The myth of empowerment : women and the therapeutic culture in America /

The Myth of Empowerment surveys the ways in which women have been represented and influenced by the rapidly growing therapeutic culture-both popular and professional-from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The middle-class woman concerned about her health and her ability to care for others i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Becker, Dana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Women > Mental health > United States > History.
Women > Mental health > Social aspects > United States.
Power (Social sciences)
Women and psychoanalysis.
Femmes > Santé mentale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Femmes > Santé mentale > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Femmes et psychanalyse.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Women and psychoanalysis
Women > Mental health
Women > Mental health > Social aspects
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Introduction; 2 In the Self's Country: Individualism in America; 3 Romancing the Self: From Mind Cure to Psychotherapy; 4 American Nervousness and the Social Uses of Science; 5 Long Day's Journey: From Sentimental Power to Professional Expertise; Interlude: Feminism and Ongoing Dialectic of Equality versus Difference; 6 Psychological Woman and Paradox of Relational Individualism; 7 The Myth of Empowerment; 8 American Nervousness Redux: Women and the Discourse of Stress; Afterword; Notes; Index.

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