Institutionalizing gender : madness, the family, and psychiatric power in nineteenth-century France / Jessie Hewitt.
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TextPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781501753435
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- Gender expression -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Mental illness -- Treatment -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Sex role -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Psychiatry -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Power (Philosophy)
- Expression de l'identité sexuelle -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Maladies mentales -- Traitement -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Rôle selon le sexe -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Pouvoir (Morale)
- HISTORY -- Europe -- France
- Gender expression
- Mental illness -- Treatment
- Power (Philosophy)
- Psychiatry
- Sex role
- France
- HQ1075.5.F8
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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