Containing Madness Gender and 'Psy' in Institutional Contexts /
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 interloc...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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Table of 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'.
