Routledge The Status of Women: Violence, Identity, and Activism (Psychoanalysis and Women Series)

This book examines the status of women in different eras and in different areas of society. The contributors draw on their international experience to consider how women are viewed and treated in society today and offer perspectives on why the status of women and girls has not changed in some areas. Review "The strength and the tremendous impact of this book lie in its clarity, its multifacited themes, its freedom of ideology, and its deep contact with the real condition of women and children in the world, which is so frequently and dramatically tragic. Vivian Pender, together with highly recognized colleagues, has for years given voice to psychoanalysis at the United Nations. There can be no residual doubt, after having read this volume, about the immensely important social function of psychoanalysis in the contemporary world, promoting an unending work in progress through awareness, humanization and civilization."--Stefano Bolognini, President "International Psychoanalytical Association " "This book bridges the gap between theory and practice in global feminism in an unusually robust way."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, PhD, University Professor in the Humanities, and Founding Member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society "Columbia University " "Vivian Pender has brought together a wonderfully diverse array of authors who examine the role of women in a wide variety of situations from a largely psychoanalytic point of view. This book is terrific, making us think anew about a set of age-old problems that beset all nationals and peoples. This book should be required reading for everyone."--Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, MD, Vice Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry "Weill Cornell Medical College " About the Author B. Pender, Vivian