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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). She is known as a feminist psychologist, and is the author of 14 books, including the best-seller ''Women and Madness'' (1972). Chesler has written on topics such as gender, mental illness, divorce and child custody, surrogacy, second-wave feminism, pornography, prostitution, incest, and violence against women. In more recent years, Chesler has written several works on such subjects as antisemitism, Islam, and honour 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 antisemitism, and to the abandonment of Muslim women and religious minorities in Muslim-majority countries. ==Personal life== Chesler was the eldest of three children raised in a working class Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.〔McGinity, Keren R. "Phyllis Chesler". ''Encyclopedia Judaica'', 2004.〕 As a youth she joined the Socialist-Zionist, anti-religious youth movement, HaShomer Hatzair, and later the even more radical left-wing Zionist youth movement, Ein Harod. Despite her parents' disapproval, she continued to rebel against her religious upbringing.〔(Interview with Dr. Phyllis Chesler ), Fern Sidman, July 20, 2007.〕 She attended New Utrecht High School where she was the editor of the yearbook and of the literary magazine. She won a full scholarship to Bard College, where she met Ali, a Westernized Muslim man from Afghanistan, the son of devout Muslim parents. They married in a civil ceremony in 1961 New York State and settled in Kabul, in the large, polygamous household of her father-in-law. She credits this experience with inspiring her to become an ardent feminist.〔"The ardent feminism that she embraced on her return to America was forged in Afghanistan, she told me last week." Baxter, Sarah. "Feminism's Blind Spot", ''The Sunday Times'', August 15, 2006.〕〔Chesler, Phyllis. ("How Afghan Captivity Shaped My Feminism" ), ''Middle East Quarterly'', Winter 2006, pp. 3–10.〕 According to Chesler, her problems began on arrival in Afghanistan. The authorities forced her to surrender her U.S. passport, and she ended up a virtual prisoner in her in-laws' house. Chesler describes this as how foreign wives were treated.〔Chesler, Phyllis. "My Afghan Captivity".〕 This phenomenon has been documented by others.〔Edward Hunter,''The Past Present: A Year in Afghanistan'', London, Hodder And Stoughton Limited, 1959.〕〔Mahmoody, Betty, with Arnold D. Dunchock, ''For The Love of a Child'', New York, St Martins Paperbacks, 1992.〕〔''The Death of Feminism; What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 1–235. Print.〕 She reports that the U.S. embassy refused to help her leave the country. After several months, she contracted hepatitis and became gravely ill. At that point, her father-in-law made it possible for her return to the U.S. on a temporary visa.〔〔Chesler, Phyllis. ("How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam" ), ''The Sunday Times'', March 7, 2007.〕 Upon her return, she completed her final semester and graduated from Bard, embarked on a doctoral program, worked in a brain research laboratory for Dr. E. Roy John, published studies in ''Science''〔"Maternal Influence in Learning by Observation in Kittens". Science, November 1969 v. 166; 901–903.〕〔"Observation Learning in Cats". E.R. John, P. Chesler, I. Victor, P. Bartlett, Science, v. 159, 1489–90, 1968.〕 magazine and received a fellowship in neurophysiology at the New York Medical College at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital. Thereafter, in 1969, she earned a Ph.D. in psychology at the New School for Social Research and embarked on careers as a professor, author, and psychotherapist in private practice.〔Phyllis Chesler Organization Web site, CV page〕 Chesler divorced her Muslim husband and remarried an Israeli, whom she also later divorced. She has one son. She describes their relationship, pregnancy, childbirth, and her first year as a newborn mother in ''With Child: A Diary of Motherhood''. In the 1998 edition, her son wrote the Preface to the book.〔Phyllis Chesler, ''With Child: A Diary of Motherhood''. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phyllis Chesler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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