Women, Madness and the Law - A Feminist Reader

Informationen zum Autor Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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)

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• Authors: Wendy Chan, Wendy (Simon Fraser University Chan, Wendy Chunn Chan, Chan Wendy, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies
• Assisted by: Wendy Chan (Editor), Wendy (Professor of Criminology Chan (Editor), Wendy (Simon Fraser University Chan (Editor), Chan Wendy (Editor), Dorothy E Chunn (Editor), Dorothy E. Chunn (Editor), Dorothy E. (Simon Fraser University Chunn (Editor), Chunn Dorothy E. (Editor), Robert Menzies (Editor), Robert (Simon Fraser University Menzies (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2005
• EAN: 9781904385097
• ISBN: 978-1-904385-09-7
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Glasshouse S
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, LAW / Gender & the Law, Legal aspects of criminology, Social Law, Penology and punishment, Criminology: legal aspects, Social law and Medical law, Public health and safety law