1. Introduction: Psy, Gender, and Containment -- Part I Historical 'Psy' Discourses Revisited -- 2. Sickening Institutions: A Feminist Sociological Analysis and Critique of Religion, Medicine, and Psychiatry -- 3. Traditions of Colonial and Eugenic Violence: Immigration Detention in Canada -- 4. Gender, Madness, and the Legacies of the Prisons Information Group (GIP) -- Part II Containing Bodies -- 5. Patients' Perspective on Mechanical Restraints in Acute and Emergency Psychiatric Settings: A Poststructural Feminist Analysis -- 6. Carceral Optics and the Crucible of Segregation: Revisiting Scenes of State-Sanctioned Violence Against Incarcerated Women -- 7. Gender Dysphoria and the Medical Gaze in Anglo-American Carceral Regimes -- Part III The Asylum and Beyond -- 8. Uncovering the Heteronormative Order of the Psychiatric Institution: A Queer Reading of Chart Documentation and Language Use -- 9. Assessing 'Insight', Determining Agency and Autonomy: Implicating Social Identities -- 10. When a Man's Home Isn't a Castle: Hegemonic Masculinity Among Men Experiencing Homelessness and Mental Illness -- 11. Dangerous Discourses: Masculinity, Coercion, and Psychiatry -- 12. Conclusion: Expanding the Concept of 'Containment'.

This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Featuring analyses of the prison, the psychiatric hospital, immigration detention, and other locales, this book explores the multiple interlocking oppressions that result in the diagnosis and medical, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of individuals constituted as 'mentally ill' at various historical moments and across institutional spaces. Contributors unpack how feminine, masculine, and transgender bodies are made up as mentally ill/sick/deviant by way of biomedical and institutional knowledges and discourses and are intervened upon by different institutional and expert authorities.