By Jane Professor Ussher,Jane M. Ussher
Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished e-book Award of the organization for ladies in Psychology!
Why are girls likely to be located or clinically determined as mad than men?
If insanity is a social building, a gendered label, as many feminist critics could argue, how will we comprehend and clarify women's lengthy distress and misery? In flip, do we hinder or deal with women’s misery, in a non-pathologising girls targeted approach? The insanity of Women addresses those questions via a rigorous exploration of the myths and realities of women's madness.
Drawing on educational and medical adventure, together with case stories and in-depth interviews, in addition to at the now huge severe literature within the box of psychological health and wellbeing, Jane Ussher offers a severe multifactorial research of women's insanity that either addresses the suggestion that insanity is a fantasy, and but recognizes the truth and a number of motives of women's misery. subject matters include:
- The family tree of women’s insanity – incarceration of inauspicious or deviant women
- Regulation via treatment
- Deconstrucing melancholy, PMS and borderline character disorder
- Madness as an affordable reaction to objectification and sexual violence
- Women’s narratives of resistance
This booklet might be of serious curiosity to scholars and students of psychology, gender stories, sociology, women's reports, cultural reports, counselling and nursing.
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