LEADER 04083nam  2200853   450 
001 9910816422003321
005 20230207220430.0
010   $a0-8147-3840-0
024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814738405
035   $a(CKB)3710000000718963
035   $a(EBL)4533324
035   $a(OCoLC)951222846
035   $a(SSID)ssj0001674058
035   $a(PQKBManifestationID)16472695
035   $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001674058
035   $a(PQKBWorkID)13541744
035   $a(PQKB)11213263
035   $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4533324
035   $a(DE-B1597)548566
035   $a(DE-B1597)9780814738405
035   $a(EXLCZ)993710000000718963
100   $a20160610h20052005  uy             0
101 0 $aeng
135   $aur|n|---|||||
181   $ctxt
182   $cc
183   $acr
200 14$aThe myth of empowerment $ewomen and the therapeutic culture in America /$fDana Becker
210  1$aNew York, New York ;$aLondon, England :$cNew York University Press,$d2005.
210  4$dİ2005
215   $a1 online resource (209 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
311   $a0-8147-9925-6 
327   $aCover 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
327   $aAbout the Author
330   $aThe 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.
606   $aWomen$xMental health$zUnited States$xHistory
606   $aWomen$xMental health$zUnited States$xSocial aspects
606   $aWomen$zUnited States$xPsychology
606   $aPower (Social sciences)
606   $aWomen and psychoanalysis
610   $aEmpowerment.
610   $aMyth.
610   $abeen.
610   $acentury.
610   $acultureboth.
610   $agrowing.
610   $ahave.
610   $ainfluenced.
610   $amid-nineteenth.
610   $apopular.
610   $apresent.
610   $aprofessionalfrom.
610   $arapidly.
610   $arepresented.
610   $asurveys.
610   $atherapeutic.
610   $aways.
610   $awhich.
610   $awomen.
615  0$aWomen$xMental health$xHistory.
615  0$aWomen$xMental health$xSocial aspects.
615  0$aWomen$xPsychology.
615  0$aPower (Social sciences)
615  0$aWomen and psychoanalysis.
676   $a362.10820973
700   $aBecker$b Dana$01613734
801  0$bMiAaPQ
801  1$bMiAaPQ
801  2$bMiAaPQ
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910816422003321
996   $aThe myth of empowerment$93943173
997   $aUNINA