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Gendering Mental Health : Knowledges, Identities, and Institutions

by Bhargavi V Davar; Tk Sundari Ravindran , T. K. Sundari Ravindran
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780199453535
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and Yoga
  • Publisher: Oxford UP
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 248
  • Original Price: INR 850.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 400 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Social Psychology

About the Book Steeped in archaic and narrow colonial attitudes towards people of 'unsound mind', the discourse on mental health in India, as also the public apparatus dealing with it, are rigid, exclusionary and deeply gender insensitive. Interrogating the ways in which we understand and deal with mental health disabilities, this volume unravels the voices of women trapped in the predominantly skewed discourse of mental ill-health as 'madness', within the sciences, legal systems, policies and the media.
The collection of essays in this volume focus on the state of mental health of Indian women, with respect to social attitudes, cultural barriers, treatment, policies, safeguards, or lack thereof. The contributors ask fundamental questions: Is 'mental illness' a social, medical, legal, penal, historical, personal construct? Is mental disorder a disability? Do people living with a mental ailment have a 'memory' or the 'insight' to tell their own stories? In dealing with these questions, it seeks to provide a perspective on how women suffering from mental illness view themselves and their surroundings in India.
Combining primary research and insights from gender studies and mental health specialists, the volume presents a fundamental critique of the institutional responses to women's mental health and highlights the dire need to overhaul the Indian mental health system. About the Author Bhargavi V. Davar is Director, Centre for Advocacy in Mental Health, Pune.
T.K. Sundari Ravindran is Honorary Professor at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala.

Bhargavi V. Davar, Centre for Adocacy in Mental health, Pune

Bhargavi V. Davar is Director, Center for Advocacy in Mental Health, Pune

T.K. Sundari Ravindran is Honorary Professor at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala.

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