Questions of power : the politics of women's madness narratives by Hubert, Susan J instant download

Questions of power : the politics of women's madness narratives by Hubert, Susan J instant download

186 pages ; 24 cm, \"Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives explores the ways in which women have used autobiographical writing in response to psychiatric symptoms and treatment. By addressing health and healing from the patient's perspective, the study raises questions about psychiatric practice and mental health policy. The ultimate thesis is that autobiographies by women psychiatric patients can expose many of the problems in psychiatric treatment and indicate directions for change.\"--Jacket, Revision of the author's thesis, Includes bibliographical references (164-172) and index, Women's madness narratives and the sentence of history -- Writing as rebellion: Elizabeth Packard, Ada Metcalf, Lydia Smith, Clarissa Lathrop, Anna Agnew, and Margaret Starr -- Testifying against themselves: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Marian King, Jane Hillyer, Joanne Greenberg, Lucy Freeman, and Barbara Field Benziger -- Questioning psychiatric power: Mary Jane Ward, Susanna Kaysen, Jill Johnston, and Kate Millett -- Seasons of peril: the madness narratives of Janet Frame and Bessie Head -- Epilogue: listening to women