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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... wrote about goddesses in Women and Madness: great Earth Mothers like Demeter, who rescued her daughter Persephone from kidnapping, rape, and incest; Amazon gures like Diana, who protected women in childbirth and who literally ran with ...
... wrote about goddesses in Women and Madness: great Earth Mothers like Demeter, who rescued her daughter Persephone from kidnapping, rape, and incest; Amazon gures like Diana, who protected women in childbirth and who literally ran with ...
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... wrote lucid, brilliant, heartbreaking accounts of their connements. Incredibly, these heroic women were not broken or silenced by their lengthy sojourns in Hell. ey bore witness to what was done to them—and to those less fortunate ...
... wrote lucid, brilliant, heartbreaking accounts of their connements. Incredibly, these heroic women were not broken or silenced by their lengthy sojourns in Hell. ey bore witness to what was done to them—and to those less fortunate ...
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... wrote: “ is is a wholesale slaughter house ... more a place of punishment than a place of cure”; Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop (1880), of New York, wrote: “We could not read the invisible inscription over the entrance, written in the ...
... wrote: “ is is a wholesale slaughter house ... more a place of punishment than a place of cure”; Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop (1880), of New York, wrote: “We could not read the invisible inscription over the entrance, written in the ...
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... wrote about psychiatric symptoms, medication, and institutionalization. Some insisted that although they heard voices, wanted to die, tried to kill themselves, were highly anxious, and could not function, they were not and never had ...
... wrote about psychiatric symptoms, medication, and institutionalization. Some insisted that although they heard voices, wanted to die, tried to kill themselves, were highly anxious, and could not function, they were not and never had ...
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... wrote Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978) in a feminist voice and in a feminist era, as did Kim Chernin in. e. Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness (1982) and. e. Hungry Self: Women, Eating, and Identity (1986), which I ...
... wrote Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978) in a feminist voice and in a feminist era, as did Kim Chernin in. e. Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness (1982) and. e. Hungry Self: Women, Eating, and Identity (1986), which I ...
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