Hysterical men : the hidden history of male nervous illness / Mark S. Micale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Micale, Mark S., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hysteria--History.

Hysteria.

Men--Mental health--History.

Men.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity - he basis for patriarchal rule - in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. This book boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure male by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it.

Contents:

Hysterick women and hypochondriack men

The great Victorian eclipse

Charcot and La grande hysterie masculine

Male hysteria at the fin de siecle

Freud and the origins of psychoanalysis.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-347) and index.

ISBN:

9780674040984

0674040988

OCLC:

432689914