Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Love and Violence : The Vexatious Factors of Civilization, EPUB eBook

Love and Violence : The Vexatious Factors of Civilization EPUB

Part of the SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy series

EPUB

Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

In this book, the Italian feminist thinker Lea Melandri argues that systemic violence against women has deep psychoanalytic roots.

Drawing inspiration from the work of Freud and the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Elvio Fachinelli, along with feminist practices of consciousness-raising, Melandri demonstrates how male dominance and female subservience are established by society through a binary and oppositional understanding of sex and gender.

This understanding-and the oppression and violence against women that results-is inscribed in the psyches of both men and women, and is replicated anew from generation to generation.

Melandri analyzes women in media, politics, philosophy, and literature to show how this plays out, and calls for awareness of these deep psychic structures and expectations formed within the dynamics of society and primary family relations.

Information

Other Formats

Information

Also in the SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy series  |  View all