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



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Autore: Hewitt Jessie <1981-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / / Jessie Hewitt Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cornell University Press, 2020
Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2020
©2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 305.30944/09034
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto non controllato: Asylum Psychiatry, bourgeois family, history of french psychiatry, nineteenth-century insane asylums, gender post-revolutionary france
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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Institutionalizing Gender  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-5332-0
1-5017-5343-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996360037003316
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