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Containing Madness Gender and ‘Psy’ in Institutional Contexts
Title
Containing Madness [electronic resource] : Gender and ‘Psy’ in Institutional Contexts / edited by Jennifer M. Kilty, Erin Dej.
ISBN
9783319897493
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Physical Description
XVII, 286 p. 7 illus : online resource.
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Summary
This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Featuring analyses of the prison, the psychiatric hospital, immigration detention, and other locales, this book explores the multiple interlocking oppressions that result in the diagnosis and medical, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of individuals constituted as ‘mentally ill’ at various historical moments and across institutional spaces. Contributors unpack how feminine, masculine, and transgender bodies are made up as mentally ill/sick/deviant by way of biomedical and institutional knowledges and discourses and are intervened upon by different institutional and expert authorities.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 01, 2018
Contents
1. Introduction: Psy, Gender, and Containment
Part I Historical ‘Psy’ Discourses Revisited
2. Sickening Institutions: A Feminist Sociological Analysis and Critique of Religion, Medicine, and Psychiatry
3. Traditions of Colonial and Eugenic Violence: Immigration Detention in Canada
4. Gender, Madness, and the Legacies of the Prisons Information Group (GIP)
Part II Containing Bodies
5. Patients’ Perspective on Mechanical Restraints in Acute and Emergency Psychiatric Settings: A Poststructural Feminist Analysis
6. Carceral Optics and the Crucible of Segregation: Revisiting Scenes of State-Sanctioned Violence Against Incarcerated Women
7. Gender Dysphoria and the Medical Gaze in Anglo-American Carceral Regimes
Part III The Asylum and Beyond
8. Uncovering the Heteronormative Order of the Psychiatric Institution: A Queer Reading of Chart Documentation and Language Use
9. Assessing ‘Insight’, Determining Agency and Autonomy: Implicating Social Identities
10. When a Man’s Home Isn’t a Castle: Hegemonic Masculinity Among Men Experiencing Homelessness and Mental Illness
11. Dangerous Discourses: Masculinity, Coercion, and Psychiatry
12. Conclusion: Expanding the Concept of ‘Containment’.
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