Illness and Power : : Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle between the Sexes / / Brant Wenegrat.
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 call...
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Wenegrat, Brant, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Illness and Power : Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle between the Sexes / Brant Wenegrat. New York, NY : New York University Press, [1995] ©1995 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Explaining Women's Disorders -- 2. Depression and Anxiety: Responses to Lack of Power -- 3. Women's Mental Disorders as Illness Roles -- 4. Two Modern-Day Epidemics -- 5. An Evolutionary, Cross-Cultural View of Women's Social Power -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 prevalent in women? Brant Wenegrat convincingly asserts that women's excess risk stems from a lack of social power. He reviews women's social power from an evolutionary and cross-cultural perspective and places mental disorders in the context of evolution and societal organization. In this comprehensive look at mental disorders commonly associated with women, Brant Wenegrat convincingly asserts that women's excess risk stems from a lack of social power. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Social isolation. Women Mental health Sociological aspects. Women Social conditions. PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology. bisacsh Brant. Wenegrat. asserts. associated. commonly. comprehensive. context. convincingly. cross-. cultural. disorders. evolution. evolutionary. excess. from. lack. look. mental. organization. perspective. places. power. reviews. risk. social. societal. stems. that. this. with. women. womens. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110716924 print 9780814792827 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814794937.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814794937 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814794937/original |
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