The madness of women : myth and experience / / Jane M. Ussher

• Autore: Ussher Jane M. <1961-, >
• Pubblicazione: Hove, East Sussex : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.890082
• Soggetto topico: Women - Mental health; Women - Psychology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Nominated 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.</P
• Titolo autorizzato: The madness of women
• ISBN: 1-136-65631-6; 1-283-16297-0; 9786613162977; 1-136-65632-4; 0-203-80657-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789533803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Women and psychology.