Mad Matters
A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies
Robert Menzies editor Geoffrey Reaume editor Brenda A LeFrancois editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Canadian Scholars
Published:23rd Aug '12
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: ""An important new movement is sweeping through the western world.... The 'mad,' the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums are coming together and speaking for themselves.""
Mad Matters is the first Canadian book to bring together the writings of this vital movement, which has grown explosively in the years since. With contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, as well as activists and psychiatric survivors, it presents diverse critical voices that convey the lived experiences of the psychiatrized and challenges dominant understandings of ""mental illness."" The connections between mad activism and other liberation struggles are stressed throughout, making the book a major contribution to the literature on human rights and anti-oppression.
This book carves out the terrain of a vital and robust new field of study and makes clear its many points of connection to lived experiences of madness, activist movements, and related scholarly disciplines. The writing in Mad Matters comes from diverse personal and scholarly perspectives, and covers an impressive range of relevant topics, yet it all consistently advances the volume's goal of explaining and demonstrating the scope and radical significance of Mad Studies. In short, the anthology is delightfully readable and theoretically rich."" - Joanne Woiak, University of Washington
ISBN: 9781551305349
Dimensions: 244mm x 169mm x 21mm
Weight: 690g
408 pages