Behind the mask destruction and creativity in women's aggression

Summary: "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."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780674038998 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0674038991 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0674064852 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780674064850 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780674005372
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (321 pages)
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatBulkString:mar.15.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:mar.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-310) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The puzzle of aggression -- Ways of occupying space --- Why not hurt others? -- The rage of disconnection -- Masking aggression -- Creating new ground.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	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
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.