WGST 3812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder, Defamatory Libel

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 3812
• Professor: Lori Stinson

Document Summary

Wgst 3812 women living in the system: psy-ence & control. *all content belongs to lori a. stinson & where cited in lecture slides* Psychiatric & therapeutic control of women: pathologization of women in medicine & law. Transgressing norms of womanhood: charlotte ross black widow . Included those considered unfit to stand trial, or not guilty by reason of insanity, or transferred from prison because of mental disorder. Only 6 were charged w/ or convicted of murder. Non-violent offences included vagrancy (9), public intoxication, incorrigibility, defamatory libel, public nudity, & causing disturbance: directly violated gender-identity standards of mind and action, dominant images of docile, responsible sane womanhood. Socially & sexually: risk, resistance, and the unruly. Trying to make sense of carceral & transcarceral care": # of women w/ mental health issues has increased 61% since 1997 (barret, allenby & Therapeutic regimes (e. g. , cognitive-behavioural programming) operate as modes of punishment legitimizing excessive use of chemical & physical restraint (kilty)