Women and Madness - Softcover

Chesler, Phyllis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380016273 ISBN 13: 9780380016273

Publisher: Avon Books, 1982

Synopsis

Chesler persuasively argues that sex-role stereotypes are at the heart of much of what we call mental illness and examines the progress (or lack of it) in correcting these attitudes. 16 pages of photos.

About this title

About the Author:

Phyllis Chesler is the author of seminal works including the 2.5-million copy bestseller Women and Madness, as well as Letters to a Young Feminist and Woman's Inhumanity to Woman. Her most recent book, The New Anti-Semitism, has won her international acclaim and sparked huge debate.
She is an Emerita Professor of psychology and women's studies, the co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology (1969), the National Women's Health Network (1974), and the International Committee for Women of the Wall (1989). She is currently on the Board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and is also affiliated with Haifa and Bar Ilan Universities. She lives in New York City.

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It is important to note that "depressed" women are (like women in general) only verbally hostile; unlike most men, they do not express their hostility physically-either directly, to the "significant others" in their lives, or indirectly, through physical and athletic prowess. It is safer for women to become "depressed" than physically violent.

Why didn't our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers tell us what battle it is we lost, or never fought, so that we would understand how total was our defeat, and that religion and madness and frigidity were how we mourned it?

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0380016273
• ISBN 13: 9780380016273
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback