An edition of The Female Malady (1985)

The female malady

women, madness and English culture 1830-1980

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An edition of The Female Malady (1985)

The female malady

women, madness and English culture 1830-1980

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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 from Mary Wollstonecraft to Doris Lessing, to supply a cultural perspective usually missing from studies of mental illness.

Highly original and beautifully written, The Female Malady is a vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female role.

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Virago
Language
English
Pages
308

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Mental health, Mental health services, Psychiatry, History, Women, New York Times reviewed, Women, mental health, Women, great britain, Psychiatry, history, Women, social conditions, Mental illness, Mental Disorders, Psychology, Women in literature, Mentally ill in literature, Sexism in mental health services, Social conditions, Women's Health, Women and psychoanalysis

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Cover of: The female malady
The female malady: women, madness, and English culture, 1830-1980
1987, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The female malady
The female malady: women, madness and English culture 1830-1980
1987, Virago
in English
Cover of: The Female Malady
The Female Malady
May 7, 1987, Virago Press Ltd
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Cover of: The female malady
The female malady: women, madness, and English culture, 1830-1980
1985, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The female malady
The female malady: women, madness, and English culture, 1830-1980
1985, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-301) and index.

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London

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Library of Congress
RC451.4.W6, RC451.4.W6 S56 1987

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Pagination
xii, 308 p. :
Number of pages
308

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL15507754M
ISBN 10
0860688690
OCLC/WorldCat
14932622, 59812591
LibraryThing
58985
Goodreads
342823

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OL2041592W

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