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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... remains the same. Persephone's sisters came home without her. Demeter raged and wept. Her bones seemed to shrink, her cheeks became wrinkled. She bound up her hair and turned wanderer, but could not nd her eldest daughter anywhere on ...
... remains the same. Persephone's sisters came home without her. Demeter raged and wept. Her bones seemed to shrink, her cheeks became wrinkled. She bound up her hair and turned wanderer, but could not nd her eldest daughter anywhere on ...
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... remains the object of her daughter's “deepest passion.” Nini Herman believes that a “secure” and “fullled” mother can let her daughter grow, both intellectually and sexually. But, if she envies this “young competitor,” her daughter may ...
... remains the object of her daughter's “deepest passion.” Nini Herman believes that a “secure” and “fullled” mother can let her daughter grow, both intellectually and sexually. But, if she envies this “young competitor,” her daughter may ...
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... remains unknown to us. any, To escape being swallowed alive by one's mother, many women psychologically enact the mythic Electra role: they psychologically murder their mother in order to replace her, to become her, to stand in her ...
... remains unknown to us. any, To escape being swallowed alive by one's mother, many women psychologically enact the mythic Electra role: they psychologically murder their mother in order to replace her, to become her, to stand in her ...
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... remains unmarried despite (or because) of her great physical beauty. Finally, in desperation, her parents consult an oracle. ey are advised to abandon their daughter on a mountain crag. Symbolically speaking, they abandon her to the ...
... remains unmarried despite (or because) of her great physical beauty. Finally, in desperation, her parents consult an oracle. ey are advised to abandon their daughter on a mountain crag. Symbolically speaking, they abandon her to the ...
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... remains a nancial and psychological burden to Scott—one that he bears—as long as she is willing to isolate herself and view herself as “sick” or “bad.” However, neither “madness” nor mental asylums offered her “asylum” or “freedom ...
... remains a nancial and psychological burden to Scott—one that he bears—as long as she is willing to isolate herself and view herself as “sick” or “bad.” However, neither “madness” nor mental asylums offered her “asylum” or “freedom ...
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