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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... wives.” e audience of more than two thousand (mostly male members) laughed at me. Loudly. Nervously. Some looked embarrassed, others relieved. Obviously, I was crazy. A erwards, colleagues told me that jokes had been made about my ...
... wives.” e audience of more than two thousand (mostly male members) laughed at me. Loudly. Nervously. Some looked embarrassed, others relieved. Obviously, I was crazy. A erwards, colleagues told me that jokes had been made about my ...
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... wives psychiatrically imprisoned, sometimes forever, as a way of punishing them for being too uppity—and in order to marry other women. Some American women wrote lucid, brilliant, heartbreaking accounts of their connements. Incredibly ...
... wives psychiatrically imprisoned, sometimes forever, as a way of punishing them for being too uppity—and in order to marry other women. Some American women wrote lucid, brilliant, heartbreaking accounts of their connements. Incredibly ...
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... wives” and “daughters,” rather than as people: treat them as if female misery, by biological denition, exists outside the realm of what is considered human or adult. A double standard of mental health—and humanity—one for women, another ...
... wives” and “daughters,” rather than as people: treat them as if female misery, by biological denition, exists outside the realm of what is considered human or adult. A double standard of mental health—and humanity—one for women, another ...
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... wives psychiatrically imprisoned as a way of continuing to batter them; husbands also had their wives imprisoned in order to live or marry with Women in Asylums: Four Lives.
... wives psychiatrically imprisoned as a way of continuing to batter them; husbands also had their wives imprisoned in order to live or marry with Women in Asylums: Four Lives.
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... wives, sisters and daughters that are thus annually sacriced to false customs and conventionalisms, and barbarous laws made by men for women.” Most women in asylums were not insane. According to Adeline T.P. Lunt (1871), “A close ...
... wives, sisters and daughters that are thus annually sacriced to false customs and conventionalisms, and barbarous laws made by men for women.” Most women in asylums were not insane. According to Adeline T.P. Lunt (1871), “A close ...
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