Susan J Hubert. Questions of Power:...

Susan J Hubert. Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives. Newark: U of Delaware P 2002 183 pp ISBN 0-87413-743-8 $3950

Susan J Hubert's close attention of what she terms "women's madness narratives" takes up issues of psychiatric diagnosis, evaluation, and institutionalization, and the relation of these to "social control"--specifically the enforcement of particular inflection for sex roles. As Hubert's introduction indicates, this country has been covered already--most prominently according to Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work Women and Madness (1972) Elaine