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    The Mermaid and The Minotaur

    The Classic Work of Feminist Thought

    Author Dorothy Dinnerstein
    Introduction by Gloria Steinem
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    On sale Jan 12, 2021 | 336 Pages | 9781590514696
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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    "A seminal text in the womenís movement."
    –Ethel S. Person, author of The Sexual Century

    "Still the most important work of feminist psychoanalytic exploration, its re-release is a celebratory occasion."
    –Eli Sagan, author of Freud, Women and Mortality

    "[The Mermaid and the Minotaur] continues to astonish us with the depth and wisdom of its psychoanalytic approach even as its major ideas have become as unobtrusively essential to psychoanalytic feminism as the atmosphere."
    –Jessica Benjamin, author of The Bonds of Love
    © Freda Leinwand, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
    Dorothy Dinnerstein was born in a poor Jewish section of the Bronx, New York City, in 1923. As a psychologist, she worked with such well-known names as Kohler, Wertheimer, and Asch. She was a distinguished professor of psychology at Rutgers University for thirty years and lived in New Jersey until her death in a car accident in 1992. View titles by Dorothy Dinnerstein

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    "A seminal text in the womenís movement."
    –Ethel S. Person, author of The Sexual Century

    "Still the most important work of feminist psychoanalytic exploration, its re-release is a celebratory occasion."
    –Eli Sagan, author of Freud, Women and Mortality

    "[The Mermaid and the Minotaur] continues to astonish us with the depth and wisdom of its psychoanalytic approach even as its major ideas have become as unobtrusively essential to psychoanalytic feminism as the atmosphere."
    –Jessica Benjamin, author of The Bonds of Love

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    © Freda Leinwand, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
    Dorothy Dinnerstein was born in a poor Jewish section of the Bronx, New York City, in 1923. As a psychologist, she worked with such well-known names as Kohler, Wertheimer, and Asch. She was a distinguished professor of psychology at Rutgers University for thirty years and lived in New Jersey until her death in a car accident in 1992. View titles by Dorothy Dinnerstein

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