Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France by Jessie Hewitt

Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France

Jessie Hewitt

252 pages first pub 2020 (view editions)

nonfiction feminism gender health history challenging informative medium-paced
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Institutionalizing Gender analyzes the relationship between class, gender, and psychiatry in France from 1789 to 1900, an era noteworthy for the creation of the psychiatric profession, the development of a national asylum system, and the spread of...

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