03268nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-48707-1 DE-He213 20251030112635.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240718s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031487071 978-3-031-48707-1 10.1007/978-3-031-48707-1 doi HQ12-449 JFSJ bicssc SOC032000 bisacsh JBSF thema Masters, Katie. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80809 Feminist and Anti-Psychiatry Perspectives on ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’ [electronic resource] : The Socially Anxious Woman / by Katie Masters. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 256 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender, Psychiatry, and Social Anxiety -- 3. 'Co-morbidities', Femininities, and Non-normativities -- 4. Diagnosis, Treatment, and Contingency on (Gendered) Culture -- 5. Watching Women’s Bodies, Watching Women’s Selves -- 6. The Ideal Self -- 7. Conclusion. This book conceptualises the diagnosis ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’ (SAD) in women as a rational response to life in postfeminist, neoliberal, twenty-first century Britain. By speaking to women with this diagnosis, and drawing on the author’s lived experience, it investigates the interplay between women’s social anxiety and Western culture. It argues that societal factors are implicated in women’s mental distress to a far greater extent than dominant (especially psychiatric) narratives would hold—narratives which, premised on individual pathology, often present a biologically reductionist and medicalised account. Through deploying a unique blend of feminism and anti-psychiatry, this book critiques the framework which exists around diagnosing and treating SAD, but without dismissing distress. Inspired by feminist critiques of other gendered psychiatric diagnoses, such as Anorexia Nervosa, it conceptualises ‘SAD’ in women as a ‘culture-bound syndrome’. This book will interest students and scholars of gender studies and sociology. Sex. 66477 Psychiatry. 70761 Mental health. 63229 Feminism. 1785 Feminist theory. 61151 Gender Studies. 66478 Psychiatry. 70761 Mental Health. 63229 Feminism and Feminist Theory. 67739 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031487064 Printed edition: 9783031487088 Printed edition: 9783031487095 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48707-1 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 61705 61705