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	Phyllis Chesler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emeritus of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY).
		Chesler taught one of the first women's studies classes at Richmond College in New York during the 1969-1970 school year.
		Chesler has recently become known for her campaign against New anti-Semitism, which she has written about in her book The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It (2003).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phyllis_Chesler (465 words)

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		Phyllis Chesler was one of the first feminist I read in 1970 and she radicalized me. Chesler, Kate Millett, Andrea Dworkin, Redstockings, Mary Daley - I did not always agree with them but I identified with them.
		Phyllis Chesler in The Death of Feminism aims a loud wake-up call at her fellow feminists, charging that while feminism is not exactly dead, it is failing, suffering from the disease of politically correct passivity.
		Chesler's focus on this topic, it turns out, is informed by an intensely personal experience; in The Death of Feminism she reveals her nightmare as a young wife in Afghanistan in 1961.
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	Phyllis Chesler
		The Death of Feminism by Phyllis Chesler (Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pp., $24.95).
		Chesler (The New Anti-Semitism, 2003, etc.) aims a loud wake-up call at her fellow feminists, charging that while feminism is not exactly dead, it is failing, suffering from the disease of politically correct passivity.
		Chesler's personal experience with Muslim male psychology and the Islamic way of life is the subject of a chapter titled "My Afghan Captivity," in which she tells of her mistreatment and virtual imprisonment in Kabul as the bride of a Western-educated Afghan and of her eventual escape back to the United States.
	www.phyllis-chesler.com (3235 words)

	FORWARD : FacesForward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Now, however, Chesler — a psychologist and scholar — is directing her fiery determination to a decidedly different cause: defending Israel, and Jews, against the violent crescendo of antisemitism in the Middle East, Europe and, most alarmingly, progressive intellectual circles.
		Chesler, with her bright red hair, resolute statements and bulky, bold jewelry to match, is a presence with a capital "P." And this evening, sitting in the dining room of her townhouse in the trendy Park Slope section of Brooklyn, she's riled up.
		Chesler has been married, and divorced, twice — now, she quips, "I'm not in that business anymore." At 20, she married a Muslim man from Afghanistan (where she lived briefly); at 32, she married an Israeli man, with whom she had her son, now 25.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.07.25/faces.html (1102 words)

	The New Anti-Semitism
		Phyllis Chesler tells us that "for the first time it is being perpetrated in the name of antiracism and anticolonialism" (p.
		Phyllis Chesler, like me, had a change of heart as a result of her own experiences and her commitment to her Jewish identity.
		Chesler explains, "In Palestine and in the Arab Islamic Middle East, real homosexuals are tortured and murdered and must flee for their lives, as must girls and women whose sexual purity is suspect" (p.
	www.jochnowitz.net /Essays/Chesler.html (1701 words)

	Is Israel being demonized? / Author cites rise in anti-Zionism on the left in Europe, U.S.
		Phyllis Chesler rose to notoriety in the early '70s as the self-described radical feminist author of the best-selling "Women and Madness." There she argued that the repression of women in patriarchal society drove them to mental illness.
		Chesler herself has participated in a suit against the state of Israel over the right of Jewish women to pray at the Wailing Wall, the western wall of King Solomon's temple that is the last remnant of the Second Temple, destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70 and considered the holiest site in Judaism.
		Chesler is clearly impassioned in her defense of Israel as a modern democratic state and of Diaspora Jews, but her ardency often lures her into using incendiary language.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/17/RV152668.DTL (883 words)

	Looking for a Cure
		Chesler observes that women who exhibit traditionally "male" traits like independence, self-assertiveness, and dominance are often diagnosed as mentally ill — paranoid, schizophrenic, manic, etc. Women whose behavior is more typically "feminine" — passive, underachieving, and retiring — are diagnosed as depressed or compulsive.
		The point at which I begin arguing with Chesler is when she categorizes all mental illness, including depression and schizophrenia, as normal human response to abuse and stress — an understandable reaction to an oppressive patriarchy that can only be cured by social change.
		Chesler’s psychological prescription for the future is for women to become passionate about their own survival and self-development, not focusing all that passion on others.
	www.realchangenews.org /pastissuesupgrade/2002_05_30/reviews/looking_for_a_cure.html (664 words)

	Feminista! v1n12 - Letters to a Young Feminist -- An Interview with Phyllis Chesler
		Phyllis Chesler: Over the years it became clear that the radical feminist legacy was being disappeared.
		Phyllis Chesler: Electra conspires with her brother, Orestes, to kill her mother, Clytemnestra, for murdering their father after he returns from the Trojan war.
		Chesler sees evidence of this rivalry when she hears feminists speak in the voice of The Daughter Risen rather than that of The Mother-Teacher.
	www.feminista.com /archives/v1n12/wilson.html (3054 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Backstabbers
		Chesler had been working as a consultant for the United Nations and organized an international feminist conference in 1980, with the plan of publishing the proceedings along with her own introduction.
		When Chesler attempted to get the attendees of the conference to join her in confronting the culprit, who was fl, Inge managed to convince the women that this would be perceived as racist.
		Chesler organized a "private, feminist mini-tribunal" to address her grievance with the "charismatic and immoral monster" Inge, but despite the participation of four other (unnamed) feminist leaders, it didn't amount to much.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2002/03/29/girls/index1.html (1210 words)

