- 314 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Yes, you can access Women, Madness and the Law by Wendy Chan,Dorothy E. Chunn,Robert Menzies in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Gender & The Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Unravelling Women's Madness: Beyond Positivism and Constructivism and Towards a Material-Discursive-Intrapsychic Approach
- 2 Beyond Reason: Social Constructions of Mentally Disordered Female Offenders
- 3 The Boundaries of Femininity: Madness and Gender in New Zealand, 1870–1910
- 4 Charlotte's Web: Historical Regulation of ‘Insane' Women Murderers
- 5 Women's Misery: Continuing Pigeonholes into the 21st Century
- 6 Sex Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Courts
- 7 Homelessness, Mental Disorder, and Penal Intervention: Women Referred to a Mobile Crisis Intervention Team
- 8 Gender, Murder and Madness
- 9 Reclaiming Women's Agency: Exposing the Mental Health Effects of ‘Post-Abortion Syndrome' Propaganda
- 10 Defending Battered Women on Charges of Homicide: The Structural and Systemic Versus the Personal and Particular
- 11 At the Centre of the New Professional Gaze: Women, Medicine and Confinement
- 12 The Treatment of Women Patients in Secure Hospitals
- 13 Feminist Antipsychiatry Praxis – Women and the Movement(s): A Canadian Perspective
- Bibliography
- Index