Women, Madness and the Law

A Feminist Reader

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies, Canada) Chan, Wendy (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada) Chunn, Dorothy E. (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada) Menzies, Robert (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby

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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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Utgivningsdatum2017-01-13
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor314
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138163188

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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)