Men, Women and Madness

Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder

Joan Busfield (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

1996
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-333-46369-7 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the complex patterning of mental disorder identified in men and women. The first part of the book examines the gendered landscape of mental disorder, key concepts and approaches, and the way in which gender is embedded in constructs of mental disorder. The second part considers theories of the causes of mental disorder and the extent to which the different causes can account for the gendered landscape of disorder. It concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of the analysis.

JOAN BUSFIELD is Professor of Sociology and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex. Having qualified originally as a clinical psychologist, she is the co-author (with Michael Paddon) of Thinking about Children and author of Managing Madness. She is currenlty joint editor of the journal Sociology.

Preface
Introduction
PART 1: GENDER, CONSTRUCTS AND SERVICES
The Gendered Landscape
Theorising Gender Mental Disorder, Medicine and the Regulation of Rationality
Measuring Mental Disorder
Gender and Constructs of Mental Disorder
The Historical Context
PART 2: GENDER AND THE ORIGINS OF MENTAL DISORDER
Biological Origins
Feminist Psychologies and Gendered Individuals
Stress and the Gender Division of Labour
Trauma and Powerlessness: War and Sexual Violence
Conclusions
Appendix
Notes
References
Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.5.1996
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	512 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-333-46369-2 / 0333463692
ISBN-13	978-0-333-46369-7 / 9780333463697
Zustand	Neuware