Betty McLellan
Betty McLellan is a feminist ethicist and psychotherapist with over 20 years experience, and is the author of bestselling feminist self-help book Help! I'm Living with a Man Boy, which has been translated into 16 languages. She is also the author of Overcoming Anxiety, Beyond Psychoppression, My (Un) Remarkable Grandmother Ann Hannah, and Unspeakable: A feminist ethic of speech. With a focus on both the personal and political, Betty successfully combines her work as a psychotherapist with a broader emphasis on feminist ethical analysis and activism. She lives in Townsville, North Queensland.
Ann Hannah was an ordinary, no-nonsense, practical woman. While a constant and caring presence in the life of her granddaughter Betty McLellan, she remained emotionally distant.
In an effort to understand her grandmother, Betty has used Ann Hannah’s everyday expressions as a starting point to uncover the truth about her life. These words and phrases, heard countless times during Betty’s childhood, are the clues to a life that, like those of many working-class women in the early 1900s, was fraught with challenges and difficulties and ignored by historians.
What did Ann Hannah mean when she said that she was forced to migrate to Australia from England in the 1920s? Why did she remember her husband as a ‘wickid’ man? How did she cope with the death of those close to her, including her own son? How did she manage to overcome the struggles and disappointments that punctuated her life?
Written with a sharp feminist consciousness that displays both compassion and intellect, this astute psychological biography tells the story of a resilient woman who, when placed in circumstances beyond her control, managed to live a good life. It provides valuable insight into the lives of many (un)remarkable women whose lives may have gone unnoticed but whose experiences shed so much light on the realities faced by women throughout the 1900s.
2017 | ISBN 9781925581287 | Paperback | 228 x 198 mm | 180 pp
This is a book about speech and the silencing of speech; about who gets to speak and who does not; about who is listened to and who is ignored. Betty McLellan insists that, if this prized democratic principle is to have continuing credibility, free speech must be free for all.
Written from the perspective of feminist ethics, Unspeakable focuses on how women are silenced in every nation on earth: through violence, subordination and exclusion. The author's hope is that radical feminism will continue to be a “feminism of dissent” and that radical, political feminists will continue speaking against the silence.
Be assured that Betty McLellan has not been silenced by the dynamics and forces she describes so cogently in this rethinking of the last — what is it?– nearly forty years of women moving. Recasting debates old and new through the lens of ethics, she marches straight into many a dreary and painful corner, illuminating in the process a true arc of women speaking out against subordination. Anyone who may have wondered where the women’s movement went need look no further. Treasure this undying, undaunted voice.
— Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School
2010 | ISBN 9780646517780 | Paperback | 274 pp
Are you tired of finding towels on the bathroom floor? Have you ever walked through a supermarket with a thirty-five-year-old child who wants only the most expensive things on the shelves? How do you go about making men understand the difference between helping out with the housework and doing it? And what about violence? Help! I'm Living with a Man Boy has forty-one practical scenarios that many women will identify with immediately, plus suggestions for dealing with these situations. Others, she admits, have a long way to go.
2006 | ISBN 9781876756628 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 265 pp
A guide to therapy, Beyond Psychoppression explores the intersection between the personal and the political. Betty McLellan surveys the development of psychotherapy and exposes the oppressive techniques of Freudian psychoanalysis, humanistic therapies, lesbian sex therapy, and new age and popular therapies. She challenges the myths about women's mental and emotional illness.
1995 | ISBN 9781875559336 | Paperback | 245 x 180 mm | 192 pp
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Ann Hannah was an ordinary, no-nonsense, practical woman. While a constant and caring presence in the life of her granddaughter Betty McLellan, she remained emotionally distant.
In an effort to understand her grandmother, Betty has used Ann Hannah’s everyday expressions as a starting point to uncover the truth about her life. These words and phrases, heard countless times during Betty’s childhood, are the clues to a life that, like those of many working-class women in the early 1900s, was fraught with challenges and difficulties and ignored by historians.
What did Ann Hannah mean when she said that she was forced to migrate to Australia from England in the 1920s? Why did she remember her husband as a ‘wickid’ man? How did she cope with the death of those close to her, including her own son? How did she manage to overcome the struggles and disappointments that punctuated her life?
