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Institutionalizing gender : madness, the family, and psychiatric power in nineteenth-century France / Jessie Hewitt.
Van Pelt Library HQ1075.5.F8 H49 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hewitt, Jessie, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender expression--France--History--19th century.
- Gender expression.
- Mental illness--Treatment--France--History--19th century.
- Mental illness.
- Sex role--France--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Psychiatry--France--History--19th century.
- Psychiatry.
- Power (Philosophy).
- Mental illness--Treatment.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 238 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Gender and the Founding "Fathers" of French Psychiatry
- ch. 2 Medical Controversy and Honor among (Mad)Men
- ch. 3 Domesticating Madness in the Family Asylum
- ch. 4 Scandalous Asylum Commitments and Patriarchal Power
- ch. 5 Rehabilitating a Profession under Siege
- ch. 6 Reforming the Asylum and Reimagining the Family.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Commins-Holman Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hewitt, Jessie, 1981- Institutionalizing gender.
- ISBN:
- 9781501753312
- 1501753312
- OCLC:
- 1142912222
- Publisher Number:
- 99989175382
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