This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the deb

The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and

Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972.

This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey.

Incarceration severely affects the health and wellbeing of women both during their incarceration and following release, further complicating the health disparit