psychoanalysis and feminism

I was a bit confused as to exactly what idea Mitchell was trying to get across in her article, but it seems to me that what she's saying is that while Freud's ideas might not have any true psychological basis from a universal perspective, they certainly have historical value. She suggests that Freud helps to demonstrate how women behave and are viewed in a patriarchal society, such as the one Freud himself lived in. The insight that Freud provides in this context is tremendous. But personally, studying Freud hasn't really given me any more insight into the female psychology in such a society, because Freud doesn't truly address female psychology. For Freud, femininity is the abscence of masculinity, he doesn't really explore female psychology as a separate entity at all. He tends to involve himself only with only the male psyche, and gloss over the female. Truthfully, I feel that better insight could be gleaned from a history book which actually examines the female perspective of the time, not the perspective of females as seen from a man's view.