Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France /

"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"--

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Hoofdauteur: Hewitt, Jessie, 1981- (Auteur)
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2020]
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.