Women's Narratives on Illness and Institutionalization in India: A Feminist Inquiry

In India, various underlying gender related structural factors (i.e., interpersonal violence, lack of social supports, limited opportunities, poverty, and gender biases in mental health practice) serve to keep women living with serious mental illness isolated in psychiatric institutions. Despite thi...

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Main Author: Bhattacharya, Anindita
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-f7rs-3p58