Status of Women - Violence, Identity, and Activism

About the author

Vivian B. Pender, MD, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College and a Training Psychoanalyst at Columbia University. At the UN she represents the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychiatric Association. Until 2011, she chaired the NGO Committee on the Status of Women. She is the current Chair of the NGO Committee on Mental Health, and a volunteer Asylum Evaluator for Physicians for Human Rights. She is the author of journal articles and a book chapter on affect, motivation, pregnancy, female psychology and women's health. She produced four documentaries of conferences at the United Nations on mental health, human rights and violence.

Summary

This book examines the status of women in different eras and in different areas of society. The contributors draw on their international experience to consider how women are viewed and treated in society today and offer perspectives on why the status of women and girls has not changed in some areas.

Product details

• Authors: Vivian B. Pender
• Assisted by: Vivian B. Pender (Editor), Pender Vivian B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367328894
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32889-4
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Psychoanalysis and Women Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)