1869, Ep. 99 with Jessie Hewitt, author of Institutionalizing Gender

1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

This episode we speak with Jessie Hewitt, editor of the new book Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501753329/institutionalizing-gender/#bookTabs=1 Jessie Hewitt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Redlands. Follow her on Twitter @jessie_hewitt. We spoke to Jessie about how psychiatric professionals in the 19th century dealt with gender, how men and women would often crack under the pressure of the strict Bourgeois gender expectations of the time, and how the psychiatric system dramatically oppressed women and at the same time had an extremely damaging impact on men as well.