Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France
Power (Philosophy) Psychiatry Sex role Mental illness Gender expression Electronic books.
Project MUSE
2020
EISBN 1501753320
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.
"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century 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.
"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"--
