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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. 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. 

Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly 50 years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this seminal book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. This completely revised and updated edition from 2005 adds to her original research and findings perspectives on the issues of eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychology, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more. 

This program is read by the author. A powerful and revealing memoir about the pioneers of modern-day feminism. Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1972-1975 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on behalf of...

Après trois décennies d'activisme et l'écriture de Les femmes et la folie, best-seller vendu à plus de 2,5 millions d'exemplaires, Phyllis Chesler, figure majeure de la Deuxième Vague féministe, s'adresse à son fils pour lui raconter l'histoire de sa lutte, la puissance et l'esprit de celle-ci, mais aussi les pièges dans lesquels les féministes sont tombées ; des lettres pensées comme un héritage pour les générations à venir, pour qu'elles puissent continuer à défendre, avec force, les idées d'égalité portées par ce mouvement.

This diary of acclaimed psychologist and radical feminist icon Phyllis Chesler was a pioneering work when it was first published in 1979. A look into the second wave of feminism and the era’s changing attitudes toward motherhood and pregnancy, With Child - now with an updated preface from her son - remains relevant for mothers today.

Letters to a Young Feminist is a visionary message from a leading feminist to the next generation of feminists, both women and men. Phyllis Chesler discusses basic aspects of feminism, explains feminism's relevance in a world that has taken it for granted and derided it and helps the next generation reclaim feminism for itself. Chesler examines sisterhood, sex, families, motherhood, work, feminist heroism and the economics of power, providing guidance to the generation to come.

This psychological crime thriller is a true account, and takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer, a prostitute who murdered seven adult men.