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The madness of women : myth and experience /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ussher, Jane M.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Women and psychology.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The madness of women : myth or experience?
  • The daughter of hysteria : depression as a "woman's problem"?
  • Labelling women as mad : regulating and oppressing women
  • Woman as object, not subject : madness as response to objectification and sexual violence
  • The construction and lived experience of women's distress : positioning premenstrual change as psychiatric illness
  • Women's madness : resistance and survival