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Juliet Mitchell

Juliet Mitchell is professor of psychoanalysis and gender studies at Jesus College, Cambridge University. She is the author of several influential studies of the relations between psychoanalysis, gender and culture, including Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1974), Women: The Longest Revolution (1984), Men and Medusa: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Sibling Relationship for the Human Condition (2000), and Siblings: Sex and Violence (2003). She is a member of the British and the International Psychoanalytical Societies.

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Jane Fonda's 'My Life So Far'

“Reading ‘My Life So Far’ I was haunted by a dotty internal refrain: Jane Fonda undersells herself. A crazy thought, given that her exercise video sold more than any video ever, and then there are the films, and this book…” Professor Juliet Mitchell reviews Jane Fonda’s autobiography.