White men and weak masculinity: men in the public asylums in Victoria, Australia, and New Zealand, 1860s–1900s

Title: White men and weak masculinity: men in the public asylums in Victoria, Australia, and New Zealand, 1860s–1900s
Creator: Coleborne, Catharine
Relation: History of Psychiatry Vol. 25, Issue 4, p. 468-476
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X14543758
Publisher: Sage Publications
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: This article reveals a set of formulations of masculine identity through the fragments of extant casebook evidence from nineteenth-century psychiatric institutions in Victoria, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand. It shows that some patterns in the identification of masculinity and insanity emerge, also highlighting the relevance of individual stories and ‘cases’ to fully understand how masculine identities were fashioned through medical institutional language.
Subject: Australasia; colonial institutions; diagnoses; gender; insanity; masculinity; 19th century
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1356774
Identifier: uon:31782
Identifier: ISSN:0957-154X
Language: eng
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