Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / / Jessie Hewitt.
"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"--
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca [New York] : : Cornell University Press,, 2020. ©2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry
- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men
- Domesticating madness in the family asylum
- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power
- Rehabilitating a profession under siege
- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family
- The "mad" woman in a man's world.