Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-331) and indexes.
Contents
Madness and misogyny: my mother and myself/ Misogyny/ Witchcraft: wickedness or woman hatred?/ The female malady and the medicalization of sex: the Victorian madwoman/ Twentieth-century madness: the heir to witchcraft and hysteria?/ Dissension and revolt: antipsychiatry and psychopolitics/ The feminist critiques/ The challenge to the critics/ The routes to madness/ Reconstructing women's madness/
