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The literature review explores how gender stereotypes affect women and their experience of mental illness. The aim is to demonstrate how a feminist perspective provides a useful lens through which women\u2019s experience of mental illness can be viewed.<\/jats:p><jats:p> <jats:bold>Methods.<\/jats:bold>\u2002The papers were identified by a computerized search of the CINAHL, Medline, BIDS ISI and Mental Health Nursing Collection databases and a hand search. All papers were screened and subjected to critical review.<\/jats:p><jats:p> <jats:bold>Results.<\/jats:bold>\u2002A theoretical framework was developed that reflected two key themes to emerge from the feminist literature on women and mental illness, namely psychiatry as a method of socially controlling women and the medicalization of women\u2019s unhappiness. 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