Title Women and madness : the incarceration of women in nineteenth-century France / Yannick Ripa ; translated by Catherine du Peloux Menagé

Published Cambridge, UK : Polity Press in association with Basil Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 1990

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MELB	616.8900944 Rip/Wam		AVAILABLE

Description 175 pages ; 24 cm Series Feminist perspectives Feminist perspectives. Analysis France Women Psychiatry, history Notes Translation of: La ronde des folles Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [162]-168) and index Subject Asylums -- France -- History -- 19th century. Mental illness -- France -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospital patients -- France -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- France -- History -- 19th century. Women patients -- France -- History -- 19th century. Women -- Institutional care -- France -- History -- 19th century. Women -- Mental health -- France -- History -- 19th century. Author Menage, Catherine du Peloux LC no. 92120309 ISBN 0745604544

Other Titles Ronde des folles. English

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