Containing Madness

Jennifer M. Kilty is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure, law and emotions, and women’s experiences of confinement.Erin Dej is Postdoctoral Fellow with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. She received her doctorate in criminology from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include homelessness, mental health, autonomy among marginalized people, and homelessness prevention.

• 1. Introduction: Psy, Gender, and Containment.- Part I Historical ‘Psy’ Discourses Revisited.- 2. Sickening Institutions: A Feminist Sociological Analysis and Critique of Religion, Medicine, and Psychiatry.- 3. Traditions of Colonial and Eugenic Violence: Immigration Detention in Canada.- 4. Gender, Madness, and the Legacies of the Prisons Information Group (GIP).- Part II Containing Bodies.- 5. Patients’ Perspective on Mechanical Restraints in Acute and Emergency Psychiatric Settings: A Poststructural Feminist Analysis.- 6. Carceral Optics and the Crucible of Segregation: Revisiting Scenes of State-Sanctioned Violence Against Incarcerated Women.- 7. Gender Dysphoria and the Medical Gaze in Anglo-American Carceral Regimes.- Part III The Asylum and Beyond.- 8. Uncovering the Heteronormative Order of the Psychiatric Institution: A Queer Reading of Chart Documentation and Language Use.- 9. Assessing ‘Insight’, Determining Agency and Autonomy: Implicating Social Identities.- 10. When a Man’s Home Isn’t a Castle: Hegemonic Masculinity Among Men Experiencing Homelessness and Mental Illness.- 11. Dangerous Discourses: Masculinity, Coercion, and Psychiatry.- 12. Conclusion: Expanding the Concept of ‘Containment’.