The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience

By M. Harris. 2012

112 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr
2. J. Ussher
3. Michelle N. Lafrance

Citations in the corpus

• The DSM and its lure of legitimacy (2013, background): “For a mother in distress, adopting a biomedical explanation can serve not only to legitimize her embodied experience of suffering, but also to deflect the very real threat of being situated as a ‘bad mother’, arguably one of the most vilified identities possible (Ussher, 2011).”
• Diagnosing difficult women and pathologising femininity: Gender bias in psychiatric nosology (2013, background): “And whilst the 19th-century hysteric was deemed labile and irresponsible, as a justification for subjecting her to the bed rest cure or incarceration in an asylum (Ussher, 2011), women diagnosed as borderline today are often considered to be mentally disabled, subjected to involuntary institutionali”