Written with a sharp feminist consciousness that displays both compassion and intellect, this astute psychological biography tells the story of a resilient woman who, when placed in circumstances beyond her control, managed to live a good life. It provides valuable insight into the lives of many (un)remarkable women whose lives may have gone unnoticed but whose experiences shed so much light on the realities faced by women throughout the 1900s.
Ann Hannah was an ordinary, no-nonsense, practical woman. While a constant and caring presence in the life of her granddaughter Betty McLellan, she remained emotionally distant.
In an effort to understand her grandmother, Betty has used Ann Hannah’s everyday expressions as a starting point to uncover the truth about her life. These words and phrases, heard countless times during Betty’s childhood, are the clues to a life that, like those of many working-class women in the early 1900s, was fraught with challenges and difficulties and ignored by historians.
What did Ann Hannah mean when she said that she was forced to migrate to Australia from England in the 1920s? Why did she remember her husband as a ‘wickid’ man? How did she cope with the death of those close to her, including her own son? How did she manage to overcome the struggles and disappointments that punctuated her life?
Written with a sharp feminist consciousness that displays both compassion and intellect, this astute psychological biography tells the story of a resilient woman who, when placed in circumstances beyond her control, managed to live a good life. It provides valuable insight into the lives of many (un)remarkable women whose lives may have gone unnoticed but whose experiences shed so much light on the realities faced by women throughout the 1900s.
A guide to therapy, Beyond Psychoppression explores the intersection between the personal and the political. Betty McLellan surveys the development of psychotherapy and exposes the oppressive techniques of Freudian psychoanalysis, humanistic therapies, lesbian sex therapy, and new age and popular therapies. She challenges the myths about women's mental and emotional illness.
1995 | 192 pp
A guide to therapy, Beyond Psychoppression explores the intersection between the personal and the political. Betty McLellan surveys the development of psychotherapy and exposes the oppressive techniques of Freudian psychoanalysis, humanistic therapies, lesbian sex therapy, and new age and popular therapies. She challenges the myths about women's mental and emotional illness.
1995 | 192 pp
Are you tired of finding towels on the bathroom floor? Have you ever walked through a supermarket with a thirty-five-year-old child who wants only the most expensive things on the shelves? How do you go about making men understand the difference between helping out with the housework and doing it? And what about violence? Help! I'm Living with a Man Boy has forty-one practical scenarios that many women will identify with immediately, plus suggestions for dealing with these situations. Others, she admits, have a long way to go.
2006 | 265 pp
Are you tired of finding towels on the bathroom floor? Have you ever walked through a supermarket with a thirty-five-year-old child who wants only the most expensive things on the shelves? How do you go about making men understand the difference between helping out with the housework and doing it? And what about violence? Help! I'm Living with a Man Boy has forty-one practical scenarios that many women will identify with immediately, plus suggestions for dealing with these situations. Others, she admits, have a long way to go.
2006 | 265 pp
Feminists speak about important political issues because the lives of women are complex. Recognising how power works and in whose favour underlies many of these discussions.
In this compelling and clear account of political structures, Betty McLellan asks important questions. What is truth and how do we understand it, especially when some say, that’s not my truth. Are there competing truths?
Modern and postmodern approaches to democracy impinge on issues of power and truth, especially with increasingly individualistic as opposed to collective approaches to politics. Populism has been used by politicians to shore up votes and sway entire sections of the voting public while identity politics has fractured that same voting public.
Is democracy dead or are there ways of fruitfully salvaging democracy? Could feminism be the answer?
Betty McLellan’s analysis and arguments are fundamentally about truth, its importance for a functioning democracy and radical feminists’ insistence on telling it.
—Kara Dansky, US lawyer and author of The Reckoning: How Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls.
ISBN 9781922964175 | 216 pages
Feminists speak about important political issues because the lives of women are complex. Recognising how power works and in whose favour underlies many of these discussions.
In this compelling and clear account of political structures, Betty McLellan asks important questions. What is truth and how do we understand it, especially when some say, that’s not my truth. Are there competing truths?
