Constance Pascal (1877-1937): Authority, Femininity and Feminism in French Psychiatry (imlr books) - Softcover

Gordon, Felicia

9780854572366: Constance Pascal (1877-1937): Authority, Femininity and Feminism in French Psychiatry (imlr books)

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ISBN 10: 0854572368 ISBN 13: 9780854572366

Verlag: University of London Press, 2014

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Rese�a del editor

Constance Pascal's career in French psychiatry from 1908 to 1937 exemplifies the opportunities open to women in the French Third Republic as well as the prejudices they encountered. As the first woman psychiatrist in France, Pascal, of Romanian origin, attained professional success at the cost of suppressing her personal life. Best known for her work on dementia praecox, she founded one of the first schools in France for children with severe learning difficulties, and made remarkable contributions in the reform of asylum practices and, influenced by Freudian psychoanalysis, in psychotherapeutic intervention. Her feminism is demonstrated by her distinguished, often contentious, career in a hitherto all male profession and by her support for other women in their professional roles. Her unjustly neglected life story illuminates many of the conflicts experienced by women entering the professions during the belle �poque and the inter-war years. The study's scholarly authority and ambitious theoretical range do not detract from its lively sense of the person and life struggles of the subject making this a fine demonstration of life history research enthralling for the general reader and expert alike. Felicia Gordon is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and the author of several works on French women's history, among them on Madeleine Pelletier.

Biograf�a del autor

Felicia Gordon was Principal Lecturer in Philosophy and European Literature at Anglia Ruskin University. Now a Senior Research Associate, she has published extensively in women's history and aspects of French Feminism. She is the author of "Marie-Madeleine Jodin 1741-1790: Actress, Philosophe, and Feminist "(Ashgate, 2002).

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