Behind the Mask Destruction and Creativity in Women's Aggression

Name: Behind the Mask Destruction and Creativity in Women's Aggression
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ISBN: 9780674005372

ISBN-10: 0674005376

ISBN-13: 9780674005372

Edition: 1999

Authors: Dana C. Jack

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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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Hearkening to Women's Voices



The Puzzle of Aggression



Ways of Occupying Space



Why Not Huurt Others?



The Rage of Disconnection



Masking Aggression



Creating New Ground


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index