Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle between the Sexes
Since ancient times, physicians have believed that women are especially vulnerable to certain mental illnesses. Contemporary research confirms that women are indeed more susceptible than men to anxiety, depression, multiple personality, and eating disorders, and several forms of what used to be called hysteria. Why are these disorders more ......
Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle between the Sexes
Wenegrat (psychiatry, Stanford U. School of Medicine) argues that women's lack of social power, as defined as the ability to provide for one's needs and security and to make decisions based on one's own desires, is to blame for their excess risk for certain mental disorders such as anxiety, depress
This book examines the role that Igbo women in the diaspora play in community development in Southeastern Nigeria. It provides recommendations to policy makers in engaging and integrating diaspora resources to community development processes in Africa.
This book examines the role that Igbo women in the diaspora play in community development in Southeastern Nigeria. It provides recommendations to policy makers in engaging and integrating diaspora resources to community development processes in Africa.
Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America
The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity. This book documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production.
Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America
Drawing on an impressive array of archival material and multifaceted literary and cultural sources, this book connects the question of unproductivity to other discourses concerning manhood, the value of art, the allure of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the meaning of individuality, and the experience of time, space, and history.
With its distinctive poetic forms and themes, Sylvia Plath's poetry patently epitomizes her personal and artistic struggle as a woman writer to be part of a largely male-dominated canon. In Ideology in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Ikram Hili examines the difficulties that Plath encountered while drafting her poems, as she wrestled with what to ......
Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities
Identities on the Move questions the postmodernist concept of identity by looking into more progressive views of identity and difference, addressing post-positivist interpretations of key identity markers such as sex, gender, race, and agency.
Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities
Identities on the Move questions the postmodernist concept of identity by looking into more progressive views of identity and difference, addressing post-positivist interpretations of key identity markers such as sex, gender, race, and agency.
