Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 499 g
Reihe: Women and Psychology
Myth and Experience
Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 499 g
Reihe: Women and Psychology
ISBN: 978-0-415-33928-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
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
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of psychology, gender studies, sociology, women's studies, cultural studies, counselling and nursing.
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1. The Madness of Women: Myth or Experience? 2. The Daughter of Hysteria: Depression as a "Woman’s Problem"? 3. Labelling Women as Mad: Regulating and Oppressing Women. 4. Woman as Object, not Subject: Madness as Response to Objectification and Sexual Violence. 5. The Construction and Lived Experience of Women’s Distress: Positioning Premenstrual Change as Psychiatric Illness. 6. Women’s Madness: Resistance and Survival.