Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / Jessie Hewitt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2020]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©[2020]Description: 1 online resource (252 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781501753329
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Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.
Summary: "This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"-- Provided by publisher
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Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.

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