Women, Madness and the Law

A Feminist Reader

Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies

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Routledge Cavendish
13 January 2017

Gender & the law; Criminology: legal aspects; Disability & the law

This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling women's lives.

Edited by: Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies
Imprint: Routledge Cavendish
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138163188
ISBN 10: 113816318X
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 13 January 2017
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1: Unravelling Women's Madness; 2: Beyond Reason; 3: The Boundaries of Femininity; 4: Charlotte's Web; 5: Women's Misery; 6: Sex Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Courts 1; 7: Homelessness, Mental Disorder, and Penal Intervention; 8: Gender, Murder and Madness 1; 9: Reclaiming Women's Agency; 10: Defending Battered Women on Charges of Homicide; 11: At the Centre of the New Professional Gaze; 12: The Treatment of Women Patients in Secure Hospitals; 13: Feminist Antipsychiatry Praxis – Women and the Movement(s)

Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies

Reviews for Women, Madness and the Law: A Feminist Reader

'The thirteen chapters are well presented and the various authors accounts provide some challenging, thought-provoking and on occasion disturbing reflections of the various issues that are manifest within the areas of research.' -The Cambrian Law Review 2006