Au bonheur des dames
Surprisingly, Lisa Appignanesi makes little reference to female criminals in Mad, Bad and Sad, Women and the Mind Doctors (2008). That omission is interrogated here. Is it an artifact of Appignanesi’s discourse, which entails a “feminist” vision of the history of psychiatry – a vision that by defin...
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| Language: | fra |
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L’Harmattan
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Droit et Cultures |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/2244 |
| Summary: | Surprisingly, Lisa Appignanesi makes little reference to female criminals in Mad, Bad and Sad, Women and the Mind Doctors (2008). That omission is interrogated here. Is it an artifact of Appignanesi’s discourse, which entails a “feminist” vision of the history of psychiatry – a vision that by definition leaves no place for “delinquent” women? Or is it feminine criminality itself that remains in the margins of traditional legal and criminological analysis – since in those terms, the “criminal” woman cannot but be insane? |
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| ISSN: | 0247-9788 2109-9421 |