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" Managing the monstrous feminine : "
Jane M. Ussher
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BL
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628077
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Ussher, Jane M.,1961-
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Managing the monstrous feminine : : regulating the reproductive body /\ Jane M. Ussher
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2006
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Women and psychology
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xvi, 219 p. ;; 24 cm
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0415328101
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: 041532811X
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-211) and index
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| Contents
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Managing the monstrous feminine: regulating the reproductive body -- Mad, bad, bloody women: the shame of menarche and pathologising of premenstrual change -- Embodying the grotesque feminine: the pregnant and postnatal body -- The horror of this living decay: menopause and ageing body -- Regulation and resistance: women's negotiation of embodied subject positions -- Appendix one: details of the interviews with women on PMS, PND, and midlife -- Appendix two: details of women centred psychological therapy package
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"Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about femininity, positioning the reproductive body as the source of women's power, danger and weakness."--BOOK JACKET
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Feminist psychology
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155.3/33
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BF201.4.U87 2006
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