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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'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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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-138-16318-8 (9781138163188)
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Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies
Herausgeber*in
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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)
