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Becker Dana |
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The myth of empowerment : women and the therapeutic culture in America / / Dana Becker |
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New York, New York ; ; London, England : , : New York University Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Women - Mental health - United States - History |
Women - Mental health - United States - Social aspects |
Women - United States - Psychology |
Power (Social sciences) |
Women and psychoanalysis |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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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 in an uncertain world is not as different from her late nineteenth-century white middle-class predecessors as we might imagine. In the nineteenth century she was told that her moral |
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