Manufacturing Kleptomania: the Social and Scientific Underpinnings of a Pathology

Authors

Daisy V. Domínguez, CUNY City CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

Abstract

This paper aims to show the ways in which the kleptomania diagnosis expressed displaced societal fears and led to the ostracism and exculpation of groups based on an interesting mix of gender and class biases.

Comments

This paper was originally published in the Madison Historical Review 6 (2009): 1-23.