Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France /
"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"--
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
[2020]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.