With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of womens psychology. Combining patient interviews with an analysis of womens.
|a Women |x Mental health |0 |x Social aspects. Feminist icon Phyllis Cheslers pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. This definitive book was the first to address critical questions about women and mental health. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages -387) and index. In this new edition, she addresses head-on many of the most relevant issues to women and mental health today, including eating disorders, social acceptance of antidepressants, addictions. |a Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. |a New York, NY : |b Four Walls Eight Windows, |c (Feb.|a Women and madness / |c Phyllis Chesler. womens roles in history, society and myth, Chesler concludes that there is a terrible double standard. Yet Chesler's analysis is cogent throughout, and these essays are laced with compelling nuggets from one who has been on the front lines of the feminist movement for several decades. Den hr utgvan av Women and Madness r slutsld. Feminist icon Phyllis Cheslers pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. She covers a lot of ground-marriage, reproductive rights, sexual abuse, political oppression, career opportunities-which necessarily makes for cursory treatment of many topics. Above all, she stresses feminism should stand for tolerance, self-empowerment and resistance to all forms of oppression. She is an Emerita Professor of psychology and women's studies. Her most recent book, The New Anti-Semitism, has won her international acclaim and sparked huge debate. On the contrary, while she insists that a proactive feminist movement is essential to the well-being of all women, Chesler also argues that feminists themselves must renew their efforts to be sympathetic to a wide range of viewpoints and agendas. 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. Chesler (Women and Madness) doesn't mince words when detailing the ways in which women's lives are still circumscribed by cultural conventions, but her empathetic tone mitigates against angry self-righteousness or condemnation of antifeminists. A call to arms in epistolary form, this is an evenhanded if occasionally polemical assessment of the feminist movement's accomplishments and what remains to be done before a feminist vision of society can be realized. Feminist icon Cheslers pioneering work-2.5 million copies sold-revised and updated for the first time in 30 years.
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