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Understanding Women’s Madness: Reasonable Response and Real Suffering

The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience. By Jane Ussher, East Sussex, UK; New York, Routledge, 2011. 316 pp. $34.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-415-33928-5

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Weiss, H. Understanding Women’s Madness: Reasonable Response and Real Suffering. Sex Roles 66, 562–564 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-011-0096-0

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