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The Female Malady

- Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980
Af: Elaine Showalter Engelsk Paperback

The Female Malady

- Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980
Af: Elaine Showalter Engelsk Paperback
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In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about ''proper'' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid portraits of the men who dominated psychiatry, and descriptions of the therapeutic practices that were used to bring women ''to their senses'', she draws on diaries and narratives by inmates, and fiction from Mary Wollstonecraft to Doris Lessing, to supply a cultural perspective usually missing from studies of mental illness.

Highly original and beautifully written, The Female Malady is a vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female role.

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In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about ''proper'' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid portraits of the men who dominated psychiatry, and descriptions of the therapeutic practices that were used to bring women ''to their senses'', she draws on diaries and narratives by inmates, and fiction from Mary Wollstonecraft to Doris Lessing, to supply a cultural perspective usually missing from studies of mental illness.

Highly original and beautifully written, The Female Malady is a vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female role.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9780860688693
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0860688690
Udg. Dato: 7 maj 1987
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 125mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 7 maj 1987
Forfatter(e): Elaine Showalter
Forfatter(e) Elaine Showalter


Kategori Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger


ISBN-13 9780860688693


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 14mm


Bredde 125mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 7 maj 1987


Oplagsdato 7 maj 1987


Forlag Little, Brown Book Group

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