A Feminist Analysis of Mental Healthcare for Indian Women

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Abstract Feminism has different literary definition and some of them are based on ideology or philosophical. Though “the state of being female” is the definition offered to the word feminism, it is also understood as the way of demanding the rights of the women and gender equality”. The state of mental wellbeing among women is a challenging status in Indian context, due to the myths and gender dominance that prevails from ancient times. Hence, the risk of mental illness is highly common among majority of the women population in India. The primary objective of the paper is to understand the necessity of Feminist Psychology in the Society. This paper also tries to address the causes for mental illness among women and tries to speak about the non-familiar concept known as feminist therapy that is associated with the Mental Health of the Women.

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