Anger Of A Man Insanity Of A Woman By Aryahi Srivastava

Aryahi Srivastava’s Anger of a Man, Insanity of a Woman offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary examination of how gender frames legal and clinical responses to anger, mental illness and criminal responsibility. Drawing on landmark cases, psychiatric literature, interviews and socio-legal theory, the book demonstrates patterns in which male expressions of anger are often criminalised differently from female expressions that are pathologised as “insanity” or emotional instability. Key chapters analyse the insanity defence, mens rea assessments, expert psychiatric testimony, sentencing mitigation, and the intersection of domestic violence with mental-health narratives. The author highlights systemic biases—diagnostic stereotyping, gendered language in judgments, and evidentiary practices—that disadvantage women and obscure structural causes of violence and distress. Importantly, the volume proposes concrete reforms: standardized forensic assessment protocols, gender-sensitive judicial guidance, improved legal aid for defendants with mental-health needs, trauma-informed evidence rules, and public-health approaches to reduce criminalisation. Written for a wide readership—legal practitioners, judges, forensic psychiatrists, policy-makers, activists and graduate students—the book combines scholarly depth with accessible case summaries, policy checklists and model courtroom practices to promote rights-preserving justice for people whose mental health and gender make them especially vulnerable in legal processes.