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The Abused Mind: Feminist Theory, Psychiatric Disability, and Trauma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Andrea Nicki
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Abstract

I show how much psychiatric disability is informed by trauma, marginalization, sexist norms, social inequalities, concepts of irrationality and normalcy, oppositional mind-body dualism, and mainstream moral values. Drawing on feminist discussion of physical disability, I present a feminist theory of psychiatric disability that serves to liberate not only those who are psychiatrically disabled but also the mind and moral consciousness restricted in their ranges of rational possibilities.

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Hypatia , Volume 16 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Feminism and Disability, Part 1 , Fall 2001 , pp. 80 - 104
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Copyright © 2001 by Hypatia, Inc.

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