Crazy for You

The Making of Women's Madness

Author: Jill Astbury
ISBN: 9780195537680

Books on women's health tend to have a polemical, 'how to' emphasis and to focus on single issues. This challenging new book looks at women's health more broadly. It mounts an argument as to why women experience more of certain health problems than men by referring to interconnected issues. These include an examination of how science, from the nineteenth century onwards, has seen women as 'sick' and as a problem: how psychological theory in general and Freudian views on women in particular disserviced women and their mental health; how the reality of women's lives are inimical to the development and maintenance of a robust sense of well-being. The starting point for the book is the clear evidence that women suffer more mental health problems than men. In the past there has been a pronounced tendency to explain women's madness by referring to the faulty functioning of women's bodies. All reproductive functions from menarche to menopause have been seen as pathological. For many years it

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publish Date: 1996

Subjects: Psychology / Psychopathology / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Psychology/Emotional Health)