Phyllis Chesler

Phyllis Chesler
Born (1940-10-01) October 1, 1940 (age 84)
NationalityAmerican
Education
Occupations
  • Psychotherapist
  • professor
  • author
Notable work

Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY).[1][2] She is a renowned second-wave feminist psychologist and the author of 18 books, including the best-sellers Women and Madness (1972), With Child: A Diary of Motherhood (1979), and An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir (2013). Chesler has written extensively about topics such as gender, mental illness, divorce and child custody, surrogacy, second-wave feminism, pornography, prostitution, incest, and violence against women.

Chesler has written several works on subjects such as anti-Semitism, women in Islam, and honor killings. Chesler argues that many Western intellectuals, including leftists and feminists, have abandoned Western values in the name of multicultural relativism, and that this has led to an alliance with Islamists, an increase in anti-Semitism, and to the abandonment of Muslim women and religious minorities in Muslim-majority countries.

  1. ^ Rich, Adrienne (December 31, 1972). "Women and Madness". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
  2. ^ Chesler, Phyllis (February 10, 2020). "Macmillan Publishers". Macmillan Publishers.