Women and madness / Phyllis Chesler.
Women and madness / Phyllis Chesler.
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New York, NY : Four Walls Eight Windows, c1997.
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N616.890082 8
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English
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398 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Demeter Revisited - An Introduction -- 1. Why Madness? Women in Asylums: Four Lives. Mothers and Daughters: A Mythological Commentary on the Lives. Heroines and Madness: Joan of Arc and the Virgin Mary -- 2. Asylums. The Mental Asylum. The Female Social Role and Psychiatric Symptoms: Depression, Fri...
Amazon Societies: Visions and Possibilities. The Problem of Survival: Power and Violence. Some Psychological Prescriptions for the Future. Thirteen Questions -- Appendix. The Female Career as a Psychiatric Patient. The Sex, Class, Race, and Marital Status of America's Psychiatrically Involved Popula...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Four Walls Eight Windows, c1997.
Edition
25th Anniversary ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1997.
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Women and madness / Phyllis Chesler.
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Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1972.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-387) and index.
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c1997.
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N616.890082 8
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74VMj2NgOeJX
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1568580967 (pbk.)
9781568580968
1568580967
9781568580968 (pbk.)
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616.890082
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991000970409702626
