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Book Reviews: The Psychology of Today's Woman: New Psychoanalytic Visions. Edited by Toni Bernay and Dorothy W. Cantor. New York: Analytic Press, 1986 ...

Book Reviews: The Psychology of Today's Woman: New Psychoanalytic Visions. Edited by Toni Bernay... The letters themselves describe women’s the lives lives, daily especially of and rural as the author are women, which, out, poor points rarely accessible to historical The women describe scrutiny. grinding poverty, and abandonment and abuse their husbands. The illness, overwork, by Children’s Bureau advised that mothers should rest before and after child- it is clear from these letters that for most such advice was birth ; mothers, to follow. Without ma- water, impossible electricity, running washing modem and it is hard to fathom how chines, stoves, foods, store-bought women with several small children it all. managed women In of the commitment of the famous acknowledged spite deep the letters leaders of the Children’s I found their to Bureau, responses and cold in to tone; disappointing many responses heart-wrenching prob- lems were referrals to doctors. simply docu- as &dquo;The Children’s Bureau Yet, notes, Ladd-Taylor correspondence in the ments the between the medical assumed gap competent practice received ... Mothers’ bulletins and the care women [Bureau’s] actually letters document their horrible with medical care.&dquo; The con- experiences of advice to see doctors thus seems sistency particularly unhelpful. EVELYN R. FRANKFORD York New Albany, The Woman: New Visions. Edited Psychology of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Reviews: The Psychology of Today's Woman: New Psychoanalytic Visions. Edited by Toni Bernay and Dorothy W. Cantor. New York: Analytic Press, 1986 ...

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The letters themselves describe women’s the lives lives, daily especially of and rural as the author are women, which, out, poor points rarely accessible to historical The women describe scrutiny. grinding poverty, and abandonment and abuse their husbands. The illness, overwork, by Children’s Bureau advised that mothers should rest before and after child- it is clear from these letters that for most such advice was birth ; mothers, to follow. Without ma- water, impossible electricity, running washing modem and it is hard to fathom how chines, stoves, foods, store-bought women with several small children it all. managed women In of the commitment of the famous acknowledged spite deep the letters leaders of the Children’s I found their to Bureau, responses and cold in to tone; disappointing many responses heart-wrenching prob- lems were referrals to doctors. simply docu- as &dquo;The Children’s Bureau Yet, notes, Ladd-Taylor correspondence in the ments the between the medical assumed gap competent practice received ... Mothers’ bulletins and the care women [Bureau’s] actually letters document their horrible with medical care.&dquo; The con- experiences of advice to see doctors thus seems sistency particularly unhelpful. EVELYN R. FRANKFORD York New Albany, The Woman: New Visions. Edited Psychology of

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Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work – SAGE

Published: Sep 1, 1987

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