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The Abused Mind: Feminist Theory, Psychiatric Disability, and Trauma
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 16, Number 4, Fall 2001
- pp. 80-104
- Article
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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.