Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/dRyBnV Woman's Relationship with Herself Gender, Foucault and Therapy By: Helen O'Grady Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415331272, 0415331277 eText ISBN: 9781134328963, 1134328966 Edition: 1st Pages: 160 Copyright year: 2004 Format: EPUB Available from $ 19.58 USD SKU 9781134328963R90 Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance. Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady illuminates the link between this kind of self-surveillance and the broader mechanisms of social control, arguing that these negative practices prevent women from enjoying a satisfying, affirming relationship with themselves. Cultural factors that render women vulnerable to dissatisfying self-relations are identified and analysed and, drawing on the insights of Foucault, feminism and narrative therapy, the possibilities for developing a more empowering relationship with the self are examined. This innovative contribution to feminist debates about gender and the self will be of interest to students and researchers in social psychology, feminist psychology, mental health studies and gender studies, and to practitioners in psychological therapies and counselling psychology. Additional ISBNs 9780203341988, 9786610100118, 9781280100116, 9781134328925, 9781134328963, 9781134328970, 0203341988, 661010011X, 1280100117, 1134328923, 1134328966, 1134328974, 9780415331265, 9780415331272, 0415331269, 0415331277
