Women's madness : misogyny or mental illness? /

Women's madness : misogyny or mental illness? / Jane M. Ussher.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ussher, Jane M., 1961-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
Subjects:	Women > Mental health > Social aspects. Women > Mental health > Sociological aspects. Misogyny. Feminist psychology. Women. Gender identity.

Table of Contents:

Madness and misogyny : my mother and myself
Misogyny
Witchcraft : wickedness or woman hatred?
The female malady and the medicalization of sex : the Victorian madwoman
Twentieth-century madness : the heir to witchcraft and hysteria?
Dissension and revolt : antipsychiatry and psychopolitics
The feminist critiques
The challenge to the critics
The routes to madness
Reconstructing women's madness.