Women, Madness and the Law

A Feminist Reader
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-16318-8
Verlag: Routledge-Cavendish

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chan, Wendy

Chunn, Dorothy E.

Menzies, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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)

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies