Hysterical Men : : The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness / / Mark S MICALE.
Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity - he basis for patriarchal rule - in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. This book boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Usage
- PROLOGUE Hysteria: The Male Malady
- CHAPTER 1. Hysterick Women and Hypochondriack Men
- CHAPTER 2. The Great Victorian Eclipse
- CHAPTER 3. Charcot and La Grande Hystérie Masculine
- CHAPTER 4. Male Hysteria at the Fin de Siècle
- CHAPTER 5. Freud and the Origins of Psychoanalysis
- CONCLUSION. Men and the Fictions of Medicine
- Notes
- Index