The Female Malady
Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980
$26.99
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
26 July 1996
Summary
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 fict…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780860688693 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0860688690 |
| Author: | Elaine Showalter |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 26 July 1996 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 26mm |
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She writes with penetration, precision and passion. This book is essential reading for all those concerned with what psychiatry has done to women, and what new psychiatry could do for them - ROY PORTER, WELLCOME INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
About The Author
Elaine Showalter
Elaine Showalter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1941. From 1967 to 1984 she taught English and Women’s Studies at Rutgers University, and she now chairs the department of English at Princeton University.
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