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The Myth of Empowerment: Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America

The Myth of Empowerment: Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America

Becker, Dana

Hardcover

Mental HealthWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0814799256
ISBN13: 9780814799253
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Feb 1 2005
Pages: 243
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.56 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

The Myth of Empowerment surveys the ways in which women have been represented and influenced by the rapidly growing therapeutic culture--both popular and professional--from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The middle-class woman concerned about her health and her ability to care for others in an uncertain world is not as different from her late nineteenth-century white middle-class predecessors as we might imagine. In the nineteenth century she was told that her moral virtue was her power; today, her power is said to reside in her ability to relate to others or to take better care of herself so that she can take care of others. Dana Becker argues that ideas like empowerment perpetuate the myth that many of the problems women have are medical rather than societal; personal rather than political.

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