	Review ofThe New Anti-Semitism:The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It
		Chesler has carefully put together chronologies of events and, using information gathered from a variety of sources, debunked many of the myths surrounding alleged IDF atrocities during the recent Intifada.
		Chesler discusses the crude tactics of the Academic boycott of Israel and the thuggish behavior of campus hoodlums directed against those who have attempted to present an Israeli side to the ongoing crisis.
		Chesler, as is the case throughout her book, documents her claims thoroughly.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article4025.html (2542 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Woman's Inhumanity to Woman by Phyllis Chesler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hymowitz, Kay S. In 1970 Phyllis Chesler strode onto the feminist stage with a speech to the American Psychological Association demanding that the profession pay a million dollars in reparations for all the poorly "adjusted" women whom its members had tranquilized, seduced, hospitalized, raped, electro-shocked, and lobotomized.
		...Surely it is no accident that Chesler leaves out of her account the most memorable story from one of her earlier books-about a party in the mid-70's at which she herself slugged in the face a woman who had angered her...
		...Although Chesler continues to believe that feminism saved her soul, one cannot help wondering whether the movement was not especially damaging to a young woman prone to theatrics, vengeance, and egotism...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V113I5P81-1.htm (1852 words)

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		Best-selling author and often-controversial activist Phyllis Chesler is one of the founding voices of the modern feminist movement.
		Chesler was recently named the first scholar to the International Institute on Research on Jewish Women at Brandeis University and has also been highly involved in the religious pluralism and feminist movements in Israel.
		She demonstrates, by equal portions of hot emotion and cool logic, that she is not the one guilty of inconsistency with her radical principles.
	www.grabow.biz /printable_pages/PhyllisChesler.htm (445 words)

	Backstabbers - Salon
		Phyllis Chesler, author of the pioneering 1972 feminist exposé of the psychiatric profession, "Women and Madness," has produced a mammoth volume, based on 20 years of research, arguing that other women can often be a girl's worst enemies.
		To which some readers will say, "So what else is new?" Even Chesler admits that she is hardly the first to write about the subject, and she makes a point of listing such predecessors as Dorothy Allison, Margaret Atwood and even Sophocles (for his characterization of the deadly conflict between Electra and her mother, Clytemnestra).
		Without a doubt, Chesler has responded with the same chilliness to other women who challenged prevailing feminist analyses of, say, women's sexuality, one of the flashpoints of controversy within the movement during the 1980s.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2002/03/29/girls/index.html (992 words)

	30th Anniversary of Women and Madness: Author Phyllis Chesler says men still drive women crazy
		But Chesler sees it as a legal consultant when women on juries don't believe women have been raped or mothers in custody battles are penalized for seeking psychiatric help.
		In 1972, Chesler wrote that few women in mental institutions suffered from psychosis; their mental illness was a social role.
		It is Chesler's work with rape victims here and abroad (for exampe, Bosnia) that gives her a tool for helping the many women who have been traumatized by physical and psychological abuse.
	www.newyorkcityvoices.org /2002novdec/20021121.html (1152 words)

	ESR \| January 2, 2006 \| Feminist at the gates of reason: An interview with Phyllis Chesler
		Dr. Phyllis Chesler is a long time feminist who eventually had enough of the pervasive groupthink permeating her social and professional interactions.
		Chesler disseminated her views in venues where they could be appreciated which resulted in increased interaction with conservatives.
		Chesler is an Emerita Professor of psychology and women's studies, and co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology along with the National Women's Health Network, and the International Committee for Women of the Wall.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0106/0106chesler.htm (2709 words)

	Two views of women and feminism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chesler zeroes in on a certain stealth meanness present between women in the workplace.
		Chesler quotes a woman on the Smith jury as saying he was "too charming and too good looking to have to resort to violence for a night out." Reading these books together is anything but restful.
		Chesler's micro view essentially takes something quite simple — the perfectly believable notion that women tend to mistrust each other — and builds a complex argument about where we are now as a gender and a society.
	www.bouldernews.com /livingarts/books/28xfemi.html (747 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Phyllis Chesler: If we acknowlege it, we have the power and choice to learn from it and to learn not to inflict it on each other.
		Phyllis Chesler: Very often women leaders in a male-dominated system are only tokens in that system, and must be twice as good as her male counterpart and is under much greater pressure.
		Phyllis Chesler: In the book I have three chapters on mothers and daughters, and I think it's a primal relationship, and therefore can be greatly positive AND negative.
	cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20020411004/tscript.htm (1676 words)

