The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience

Abstract

1. The Madness of Women: Myth or Experience? 2. The Daughter of Hysteria: Depression as a "Woman's Problem"? 3. Labelling Women as Mad: Regulating and Oppressing Women. 4. Woman as Object, not Subject: Madness as Response to Objectification and Sexual Violence. 5. The Construction and Lived Experience of Women's Distress: Positioning Premenstrual Change as Psychiatric Illness. 6. Women's Madness: Resistance and Survival.