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Women, madness and the law : a feminist reader / edited by Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies.
- Title
- Women, madness and the law : a feminist reader / edited by Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies.
- Publication
- London : GlassHouse Press, 2005.
- ©2005
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- Description
- xii, 301 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three important areas of research - women, madness and the law. It attempts to advance the debates about how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling the lives of women. The themes chosen for this collection help to highlight and explain how the processes and practices of legal and psychiatric institutions shape our understanding of women's madness. This book offers an integrated, critical understanding of the issues by gathering together a panel of international feminist scholars working across a range of disciplines."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Mentally ill women > Legal status, laws, etc
- People with mental disabilities and crime
- Mentally ill offenders
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Women > Health and hygiene
- Women's Health
- Femmes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Droit
- Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle et criminalité
- Criminels vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale
- Discrimination sexuelle dans l'administration de la justice pénale
- Femmes > Santé et hygiène
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-293) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Unravelling women's madness : beyond positivism and constructivism and towards a material-discursive-intrapsychic approach / Jane M. Ussher -- Beyond reason : social constructions of mentally disordered female offenders / Kathleen Kendall -- Boundaries of femininity : madness and gender in New Zealand, 1870-1910 / Bronwyn Labrum -- Charlotte's web : historical regulation of 'insane' women murderers / Robert Menzies and Dorothy E. Chunn -- Women's misery : continuing pigeonholes into the 21st century / Hannah Lerman -- Sex bias in psychiatric diagnosis and the courts / Paula J. Caplan -- Homelessness, mental disorder, and penal intervention : women referred to a mobile crisis intervention team / Daphné Morin, Shirley Roy, Marielle Rozier and Pierre Landreville -- Gender, murder and madness / Wendy Chan -- Reclaiming women's agency : exposing the mental health effects of 'post-abortion syndrome' propaganda / Eileen Fegan -- Defending battered women on charges of homicide : the structural and systemic versus the personal and particular / Julie Stubbs and Julia Tolmie -- At the centre of the new professional gaze : women, medicine and confinement / Joe Sim -- Treatment of women patients in secure hospitals / Ann Lloyd -- Feminist antipsychiatry praxis -- women and the movement(s) : a Canadian perspective / Bonnie Burstow.
- ISBN
- 1904385095
- 9781904385097
- LCCN
- 2005279141
- 9781904385097
- OCLC
- 58602025
- SCSB-10182425
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library