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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... treatment, hospitalized against their wills, given shock therapy, lobotomized, and above all, unnecessarily described as too aggressive, promiscuous, depressed, ugly, old, angry, fat, or incurable. “Maybe AWP could set up an alternative ...
... treatment, hospitalized against their wills, given shock therapy, lobotomized, and above all, unnecessarily described as too aggressive, promiscuous, depressed, ugly, old, angry, fat, or incurable. “Maybe AWP could set up an alternative ...
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... in their own lth and in solitary connement, the absence of kindness or reason —which passed for “treatment.” ese historical accounts brought tears to my eyes. I found an extraordinary rst-person account by Elizabeth Packard, whose.
... in their own lth and in solitary connement, the absence of kindness or reason —which passed for “treatment.” ese historical accounts brought tears to my eyes. I found an extraordinary rst-person account by Elizabeth Packard, whose.
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... treatment is usually further confused by class and sex biases.” Just because I—and many others—have continued to challenge the diagnostic pathologizing of poor people, people of color, immigrants, and gay people does not mean that such ...
... treatment is usually further confused by class and sex biases.” Just because I—and many others—have continued to challenge the diagnostic pathologizing of poor people, people of color, immigrants, and gay people does not mean that such ...
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... treatment”; second, by the media, which happily capitalizes on the entertainment value of such public accusations and confessions; third, by the understandable but misguided belief in the power of individual therapeutic solutions as ...
... treatment”; second, by the media, which happily capitalizes on the entertainment value of such public accusations and confessions; third, by the understandable but misguided belief in the power of individual therapeutic solutions as ...
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... treatment, not punishment” and that “the conditions surrounding connement do not suggest a punitive purpose ... such restraint of the dangerously mentally ill has been historically regarded as a legitimate non-punitive objective.” If ...
... treatment, not punishment” and that “the conditions surrounding connement do not suggest a punitive purpose ... such restraint of the dangerously mentally ill has been historically regarded as a legitimate non-punitive objective.” If ...
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