Login Alert. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! In Showalter's study, the claim is presented as having dual grounding. Women's problems certainly not understood by "educated" men. KEY READING ** Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980 (London: Virago, 1987). Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Female Malady : Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830 to 1980 by Elaine Showalter (1985, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, The Female Malady : Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980. Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2017. 640 Ratings. Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2015. Female patients were cleaned and fed by nurses but supervised by male doctors who enforced the constraint. In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Drawing on a cultural sangria of material, The Female Malady traces the systematic (and often blundering) treatment of mental disease, focusing on how women influenced the establishment as not only patients, but commentators in the form of employees and writers, activists and advocates. Male Hysteria in Elaine Showalter’s The Female Malady. Simply share this good news to others. (Pp. Showalter's research is thorough, and her presentation of information shows a care and attentiveness to her material that increases the confidence of the reader. I also enjoyed the links made with literature. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. 13 June 2019 ... Add seclusion and a fatty diet of dairy and the therapy would be complete. View: 241. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Veritas Paperbacks), Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Author: Elaine Showalter. Good for research of women's sad, early history. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, Culture, 1830-1980: Elaine Showalter: Penguin: 1985: In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about ‘proper’ feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Hysteria usually occurs when one is overwhelmed by uncontrollable emotions. 2 E. Showalter, The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980 (New York, 1987) 98. Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2017. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830–1980. Or get 4-5 business-day shipping on this item for $5.99 Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! PLUS, free expedited delivery. Search. By E. Showalter. There was a problem loading your book clubs. The Female Malady. These emotions can be caused by a number of reasons, but most commonly, by a significant event that happened in one’s past. M Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Virago Press: London. Very thorough and yet still readable for people with no prior knowledge of mental health history. Well worth reading for changing attitudes to mental health, particularly in women. Unable to add item to List. 308; illustrated; £6.95.) About the Author: Elaine Showalter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1941. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2019, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2008. Accessible writing style. You are currently offline. A fascinating study of reasons for insanity, its treatment by society and medical experts ,with an interesting chapter on the treatment of shellshock. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. In large numbers, dissenting is only taken seriously if men initiate it. From inside the book . Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. He is the embodiment of the broken soldier being sent back from war, and as Elaine Showalter claims in The Female Malady, “The most masculine of enterprises, the Great War, the ‘apocalypse of masculinism,’ feminized its conscripts by taking away their sense of control” (Showalter 173). 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