Phyllis Chesler

Phyllis Chesler's Women and Madness (1972) argued that psychiatry had long pathologized ordinary female unhappiness, and became a foundational text of second-wave feminism; she has since written twenty books, including memoirs of motherhood and of an American marriage in Kabul. In later decades she turned her attention to honor killings, the treatment of women under Islamist rule, and antisemitism on the political left, arguing that Western feminists had gone quiet on all three out of multicultural deference.