The Female Malady

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Malady written by Elaine Showalter and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incisive study explores how cultural ideas about proper feminine behavior have shaped the definition and treatment of madness in women as it traces trends in the psychiatric care of women in England from 1830-1980.

Author : Jeffrey L. Geller
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of the Asylum written by Jeffrey L. Geller and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geller and Harris's accompanying history of both societal and psychiatric standards for women reveals that often even the prevailing conventions reinforced the perception that these women were "mad.".

Author : Phyllis Chesler
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 164160039X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Madness written by Phyllis Chesler and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joan Busfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349246786
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men, Women and Madness written by Joan Busfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David D. Gilmore
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200322
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misogyny written by David D. Gilmore and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yes, women are the greatest evil Zeus has made, and men are bound to them hand and foot with impossible knots by God."—Semonides, seventh century B.C. Men put women on a pedestal to worship them from afar—and to take better aim at them for the purpose of derision. Why is this paradoxical response to women so widespread, so far-reaching, so all-pervasive? Misogyny, David D. Gilmore suggests, is best described as a male malady, as it has always been a characteristic shared by human societies throughout the world. Misogyny: The Male Malady is a comprehensive historical and anthropological survey of woman-hating that casts new light on this age-old bias. The turmoil of masculinity and the ugliness of misogyny have been well documented in different cultures, but Gilmore's synoptic approach identifies misogyny in a variety of human experiences outside of sex and marriage and makes a fresh and enlightening contribution toward understanding this phenomenon. Gilmore maintains that misogyny is so widespread and so pervasive among men that it must be at least partly psychogenic in origin, a result of identical experiences in the male developmental cycle, rather than caused by the environment alone. Presenting a wealth of compelling examples—from the jungles of New Guinea to the boardrooms of corporate America—Gilmore shows that misogynistic practices occur in hauntingly identical forms. He asserts that these deep and abiding male anxieties stem from unresolved conflicts between men's intense need for and dependence upon women and their equally intense fear of that dependence. However, misogyny, according to Gilmore, is also often supported and intensified by certain cultural realities, such as patrilineal social organization; kinship ideologies that favor fraternal solidarity over conjugal unity; chronic warfare, feuding, or other forms of intergroup violence; and religious orthodoxy or asceticism. Gilmore is in the end able to offer steps toward the discovery of antidotes to this irrational but global prejudice, providing an opportunity for a lasting cure to misogyny and its manifestations.

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231104586
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hystories written by Elaine Showalter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On psychopathology of everyday life

Author : Indrani Sen
Publisher : Studies in Imperialism
ISBN 13 : 9781526143488
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendered Transactions written by Indrani Sen and published by Studies in Imperialism. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses. Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities. This fascinating book will be of interest to the general reader and to experts and students of gender studies, colonial history, literary and cultural studies as well as the social history of health and medicine."--

Author : Jane M. Ussher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Madness written by Jane M. Ussher and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691221960
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Literature of Their Own written by Elaine Showalter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers in England. A classic of feminist criticism, its impact continues to be felt today. This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception and a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813520186
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Decadence written by Elaine Showalter and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together 20 short stories of the "fin-de-siecle" and includes such writers as George Egerton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Vernon Lee, Ada Leverson and Olive Schreiner. The stories range from the lyrical to the Gothic and frequently deal with the conflicts of women writers. At the turn of the century, short stories by- and often about- 'New Women' flooded the pages of English and American magazines like The Yellow Book, The Savoy, Atlantic Monthly and Harpers. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form, and courageous in its candid literary aspiration, shocked Victorian critics who parodied the experimental stories in Punch as symptoms of fin de siecle decadence, or denounced the authors as 'literary degenerates' or 'erotomaniacs.' This collection brings together twenty of the most original and important stories, including such little-known writers as Victoria Cross, George Egerton, Vernon Lee, Constance Fenimore Wollson and Charlotte Mew. Ranging from the lyrical to the Gothic, and frequently dealing with the conflicts of women artists, the short fiction of the fin de siecle is the missing link between the Golden Age of Victorianism women writers and the new era of feminist modernism.