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Michêle L. Bergeron, "Hegemony, Law and Psychiatry: A Perspective on the Systemic Oppression of "Rogue Mothers" in In re Aaron S", Feminist Legal Studies IV/1 (1996), 49-72: The author deconstructs the law-related experience of a single mother ostensibly suffering from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. That the institutionalized violence of law are the misogyny of psychiatry can operate to establish, maintain and constantly re-affirm the hegemonic condition of female dependence, gender inequality and compulsory heterosexuality is evidenced by this single mother's experience in In re Aaron S. The author contends that In re Aaron S. is an instance of the state recognizing a hegemonic crisis, namely the subversive potential of "rogue mothers", and responding to the perceived crisis, through the operation of the state apparatuses of law and psychiatry, with violence and coercion.

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