Bridges Inside: Women and Prison (May)

Facilitator(s) 

Emma Tseris and Scarlett Franks 

Text(s) 

‘“My Voice Was Discounted the Whole Way Through”: A Gendered Analysis of Women’s Experiences of Involuntary Mental Health Treatment’ (2022); Emma Jane Tseris, Eva Bright Hart, and Scarlett Franks 

Madness Made Me (2014); Mary O’Hagan 

This session will explore the relationships between prisons and the health system by examining women’s experiences of involuntary mental health treatment. Emma Tseris will open the session by discussing her paper ‘“My Voice Was Discounted the Whole Way Through”’ (2022), a qualitative study of the heightened harms experienced by women subjected to involuntary mental health treatment. In the second part of the discussion, participants will examine this paper alongside Mary O’Hagan’s memoir Madness Made Me (2014), a book which aims to show that madness is “a profoundly disruptive but full human experience” through the author’s journey to becoming a leader in the international mad movement.  
 
Readings are available on our website.