Woman's inhumanity to woman
By: Phyllis Chesler.
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
Subjects: Women -- Psychology; Feminism; Interpersonal conflict; Self-perception in women; Interpersonal relations; Sexism; Women -- psychology; Conflict (Psychology); Interpersonal Relations; Prejudice; Social Behavior
Description: "We are all familiar with the phrase, "Man's Inhumanity to Man." Until now, a profound silence has prevailed about woman's inhumanity to woman. This book breaks that silence. While women may not act aggressively in the same way that men do, studies confirm that girls and women are aggressive, often in "indirect" ways, and mainly toward each other. They judge each other harshly, in life and on juries, hold grudges, gossip about, exclude and disconnect from other women.

Women envy and compete against each other, not against men. Many women also hold sexist beliefs. Women tend to deny that this is true, even to themselves. Since women depend upon each other for emotional intimacy and bonding, the power to form cliques and to shun each other functions to enforce female conformity and to discourage female independence and psychological growth."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-536) and index.
Table of contents: title: The animal within : the female of the species; title: Indirect aggression among girls and teenagers; title: Woman's sexism; title: The mother-daughter relationship in fairy tale, myth, and Greek tragedy; title: Some psychoanalytic views of the mother-daughter relationship; title: The "good enough" mother and her persecution of the "good enough" daughter; title: Sisters and the search for best friends; title: Women in the workplace; title: Women in groups; title: Psychological ethics.