Modern and postmodern approaches to democracy impinge on issues of power and truth, especially with increasingly individualistic as opposed to collective approaches to politics. Populism has been used by politicians to shore up votes and sway entire sections of the voting public while identity politics has fractured that same voting public.
Is democracy dead or are there ways of fruitfully salvaging democracy? Could feminism be the answer?
Betty McLellan’s analysis and arguments are fundamentally about truth, its importance for a functioning democracy and radical feminists’ insistence on telling it.
—Kara Dansky, US lawyer and author of The Reckoning: How Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls.
ISBN 9781922964175 | 216 pages
This is a book about speech and the silencing of speech; about who gets to speak and who does not; about who is listened to and who is ignored. Betty McLellan insists that, if this prized democratic principle is to have continuing credibility, free speech must be free for all.
Written from the perspective of feminist ethics, Unspeakable focuses on how women are silenced in every nation on earth: through violence, subordination and exclusion. The author's hope is that radical feminism will continue to be a “feminism of dissent” and that radical, political feminists will continue speaking against the silence.
Be assured that Betty McLellan has not been silenced by the dynamics and forces she describes so cogently in this rethinking of the last — what is it?– nearly forty years of women moving. Recasting debates old and new through the lens of ethics, she marches straight into many a dreary and painful corner, illuminating in the process a true arc of women speaking out against subordination. Anyone who may have wondered where the women’s movement went need look no further. Treasure this undying, undaunted voice.
— Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School
This is a book about speech and the silencing of speech; about who gets to speak and who does not; about who is listened to and who is ignored. Betty McLellan insists that, if this prized democratic principle is to have continuing credibility, free speech must be free for all.
Written from the perspective of feminist ethics, Unspeakable focuses on how women are silenced in every nation on earth: through violence, subordination and exclusion. The author's hope is that radical feminism will continue to be a “feminism of dissent” and that radical, political feminists will continue speaking against the silence.
Be assured that Betty McLellan has not been silenced by the dynamics and forces she describes so cogently in this rethinking of the last — what is it?– nearly forty years of women moving. Recasting debates old and new through the lens of ethics, she marches straight into many a dreary and painful corner, illuminating in the process a true arc of women speaking out against subordination. Anyone who may have wondered where the women’s movement went need look no further. Treasure this undying, undaunted voice.
— Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School
Translations
Help! I'm Living with a (Man) Boy by Betty McLellan
German: Hilfe! ich lebe mit einem KindMann: Orlanda;
Spanish: Socorro: Estoy viviendo con un hombre niño;
Greek: Γιατι: οι Αντρεσ μενουν Παντα Παιδια: EkdoseisFytraki;
Italian: Aiuto! Vivo con un uomo ragazzo Baldini;
Turkish: Imdat! Bir Adamla Çocukula Yasiyorum: Okitaplar;
Japanese: Tuttle Mori;
Slovenia: Na Pomoci! Moj Moski je Fantek;
Latvian: Paliga! Es Dzivoju ar Virieti puíselí;
(Chinese)
Polish: Pomocy! zyje z mezczyzna chlopcem: Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca;
Estonian: Appi! elan mehega poisitesega: Ftänapäev;
(Korean: Dulnyak Publishing);
Vietnamese: Khi chàng khong nhu ban mong muon;
(Arabic: Dar Al-Farouk for Cultural Investments S.A.E);
(Russian: Projex International, 2004:
RussianCentrepoligraf Publishing, 2009).
Beyond Psychoppression by Betty McLellan
German: Lust auf Glück, Frauenoffensive.
Betty McLellan
Feminists speak about important political issues because the lives of women are complex. Recognising how power works and in whose favour underlies many of these discussions.
In this compelling and clear account of political structures, Betty McLellan asks important questions. What is truth and how do we understand it, especially when some say, that’s not my truth. Are there competing truths?
Modern and postmodern approaches to democracy impinge on issues of power and truth, especially with increasingly individualistic as opposed to collective approaches to politics. Populism has been used by politicians to shore up votes and sway entire sections of the voting public while identity politics has fractured that same voting public.
Is democracy dead or are there ways of fruitfully salvaging democracy? Could feminism be the answer?
8 OCTOBER 2024 | ISBN 9781922964168 | Paperback | 216 pages | 152 x 228 mm