The Locator -- [(subject = "Mentally Ill Persons")]

91 records matched your query       


Record 47 | Previous Record | MARC Display | Next Record | Search Results
Author:
Carlisle, Linda V., 1947-
Title:
Elizabeth Packard : a noble fight / Linda V. Carlisle.
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Packard, E. P. W.--(Elizabeth Parsons Ware),--1816-1897.
Psychiatric hospital patients--Illinois--Biography.
Social reformers--Illinois--Biography.
Women social reformers--Illinois--Biography.
Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--United States--Case studies.
Mentally ill--Civil rights--United States--Case studies.
Husband and wife--United States--Case studies.
Married women--Civil rights--United States--Case studies.
Women's rights--United States--Case studies.
Packard, E. P. W.--(Elizabeth Parsons Ware),--1816-1897.
Mentally Ill Persons--Illinois--Biography.
Patients--Illinois--Biography.
Commitment of Mentally Ill--legislation & jurisprudence--Illinois.
History, 19th Century--Illinois.
Mentally Ill Persons--legislation & jurisprudence--Illinois.
Women's Rights--history--Illinois.
Huwelijksrecht
Psychisch gestoorden
Dwangverpleging
Rechtspositie
Verenigde Staten
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"All the love his bachelor heart could muster" -- "New notions and wild vagaries" -- Breaking the mold -- Free love and true womanhood -- "The forms of law" -- Andrew McFarland and mental medicine -- "A world of trouble" -- "An unendurable annoyance" -- From courtroom to activism -- "My pen shall rage" -- Shooting the rattlesnakes -- Vindication and "virtuous action" -- Triumph and disaster -- Working in her calling -- "Great and noble work" -- Final campaigns.
ISBN:
0252035720 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252035722 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)601330881
LCCN:
2010016579
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

Initiate Another SILO Locator Search

This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.