Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York, a bestselling author, and a legendary feminist leader. Her work delves deeply into the psychology of women and honor-related violence, including honor killings. Chesler is recognized for her incisive perspective on the female psyche and the societal forces shaping women's lives, drawing from extensive publications that often incorporate her expertise as a psychotherapist and courtroom witness.
Exploring the psyche of a female serial killer, this psychological crime thriller delves into the complexities of self-defense and societal perceptions of women, particularly those in vulnerable positions like prostitution. The narrative, rooted in a real-life case, highlights the unresolved issues surrounding the murders of seven men and challenges conventional notions of morality and justice. Through the author's intimate involvement, the story raises thought-provoking questions about power dynamics and the legal system's treatment of women in extreme circumstances.
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 2005 Introduction -- Madness -- Demeter and Clytemnestra Revisited -- One -- 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 -- Two -- Asylums -- The Mental Asylum -- The Female Social Role and Psychiatric Symptoms: Depression, Frigidity, and Suicide -- Schizophrenia in Three Studies -- A Theoretical Proposal -- Three -- The Clinicians -- How Many Clinicians Are There in America? -- Contemporary Clinical Ideology -- Traditional Clinical Ideology -- The Institutional Nature of Private Therapy -- Four -- The Female Career As a Psychiatric Patient -- The Interviews -- Women -- Five -- Sex Between Patient and Therapist -- Six -- Psychiatrically Institutionalized Women -- Seven -- Lesbians -- The Interviews -- Eight -- Third World Women -- The Interviews -- Nine -- Feminists -- The Interviews -- Ten -- Female Psychology: Past, Present, and Future -- Female Psychology in Our Culture: Women Alone -- Female Psychology in Our Culture: Women in Groups -- Amazon Societies: Visions and Possibilities -- The Problem of Survival: Power and Violence -- Some Psychological Prescriptions for the Future -- Thirteen Questions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
LETTERS TO A YOUNG FEMINIST is a visionary message from a leading feminist to the next generation of feminists. Phyllis Chesler discusses basic aspects of feminism, explains feminism's relevance in a world that has taken it for granted and derided it, and helps the next generation reclaim feminism for itself. Chesler examines sisterhood, sex, families, motherhood, work, feminist heroism, and the economics of power, providing guidance to the generation to come.
A modern American woman reveals how her long-ago ordeal in a harem in Afghanistan led her to become a feminist leader and a legendary crusader for universal women's and human rights
Phyllis Chesler demonstriert, wie ein als überholt geltender Antisemitismus heute wieder aktuell und unter dem Deckmantel der Israel- oder Zionismuskritik sogar politisch korrekt zu werden scheint. Besonders nach dem 11. September ist dieser neue Antisemitismus, der keineswegs an nationalen, religiösen oder ethnischen Grenzen Halt macht, zu einem globalen Problem geworden. Die Autorin schlägt Möglichkeiten vor, wie dem Phänomen sowohl von jüdischer als auch von nicht-jüdischer Seite begegnet werden kann. Phyllis Chesler, geboren 1940; emeritierte Psychologie-Professorin und Autorin; veröffentlicht wissenschaftlich und publizistisch; zahlreiche Artikel, Reden, Kommentare und Bücher.
<p>Why do contemporary women often have such a hard time getting along with each other, at work, and within the family? Why is female friendship so important to women, despite the prevalence of female betrayals? How does the mother-daughter relationship impede women's growth? This book—destined to be a controversial classic—draws on recent biological, psychological, and anthropological research, as well as hundreds of original interviews, to redress the complicated silence that has prevailed about woman's inhumanity to woman. While women may not be aggressive in the same way that men are, cross-cultural studies confirm that girls and women are equally aggressive in "indirect" ways, and mainly toward each other. Women envy and compete against other women, not against men—and tend to deny this, even to themselves. Like men, many women also hold sexist beliefs; often, they are unaware of it. Women depend upon each other for emotional intimacy and bonding, but their power to form cliques, gossip about, and shun one another enforces conformity and discourages self-confidence and psychological clarity from girlhood on. Are women oppressed? Yes. Do oppressed people internalize the oppressor's attitudes? Without a doubt. Women, therefore, must acknowledge their own sexism and gender double-standards before they can practice sisterhood, resist sexism, treat other women ethically, and forge realistic and compassionate personal and political coalitions. "Chesler's work is our public conscience."—Letty Cottoin Pogrebin</p><p></p>
The author examines the legal, psychological, and ethical questions raised by the headline-making Baby M surrogacy trial between Mary Beth Whitehead and Bill and Betsy Stern
