Behind the Mask: Destruction and Creativity in Women's Aggression - Couverture rigide

Jack, Dana Crowley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674064852 ISBN 13 : 9780674064850

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The author explores the origins, meanings and forms of women's agression. Drawing from interviews with 60 women of different ages and ethnic and class backgrounds, police officers, substance abusers, artists, this work is an account of how women explain their own hidden or acts of hurt to others.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This boldly original book explores the origins, meanings, and forms of women's aggression. Drawing from in-depth interviews with sixty women of different ages and ethnic and class backgrounds-police officers, attorneys, substance abusers, homemakers, artists-Dana Jack provides a rich account of how women explain (or explain away) their own hidden or actual acts of hurt to others. With sensitivity but without sentimentality, Jack gives readers a range of compelling stories of how women channel, either positively or destructively, their own powerful force and of how they resist and retaliate in the face of others' aggression in a society that expects women to be yielding, empathetic, and supportive. Arguing that aggression arises from failures in relationships, Jack portrays the many forms that women's aggression can take, from veiled approaches used to resist, control, and take vengeance on others, to aggression that reflects despair, to aggression that may be a hopeful sign of new strength. Throughout the book, Jack shows the positive sides of aggression as women struggle with internal and external demons, reconnect with others, and create the courage to stand their ground. This work broadens our understanding of aggression as an interpersonal phenomenon rooted in societal expectations, and offers exciting new approaches for exploring the variations of this vexing human experience.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dana Crowley Jack teaches at Fairhaven, an interdisciplinary college of Western Washington University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674064852
• ISBN 13: 9780674064850
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 331
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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