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Author : Mary R. Lefkowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015001060071
Author : Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780520309937
"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Author : Pat Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0879724099
From life and literature come the heroines of this volume. The essays demonstrate that women can fit the role of hero as defined by Joseph Campbell: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder, fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won, the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." Contributors to this volume cover a wide range of heroic women.
Author : Mark S. Micale
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691605616
What does this burgeoning corpus of writing tell us? Why, in recent years, has the history of hysterical disorders carried such resonance for commentators in the sciences and humanities? What can we learn from the textual traditions of hysteria about writing the history of disease in general? What is the broader cultural meaning of the new hysteria studies? In the second half of the book, Micale discusses the many historical "cultures of hysteria." He reconstructs in detail the past usages of the hysteria concept as a powerful, descriptive trope in various nonmedical domains, including poetry, fiction, theater, social thought, political criticism, and the arts. His book is a pioneering attempt to write the historical phenomenology of disease in an age preoccupied with health, and a prescriptive remedy for writing histories of disease in the future.
Author : Chandak Sengoopta
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0226748677
"Sengoopta shows that Weininger's misogynist and anti-Semitic views did not stem solely from his private prejudices but were part of a comprehensive (and quite typically Viennese) analysis of masculinity and femininity and a critique of modernity in general and of feminist activism in particular."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Phyllis G. Jestice
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781851096497
A cross-cultural encyclopedia of the most significant holy people in history, examining why people in a wide range of religious traditions throughout the world have been regarded as divinely inspired. The first reference on the subject to span all the world's major religions, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia examines the impact of individuals who, through personal charisma and inspirational deeds, served both as glorious examples of human potential and as envoys for the divine. Holy People of the World contains nearly 1,100 biographical sketches of venerated men and women. Written by religious studies experts and historians, each article focuses on the basic question: How did this person come to be regarded as holy? In addition, the encyclopedia features 20 survey articles on views of holy people in the major religious traditions such as Islam, Buddhism, and African religions, as well as 64 comparative articles on aspects of holiness and veneration across cultures such as awakening and conversion experiences, heredity, gender, asceticism, and persecution. Whether exploring by religion, culture, or historic period, this extensively cross-referenced resource offers a wealth of insights into one of the most revealing—and least explored—common denominators of spiritual traditions.
Author : Ivan Bunn,Gilbert Geis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134696338
In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period. In a critique of the official process, the book details how the erroneous conclusions of the trial were achieved. The authors consider the key participants in the case, including the judge and medical witness, their institutional importance, their part in the fate of the women and their future careers. Through detailed research of primary sources, the authors explore the important implications of this case for the understanding of hysteria, group mentality, social forces and the witchcraft phenomenon as a whole.
Author : Anna Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199267545
In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women between 1770-1914, the author aims to add a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women and illness in literature. She constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour and wasting diseases.
Author : Gillian Cloke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134868254
This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries.
Author : Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0389209678
In this sequel to BLOOD FOR THE GHOSTS AND CLASSICAL SURVIVALS, Hugh Lloyd-Jones treats many topics in the study of the ancient world. The subjects range from Homer and Pindar to the pioneering work of modern scholars such as Scaliger, Gilbert Murray, Dean Inge and Edgar Lobel and the relevance (or lack of relevance) of psychoanalysis to a proper interpretation of classical thought and literature. A final chapter, from which the title of the collection derives, gives a new assessment of the place of Greek learning in the world today.
Author : Marion Grau
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567027309
God gives Green Stamps. A look at the theological and economic meanings of redemption.
Author : Mark William Padilla
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 083875418X
This volume reflects on liminality as it relates to initiatory themes in Greek literature and on literary works, especially tragedy, that represent heroes and heroines undergoing rites of passage. Featured works include Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Euripides' Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Sophocles' Antigone and Women of Trachis.
Author : Lawrence Lipking
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226484521
At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.
Author : Liz Greene
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1578631971
The longing for redemption is a many-headed daimon that dwells within the most earthbound and prosaic of souls. Neptune is the astrological symbol that describes this energy. Liz Greene, an internationally known astrologer, has given us the most complete and accessible book about Neptune ever written! She explores Neptune themes in literature, myth, politics, religion, fashion, and art to show how this energy manifests.
Author : Michael R. Finn
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874130676
This book explores the life and fiction of the French decadent writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century theories about female hysteria, medical hypnotism, mediums, and spiritualism had on the female creative psyche. It is a book about disempowerment, and re-empowerment through writing.