In the context of Austerity, we witness an accelerating push to reduce and restrict the social power of women. This session will begin by tracing how multiple aspects of Austerity impact disproportionately on women, at the same time as women bear the brunt of the precarity and immiseration that are its footprint. The ruling powers attempt to trivialise and pathologise social suffering by applying labels of mental illness to those whose lives it dislocates, and especially those who resist. From a critical standpoint, this can be demystified as a form of “othering” discourse, that particulartly targets women.

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