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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... sexual shame. e intended effect of rape is always the same: to break the spirit of the rape victim, to drive her (or him) out of her body and quite o en out of her mind, to render her incapable of resistance. e effects of terror on ...
... sexual shame. e intended effect of rape is always the same: to break the spirit of the rape victim, to drive her (or him) out of her body and quite o en out of her mind, to render her incapable of resistance. e effects of terror on ...
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... , poetry, compassionate support during chronic or life-threatening illness and at the time of death, independence, books, physical/sexual pleasure, education, solitude, the ability to defend ourselves, love, ethical friendships,
... , poetry, compassionate support during chronic or life-threatening illness and at the time of death, independence, books, physical/sexual pleasure, education, solitude, the ability to defend ourselves, love, ethical friendships,
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... sexual woman; Electra feels doomed to chastity and childlessness. Clytemnestra refuses to yield to her daughter's inevitable sexual ascent. Electra is one of our earliest, patriarchal heroines. She is a daughter who does not identify ...
... sexual woman; Electra feels doomed to chastity and childlessness. Clytemnestra refuses to yield to her daughter's inevitable sexual ascent. Electra is one of our earliest, patriarchal heroines. She is a daughter who does not identify ...
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... sexual timidity, sexual frigidity and sexual promiscuity, fatherworship—and the overwhelming dislike and devaluation of women. Chapters Two and ree view both the mental asylum and private therapy as recapitulations or mirrors of the ...
... sexual timidity, sexual frigidity and sexual promiscuity, fatherworship—and the overwhelming dislike and devaluation of women. Chapters Two and ree view both the mental asylum and private therapy as recapitulations or mirrors of the ...
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... sexual unhappiness—and their visions. Chapters Four through Nine describe the patient “careers” of women whom I interviewed about their experiences in psychiatric hospitals and private or clinic outpatient therapy. e women I spoke ...
... sexual unhappiness—and their visions. Chapters Four through Nine describe the patient “careers” of women whom I interviewed about their experiences in psychiatric hospitals and private or clinic outpatient therapy. e women I spoke ...
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