Books By Phyllis

This is feminist icon Chesler's landmark work--more than 3 million copies sold--revised, updated, with a new Introduction. Combining patient interviews with an analysis of women's roles in history, society, and myth, Chesler documents the dangerous double standard by which women are judged psychologically and psychiatrically. In this new edition, she addresses many of the most relevant issues for women. Women and Madness remains as important today as it was when first published.

“Intense, rapid, brilliant. A pioneer contribution to the feminization of psychiatric thinking and practice." – Adrienne Rich

Phyllis Chesler recalls her pioneer days as a Second Wave Radical Feminist and memorializes the incredible women who came together between 1963-1979… It’s all here, it’s as if you were there. Come, join us.

“I find this book fascinating, compelling…This is a serious record of feminist movement showing us links between the personal and the political.” – bell hooks

When she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Chesler found herself unexpectedly trapped in a posh polygamous family, with no way back to the future. She nearly died there but she got out. This dramatic tale re-creates a time gone by, (and one that has now returned to the 10th century), and shares the way in which Chesler turned adversity into a passion for world-wide social, educational, and political reform. 

“Phyllis Chesler is by far the bravest and most outspoken American feminist to address the plight of Muslim women. I recommend this book be put on the reading list of every American school." —Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Man’s inhumanity to man”--that phrase is all too familiar. But until Phyllis Chesler's now classic book, a profound silence prevailed about woman’s inhumanity to woman. Women's aggression may not take the same form as men's but girls and women are both aggressive and competitive. They judge harshly, hold grudges, gossip, exclude, and ostracize or shun other women. And, like men, women also internalize sexist beliefs. She covers teenage “mean girls”—and when those girls become adults and she does so globally. A breathtaking expose. 

“Phyllis Chesler's book tells the truth. Such a wealth of learning and academic irreverence. This is profound and helpful thinking." — Kate Millett

This volume is a collection of breaking news reports from the front lines of the propaganda war against Israel, the Jews, and the infidel West. Dr. Chesler tracks the slow motion Holocaust that began in Israel in 2000, a holocaust that remained invisible to most of the world, and that foreshadowed the global expansion of Islamic Jihad. Dr. Chesler documents how educated Westerners and the mainstream media distort the war against the Jews by presenting Jewish self-defense as criminal aggression and by burying or misnaming the facts. This book is a must-read addition to your library in these most frightening and challenging of times. 

"This is a warm, personal, political, irresistible guide for young feminists, women and men." – Gloria Steinem

This psychological crime thriller takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer, a prostitute who murdered seven adult men—a case with which the author was involved. The issues raised by this high-profile criminal case remain unresolved to this day. Women, even prostitutes, have the right to self-defense in theory, but in practice, the story is more complicated. This book will challenge everything you ever thought about prostitutes, serial killers, and justice in America. 

“One of the triumphs of this haunting work is that Chesler, all these years later, has finally accomplished (her) aim of educating the public about the brutal reality of prostitution. I cannot imagine any civilized reader of Requiem ever again viewing a life in prostitution as anything other than a cruel and miserable fate.” —Bruce Bawer