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If madness has a female voice, what art can represent it? Why do women so often find themselves lying on the couch as patients? Does creativity and cultural production have a special relation to madness? This collection of essays - from an international cluster of sociologists, social and mental health workers, artists and literary critics - offers wide-ranging answers to these pertinent questions. From the madwoman in the attic to the position of women in outlaw motorcycle gangs, the essays address such topics as the role of perversion in Italian literature, a Marxist critique of the psychiatric system, multiple personality order, and the link between creativity and self-harm. Some accounts come from direct observation, or suffering itself; others from reading and looking. In its attempt to represent madness, the convulsive ripples of thought dissect, contradict, perform and, at times, grieve. This book is an enthralling journey into the depths of madness.
Contents
The Voices of Madness Frances Davies and Laura Gonzalez Part I: On Madness Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist View on Social Constructionism Bruce M. Z. Cohen Beyond Symptoms: Towards a Narrative Conceptualisation of Women Who Have Experienced Trauma Emma Tseris Examining Human Weakness: A Comparative Study of Mental Suffering in Portugal and Poland Mira Marcinow and Fatima Alves The Black Leather Motorcycle Queen and the Passion of Madness: Women in Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs Jennifer Hedgecock The Examination of Creativity among Self-Harmers Frances Davies and Roz Phillips Part II: On Art A Medieval Madwoman in the Attic: Chaucer's Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales Nazan Yildiz Perversion, Madness and Crime in Young Italian Literature Daniela Chana The Pessoa Syndrome Katia Mitova Shackles of a Distant Self and the Damning Complicit Bernadette V. Russo Between Laughter and Crying Eleanor Bowen and Laura Gonzalez List of Contributors
