Title The female malady : women, madness and English culture 1830-1980 / Elaine Showalter

Published London : Virago, 1987 1987

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Description xii, 308 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm Summary Showlater demonstrates how cultural ideas ab out 'proper' feminie behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 yars, 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 Analysis Great Britain Women Psychiatry 1830-1980 Great Britain Women Psychiatry, 1830-1980 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 287-301 Subject Mentally ill -- Care -- England -- History. Psychiatry -- England -- History. Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History. Women -- Mental health services -- England -- History. Women -- Mental health services -- Great Britain -- History. Women -- Mental health -- England -- History. Women -- Mental health -- Great Britain -- History. Mental Disorders -- history [MESH] Psychiatry -- history [MESH] Women [MESH] Mental Disorders -- history. Mental Disorders. Mental Health -- history. Psychiatry -- history. Psychiatry. Women -- psychology. Women's Health -- history. SUBJECT England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 Author Johnson, Virginia E. Human sexual inadequacy Masters, William Howell. Human sexual inadequacy LC no. nun00734193 ISBN 0860688690

Other Titles Women, madness and English culture 1830-1980

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