Strategies of social and sexual control of Malaysian women in psychiatric institutional care.
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.
Crabtree
Sara Ashencaen
SA
College of Family Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sara.Crabtree@zu.ac.ae
D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology*; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016387:Women's Health; D014933:Women's Rights