Managing the monstrous feminine
Subtitle: regulating the reproductive body
By: Jane Ussher.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Women and psychology
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hove, East Sussex; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Feminist psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Managing the monstrous feminine: regulating the reproductive body; value: Mad, bad, bloody women: the shame of menarche and pathologizing of premenstrual change; value: Embodying the grotesque feminine: the pregnant and postnatal body; value: The horror of this living decay: menopause and aging body; value: Regulation and resistance: women's negotiation of embodied subject positions; value: Appendix one: details of the interviews with women on PMS, PND, and midlife; value: Appendix two: details of women centred psychological therapy package.