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Illness and Power : Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle between the Sexes / Brant Wenegrat.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814792827
  • 9780814794937
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.890082
LOC classification:
  • RC451.4.W6 W46 1995
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

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