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The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980
Elaine Showalter
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Description for The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980
Paperback. A vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is often a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female role. Num Pages: 320 pages, Integrated: 29. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
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 from Mary Wollstonecraft to Doris Lessing, to supply a cultural perspective usually missing from studies of mental illness.
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Product Details
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860688693
SKU
V9780860688693
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99-99
About 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.
Reviews for The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980
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
ROY PORTER, WELLCOME INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE