Drawing on academic and clinical experience, including case studies and in-depth interviews, as well as on the now extensive critical literature in the field of mental health, Jane Ussher presents a critical multifactorial analysis of women's madness that both addresses the notion that madness is a myth, and yet acknowledges the reality and multiple causes of women's distress.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
