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Record Nr.

UNINA9910481021503321

Autore

Becker Dana

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; London, England : , : New York University Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

0-8147-3840-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

362.10820973

Soggetti

Women - Mental health - United States - History

Women - Mental health - United States - Social aspects

Women - United States - Psychology

Power (Social sciences)

Women and psychoanalysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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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