Boxing Women: Regulation, Women and Mental Health

Authors

Cate Hemingway

Abstract

The article argues that the legal and psychiatric systems collaboratively categorize women who offend as either "mad" or "bad," failing to address underlying social issues. It examines how these systems pathologize women's behavior, using examples like pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) and battered women's syndrome (BWS) as legal defenses, which often reinforce harmful stereotypes rather than providing meaningful solutions.

Disciplines

Law | Law and Gender

Recommended Citation

Cate Hemingway, Boxing Women: Regulation, Women and Mental Health, 2 Cardozo J. Equal Rts. & Soc. Just. 109 (1995).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozoersj/vol2/iss1/9