![]() Chesler appears to want to overturn at least part of this orthodoxy. As she recently wrote, “It may be 1998, but in my view we are still living in the 1950’s.”Ĭould it be, then, that Woman’s Inhumanity To Woman, Chester’s latest book, represents a conversion, a parting of ways between our era’s most influential social movement and one of its minor stars? Feminists generally have depicted women as empathetic and caring creatures, victims of male aggression and dominance. Her best-selling Women and Madness followed two years later, succeeded over the decades by eight more books on the plight of women under the “patriarchy.” Though her fame eventually waned, Chesler’s radicalism did not. The money was never forthcoming, but Chesler’s stunt was the launch of a brilliant career. ![]() ![]() In 1970 Phyllis Chesler strode onto the feminist stage with a speech to the American Psychological Association demanding that the profession pay a million dollars in reparations for all the poorly “adjusted” women whom its members had tranquilized, seduced, hospitalized, raped, electro-shocked, and lobotomized. ![]()
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