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Autore: |
Ussher Jane M. <1961-, >
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Titolo: |
The madness of women : myth and experience / / Jane M. Ussher
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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.: | 9910810475003321 |
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