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Author Miller, Juliet, 1946-

Title The creative feminine and her discontents : psychotherapy, art, and destruction / Juliet Miller.

Publication Info. London : Karnac Books, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 152 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index.
Contents The search for a voice -- Using a voice -- The dilemma of motherhood -- The problem of infertility -- History, gender, and relating -- Patriarchy and hate in training institutes -- Power and vulnerability in the work of Louise Bourgeois -- Creative destruction in the work of Cornelia Parker.
Summary This book is an attempt to look at creativity from a female perspective. By looking at artistic endeavour, mothering and psychotherapeutic relationships, Juliet Miller considers how a patriarchal world distorts the channels through which women discover their own creative voices. She argues that the dynamics of female creativity are more multi- layered and conflicted for women for a variety of historical, cultural and archetypal reasons and suggests that an attack on the creative feminine has been exacerbated by the history and teaching of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Miller looks to the a.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Creative ability in women.
Creative ability in women.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Miller, Juliet, 1946- Creative feminine and her discontents. London : Karnac Books, 2008 9781855755550 (DLC) 2008399274 (OCoLC)184820715
ISBN 9781849406505 (electronic book)
1849406502 (electronic book)
1283070618
9781283070614
9781855755550
1855755556