Gendering Mental Health
Knowledges, Identities, and Institutions
Price: 850.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199453535
Publication date:
30/08/2015
Paperback
248 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 850.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199453535
Publication date:
30/08/2015
Paperback
248 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Bhargavi V. Davar
The collection of essays in this volume focus on the state of mental health of Indian women, with respect to social attitudes, cultural barriers, treatment, policies, safeguards, or lack thereof. The contributors ask fundamental questions: Is 'mental illness' a social, medical, legal, penal, historical, personal construct? Is mental disorder a disability? Do people living with a mental ailment have a 'memory' or the 'insight' to tell their own stories? In dealing with these questions, it seeks to provide a perspective on how women suffering from mental illness view themselves and their surroundings in India.
Suitable for: Apart from institutions, libraries, the work will be of interest to academics, scholars in social and policy studies, critical social sciences, families and care givers' associations, people with disabilities and their associations.
Rights: World Rights
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Features
- The book presents women's stories in different institutional settings. Comprises studies undertaken by young scholars as well as experienced once with all data being primary. It offers perspective on diverse institutional set ups.
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