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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404757303321

Autore

Hewitt Jessie <1981->

Titolo

Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / / Jessie Hewitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2020

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-5017-5332-0

1-5017-5343-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

305.30944/09034

Soggetti

Power (Philosophy)

Psychiatry - France - History - 19th century

Sex role - France - History - 19th century

Mental illness - Treatment - France - History - 19th century

Gender expression - France - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"--