The Myth of Empowerment : : Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America / / Dana Becker.
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 i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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 the Ongoing Dialectic of Equality versus Difference
- 6 Psychological Woman and the 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