Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy

Felman, Shoshana; Chesler, Phyllis; Irigaray, Luce; Balzac,; Berthier, Patrick

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“…Kaplan et al (39) first emphasized the importance of gender bias in DSM psychiatric diagnoses, attributing this bias to the fact that the authors who took part to the DSM-III Task Force were mainly men and had codified certain masculine conceptions of healthy and pathological behaviors (39). Thus women who did not conform to sex-role stereotypes were more likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis (i.e., BPD) (40).…”

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Gender differences in borderline personality disorder: a narrative review

Bozzatello,

Blua,

Brandellero

et al. 2024

Front. Psychiatry

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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe and complex mental disorder that traditionally has been found to be more frequent in the female gender in clinical samples. More recently, epidemiological studies have provided conflicting data about the prevalence of borderline disorder in the two genders in community samples. In order to explain this heterogeneity, some authors hypothesized the presence of a bias in the diagnostic criteria thresholds (more prevalent in one gender than another), in the population sampling (community versus clinical), in the instruments of evaluation (clinician versus self-report measures), and in the diagnostic construct of BPD. Beyond the question of the different prevalence of the disorder between genders, the debate remains open as to how personality and clinical characteristics, and attitude toward treatments express themselves in the two genders. This narrative review is aimed to provide an updated overview of the differences among genders in BPD in terms of diagnosis, temperamental and clinical characteristics, comorbidities, findings of neuroimaging, and treatment attitudes. Studies that specifically investigated the gender differences in BPD patients are rather limited. Most of the investigations did not consider gender as a variable or were characterized by a significant imbalance between the two genders (more commonly in favor the female gender). The main results indicated that men were more likely to endorse the criteria “intense and inappropriate anger” and “impulsivity,” whereas women endorsed the criteria “chronic feelings of emptiness,” “affective instability,” and “suicidality/self-harm behaviors.” These findings reflect differences in temperament and symptoms of the two genders. Other relevant differences concern pattern of comorbidity, specific neurobiological mechanisms and attitude to treatments. Main limitations were that only one database was searched, time of publications was limited, non-English manuscripts were excluded, and the quality of each paper was not commented.

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Section: Gender Differences In the Diagnosis Of Bpdmentioning

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Gender differences in borderline personality disorder: a narrative review

Bozzatello,

Blua,

Brandellero

et al. 2024

Front. Psychiatry

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“…A loucura seria, dessa maneira, a perda da feminilidade. Ao investigar o texto Adieu, de Balzac (1830), Felman (1975) percebe como as dicotomias razão/loucura e fala/silêncio coincidem com a dicotomia homem/mulher. Se por um lado mulheres são associadas à loucura e ao silêncio, homens são relacionados aos pares discurso e razão.…”

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“…Aqui percebemos que a personagem principal entende um dos juízos basilares do patriarcado: de que as mulheres são inerentemente castas e modestas, e a livre expressão da sexualidade é um desvio indesejável. Como coloca Beauvoir em seu célebre trabalho O segundo sexo (1997), e como também é pontuado por Felman (1975), o homem é visto como ser humano e a mulher como fêmea, como o "outro". Quando ela tenta agir como um ser humano, ela é acusada de imitar o homem (BEAUVOIR, 1997, p. 83).…”

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“…O presente trabalho objetiva promover um diálogo comparativo entre três personagens de obras de Charlotte Brontë e de Clarice Lispector, de modo a analisar como ambas as autoras trataram a temática da sexualidade feminina associada as questões da loucura e do discurso religioso, além das implicações que a asserção ou a repressão do desejo sexual feminino podem provocar. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, e com o objetivo de estabelecer relações de semelhanças e/ou diferenças acerca do fenômeno analisado através das personagens citadas, o trabalho apoia-se nos estudos de Showalter (1977); Felman (1975); Beauvoir (1997) e Tanenbaum (1999). Os resultados apontam para diferentes instrumentos de estigmatização e de cerceamento da autonomia sexual feminina, entre os quais estão a espetacularização dos corpos, o que inclui a ideologia do corpo feminino como propriedade pública, o silenciamento, e atribuições de rótulos como os de louca, "puta" e pecadora.…”

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Sobre a Sexualidade Feminina Em Charlotte Brontë E Clarice Lispector

Santos

Lima

2020

Macab. Rev. Eletr. Netlli

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“…Initiates, they are the ones who can measure the true dimensions of the choice. (33) Churchill was quite aware of this conflict between mothers and non-mothers when she first wrote the play. However, the question of "authenticity" does not apply to her case, because she is a mother of three kids herself.…”

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SILENCED WOMEN IN HISTORY A FEMINIST-REVISIONIST STUDY OF CARYL CHURCHILL’S VINEGAR TOM (1976) & SARAH DANIELS’ BYRTHRITE (1986)

حلمي¹

2020

مجلة کلية الاداب.جامعة المنصورة

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This paper presents a feminist-revisionist study of Caryl Churchill"s Vinegar Tom (1976) and Sarah Daniels" Byrthrite (1986). The two plays are "history plays." In fact, the two feminist dramatists represent the history of the witchcraft trials in the 17th century England from a very feminist perspective. The current research paper offers a new understanding of the history of that era which could form an alternative kind of history to the "official" male-made one. Significantly, this paper attempts to analyze the two plays in terms of form and content. Interestingly, the two playwrights represent a revolutionary content in a very innovative form. Their main objective is to focus on the female subjectivity through their theatrical representation and to establish a new female-gaze to replace the male one. The content of the two plays deal with very controversial issues including, women"s oppression within a patriarchal system, reproductive rights, gender construction, sexuality, queer identities and sexual orientations. These provocative subjects are represented through the use of many innovative devices and techniques. Most of the devices employed by Churchill and Daniels are Brechtian including, historicization, cross-dressing, doubling, monologues, music, and songs. All in all, this research paper re-explores the dramatic and theatrical representation of history in both Churchill"s Vinegar Tom and Daniels" Byrthrite. It compares between the two playwrights, one is identified as a socialist feminist and the other one is radical, in terms of their different dramatic techniques of approaching the revision of history.

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Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy

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Gender differences in borderline personality disorder: a narrative review

Gender differences in borderline personality disorder: a narrative review

Sobre a Sexualidade Feminina Em Charlotte Brontë E Clarice Lispector

SILENCED WOMEN IN HISTORY A FEMINIST-REVISIONIST STUDY OF CARYL CHURCHILL’S VINEGAR TOM (1976) & SARAH DANIELS’ BYRTHRITE (1986)

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