The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience

by Jane M. Ussher

Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology

Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men?

If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women's distress, in a non-pathologising women centred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415339286
• ISBN13: 9780415339285
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"