艾莱恩*肖瓦尔特（Elaine Showalter）博士，美国普林斯顿大学英语系教授，从事英美文学研究，涉猎范围广泛，包括维多利亚小说，英国小说，女权主义文学批评，妇女研究，英国医学史等，著述丰富。《他们自己的文学：从博朗特到多利丝*莱辛》、《新女权主义批评》《混乱的性别》《姐妹的选择 美国妇女写作中的传统与变革》《论性别》《弗洛伊德之后的歇斯底里》以及本书等。

In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid portraits of the men who dominated psychiatry, and descriptions of the therapeuti...(展开全部)

艾莱恩*肖瓦尔特（Elaine Showalter）博士，美国普林斯顿大学英语系教授，从事英美文学研究，涉猎范围广泛，包括维多利亚小说，英国小说，女权主义文学批评，妇女研究，英国医学史等，著述丰富。《他们自己的文学：从博朗特到多利丝*莱辛》、《新女权主义批评》《混乱的性别》《姐妹的选择 美国妇女写作中的传统与变革》《论性别》《弗洛伊德之后的歇斯底里》以及本书等。

肖瓦尔特是美国最具权威的女权主义批评家，他代表了欧美主要的女权主义批评倾向。肖瓦尔特兼容西方传统的社会历史批评及20世纪的批评理论与方法，即从社会、历史、文化的广度研究妇女的处境，又运用精神分析的方法探究女性的心理层面。 统计数字表明，英国精神病人管理制度化的比率开始下降，就在这时，埃莱恩把疯狂政治化了，与疯人院里的梅毒性精神病相似，当早发性痴呆不再那么具有毒性的时候，他似乎变成了一种象征性的疾病。1954年，英国的精神病医院的数量高达14800所，精神病人的比率是33.45%。人们相信，依赖于安眠药、吩赛嗪等这类镇定剂和抗心理药以及政府的团体性政策性为，会稳步减少受助毒化管理的病人人数。1961年，当时的卫生部长埃诺克*波威尔语言，在今后的十五年间，“精神病医院的数量......将会下降一半.....长期病人将减少到零”疯狂作为病人的主要病症从疯人...(展开全部)

Phyllis Chesler, author of eighteen books and thousands of articles and speeches, is also an emerita professor of psychology and women’s studies at City University of New York, a psychotherapist, and an expert courtroom witness. She is cofounder of the Association for Women in Psychology and the National Women’s Health Network, a charter member of the Women’s Forum and the Vete...(展开全部)

Phyllis Chesler, author of eighteen books and thousands of articles and speeches, is also an emerita professor of psychology and women’s studies at City University of New York, a psychotherapist, and an expert courtroom witness. She is cofounder of the Association for Women in Psychology and the National Women’s Health Network, a charter member of the Women’s Forum and the Vete...(展开全部)

England was the world's first great industrial nation. Yet the English have never been comfortable with industrialism. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society. His work reveals a pervasive middle- and upper-class frame of mind hostile to industrialism and economic growth. From the middle of the nineteenth...(展开全部)

England was the world's first great industrial nation. Yet the English have never been comfortable with industrialism. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society. His work reveals a pervasive middle- and upper-class frame of mind hostile to industrialism and economic growth. From the middle of the nineteenth...(展开全部)

Feminist icon Chesler's pioneering work--2.5 million copies sold--revised and updated for the first time in 30 years. This definitive book was the first to address critical questions about women and mental health. Combining patient interviews with an analysis of women's roles in history, society, and myth Chesler concludes that there is a terrible double standard when it comes ...(展开全部)

Feminist icon Chesler's pioneering work--2.5 million copies sold--revised and updated for the first time in 30 years. This definitive book was the first to address critical questions about women and mental health. Combining patient interviews with an analysis of women's roles in history, society, and myth Chesler concludes that there is a terrible double standard when it comes ...(展开全部)