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Women who marry houses : panic and protest in agoraphobia / created by Robert Seidenberg and Karen DeCrow.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1983.Description: 224 pages 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0070162840 (hbk.)
  • 0070162832 (pbk.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Chapter 1 Marriage and the agoraphobic, 2 - Shopping: this little piggy went to market, 3 - The work strike, 4 - The psychology of outside and inside, 5 - Emily Dickinson: a woman who chose to stay at home, 6 - Other women who chose to stay at home, 7 - A Queen who chose to stay at home: the deferential imerative, 8 - Anorexia nervosa: never too thin, 9 - Gendermandering: our experts' contribution to agoraphobia, 10 - The healers, 11 - The strikebreakers I: biochemists, 12 - The strikebreakers II: behaviorists, 13 - The strikebreakers III: pipe dreams to pipe cleaners, 14 - A modicum of respect, please, 15 - Beyond clinical diagnosis, 16 - Under house arrest: legally induced agoraphobia, 16 - Male agoraphobia: macho and market
Summary: A fresh look at agoraphobia, the fear of leaving one's home, argues that the suffers, mostly women, are reacting against the self-denial required of them by marriage and society
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Book Book School of Social Work Library Open Shelf RC552.A44 SEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 150422 Available BK136224

Includes index.

Chapter 1 Marriage and the agoraphobic, 2 - Shopping: this little piggy went to market, 3 - The work strike, 4 - The psychology of outside and inside, 5 - Emily Dickinson: a woman who chose to stay at home, 6 - Other women who chose to stay at home, 7 - A Queen who chose to stay at home: the deferential imerative, 8 - Anorexia nervosa: never too thin, 9 - Gendermandering: our experts' contribution to agoraphobia, 10 - The healers, 11 - The strikebreakers I: biochemists, 12 - The strikebreakers II: behaviorists, 13 - The strikebreakers III: pipe dreams to pipe cleaners, 14 - A modicum of respect, please, 15 - Beyond clinical diagnosis, 16 - Under house arrest: legally induced agoraphobia, 16 - Male agoraphobia: macho and market

A fresh look at agoraphobia, the fear of leaving one's home, argues that the suffers, mostly women, are reacting against the self-denial required of them by marriage and society

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