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Institutionalizing gender : madness, the family, and psychiatric power in nineteenth-century France /

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"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hewitt, Jessie, 1981-
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Gender expression > France > History > 19th century.
Mental illness > Treatment > France > History > 19th century.
Sex role > France > History > 19th century.
Psychiatry > France > History > 19th century.
Power (Philosophy)
Expression de l'identité de genre > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Maladies mentales > Traitement > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Pouvoir (Morale)
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Gender expression
Mental illness > Treatment
Psychiatry
Sex role
France
1800-1899
Asylum Psychiatry, bourgeois family, history of french psychiatry, nineteenth-century insane asylums, gender post-revolutionary france.
Electronic books.
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Description
Summary:"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501753312
1501753312