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Containing Madness

Gender and ‘Psy’ in Institutional Contexts

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Editors:
  1. Jennifer M. Kilty

    1. Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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  2. Erin Dej

    1. Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, ON, Canada

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  • Explores how multiple factors affect the wellbeing of patients in institutions
  • Addresses how to improve the treatment of patients
  • Examines case studies concerning institutional abuses in Canada and beyond

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Psy, Gender, and Containment

    • Jennifer M. Kilty, Erin Dej
    Pages 1-12

  3. Conclusion: Expanding the Concept of ‘Containment’

    • Erin Dej, Jennifer M. Kilty
    Pages 267-280

  6. The Asylum and Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Uncovering the Heteronormative Order of the Psychiatric Institution: A Queer Reading of Chart Documentation and Language Use

      • Andrea Daley, Lori E. Ross
      Pages 169-189

    3. Assessing ‘Insight’, Determining Agency and Autonomy: Implicating Social Identities

      • Merrick D. Pilling, Andrea Daley, Margaret F. Gibson, Lori E. Ross, Juveria Zaheer
      Pages 191-213

    4. When a Man’s Home Isn’t a Castle: Hegemonic Masculinity Among Men Experiencing Homelessness and Mental Illness

      • Erin Dej
      Pages 215-239

    5. Dangerous Discourses: Masculinity, Coercion, and Psychiatry

      • Christopher Van Veen, Mohamed Ibrahim, Marina Morrow
      Pages 241-265

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 281-286
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About this book

This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Featuring analyses of the prison, the psychiatric hospital, immigration detention, and other locales, this book explores the multiple interlocking oppressions that result in the diagnosis and medical, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of individuals constituted as ‘mentally ill’ at various historical moments and across institutional spaces. Contributors unpack how feminine, masculine, and transgender bodies are made up as mentally ill/sick/deviant by way of biomedical and institutional knowledges and discourses and are intervened upon by different institutional and expert authorities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Jennifer M. Kilty

  • Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, ON, Canada

    Erin Dej

About the editors

Jennifer M. Kilty is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure, law and emotions, and women’s experiences of confinement.


Erin Dej is Postdoctoral Fellow with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. She received her doctorate in criminology from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include homelessness, mental health, autonomy among marginalized people, and homelessness prevention.

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