Publication

2001-03-02 - Harvard University Press

Language

English

Word Count

83,000 words, Guess

Page Count

332 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • LibraryThing434995
  • OCLC Control Number450362940
  • Better World Books9780674005372
  • Open LibraryOL7670511M

Description

"This book explores the origins, meaning, and forms of women's experience of their own aggression. Drawing from in-depth interviews with sixty women of different ages and ethnic and class backgrounds - police officers, attorneys, drug abusers, homemakers, artists - Dana Jack provides a rich account of how women explain (or explain away) their own feelings and acts of rage and violence. With sensitivity but without sentimentality, lack gives readers a range of compelling stories of how women make sense of their anger, hopelessness, and fear in the face of others' aggression, and how they express or come to terms with their own cruel and vengeful impulses."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Lyn (age 39, white, student) ended her seventeen-year marriage to a physician a year ago.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Behind the MaskPaperbackHarvard University Press2001-03-02

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