Gênero sem razão: mulheres e loucura no sertão norte mineiro

Abstract

This work deals with the history of madness and the female identity of the mad woman of Norte de Minas in the second half of the twentieth century. Speaks of social representations of the world positive spaces reserved for women, and the denial of these values can refer the woman to the condition sold, by removing the subjectivity, giving him the stigma of madness. Identified by the discourse of psychiatry, this brand qualifies as a mad woman or degenerated, providing a counterpoint demarcated by modern rationality, the woman with normal or normalized. Search also establish a dialogue between the treatment for the insane (his exclusion by hospices in hospital) and social development strategies adopted in Brazil, in a historical analysis of the conditions that allowed the discourses and practices relating to the madness.