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Title Woman's Relationship with Herself : Gender, Foucault and Therapy
Published Taylor & Francis 2004

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Description 1 online resource
Contents A lens for viewing self-policing -- Gender and self-policing -- Challenging negative identity practices-narrative therapy -- Immanent critiques : expanded possibilities for refusing self-policing -- An ethics of care for the self -- Foucault and therapy-a contradiction?
Summary Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady explores the relationship women have with themselves and explores the link between debilitating practices of self-surveillance and the broader mechanisms of social control
Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Subject Women -- Psychology.
Women -- Identity.
Self-perception in women.
Self-esteem in women.
Control (Psychology)
Sex role -- Psychological aspects
Control (Psychology)
Self-esteem in women
Self-perception in women
Sex role -- Psychological aspects
Women -- Identity
Women -- Psychology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1280100117
9781280100116
9780203341988
0203341988