001479702 000__ 05188nam\a22010335i\4500 001479702 001__ 1479702 001479702 003__ DE-B1597 001479702 005__ 20231026035107.0 001479702 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479702 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479702 008__ 230918t20052005nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479702 020__ $$a9780814738405 001479702 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814738405.001.0001$$2doi 001479702 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548566 001479702 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479702 0410_ $$aeng 001479702 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479702 050_4 $$aRC451.4.W6 001479702 072_7 $$aPSY000000$$2bisacsh 001479702 08204 $$a362.10820973 001479702 1001_ $$aBecker, Dana, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479702 24514 $$aThe Myth of Empowerment :$$bWomen and the Therapeutic Culture in America /$$cDana Becker. 001479702 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2005] 001479702 264_4 $$c©2005 001479702 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479702 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479702 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479702 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479702 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479702 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tPrologue -- $$t1 Introduction -- $$t2 In the Self's Country: Individualism in America -- $$t3 Romancing the Self: From Mind Cure to Psychotherapy -- $$t4 American Nervousness and the Social Uses of Science -- $$t5 Long Day's Journey: From Sentimental Power to Professional Expertise -- $$tInterlude: Feminism and the Ongoing Dialectic of Equality versus Difference -- $$t6 Psychological Woman and the Paradox of Relational Individualism -- $$t7 The Myth of Empowerment -- $$t8 American Nervousness Redux: Women and the Discourse of Stress -- $$tAfterword -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479702 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479702 520__ $$aThe Myth of Empowerment surveys the ways in which women have been represented and influenced by the rapidly growing therapeutic culture-both popular and professional-from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The middle-class woman concerned about her health and her ability to care for others in an uncertain world is not as different from her late nineteenth-century white middle-class predecessors as we might imagine. In the nineteenth century she was told that her moral virtue was her power; today, her power is said to reside in her ability to "relate" to others or to take better care of herself so that she can take care of others. Dana Becker argues that ideas like empowerment perpetuate the myth that many of the problems women have are medical rather than societal; personal rather than political.From mesmerism to psychotherapy to the Oprah Winfrey Show, women have gleaned ideas about who they are as psychological beings. Becker questions what women have had to gain from these ideas as she recounts the story of where they have been led and where the therapeutic culture is taking them. 001479702 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479702 546__ $$aIn English. 001479702 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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