Toward a New Psychology of Women (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Baker Miller
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Gender roles, Psychology or psychologists, Self, Feminism, Women’s issues, Oppression, Women, Self-confidence, Personality, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
Form and Content
Created by one of a group of women who were struggling to formulate a theory and practice of feminist therapy in the early 1970’s, Jean Baker Miller’s Toward a New Psychology of Women affirms a distinctly female psychology. Because men dominate in society, Miller contends that a woman’s way of being has been forced underground and, if it is seen at all, has been highly suspect. She claims that psychoanalysis, in its attempt to probe the depths of the human mind, has unearthed this domain of suppressed qualities that are, essentially, the feminine...
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