In:
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, FapUNIFESP (SciELO), Vol. 30 ( 2023)
Abstract:
Abstract The clinical histories of women’s asylums allow us to deepen the gap between the positivist illusion of psychiatry during the first half of the 20th century in Spain and the subjective experience of the psychiatric internment of doubly subaltern crazy women. Diagnostic classifications were key in this attempt at positivization. This paper aims to point out which subjectifying elements participated in the application of diagnoses such as schizophrenia, psychopathy, and oligophrenia in the women’s wards of the Manicomio Provincial de Málaga, and to show how the hegemonic ideal of femininity established a permeable limit between sanity and madness of women, between assimilations and resistances.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1678-4758
,
0104-5970
Uniform Title:
Classifying the women: psychiatric diagnoses and female subjectivity in the Manicomio Provincial de Málaga, Spain, 1909-1950
DOI:
10.1590/s0104-59702023000100003
Language:
Spanish
,
English
Publisher:
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Publication Date:
2023
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2053148-5
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