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A Historical Lineage of Sad and Mad Women

Published:2022-10-23 Issue: Volume: Page:33-60
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Container-title:21st Century Media and Female Mental Health
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Thelandersson Fredrika

Abstract

AbstractWomen’s affective states have a long history of being pathologized under names like neurasthenia, hysteria, and schizophrenia. In culture, the sad and mad woman has appeared as various popular figures: the Victorian madwoman, the hysteric, the schizophrenic, and the Prozac-consuming American woman of the 1990s, to name a few. This chapter traces a brief history of how women’s mental health has been pathologized in the American and European West, and accounts for feminist interpretations of these various pathologizations. I hope to show that mental illness diagnoses are neither completely discursive (socially and linguistically constructed) nor fixed neurological truths (biological facts of life that always look the same), but emerge and take shape in a complex interplay between sociocultural discourses and an ever-developing medical science.

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Springer International Publishing

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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-16756-0_2

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