Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Phyllis Chesler
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Psychology, sociology, and women’s issues
- Genres: Nonfiction, Women’s literature, Sociology, Psychology
- Subjects: Mothers, Sexism, Betrayal, Victims, Violence, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, Economics, India or East Indian people, Human behavior, Cruelty, Anthropology or anthropologists, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Fairy tales
Phyllis Chesler established her feminist credentials in 1972 with the publication of the groundbreaking work Women and Madness, which decried a patriarchal mental health system in which women were often considered mad simply by not conforming to accepted feminine behavior. Among other things, she criticized the use of addictive sedatives to control women and the definition of lesbianism as a mental illness. With her reputation as a prominent feminist secure, the publication of Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman represents an audacious departure, for it dares to question the...
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