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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ussher, Jane M., 1961- author.

Series:

Women and psychology.

Women and psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Mental health.

Women.

Women--Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-65631-6

1-283-16297-0

9786613162977

1-136-65632-4

0-203-80657-3

9780203806579

OCLC:

731677146