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

"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 bourgeois gender values. Asylum doctors in nin...

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Main Author: Hewitt, Jessie (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 2020
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