Woman's relationship with herself : gender, Foucault and therapy

Woman's relationship with herself gender, Foucault and therapy

Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance. Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady illuminates the link between...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Grady, Helen, 1953- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge 2005.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Women and psychology.
Subjects:
Foucault, Michel, > 1926-1984.
Women > Psychology.
Women > Identity.
Self-perception in women.
Self-esteem in women.
Control (Psychology)
Sex role > Psychological aspects.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798124306719
Table of Contents:
  • A lens for viewing self-policing
  • Gender and self-policing
  • Challenging negative identity practices-narrative therapy
  • Immanent critiques : expanded possibilities for refusing self-policing
  • An ethics of care for the self
  • Foucault and therapy-a contradiction?

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