The Female Malady (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
1987-05-01
Upplaga
Reissue
Förlag
Virago Press Ltd
Illustratör/Fotograf
Integrated: 29
Illustrationer
Integrated: 29
Dimensioner
196 x 123 x 17 mm
Vikt
250 g
ISBN
9780860688693

The Female Malady

Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980

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Häftad,  Engelska, 1987-05-01
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In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid portraits of the men who dominated psychiatry, and descriptions of the therapeutic practices that were used to bring women 'to their senses', she draws on diaries and narratives by inmates, and fiction from Mary Wollstonecraft to Doris Lessing, to supply a cultural perspective usually missing from studies of mental illness. Highly original and beautifully written, The Female Malady is a vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female role.
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    Viktoria Kristina Karlsson, 21 oktober 2013

    Boken beskriver olika synsätt på kvinnlig ohälsa från mitten av 1800-talet fram till 1980, en mycket intressant och lärorik bok för de som är intresserad av att läsa om psykisk ohälsa gällande kvinnor.

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She writes with penetration, precision and passion. This book is essential reading for all those concerned with what psychiatry has done to women, and what new psychiatry could do for them * ROY PORTER, WELLCOME INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE *

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Elaine Showalter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1941. From 1967 to 1984 she taught English and Women's Studies at Rutgers University, and she now chairs the department of English at Princeton University.