Histories of the normal and the abnormal
Subtitle: social and cultural histories of norms and normativity
By: edited by Waltraud Ernst.
Contributors: Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Social norms; Deviant behavior
Table of contents: title: The normal and the abnormal / Waltraud Ernst; title: Invisible friends / Janet Ravenscroft; title: From "monstrous" to "abnormal" / Sarah Mitchell; title: Eccentric lives / James Gregory; title: Constructing the common type / Lucy Hartley; title: Norms and violations / Nicola Cotton; title: Made to measure? / Alison Matthews David; title: "A masculine mythology suppressing and distorting all the facts" / Lesley A. Hall; title: Reflections on interpreting the abnormal in William James's "spiritual crisis" / Francis Neary; title: Can kinship be designed and still be normal? / Ellen Herman; title: Flexible norms? / Christiane Sinding; title: A matter of degree / Carsten Timmermann; title: Deviant roles, normal lives / Sara Bergstresser.