JOAN BUSFIELD is Professor of Sociology and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex. Having qualified originally as a clinical psychologist, she is the co-author (with Michael Paddon) of Thinking about Children and author of Managing Madness. She is currenlty joint editor of the journal Sociology.

• PrefaceIntroductionPART 1: GENDER, CONSTRUCTS AND SERVICES The Gendered LandscapeTheorising Gender Mental Disorder, Medicine and the Regulation of RationalityMeasuring Mental DisorderGender and Constructs of Mental DisorderThe Historical ContextPART 2: GENDER AND THE ORIGINS OF MENTAL DISORDERBiological OriginsFeminist Psychologies and Gendered IndividualsStress and the Gender Division of LabourTrauma and Powerlessness: War and Sexual ViolenceConclusionsAppendixNotesReferencesIndex.

JOAN BUSFIELD is Professor of Sociology and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex. Having qualified originally as a clinical psychologist, she is the co-author (with Michael Paddon) of Thinking about Children and author of Managing Madness. She is currenlty joint editor of the journal Sociology.

• PrefaceIntroductionPART 1: GENDER, CONSTRUCTS AND SERVICES The Gendered LandscapeTheorising Gender Mental Disorder, Medicine and the Regulation of RationalityMeasuring Mental DisorderGender and Constructs of Mental DisorderThe Historical ContextPART 2: GENDER AND THE ORIGINS OF MENTAL DISORDERBiological OriginsFeminist Psychologies and Gendered IndividualsStress and the Gender Division of LabourTrauma and Powerlessness: War and Sexual ViolenceConclusionsAppendixNotesReferencesIndex.

JOAN BUSFIELD is Professor of Sociology and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex. Having qualified originally as a clinical psychologist, she is the co-author (with Michael Paddon) of Thinking about Children and author of Managing Madness. She is currenlty joint editor of the journal Sociology.

• PrefaceIntroductionPART 1: GENDER, CONSTRUCTS AND SERVICES The Gendered LandscapeTheorising Gender Mental Disorder, Medicine and the Regulation of RationalityMeasuring Mental DisorderGender and Constructs of Mental DisorderThe Historical ContextPART 2: GENDER AND THE ORIGINS OF MENTAL DISORDERBiological OriginsFeminist Psychologies and Gendered IndividualsStress and the Gender Division of LabourTrauma and Powerlessness: War and Sexual ViolenceConclusionsAppendixNotesReferencesIndex.