	Phyllis Chesler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, a psychotherapist, and an expert courtroom witness, and has lectured and organized political, legal and religious rights campaigns throughout the world.
		Chesler is a founder of The Association for Women in Psychology (1969), and The National Women's Health Network (1974).
		Chesler is currently completing a work entitled Woman's Inhumanity to Woman, and is co-editing the anthology Claiming Sacred Ground: The True Story of Women of the Wall.
	www.soapboxinc.com /bio_chesler.html (315 words)

	KPFK's Feminist Magazine and Phyllis Chesler : LA IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Legendary feminist author Phyllis Chesler will be speaking about her latest book, ‘The New Anti-Semitism'—is how the KPFK Womens Collective touted their program ‘Feminist Magazine’ that aired on Wednesday, May 26, 2004—transcript follows after this letter.
		There are also other issues with the kind of ‘feminism’ Chesler represents: She has written publicly that she supports the occupation of Iraq and plans to vote for Bush in November, not to mention that she has been writing frequently for FrontPageMag.com—among her fellow columnists: Ann Coulter.
		TR: We have Dr. Phyllis Chesler, in addition to being a well-established feminist author, she is a psycho-therapist, a feminist expert witness, an activist, and a professor of psychology and women's studies.
	la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=112559 (3400 words)

	Phyllis Chesler Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Acclaimed psychologist and feminist Phyllis Chesler charged that a double standard existed for the treatment of the mentally ill and that women's concerns were taken much less seriously by doctors and counselors.
		by Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. In a familiar voice filled with warmth, compassion, and strength, Phyllis Chesler takes stock of her generation's legacy to the present and future, and challenges readers to protect what has been won and to confront the monumental tasks still ahead.
		With humor and grace, Chesler presents a shockingly honest, raw, and loving account of pregnancy and motherhood which charts the dramatic swings between love and resentment and tears down the myths of blissful maternity.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Phyllis_Chesler (708 words)

	Phyllis Chesler Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, a psychotherapist, and an expert courtroom witness.
		Chesler is co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology (1969), The National Women's Health Network (1974), and is a charter member of the Women's Forum (1973-74).
		Chesler's thirteen books and thousands of articles and speeches have inspired people on many diverse issues.
	www.phyllis-chesler.com /bio.html (352 words)

	Archived Weblog Entry - 01/05/2006: "Interview with Phyllis Chesler" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An interesting interview with Phyllis Chesler who has been a major force in pushing the gender feminist (GF) agenda for decades now.
		Of course, on Wall St., Chesler would be arrested for inside trading as she is in a position to influence the decline of the stock (GF) by publicly excoriating it.
		Chesler's heart bleeds so profusely for 3rd world women that she is proposing "a feminist foreign policy." She criticizes GFs "because they refused to work with a Republican administration" and, so, shut themselves out of foreign policy.
	www.zetetics.com /mac/blog/00001235.html (338 words)

	Amitai Etzioni Notes: The New Anti-Semitism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In her book, Chesler argues that unlike “old anti-Semitism,” the new brand is borne out of an irrational connection between the Israeli government and Jews worldwide.
		Chesler's analysis of what she calls the "old anti-Semitism," traditional murderous hatred of Jews, is entirely conventional and not entirely convincing: Anti-Semitism consists of scapegoating the Jews for all that is wrong in the world.
		Chesler makes no bones about the fact that this new anti-Semitism is rampant among feminists and other radicals; it infects a number of her former comrades in arms and friends.
	www.amitai-notes.com /blog/archives/000224.html (1010 words)

	Nation Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chesler draws on the most important studies in psychology, human aggression, anthropology, childhood developmental theory, primatology, evolutionary theory, psychoanalytic theory, myths and fairy tales, literature, plays, biography, autobiography, memoirs, and studies of revolutionary movements, including feminism.
		Her courage exceeded only by her integrity, Chesler hammers sharp nails into the coffin of feminist wishful thinking about sex and gender roles, explodes the sophomoric myth that only men victimize and abuse women, and drives a large stake through the heart of Rousseauesque fantasies.
		Chesler's love of truth will make her some powerful enemies, but this book is way beyond Simone de Beauvoir."
	www.nationbooks.org /book.mhtml?t=chesler (529 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| The ideas interview: Phyllis Chesler
		In 1961, Phyllis Chesler agreed to marry her college sweetheart, a young, westernised Muslim man who had come to study in the US.
		Chesler's experiences in Afghanistan have helped shape her thoughts about the failure of feminism to engage with what she sees as the oppression of women in Islamic countries.
		But, paradoxically, Chesler's criticisms of feminist preoccupation with a wider world do not prevent her arguing for a feminist foreign policy: it's just that she believes the foreign policy should concentrate on the issues she is passionate about.
	www.guardian.co.uk /women/story/0,,1746156,00.html (1206 words)

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