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050 00 $aRC451.4.W6$bW6567 1994
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245 00 $aWomen of the asylum :$bvoices from behind the walls, 1840-1945 /$cwritten and edited by Jeffrey L. Geller and Maxine Harris ; foreword by Phyllis Chesler.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAnchor Books,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $axxvii, 349 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aJeffrey Geller and Maxine Harris have amassed twenty-six first person accounts of women who were placed in mental institutions against their will, often by male family members for holding views or behaving in ways that deviated from the norms of their day. Taken as a whole, these pieces offer a fascinating and frightening portrait of life both behind and outside the asylum walls.
520 8 $aGeller and Harris's accompanying history of both societal and psychiatric standards for women reveals that often even the prevailing conventions reinforced the perception that these women were "mad.".
520 8 $aMuch has been written about the Victorian ideal of womanhood, the reform movements of the late nineteenth century, and the suffragettes of the early twentieth century, but still very little is known about those women who were pushed aside or hidden away. Women of the Asylum is the first book to give them the opportunity to speak for themselves.
650 0 $aMentally ill women$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aPsychiatric hospital patients$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aPsychiatric hospital care$zUnited States$xHistory$vSources.
650 0 $aPsychiatry$zUnited States$xHistory$vSources.
650 0 $aWomen$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113565
700 1 $aGeller, Jeffrey L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93110017
700 1 $aHarris, Maxine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85061896
852 00 $bbar$hRC451.4.W6$iW6567 1994