Malaysian women in the psychiatric services: gender norms and socio-sexual control factors

Journal: Health Care for Women International

Volume: 25

Pages: 581-595

ISSN: 0739-9332

DOI: 10.1080/07399330490444849

Abstract:

An ethnographic study of female psychiatric patients was undertaken in East Malaysia. Findings indicate that these service users were subject to a number of sexist and oppressive practices that militate against their freedom of movement on the wards as well as their social interaction in the wider context of the hospital. Stereotypic notions of female sexuality and morality act as forms of moral containment and are interpreted in the hospital context as requiring heavy custodial care by the hospital authorities.

Source: Manual

Preferred by: Sara Ashencaen Crabtree