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This book explores the psychiatric pathologizing of women and the ways in which women have used autobiographical writing to rebel against forced treatment and incarceration. It also outlines the history of psychiatric treatment in the United States and examines the connection between larger social movements and reforms in the care of women mental patients.

Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives

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    Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
    Publication Date: 01/05/2002
    ISBN13: 9781611492002, 978-1611492002
    ISBN10: 1611492009

    Number of Pages: 186

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    This book explores the psychiatric pathologizing of women and the ways in which women have used autobiographical writing to rebel against forced treatment and incarceration. It also outlines the history of psychiatric treatment in the United States and examines the connection between larger social movements and reforms in the care of women mental patients.

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