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100 1 _aHewitt, Jessie
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245 1 0 _aInstitutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France
260 _bCornell University Press
_c2020
300 _a1 electronic resource (264 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _a"Institutionalizing Gender analyzes the relationship between class, gender, and psychiatry in France from 1789 to 1900, an era noteworthy for the creation of the psychiatric profession, the development of a national asylum system, and the spread of bourgeois gender values. Asylum doctors in nineteenth-century France promoted the notion that manliness was synonymous with rationality, using this ""fact"" to pathologize non-normative behaviors and confine people who did not embody mainstream gender expectations to asylums. And yet, this gendering of rationality also had the power to upset prevailing dynamics between men and women. Jessie Hewitt argues that the ways that doctors used dominant gender values to find ""cures"" for madness inadvertently undermined both medical and masculine power—in large part because the performance of gender, as a pathway to health, had to be taught; it was not inherent. Institutionalizing Gender examines a series of controversies and clinical contexts where doctors' ideas about gender and class simultaneously legitimated authority and revealed unexpected opportunities for resistance. Thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other repositories."
536 _aAndrew W. Mellon Foundation
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aGender studies, gender groups
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650 7 _aHistory of medicine
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653 _aasylum psychiatry
653 _abourgeois family
653 _ahistory of french psychiatry
653 _anineteenth-century insane asylums
653 _agender post-revolutionary france
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