Gendering Mental Health

Knowledges, Identities, and Institutions
Herausgeber: Davar, Bhargavi V; Ravindran, T K Sundari

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The collection of essays in this volume focus on the state of mental health of Indian women, with respect to social attitudes, cultural barriers, treatment, policies, safeguards, or lack thereof. The contributors ask fundamental questions: Is 'mental illness' a social, medical, legal, penal, historical, personal construct? Is mental disorder a disability? Do people living with a mental ailment have a 'memory' or the 'insight' to tell their own stories? In dealingwith these questions, it seeks to provide a perspective on how women suffering from mental illness view themselves and their surroundings in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780199453535
• ISBN-10: 0199453535
• Artikelnr.: 47868167

Autorenporträt

Bhargavi V. Davar is Director, Center for Advocacy in Mental Health, Pune T.K. Sundari Ravindran is Honorary Professor at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* List of Abbreviations
* 1. Delivering Justice, Withdrawing Care: The Norms and Etiquettes of
'Having' a Mental Illness
* Bhargavi V. Davar
* 2. (Un)making Madness: Delving into the Depths of Knowledge
* Ranjita Biswas
* 3. Adjudicating Illness and Capacity: Notes from a Custody Trial
* Vasudha Nagaraj
* 4. Ideological Reproduction of Gender and Normality in Psychiatric
Drug Advertisements
* Jayasree Kalathil
* 5. Mining Marginalities and Mainstreaming Differences: The Disability
Paradigm in Perspective
* Renu Addlakha
* 6. Growing Up and Sexual Identity Formation: Mental Health Concerns
of Lesbian Women
* Ketki Ranade and Yogita Hastak
* 7. A Researcher's Tale
* Shazneen Limjerwala
* 8. Women's Rights, Human Rights, and the State: Reconfiguring Gender
and Mental Health Concerns in India
* Anubha Sood
* 9. Identity Constructions for 'Mentally Disturbed' Women: Identities
versus Institutions
* Bhargavi V. Davar
* Index
* Notes on Editors and Contributors