Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / Jessie Hewitt.
Material type: TextSeries: 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:- text
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- 9781501753329
- Sex role
- Psychiatry
- Power (Philosophy)
- Mental illness -- Treatment
- Gender expression
- HISTORY -- Europe -- France
- Pouvoir (Morale)
- Rôle selon le sexe -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siecle
- Maladies mentales -- Traitement -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siecle
- Expression de l'identite sexuelle -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siecle
- Power (Philosophy)
- Psychiatry -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Sex role -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Mental illness -- Treatment -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Gender expression -- France -- History -- 19th century
- France
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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