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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Phyllis Chesler. helped these women? Friends, neighbors, and sons sometimes rescued them; changes in the law did too. But what else proved invaluable? Phebe B. Davis (1865) wrote that “Kindness has been my only medicine”; Kate Lee (1902) ...
Phyllis Chesler. helped these women? Friends, neighbors, and sons sometimes rescued them; changes in the law did too. But what else proved invaluable? Phebe B. Davis (1865) wrote that “Kindness has been my only medicine”; Kate Lee (1902) ...
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Phyllis Chesler. Demeter. and. Clytemnestra. Revisited. In the beginning, if there ever was such a time, Demeter, the goddess of life, gave birth to four daughters, whom she named Persephone, Psyche, Athena and Artemis. e world's rst ...
Phyllis Chesler. Demeter. and. Clytemnestra. Revisited. In the beginning, if there ever was such a time, Demeter, the goddess of life, gave birth to four daughters, whom she named Persephone, Psyche, Athena and Artemis. e world's rst ...
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Phyllis Chesler. a pilot charting the course. He was rm in his resolve that Zelda halt her efforts to write ction. (When monkeys and serving wenches begin to write, can the Eumenides be far behind?) Zelda says she does not want to be ...
Phyllis Chesler. a pilot charting the course. He was rm in his resolve that Zelda halt her efforts to write ction. (When monkeys and serving wenches begin to write, can the Eumenides be far behind?) Zelda says she does not want to be ...
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Phyllis Chesler. them and their rooms, daily), comforted, and prayed with them. She tried to shield them from beatings and from suicide. Against all odds, Elizabeth never lost her “wits.” eophilus, her husband, forbade their children ...
Phyllis Chesler. them and their rooms, daily), comforted, and prayed with them. She tried to shield them from beatings and from suicide. Against all odds, Elizabeth never lost her “wits.” eophilus, her husband, forbade their children ...
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Phyllis Chesler. harsh realities that dene the female as “mother” and “loser” under bio-patriarchal rule. As we shall see, this is true of Demeter and Persephone also—but in an era where maternity and biology are more highly valued than ...
Phyllis Chesler. harsh realities that dene the female as “mother” and “loser” under bio-patriarchal rule. As we shall see, this is true of Demeter and Persephone also—but in an era where maternity and biology are more highly valued than ...
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