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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... Violent Predator Act that allows the state to commit a sex offender to a mental asylum—perhaps indenitely—until he can show “that he is no longer dangerous” nor subject to “irresistible impulses.” e decision stresses that such civil.
... Violent Predator Act that allows the state to commit a sex offender to a mental asylum—perhaps indenitely—until he can show “that he is no longer dangerous” nor subject to “irresistible impulses.” e decision stresses that such civil.
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... asylum abuse—but they had no universal frame of reference. ey faced “madness” and institutional abuse alone, without God, ideology, or sisterhood. What or who helped these women? Friends, neighbors, and sons sometimes rescued them;
... asylum abuse—but they had no universal frame of reference. ey faced “madness” and institutional abuse alone, without God, ideology, or sisterhood. What or who helped these women? Friends, neighbors, and sons sometimes rescued them;
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... asylum helped Wilson. She wrote: It took me months to get over the effects of my incarceration ... rough companionship, my appetite came back; I could sleep in peace, and there was nobody to annoy me. ere were no maniacal shrieks to ...
... asylum helped Wilson. She wrote: It took me months to get over the effects of my incarceration ... rough companionship, my appetite came back; I could sleep in peace, and there was nobody to annoy me. ere were no maniacal shrieks to ...
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... asylum and private therapy as recapitulations or mirrors of the female experience in the family. Clinicians all too o en treat their patients, most of whom are women, as “wives” and “daughters,” rather than as people: treat them as if ...
... asylum and private therapy as recapitulations or mirrors of the female experience in the family. Clinicians all too o en treat their patients, most of whom are women, as “wives” and “daughters,” rather than as people: treat them as if ...
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... asylum doors have closed upon her, adieu to the beautiful world and all home associations.” At thirty-two, the ... asylum itself, and by their lack of legal rights as women, and as prisoners. As Adriana Brinckle, wrote: “An insane asylum ...
... asylum doors have closed upon her, adieu to the beautiful world and all home associations.” At thirty-two, the ... asylum itself, and by their lack of legal rights as women, and as prisoners. As Adriana Brinckle, wrote: “An insane asylum ...
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