{"product_id":"madwives-schizophrenic-women-in-the-1950s-9780813516899","title":"Madwives: Schizophrenic Women in the 1950s","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carol A. B. Warren\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Psychopathology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An important contribution to the study of mental illness, gender roles, and family interaction. . . . An insightful and well-written book demonstrating the pervasive consequences of gender roles for the deepest levels of mind and emotion.\"--American Journal of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e \"Opens a window onto the lives of the mentally ill and their families.\"--Women's Review of Books \"Warren's analysis is painstaking and illuminating, and there is plenty of material here to interest those concerned with issues of gender and mental illness.\"--Times Higher Education Supplement\u003cbr\u003e \"The women make the author's major points in riveting fashion, speaking eloquently of enforced dependency and subjugation, the helplessness of rigid and constantly reinforced gender-role boundaries, and outright manipulation by their husbands.\"--Contemporary Psychology\u003cbr\u003e \"Can marriage make women go crazy? Carol Warren addresses this question by emphasizing the connections between gender-sterotypical behavior and the institutionalization of married women in the 1950s, using interviews collected . . . during 1957-61. . . . An interesting sociological reworking of the original pychologically oriented interpretation of the interviews.\"--Oral History Review\u003cbr\u003e Carol A. B. Warren is a professor of sociology at the University of Kansas and author of The Court of Last Resort: Mental Illness and the Law.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892539703447,"sku":"9780813516899","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813516899.webp?v=1781187404","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/madwives-schizophrenic-women-in-the-1950s-9780813516899","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}