About this book
Introduction
This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Featuring analyses of the prison, the psychiatric hospital, immigration detention, and other locales, this book explores the multiple interlocking oppressions that result in the diagnosis and medical, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of individuals constituted as ‘mentally ill’ at various historical moments and across institutional spaces. Contributors unpack how feminine, masculine, and transgender bodies are made up as mentally ill/sick/deviant by way of biomedical and institutional knowledges and discourses and are intervened upon by different institutional and expert authorities.
Keywords
Critical Mental Health Critical Psychology Critical Psychiatry Women’s Studies Gender Studies Feminist Studies Mental Illness Crime Legal Studies Imprisonment Psy care in prison Healthcare in prison Criminalization Prison Punishment
Editors and affiliations
- Jennifer M. Kilty
- Erin Dej
- 1.Department of CriminologyUniversity of OttawaOttawa, ONCanada
- 2.Department of CriminologyWilfrid Laurier UniversityBrantford, ONCanada
About the editors
Jennifer M. Kilty is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure, law and emotions, and women’s experiences of confinement.
Erin Dej is Postdoctoral Fellow with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. She received her doctorate in criminology from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include homelessness, mental health, autonomy among marginalized people, and homelessness prevention.
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