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

This study challenges traditional views of aggression as a simple destructive impulse of a personal trait that is predominantly male. For women, Jack finds, aggression arises out of a need or desire to establish intimate connections with others. She deftly combines a feminist power perspective with psychological insights to explain a wide variety of societal problems like sexual harassment, eating disorders, depression, difficulties for women in traditional male occupations, and domestic violence...This original, extensively referenced analysis broadens our understanding of aggression.--Antoinette Brinkman "Library Journal "

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.