Women, Madness and the Law: A Feminist Reader

by Wendy Chan (Editor), Dorothy E. Chunn (Editor), Robert Menzies (Editor)

Overview

This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy'sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling women's lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904385097
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/18/2005
Series:	Glasshouse S
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Unravelling Women's Madness; 2: Beyond Reason; 3: The Boundaries of Femininity; 4: Charlotte's Web; 5: Women's Misery; 6: Sex Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Courts 1; 7: Homelessness, Mental Disorder, and Penal Intervention; 8: Gender, Murder and Madness 1; 9: Reclaiming Women's Agency; 10: Defending Battered Women on Charges of Homicide; 11: At the Centre of the New Professional Gaze; 12: The Treatment of Women Patients in Secure Hospitals; 13: Feminist Antipsychiatry Praxis – Women and the Movement(s)

Editorial Reviews

'The thirteen chapters are well presented and the various authors accounts provide some challenging, thought-provoking and on occasion disturbing reflections of the various issues that are manifest within the areas of research.' - The Cambrian Law Review 2006

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