Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-293) and index.

1. Unravelling women's madness : beyond positivism and constructivism and towards a material-discursive-intrapsychic approach / Jane M. Ussher -- 2. Beyond reason : social constructions of mentally disordered female offenders / Kathleen Kendall -- 3. The boundaries of femininity : madness and gender in New Zealand, 1870-1910 / Bronwyn Labrum -- 4. Charlotte's web : historical regulation of 'insane' women murderers / Robert Menzies and Dorothy E. Chunn -- 5. Women's misery : continuing pigeonholes into the 21st century / Hannah Lerman -- 6. Sex bias in psychiatric diagnosis and the courts / Paula J. Caplan -- 7. Homelessness, mental disorder, and penal intervention : women referred to a mobile crisis intervention team / Daphné Morin ... [et al.] -- 8. Gender, murder and madness / Wendy Chan -- 9. Reclaiming women's agency : exposing the mental health effects of 'post-abortion syndrome' propaganda / Eileen Fegan -- 10. Defending battered women on charges of homicide : the structural and systemic versus the personal and particular / Julie Stubbs and Julia Tolmie -- 11. At the centre of the new professional gaze : women, medicine and confinement / Joe Sim -- 12. The treatment of women patients in secure hospitals / Ann Lloyd -- 13. Feminist antipsychiatry praxis : women and the movement(s) : a Canadian perspective / Bonnie Burstow.

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