Women and MadnessAllen Lane, 1974 - 338 pagine Feminist Icon Phyllis Chesler's Pioneering Work, Women and Madness, Remains Startlingly relevant today, over thirty years since its initial publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this seminal book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. In this new edition, Chesler's original research and findings are supported by her perspectives on today's issues related to the subjects in the original book including: eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychiatry, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more. Book jacket. |
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Pagina 18
... physical affection , nurturance or pleasurable emo- tional intensity – a turning that is experienced as ' sexual ' by the adult male , precisely because it is predicated on the female's ( his daughter's ) innocence , helplessness ...
... physical affection , nurturance or pleasurable emo- tional intensity – a turning that is experienced as ' sexual ' by the adult male , precisely because it is predicated on the female's ( his daughter's ) innocence , helplessness ...
Pagina 43
... physically - either directly , to the ' significant others ' in their lives , or indirectly , through physical and athletic prowess . It is safer for women to become ' depressed ' than physically violent . Physically violent women ...
... physically - either directly , to the ' significant others ' in their lives , or indirectly , through physical and athletic prowess . It is safer for women to become ' depressed ' than physically violent . Physically violent women ...
Pagina 269
... physical prowess and discipline are totally anachronistic for women . Women are raped because we cannot defend our- selves ' like men ' . Much of our submissive , conciliatory , com- passionate and seductive behaviours have been ...
... physical prowess and discipline are totally anachronistic for women . Women are raped because we cannot defend our- selves ' like men ' . Much of our submissive , conciliatory , com- passionate and seductive behaviours have been ...
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