Behind the Mask: Destruction and Creativity in Women's Aggression - Softcover

Jack, Dana Crowley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674005376 ISBN 13: 9780674005372

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2001

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his boldly original book explores the origins, meanings, and forms of women's aggression. Drawing from in-depth interviews with sixty women of different ages and ethnic and class backgrounds--police officers, attorneys, substance abusers, homemakers, artis

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"An adept and sympathetic interviewer as well as a perceptive and talented writer, Jack relates the stories of women who span the range of age, class and ethnic background to give a full picture of how women perceive aggression in our culture...In our society, she writes, the myth is that men are naturally aggressive and women are naturally and innately unaggressive...It is hoped that this illuminating and very intelligent work will help dismantle that mythology, so that women can be seen, and heard, as they are." - Elizabeth Millard, ForeWord Magazine "[Jack] deftly combines a feminist power perspective with psychological insights to explain a wide variety of societal problems like sexual harassment, eating disorders, depression, difficulties for women in traditional male occupations, and domestic violence." - Antoinette Brinkman, Library Journal"

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Drawing from sixty in-depth interviews, Dana Crowley Jack provides a rich account of how women explain (or explain away) their hidden or actual acts of hurt to others. Arguing that aggression arises from failures in relationships, Jack portrays the many forms aggression can take as women struggle with internal and external demons, reconnect with others, and stand their ground in a society that expects women to be yielding, empathetic, and supportive.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0674005376
• ISBN 13: 9780674005372
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336