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Institutionalizing Gender Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / Jessie Hewitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hewitt, Jessie, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Philosophy).
- Psychiatry--France--History--19th century.
- Psychiatry.
- Sex role--France--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Mental illness--Treatment--France--History--19th century.
- Mental illness.
- Gender expression--France--History--19th century.
- Gender expression.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2020
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry
- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men
- Domesticating madness in the family asylum
- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power
- Rehabilitating a profession under siege
- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family
- The "mad" woman in a man's world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501753329
- 1501753320
- 9781501753435
- 1501753436
- OCLC:
- 1142869325
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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