Alison's presentation draws from thirty-one mothers' mental patient files, including a family member, from one mental institution in Melbourne, Australia from the interwar years: 1920 to 1936. Alison uses feminist, historical approaches in her research to investigate the relationship between gender, motherhood, and mental disorder in the early twentieth century, Australian context.
Conference presentation
Insane mothers: an historical approach
Psychology Colloquia 2014 (Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour campus, 2 May)
2014
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- Title
- Insane mothers: an historical approach
- Creators
- Alison Watts - Southern Cross University
- Conference
- Psychology Colloquia 2014 (Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour campus, 2 May)
- Identifiers
- 1427; 991012820773402368
- Academic Unit
- School of Business and Tourism; School of Arts and Social Sciences; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation