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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... marriage was scorned, rape unthinkable, and the love of young girls praised in poems written by even the most hardened war veterans. Artemis herself had many female lovers, and many daughters, each of whom founded other Amazon cities in ...
... marriage was scorned, rape unthinkable, and the love of young girls praised in poems written by even the most hardened war veterans. Artemis herself had many female lovers, and many daughters, each of whom founded other Amazon cities in ...
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... marriage, was soon enshrined as the gentle Virgin Mother Mary, her daughter, Pleasure, became a son named Jesus. And it happened as quickly as this. Demeter was stripped of her powers, torn from her maidenhood, and exiled into history ...
... marriage, was soon enshrined as the gentle Virgin Mother Mary, her daughter, Pleasure, became a son named Jesus. And it happened as quickly as this. Demeter was stripped of her powers, torn from her maidenhood, and exiled into history ...
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... married to Agamemnon's brother, Menelaus. Helen runs off with Paris, a prince of Troy. e two brothers mount an ... marriage, respectability. Clytemnestra insists, cruelly, on remaining the only sexual woman; Electra feels doomed to ...
... married to Agamemnon's brother, Menelaus. Helen runs off with Paris, a prince of Troy. e two brothers mount an ... marriage, respectability. Clytemnestra insists, cruelly, on remaining the only sexual woman; Electra feels doomed to ...
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... marriages; some entered “feminist”-oriented therapies. Many women joined feminist groups and began to understand that many of their personal problems were due to collective political realities. Some women discovered that they were ...
... marriages; some entered “feminist”-oriented therapies. Many women joined feminist groups and began to understand that many of their personal problems were due to collective political realities. Some women discovered that they were ...
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Phyllis Chesler. their wives imprisoned in order to live or marry with other women. Ada Metcalf (1876), of Illinois, wrote: “It is a very fashionable and easy thing now to make a person out to be insane. If a man tires of his wife, and ...
Phyllis Chesler. their wives imprisoned in order to live or marry with other women. Ada Metcalf (1876), of Illinois, wrote: “It is a very fashionable and easy thing now to make a person out to be insane. If a man tires of his wife, and ...
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