1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798488403321

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

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

About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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



virtue was her power; today, her power is said to reside in her ability to “relate” to others or to take better care of herself so that she can take care of others. Dana Becker argues that ideas like empowerment perpetuate the myth that many of the problems women have are medical rather than societal; personal rather than political.From mesmerism to psychotherapy to the Oprah Winfrey Show, women have gleaned ideas about who they are as psychological beings. Becker questions what women have had to gain from these ideas as she recounts the story of where they have been led and where the therapeutic culture is taking them.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911020139503321

Titolo

Melt chemistry, relaxation, and solidification kinetics of glasses : proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society : Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (2004) / / editors, Hong Li ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westerville, Ohio, : American Ceramic Society, c2005

ISBN

9786613652591

9781280675669

1280675667

9781118408063

1118408063

9781118408070

1118408071

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Ceramic transactions ; ; v. 170

Altri autori (Persone)

LiHong

Disciplina

666/.1042

Soggetti

Glass

Glass manufacture

High temperature chemistry

Solidification

Relaxation phenomena

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.



Nota di contenuto

Melt Chemistry, Relaxation, and Solidification Kinetics of Glasses; Contents; Preface; Melt chemistry, Structure, and Properties; High-Temperataure Raman Spectroscopy of Alkali Silicate Glass Melts*; Control of Liquid Properties and Structure via Melt Chemistry*; Calorimetric Studies of the Structural Heterogeneity of Silicate Liquids*; Anisotropic Alkali Silicate Glasses by Frozen-In Strain*; Amorphous Materials Engineering: Designing Structure in Liquid and Glassy Metal-Halide Networks*; Structure of Glass-Forming Melts-Lanthanide in Borosilicates

Modified Associate Species Approach to Phase Equilibria Prediction for Oxide Glass SystemsRelaxation Phenomena; Structural Influences on the Dynamic Light Scattering from Glassforming Liquids; Harmonization of Viscosimetric and Thermodynamic Data for Industrial Multi-Component Glasses and Glass Melts*; Mechanical Spectroscopy of Natural and Synthetic Silicate Glasses and Melts; Improved Composition-Property Relations in Silicate Glasses, Part I: Viscosity; Nuoleation and Crystallization; Coupled Processes in Nucleation*; Sintering Kinetics of Crystallizing Glass Particles. A Review*

Design of Energy and Environmentally Friendly Fiberglass Compositions Derived from the Quaternary SiO2-Al2O3-CaO-MgO Phase Diagram - Part I: Structures, Properties, and Crystallization Potential of Eutectic and Selected Multi-Oxide E-Glass Compositions*Some Aspects of Glass and Glass Ceramics Formation of Stoichiometric Compositions in the RO-Al2O3-B2O3 Systems; Crystallization of a Li2O-2SiO2 Glass Under High Hydrostatic Pressures; Effect of Isomorphic Substitutions on Crystallization of Mica and Amphibole Phases in Glasses of the System SiO2-Al2O3-B2O3-CaO-MgO-Li2O-(K,Na)2O-F

Properties of Glass-Ceramics Synthesized from Hydrometallurgical Zinc WasteAuthor Index; Keyword Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume will summarize the most recent development in experimentation, computation, and theory on chemistry of glass forming melt, including melt structure modeling and melt structure and characterizations. This volume provides a timely update on the advances in glass basic science research and development.