Mad matters : a critical reader in Canadian mad studies / edited by Brenda A. LeFrançois, Robert Menzies, and Geoffrey Reaume.

Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press Inc., 2013.

xiv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Electroshock: torture as 'treatment" / Don Weitz -- Is mad studies emerging as a new field of inquiry? / David Revile -- Making madness matter in academic practice / Kathryn Church -- Mad patients as legal intervenors in court / Lucy Costa -- Removing civil rights: how dare we? / Gordon Warme -- "They should not be allowed to do this to the homeless and mentally ill": minimum separation distance bylaws reconsidered / Lilith "Chava" Finkler -- The making and marketing of mental health literacy in Canada / Kimberley White and Ryan Pike -- Pitching mad: news media and the psychiatric survivor perspective / Rob Wipond -- Mad nation? Thinking through race, class, and mad identity politics / Rachel Gorman -- Whither indigenizing the mad movment? Theorizing the social relations of race and madness through conviviality / Louise Tam -- Spaces in place: negotiating queer in/visibility within psychiatric and mental health service settings / Andrea Daley -- Rerouting the weeds: the move from criminalizing to pathologizing "troubled youth" in the Review of the roots of youth violence / Jijan Voronka -- Recovery: progressive paradigm or neoliberal smokescreen? / Marina Morrow.

The movement / Mel Starkman -- Women in 19th-century asylums: three exemplary women; a New Brunswick hero / Nérée St-Amand and Eugène LeBlanc -- Democracy is a very radical idea / Lanny Beckman and Megan J. Davies -- What makes us a community? Reflections on building solidarity in anti-sanist praxis / Shaindl Diamond -- A rose by any other name: naming and the battle against psychiatry / Bonniew Burstow -- "Breaking open the bone": stroying, Sanism, and mad giref / Jennifer M. Poole nad Jennifer Ward -- Mad as hell: the objectifying experience of symbolic violence / Ji Eun Lee -- A denial of being: psychiatrization as epistemic violence / Maria Liegghio -- Mad success: what could go wrong when psychiatry employs us as "peers"? / Erick Fabris -- The tragic face of "community mental health care" / Irit Shimrat

Includes bibliographical references and index.