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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... involved in making female children receptive to “submission” conditioning—at a very early age. Female children move from a childhood dominated or peopled by members of their own sex to a foreign “grown-up'” world dominated, quite ...
... involved in making female children receptive to “submission” conditioning—at a very early age. Female children move from a childhood dominated or peopled by members of their own sex to a foreign “grown-up'” world dominated, quite ...
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... involved with the accumulation and circulation of money, an activity best done without children underfoot. Despite the numerous ways in which men have attempted to mimic or colonize the gloriousness of biological maternity (and ...
... involved with the accumulation and circulation of money, an activity best done without children underfoot. Despite the numerous ways in which men have attempted to mimic or colonize the gloriousness of biological maternity (and ...
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... involved with men—or women. Athena pays for her wisdom and power by giving up reproductive sexuality and (hetero) sexual pleasure. Mary, mother of Jesus, pays for her maternity by giving up her body, almost entirely: she foregoes both ...
... involved with men—or women. Athena pays for her wisdom and power by giving up reproductive sexuality and (hetero) sexual pleasure. Mary, mother of Jesus, pays for her maternity by giving up her body, almost entirely: she foregoes both ...
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... involved in earlier or more part-time phases of their “careers” as psychiatric patients. Mental asylums rarely offer asylum. Both their calculated and their haphazard brutality mirrors the brutality of “outside” society. e “scandals ...
... involved in earlier or more part-time phases of their “careers” as psychiatric patients. Mental asylums rarely offer asylum. Both their calculated and their haphazard brutality mirrors the brutality of “outside” society. e “scandals ...
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... involved in rape, incest, or battery o en lead to situational or even life-long depressions. In 1974, I cofounded the National Women's Health Network, which remains in existence today. Our initial focus was on the dangers of medication ...
... involved in rape, incest, or battery o en lead to situational or even life-long depressions. In 1974, I cofounded the National Women's Health Network, which remains in existence today. Our initial focus was on the dangers of medication ...
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