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Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture.
by Showalter, Elaine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0330346709
- ISBN 13
- 9780330346702
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Picador, 1997. Reprint ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), edges lightly foxed, pages faintly toned as usual, minor edgewear. 244 pp. A daring social and psychohistory of hysteria that questions feminist orthodoxy. Tales of alien abduction, chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War syndrome, and the resurgence of suppressed memories in psychotherapy are just a few of the signs that we live in an age of hysterical epidemics. Highlights the full range of contemporary syndromes, and draws connections to earlier times and settings, showing that hysterias mutate and are renamed. Under the right circumstances everyone is susceptible.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4139
- Title
- Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture.
- Author
- Showalter, Elaine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0330346709
- ISBN 13
- 9780330346702
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- psychology, health, therapy, hysteria, society, culture, mass hysteria, feminism, criticisms
- Bookseller catalogs
- PSYCHOLOGY & BEHAVIOUR;
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Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Edges
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...