In every mind, women have more chances to suffer from mental illness. Hence, discuss the notion of normativity within the issue of mental health care
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Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Men.
- Said to be stronger, and with intact intellectual capacities.
- The relation between men and mental illness.
- The reasons why society is more likely to associate mental illness to women.
- Old fashioned diagnoses.
- Different drugs treatments to cure women's mental illness.
- The second wave of women's liberation movement.
- Chesler and the idea that depression rather than aggression is the female response to disappointment.
- The social manipulation of the female body.
- Women suffering from anorexia.
- Conclusion.
- Bibliography.
Abstract
In all societies, women have always been perceived as, physically but also mentally weaker than men. For a very long period, and even today in some parts of the world, women have not been considered as rational as men, but were rather seen as a "permanently subversive force within the political order". Men were the reason, women the passion. Thus in order to break women's unstable image, many feminists have worked on the "mind/body" distinction of Descartes. Their aim was to explain to people that women were as capable as men, and that they had the same intellectual and mental capacities, as well as the same abilities than their male counterparts. In other words, they wanted to prove that the mind had no sex and that the body was only a transport system. Yet, when it comes to mental healthcare, statistics show that women have more chances to suffer from mental illness.
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