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The female Malady -Elaine showalter

The female Malady -Elaine showalter

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'She writes with penetration, precision, and passion. This book is essential reading for all those concerned with what psychiatry has done to women, and what new psychiatry could do for them' ~ Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

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.

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