![]() ![]() Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, ) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (). ![]() Women & madness by Phyllis Chesler 16 editions First published in Subjects: Women, Sex role, Psychology, Mental health, Social aspects, Mental illness. ![]() 1 Showalter's own position is clear enough as the title of her book, The Female. The aim of this paper is straightforward it is to examine the available data about madness in nineteenth-century Britain to assess the extent to which it was, in Elaine Showalter's phrase, a 'female malady' (). ![]() Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in With over million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology/5(28). Yet in the eighteenth century male admissions to private asylums tended to outstrip those of women, and, according to Roy Porter, ‘Georgian asylum admissions lend no support to the view that male chauvinist values were disproportionately penalizing women with mental disorders’. Women have been depicted as particularly vulnerable to confinement in asylums. Women - Mental health - Social aspects.,.By Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in San Diego. ![]()
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