Women, Madness and the Law (eBook, ePUB)

A Feminist Reader
Redaktion: Chan, Wendy; Menzies, Robert; Chunn, Dorothy E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling women's lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135311162
• Artikelnr.: 38252790

Autorenporträt

Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Unravelling Women's Madness
2: Beyond Reason
3: The Boundaries of Femininity
4: Charlotte's Web
5: Women's Misery
6: Sex Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Courts 1
7: Homelessness, Mental Disorder, and Penal Intervention
8: Gender, Murder and Madness 1
9: Reclaiming Women's Agency
10: Defending Battered Women on Charges of Homicide
11: At the Centre of the New Professional Gaze
12: The Treatment of Women Patients in Secure Hospitals
13: Feminist Antipsychiatry Praxis - Women and the Movement(s)