Managing the monstrous feminine : regulating the reproductive body / Jane M. Ussher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ussher, Jane M., 1961-

Series:

Women and psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist psychology.

Physical Description:

xvi, 219 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body.

Contents:

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 post-natal body

'The horror of this living decay' : menopause and ageing body

Regulation and resistance : women's negotiation of embodied subject positions

Appendix 1 : details of the interviews with women on PMS, post-natal depression and midlife

Appendix 2 : details of women-centred psychological therapy package.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-211) and index.

ISBN:

0415328101

041532811X

OCLC:

62089921