Institutionalizing gender : madness, the family, and psychiatric power in nineteenth-century France /

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"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hewitt, Jessie, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Gender expression > France > History > 19th century.
Mental illness > Treatment > France > History > 19th century.
Sex role > France > History > 19th century.
Psychiatry > France > History > 19th century.
Power (Philosophy)
Expression de l'identité de genre > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Maladies mentales > Traitement > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Pouvoir (Morale)
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Gender expression
Mental illness > Treatment
Psychiatry
Sex role
France
Asylum Psychiatry, bourgeois family, history of french psychiatry, nineteenth-century insane asylums, gender post-revolutionary france.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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