Behind the Mask: Destruction and Creativity in Women's Aggression

by Dana Crowley Jack

Book Overview

This boldly original book explores the origins, meanings, and forms of women's aggression. Drawing from in-depth interviews with sixty women of different ages and ethnic and class backgrounds--police officers, attorneys, substance abusers, homemakers, artists--Dana Jack provides a rich account of how women explain (or explain away) their own hidden or actual acts of hurt to others. With sensitivity but without sentimentality, Jack gives readers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674005376
• ISBN13: 9780674005372
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.9"