(W)righting women
Constructions of gender, sexuality and race in the psychiatric chart
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15098207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Daley (0000-0002-7136-064X, York University, corresponding author), Lucy Costa (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health), L E Ro (0000-0002-6105-1448, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health), Lori Ross |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 955-969 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691058.2012.712718 |
| PMID | 22900575 |
| OpenAlex | W1967318656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 32 |
This paper examines the interpretative nature of psychiatry in relation to gender, sexuality and race within the particular time and place of one urban, Canadian, clinical psychiatric setting. We bring women's psychiatric inpatient charts and a critical feminist perspective into dialogue in an effort to focus on gender, sexuality and race in psychiatric narratives on women's madness. The research used a qualitative, retrospective research design to examine the psychiatric narrative as a technique of power as it operates on women. This paper focuses on the overarching theme of 'medicalisation', identified from the analysis of women's psychiatric inpatient charts, including two subthemes: (1) language and composition and (2) decontextualisation. Our analysis suggests that psychiatric chart documentation practices that reproduce gendered, sexualised, and racialised biases and assumptions and decontextualise the social and structural context of women's experiences of madness serve to create the paradox of women's visibility/erasure in psychiatric charts. The paper concludes with an exploration of the significance of women's authorship legitimacy in psychiatric chart documentation
Context (archaeology · Documentation · Human sexuality · Narrative · Psychiatry · Race (biology · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |