
The Madness of Women
Myth and Experience
By: Jane M. Ussher, Jane Ussher
Paperback | 24 March 2011 | Edition Number 1
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Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women's distress, in a non-pathologising women centred way?
The Madness of Women addresses these questions through a rigorous exploration of the myths and realities of women's madness.
Drawing on academic and clinical experience, including case studies and in-depth interviews, as well as on the now extensive critical literature in the field of mental health, Jane Ussher presents a critical multifactorial analysis of women's madness that both addresses the notion that madness is a myth, and yet acknowledges the reality and multiple causes of women's distress.
Topics include:
- The genealogy of women's madness - incarceration of difficult or deviant women
- Regulation through treatment
- Deconstrucing depression, PMS and borderline personality disorder
- Madness as a reasonable response to objectification and sexual violence
- Women's narratives of resistance
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ISBN: 9780415339285
ISBN-10: 0415339286
Series: Women and Psychology
Published: 24th March 2011
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 330
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.0 x 15.8 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.5
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