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

Hypatia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Nicki
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Psychiatric Disability

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

Hypatia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-104
Author(s):  
Andrea Nicki
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Psychiatric Disability

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

Hypatia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Nicki
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Psychiatric Disability ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Moral Consciousness ◽  
The Mind

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.

Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Truth Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
The Public

Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Night Time ◽  
British Fiction ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relations Of Power

This book offers a critique of the dominant understanding and deployment of empathy in the mainstream medical humanities. Drawing on feminist theory, it positions empathy not as something that one has or lacks, and needs to accrue, but as something that one does and that is embedded within structural, institutional and cultural relations of power. It aims to provide a critically informed definition of empathy, drawing on phenomenology, in order to counter the vagueness of the term as it has often been used. It questions, too, the assumption that empathy is limited to the clinical relation, looking to a broader and more encompassing definition of the ‘medical’. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Pat Barker’s Life Class, Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, this book contends that contemporary fiction is not a vehicle for accessing another’s illness experience, but itself engages critically with the question of empathy and its limits. The volume marks a key contribution to the rapidly evolving field of the critical medical humanities.

Intifada Incantation #2

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Mekhatansh McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist ◽  
Epistemological Framework

This work examines how June Jordan's poetry dedicated to solidarity is a pedagogical and epistemological framework in SOLHOTLex and in engaging Black girls around the interconnectedness of the occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Syrians under the Bashar Al Assad regime. It begins to answer the questions of how frameworks like womanism and postcolonial feminist theory inform engagement around solidarity in SOLHOTLex and organizing Black girls while examining what critical engagement and organizing looks like when the voices of Black girls are in symphony with the rest of the world's resistance struggles.

The Way Out West: Development and the Rhetoric of Mobility in Postmodern Feminist Theory

Hypatia ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH A. PRITCHARD
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
West Development ◽  
The Way
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