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The Female Malady

Paperback • 2014 • English

The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980

By Elaine Showalter

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In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid portraits of the men who dominated psychiatry, and descriptions of the therapeutic practices that were used to bring women 'to their senses', she draws on diaries and narratives by inmates, and fiction...Show more

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ISBN

9780860688693

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

The Female Malady

Format

Paperback

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