Regina G Kunzel: In the Shadow of Diagnosis

Cover: 9780226831855 | In the Shadow of Diagnosis | Psychiatric Power and Queer Life | Kunzel

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A look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people. In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in the mid- to late-twentieth-century United States. It examines psychiatrists' investments in understanding homosexuality as a dire psychiatric condition, a judgment that garnered them tremendous power and authority at a time that historians have characterized as psychiatry's "golden age." That stigmatizing diagnosis made a deep and lasting impact, too, on queer people, shaping gay life and politics in indelible ways. In the Shadow of Diagnosis helps us understand the adhesive and ongoing connection between queerness and sickness.

Über den Autor

Regina Kunzel is the Larned Professor of History and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Kunzel is the author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780226831855
ISBN-10:	022683185X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kunzel, Regina G
Hersteller:	University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	231 x 150 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Regina G Kunzel
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.04.2024
Gewicht:	0,37 kg