The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980, A Penguin book : women's studies, history. Shop books, stationery, devices and other learning essentials.
This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. Calm your depression with the ancient wisdom of yoga. The file will be sent to your email address. From 1967 to 1984 she taught English and Women's Studies at Rutgers University, and she now chairs the department of English at Princeton University. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work.
Please try your request again later. Drawing on a cultural sangria of material, The Female Malady traces the systematic (and often blundering) treatment of mental disease, focusing on how women influenced the establishment as not only patients, but commentators in the form of employees and writers, activists and advocates. The Female Malady by Elaine Showalter. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
Fascinating read. Showalter, well known for her feminist studies of literature, here turns her attention to the history of psychiatry. With a personal account, you can read up to 100 articles each month for free. Book arrived promptly as described in very god condition.
This paper takes issue with Elaine Showalter's claim in The Female Malady, that in nineteenth-century Britain madness was first and foremost a female condition.This claim appears to have become part of feminist orthodoxy, yet has little empirical support. Whether you've loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. This incisive study explores how cultural ideas about proper feminine behavior have shaped the definition and treatment of madness in women as it traces trends in the psychiatric care of women in England from 1830-1980. Mad, Bad And Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Veritas Paperbacks), A Literature Of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing, The Female Malady: Women.
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