Women, Madness and the Law: A Feminist Reader
Author:   Wendy Chan ,  Dorothy E. Chunn ,  Robert Menzies
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138163188


Pages:   314
Publication Date:   13 January 2017
Format:   Hardback
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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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Author:   Wendy Chan ,  Dorothy E. Chunn ,  Robert Menzies
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge Cavendish
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138163188


ISBN 10:   113816318
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   13 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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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'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


<strong>'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.' -</strong> <em>The Cambrian Law Review 2006</em>


'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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Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies

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