Download or read book Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness written by Marie Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the gendered experience of madness within patriarchal power structures. Spanning disciplines like mad studies, psychoanalysis, sociology, and critical theory, this collection explores the interaction between the social and the psyche as it relates to marginalized women’s mental health.