Women, Madness and the Law

A Feminist Reader

Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

314 Seiten

2005
Routledge Cavendish (Verlag)
978-1-904385-09-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies

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)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.2.2005
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-904385-09-5 / 1904385095
ISBN-13	978-1-904385-09-7 / 9781904385097
Zustand	Neuware