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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... lives in a condition of sleepwalking: they were not aware of themselves, of other people, of what went on around them ... they were essentially isolated, shut-in, enclosed inside their hideously defective bodies, behind their dreaming ...
... lives in a condition of sleepwalking: they were not aware of themselves, of other people, of what went on around them ... they were essentially isolated, shut-in, enclosed inside their hideously defective bodies, behind their dreaming ...
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... Lives Mothers and Daughters: A Mythological Commentary on the Lives Heroines and Madness: Joan of Arc and the Virgin Mary TWO ASYLUMS e Mental Asylum e Female Social Role and Psychiatric Symptoms: Depression, Frigidity, and Suicide ...
... Lives Mothers and Daughters: A Mythological Commentary on the Lives Heroines and Madness: Joan of Arc and the Virgin Mary TWO ASYLUMS e Mental Asylum e Female Social Role and Psychiatric Symptoms: Depression, Frigidity, and Suicide ...
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... lives outside the family. I read novels and poems about sad, mad, bad women and devoured mythology and anthropology, especially about goddesses, matriarchies, and Amazon warrior women. It is no accident that I wrote about goddesses in ...
... lives outside the family. I read novels and poems about sad, mad, bad women and devoured mythology and anthropology, especially about goddesses, matriarchies, and Amazon warrior women. It is no accident that I wrote about goddesses in ...
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... lives. I located the stories of European women who'd been condemned as witches (including Joan of Arc) and, from the sixteenth century on, psychiatrically imprisoned. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both Europe and North ...
... lives. I located the stories of European women who'd been condemned as witches (including Joan of Arc) and, from the sixteenth century on, psychiatrically imprisoned. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both Europe and North ...
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... by what had happened and acknowledged that something had gone terribly wrong. Some refused psychiatric medication. Others claimed that medication had saved their lives. Millett, Johnston, Firestone, and Jamison all grew up in a.
... by what had happened and acknowledged that something had gone terribly wrong. Some refused psychiatric medication. Others claimed that medication had saved their lives. Millett, Johnston, Firestone, and Jamison all grew up in a.
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