"Reminds us of the importance of unsettling and often disruptive
and messy emotions like rage, greed, anger, and hate, and the
effect of these disagreeable passions' on the self and
perception."
--James M. Glass Department of Political Science University of
Maryland, College Park Author of Shattered Selves
"A timely contribution to the fields of political theory,
feminist theory, and psychology."
--Jane Flax, Professor of Political Science Howard University
"A fascinating and important treatment of feminist theory...a
sensitive and searching critique that reminds us of the importance
of unsettling and often disruptive and messy emotions like rage,
greed, anger, and hate, and the effect of these disagreeable
passions' on the self and perception."
--James M. Glass, University of Maryland, College ParkAuthor of
Shattered Selves
.,."deserves to be read and taken seriously."
--E. Victor Wolfenstein, UCLA, Author of Psychoanalytic-Marxism:
Groundwork.
Women, says conventional wisdom, are warm, nurturing caregivers
with an intrinsically enhanced capacity for attachment and
compassion. Feminists, says the popular image, are full of rage,
devoid of the feelings that are natural to women. How have
feminists themselves dealt with this dualism and, more
specifically, with the disagreeable passions?
What has too often been missing from discussions of women's
psychology in social theory is an account of women as ambivalent:
both empathic and enraged, loving and hating. The Problem of the
Passions fills this void. Examining the work of such feminist
theorists as Carol Gilligan, Nancy Chodorow, Jessica Benjamin, and
Dorothy Dinnerstein in a new light, Burack argues thatfeminist
social theory can be repaired through attention to the pioneering
psychoanalytic work of Melanie Klein. Sure to be of interest to
feminists, psychoanalysts, political scientists, and social
theorists, The Problem of the Passions is essential reading for
anyone concerned with feminism and questions of identity in social
thought.
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