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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... . eir resistance to physical (and mental) illness was o en shattered. Sometimes, the women tried to kill themselves as a way of ending their torture. It is now clear that whether the nineteenth- or early-twentiethcentury.
... . eir resistance to physical (and mental) illness was o en shattered. Sometimes, the women tried to kill themselves as a way of ending their torture. It is now clear that whether the nineteenth- or early-twentiethcentury.
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... physical self ” may be an attempt to “compensate for having an underdeveloped psychological self.” Mental health experts also believe that when girls and women are more obsessed with losing a few inches from their bodies than with ...
... physical self ” may be an attempt to “compensate for having an underdeveloped psychological self.” Mental health experts also believe that when girls and women are more obsessed with losing a few inches from their bodies than with ...
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... physical pain. Non-psychiatric medical care is o en withheld until a patient collapses—or is discovered to have a terminal illness, long past treating. THE DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGIZING OF WOMEN WHO REPORT RAPE, HARASSMENT, DISCRIMINATION ...
... physical pain. Non-psychiatric medical care is o en withheld until a patient collapses—or is discovered to have a terminal illness, long past treating. THE DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGIZING OF WOMEN WHO REPORT RAPE, HARASSMENT, DISCRIMINATION ...
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... physical as well as psychological. e image of women as colonized is a useful one. It explains why some women cling to their colonizers the way a child or a hostage clings to an abusive parent or captor; why many women blame themselves ...
... physical as well as psychological. e image of women as colonized is a useful one. It explains why some women cling to their colonizers the way a child or a hostage clings to an abusive parent or captor; why many women blame themselves ...
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... physical and psychological cruelty, criminality unrestrained among the inmates by overworked or punitive staff. Institutional psychiatry may fail us but madness still exists. I said so in 1972—but I also said that most women were not ...
... physical and psychological cruelty, criminality unrestrained among the inmates by overworked or punitive staff. Institutional psychiatry may fail us but madness still exists. I said so in 1972—but I also said that most women were not ...
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