Illness and Power : Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle between the Sexes /
Wenegrat, Brant
Illness and Power : Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle between the Sexes / Brant Wenegrat. - 1 online resource
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
9780814792827 9780814794937
10.18574/nyu/9780814794937.001.0001 doi
Social isolation.
Women--Mental health--Sociological aspects.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
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.
RC451.4.W6 W46 1995
616.890082
Illness and Power : Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle between the Sexes / Brant Wenegrat. - 1 online resource
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
9780814792827 9780814794937
10.18574/nyu/9780814794937.001.0001 doi
Social isolation.
Women--Mental health--Sociological aspects.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
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.
RC451.4.W6 W46 1995
616.890082