| Description |
xvi, 219 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Women and psychology |
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Women and psychology.
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| Contents |
Managing the monstrous feminine : regulating the reproductive body -- Mad, bad, bloody women : the shame of menarche and pathologising of premenstrual change -- Embodying the grotesque feminine : the pregnant and post-natal body -- 'The horror of this living decay' : menopause and aging body -- Regulation and resistance : women's negotiation of embodied subject positions -- Appendix 1 : details of the interviews with women on PMS, post-natal depression and midlife -- Appendix 2 : details of women-centred psychological therapy package |
| Summary |
"Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about femininity, positioning the reproductive body as the source of women's power, danger and weakness."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-211) and index |
| Subject |
Feminist psychology.
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| LC no. |
2005029800 |
| ISBN |
0415328101 hardback |
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041532811X paperback |
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