LEADER 02920oam 2200649I 450 001 9910789533803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-136-65631-6 010 $a1-283-16297-0 010 $a9786613162977 010 $a1-136-65632-4 010 $a0-203-80657-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203806579 035 $a(CKB)2670000000094177 035 $a(EBL)683992 035 $a(OCoLC)731677146 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538797 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11362266 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538797 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10576644 035 $a(PQKB)10228244 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL683992 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10480648 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316297 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC683992 035 $a(PPN)168904128 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000094177 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe madness of women $emyth and experience /$fJane M. Ussher 210 1$aHove, East Sussex :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 225 1 $aWomen and psychology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-33928-6 311 $a0-415-33927-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover; The Madness of Women; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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; Appendix; Notes; References; Index 330 $aNominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology!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.