will dare to be true to the inspirations of the divinity within them?” Phebe B. Davis ...
... human progress to allow Reformers to be treated as Monomaniacs ... if the Pioneers of truth are thus liable to lose their personal liberty ... who will dare to be true to the inspirations of the divinity within them?” Phebe B. Davis ...
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