A renowned psychologist examines the historical, cultural, and psychological bases for a mother's custody of her child and the emotional consequences on mother and child when custody is awarded to the father

Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody

Chesler, Phyllis

McGraw=Hill

About Men

Examines male images in art, analyzes the author's memories of men she has known, and discusses sexuality, pornography, and male bonding

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harcourt

Argues that sex-role stereotypes are used in determining who is mentally ill, and suggests women are punished for independent, creative, or self-assertive behavior

Women and Madness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Chesler was now the property of her husband's family and had no rights of citizenship. Back in Afghanistan, her husband, a wealthy, westernized foreign college student with dreams of reforming his country, reverted to traditional and tribal customs. Chesler found herself unexpectedly trapped in a posh polygamous family, with no chance of escape. She fought against her seclusion and lack of freedom, her Afghan family's attempts to convert her from Judaism to Islam, and her husband's wish to permanently tie her to the country through childbirth. Drawing upon her personal diaries, Chesler recounts her ordeal, the nature of gender apartheid―and her longing to explore this beautiful, ancient, and exotic country and culture. Chesler nearly died there but she managed to get out, returned to her studies in America, and became an author and an ardent activist for women's rights throughout the world. An American Bride in Kabul is the story of how a naïve American girl learned to see the world through eastern as well as western eyes and came to appreciate Enlightenment values. This dramatic tale re-creates a time gone by, a place that is no more, and shares the way in which Chesler turned adversity into a passion for world-wide social, educational, and political reform.

An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

St.Martin's Press

Chesler persuasively argues that sex-role stereotypes are at the heart of much of what we call mental illness and examines the progress (or lack of it) in correcting these attitudes. 16 pages of photos.

Psychology & Counseling

Avon/Books

Women & Madness

Medical Books

Psychology

AVON.

women & madness

Hardcover. 359 pages. Black and white illus.

Women and Madness: When is a Woman Mad and Who is it Who Decides?

Doubleday Company, Inc.

A leading feminist, Chesler writes openly and candidly of her experiences, at age thirty-seven, of pregnancy and motherhood and her attempts to understand just what she is looking for in the child she has brought into the world

With Child

BERKLEY

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Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody

About Men

Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody

Women and Madness

An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir

Women and Madness

Women & Madness

women & madness

Women and Madness: When is a Woman Mad and Who is it Who Decides?

With Child