Subjects:

Criminology

Contents:

'Editors' Introduction'

Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies

Simon Fraser University, Canada

Chapter 1

Unravelling women's madness: Beyond positivism and constructivism and towards a material-discursive-intrapsychic approach

Jane M. Ussher, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Chapter 2

Beyond reason: Social constructions of mentally disordered female offenders

Kathleen Kendall, University of Southampton, England

Chapter 3

The boundaries of femininity: Madness and gender in New Zealand, 1870-1910

Bronwyn Labrum, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Chapter 4

Charlotte's web: Historical regulation of 'insane' women murderers

Robert Menzies and Dorothy E. Chunn, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Chapter 5

Women's misery: Continuing pigeonholes into the twenty-first century

Hannah Lerman, Psychologist and Author, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Chapter 6

Sex bias in psychiatric diagnosis and the courts

Paula Caplan, Brown University, United States

Chapter 7

Homelessness, mental disorder, and penal intervention: Women referred to a mobile crisis intervention team

Daphn Morin, Shirley Roy and Marielle Rozier, Universit du Qubec Montral, and Pierre Landreville, Universit de Montral, Canada

Chapter 8

Gender, murder and madness

Wendy Chan, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Chapter 9

Reclaiming women's agency: Exposing the mental health effects of 'post-abortion syndrome'

Eileen Fegan, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Chapter 10

Defending battered women on charges of homicide: The structural and systemic versus the personal and particular

Julie Stubbs, University of Sydney, Australia and Julia Tolmie, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Chapter 11

At the centre of the new professional gaze: Women, medicine and confinement

Joe Sim, Liverpool John Moores University, England

Chapter 12

The treatment of women secure hospital patients

Ann Lloyd, Journalist and Author, Richmond, Surrey, England

Chapter 13

Feminist antipsychiatry praxis - Women and the movement(s): A Canadian perspective

Bonnie Burstow, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

This book brings together, for the first time in an edited collection, three important areas of research - women, madness and the law. It attempts to advance the debates about how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling the lives of women. The themes chosen for this collection reflect our desire to highlight and explain how the processes and practices of legal and psychiatric institutions shape our understanding of women's madness.

This book offers an integrated, critical understanding of the issues by gathering together a panel of international feminist scholars working across a range of disciplines.