Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media by Elaine Showalter

Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media

Elaine Showalter

224 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This provocative and illuminating book charts the persistence of a cultural phenomenon. Tales of alien abduction, chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War syndrome, and the resurgence of repressed memories in psychotherapy are just a few of the signs th...

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