Gendered Moods: Psychotropics and Society

by E. Ettorre and Elianne Riska

Tranquillisers are prescribed to almost twice as many women as men, yet very little gender-based research has been carried out on the social context of their use.
Gendered Moods offers the first feminist analysis of the gendered character of psychotropic drug use, based on studies of long-term psychotropic drug users and the content of drug advertising. The authors argue that gender differences in psychotropic drug use are manifestations of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415082137
• ISBN13: 9780415082136
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher