This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this subject area. The thematically-organized volumes are available individually or as a set: * Vol. 1: The History of Mental Illnessin Criminal Cases: the English Tradition 350 pp* 0-8153-4062-1] * Vol. 2: The Insanity Defense: American Developments 350 pp* 0-8153-4063-X] * Vol. 3: Competency to be Tried, Imprisoned and Executed 350 pp* 0-8153-4064-8]
This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this subject area. The thematically-organized volumes are availabl...
This work demonstrates a multifaceted approach to autobiographical writing by those the dominant deem other than themselves. Focusing on four major texts of multiculturalism, the author examines how they each represent the self as unique, as collectively othered, and as inclusively human, and how these opposing aspects of selfhood interact. Rusk also analyzes the strategies that the writers speak about to their multiple, divided audiences. For these authors, articulating a life experience and a selfhood more complex than society admits, is an act of repudiation and transgression that bursts...
This work demonstrates a multifaceted approach to autobiographical writing by those the dominant deem other than themselves. Focusing on four major te...
