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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Phyllis Chesler. RACE. BIASES. I do not assume that the more a woman is oppressed that the “stronger” she is. is is neither fair nor true. In fact, in Women and Madness, I wrote, “ e problems of being both black and female in a racist ...
Phyllis Chesler. RACE. BIASES. I do not assume that the more a woman is oppressed that the “stronger” she is. is is neither fair nor true. In fact, in Women and Madness, I wrote, “ e problems of being both black and female in a racist ...
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... women still believe that men are superior to women and that a woman is worthless without a man. Like others who are colonized, women are o en harder on themselves. Women expect a lot from each other—but rarely forgive another woman ...
... women still believe that men are superior to women and that a woman is worthless without a man. Like others who are colonized, women are o en harder on themselves. Women expect a lot from each other—but rarely forgive another woman ...
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... women say. Given the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, this alone is a radical act. When a woman begins to remember being sexually molested as a child, a feminist does not conclude that the woman's ashbacks or hysteria prove ...
... women say. Given the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, this alone is a radical act. When a woman begins to remember being sexually molested as a child, a feminist does not conclude that the woman's ashbacks or hysteria prove ...
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... women as mentally ill when they engage in sexual, reproductive, economic, or intellectual activities outside of marriage. ey do not pathologize women who have full-time careers, are lesbians, refuse to marry, commit adultery, want ...
... women as mentally ill when they engage in sexual, reproductive, economic, or intellectual activities outside of marriage. ey do not pathologize women who have full-time careers, are lesbians, refuse to marry, commit adultery, want ...
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... women cannot always rise to the occasion of political action. For example, an incest survivor with insomnia or panic attacks o en cannot sit in a room long enough to have her consciousness raised; an anorexic or obese woman who is ...
... women cannot always rise to the occasion of political action. For example, an incest survivor with insomnia or panic attacks o en cannot sit in a room long enough to have her consciousness raised; an anorexic or obese woman who is ...
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