The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America 0691025843 9780691025841

Table of contents :
Pt. 1. From insanity to normality : Psychiatry between old and new ; Professing gender ; The psychiatry of everyday life --
pt. 2. Institutional practices : Pathways to psychiatric scrutiny ; Classification ; Institutional discipline --
pt. 3. Psychopathologies of everyday life : Woman as hypersexual ; Hysteria : the revolt of the "good girl" ; Modern manhood, dissolute and respectable ; The sexual politics of marriage ; Women, alone and together.

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