“Crazy Bitches: Redefining Mental Health (Care) in the Feminist Utopia”

2015 Smith, Tessa. “Crazy Bitches: Redefining Mental Health (Care) in the Feminist Utopia.” The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future. Ed. Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff (New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2015), 303-311. The book includes a number of other utopias and much additional material related to utopianism. PSt

The essay is primarily a critique of current practices while stressing that mental illness is real. The main focus, though, is the argument that in “The culture of the feminist utopia must be one in which people experiencing extraordinary mental states can both survive and thrive” (306). Female author.