Women and Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Madness write by Phyllis Chesler. This book was released on 2018-09-04. Women and Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Madness of Women
The Madness of Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Madness of Women write by Jane Professor Ussher. This book was released on 2011-03-28. The Madness of Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women’s distress, in a non-pathologising women centred way? The Madness of Women addresses these questions through a rigorous exploration of the myths and realities of women's madness. Drawing on academic and clinical experience, including case studies and in-depth interviews, as well as on the now extensive critical literature in the field of mental health, Jane Ussher presents a critical multifactorial analysis of women's madness that both addresses the notion that madness is a myth, and yet acknowledges the reality and multiple causes of women's distress. Topics include: The genealogy of women’s madness – incarceration of difficult or deviant women Regulation through treatment Deconstrucing depression, PMS and borderline personality disorder Madness as a reasonable response to objectification and sexual violence Women’s narratives of resistance This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of psychology, gender studies, sociology, women's studies, cultural studies, counselling and nursing.
Men, Women and Madness
Men, Women and Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men, Women and Madness write by Joan Busfield. This book was released on 2017-03-01. Men, Women and Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the complex patterning of mental disorder identified in men and women. The first part of the book examines the gendered landscape of mental disorder, key concepts and approaches, and the way in which gender is embedded in constructs of mental disorder. The second part considers theories of the causes of mental disorder and the extent to which the different causes can account for the gendered landscape of disorder. It concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of the analysis.
Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
Woman's Inhumanity to Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Woman's Inhumanity to Woman write by Phyllis Chesler. This book was released on 2009-05-01. Woman's Inhumanity to Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on the most important studies in psychology, human aggression, anthropology, and primatology, and on hundreds of original interviews conducted over a period of more than 20 years, this groundbreaking treatise urges women to look within and to consider other women realistically, ethically, and kindly and to forge bold and compassionate alliances. Without this necessary next step, women will never be liberated. Detailing how women's aggression may not take the same form as men's, this investigation reveals—through myths, plays, memoir, theories of revolutionary liberation movements, evolution, psychoanalysis, and childhood development—that girls and women are indeed aggressive, often indirectly and mainly toward one another. This fascinating work concludes by showing that women depend upon one another for emotional intimacy and bonding, and exclusionary and sexist behavior enforces female conformity and discourages independence and psychological growth.
Women, Madness and the Law
Women, Madness and the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Madness and the Law write by Wendy Chan. This book was released on 2012-10-12. Women, Madness and the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling women's lives.
