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Gendered Moods: Psychotropics and Society

Gendered Moods: Psychotropics and Society

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Medical ReferencePoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0415082137
ISBN13: 9780415082136
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 31 1995
Pages: 187
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.68 Depth: 8.86
Language: English

Tranquillisers are prescribed to almost twice as many women as men, yet very little gender-based research has been carried out on the social context of their use.
Gendered Moods offers the first feminist analysis of the gendered character of psychotropic drug use, based on studies of long-term psychotropic drug users and the content of drug advertising. The authors argue that gender differences in psychotropic drug use are manifestations of the gendered construction of society as a whole, and that, as a result, women are particularly susceptible to being channelled into a state of dependency on prescribed drugs.

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