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Women, Madness and the Law: A Feminist Reader
Author(s): Wendy Chan (Editor), Dorothy E. Chunn (Editor), Robert Menzies (Editor)
- Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
- Publication Date: 13 Jan. 2017
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 314 pages
- ISBN-10: 113816318X
- ISBN-13: 9781138163188
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘The thirteen chapters are well presented and the various authors accounts provide some challenging, thought-provoking and on occasion disturbing reflections of the various issues that are manifest within the areas of research.’ –The Cambrian Law Review 2006
About the Author
Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies
