The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory

by Cynthia Burack

Book Overview

Women, says conventional wisdom, are warm, nurturing caregivers with an intrinsically enhanced capacity for attachment and compassion. Feminists, says the popular image, are full of rage, devoid of the feelings that are natural to women. How have feminists themselves dealt with this dualism and, more specifically, with the disagreeable passions?
What has too often been missing from discussions of women's psychology in social theory is an account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814712525
• ISBN13: 9780814712528
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"