Women, madness and medicine / Denise Russell.

Cambridge, Mass. : Polity Press, 1995.

vii, 196 pages ; 23 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

History of the relationship between women and psychiatry -- Modern psychiatric perspectives on women -- Shifting trends in diagnosis -- Epistemological problems with the dominant medical psychiatric perspective -- Women, psychiatry, and criminality -- Contrasting feminist philosophies of women and madness: oppression and repression -- Women, creativity, reason and madness -- Beyond psychiatry.

Includes bibliographic references and index