The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980
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- Synopsis
- In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid portraits of the men who dominated psychiatry, and descriptions of the therapeutic practices that were used to bring women 'to their senses', she draws on diaries and narratives by inmates, and fiction from Mary Wollstonecraft to Doris Lessing, to supply a cultural perspective usually missing from studies of mental illness.
- Copyright:
- 1985
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 324 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780140101690
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books
- Date of Addition:
- 02/13/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Elaine Showalter
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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