Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1. Delivering Justice, Withdrawing Care: The Norms and Etiquettes of 'Having' a Mental Illness ; Bhargavi V. Davar

2. (Un)making Madness: Delving into the Depths of Knowledge ; Ranjita Biswas

3. Adjudicating Illness and Capacity: Notes from a Custody Trial ; Vasudha Nagaraj

4. Ideological Reproduction of Gender and Normality in Psychiatric Drug Advertisements ; Jayasree Kalathil

5. Mining Marginalities and Mainstreaming Differences: The Disability Paradigm in Perspective ; Renu Addlakha

6. Growing Up and Sexual Identity Formation: Mental Health Concerns of Lesbian Women ; Ketki Ranade and Yogita Hastak

7. A Researcher's Tale ; Shazneen Limjerwala

8. Women's Rights, Human Rights, and the State: Reconfiguring Gender and Mental Health Concerns in India ; Anubha Sood

9. Identity Constructions for 'Mentally Disturbed' Women: Identities versus Institutions ; Bhargavi V. Davar

Index

Notes on Editors and Contributors

This work explores women's experiences of mental distress, disturbance and disabilities, and assesses how a variety of institutions impacts them. It presents primary research by a number of young scholars as well as other established researchers in the field of gender studies thereby contributing to women's studies by bringing the voices of women entrapped by the discourse of madness within sciences, legal systems, policies and the media