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Author Hewitt, Jessie, 1981- author.

Title Institutionalizing gender : madness, the family, and psychiatric power in nineteenth-century France / Jessie Hewitt.

Publication Info. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2020]

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Summary "This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject 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 de genre -- 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
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Indexed Term Asylum Psychiatry, bourgeois family, history of french psychiatry, nineteenth-century insane asylums, gender post-revolutionary france.
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Hewitt, Jessie, 1981- Institutionalizing gender. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2020] 9781501753312 (DLC) 2020009249
ISBN 9781501753329 (epub)
1501753320
9781501753435 (pdf)
1501753436
1501753312
9781501753312
9781501753312 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000067495644
ZWZ 252632214

 
    
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