ABSTRACT
This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling women's lives.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|21 pages
Unravelling Women's Madness
Beyond Positivism and Constructivism and Towards a Material-Discursive-Intrapsychic Approach
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chapter 7|19 pages
Homelessness, Mental Disorder, and Penal Intervention
Women Referred to a Mobile Crisis Intervention Team
1
chapter 9|21 pages
Reclaiming Women's Agency
Exposing the Mental Health Effects of ‘Post-Abortion Syndrome' Propaganda
chapter 10|19 pages
Defending Battered Women on Charges of Homicide
The Structural and Systemic Versus the Personal and Particular
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chapter 13|14 pages
Feminist Antipsychiatry Praxis – Women and the Movement(s)
A Canadian Perspective
