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Title:
Women of the asylum : voices from behind the walls, 1840-1945 / written and edited by Jeffrey L. Geller and Maxine Harris ; foreword by Phyllis Chesler.
Edition:
1st Anchor trade pbk. ed.
Publisher:
Anchor Books,
Copyright Date:
1995, c1994
Description:
xxvii, 349 p., [2] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Psychiatric hospital care--United States--History--Sources.
Psychiatry--United States--History--Sources.
Mentally ill women--United States--Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients--United States--Biography.
Women--United States--Social conditions.
Psychiatric hospitals--History--Sources.
Psychiatry--History--Sources.
Women--History--History--Sources.
Mentally ill--Biography.
Women--United States--Social conditions.
Other Authors:
Geller, Jeffrey L.
Harris, Maxine.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [345-350]).
Contents:
Elizabeth T. Stone -- Catherine Beecher -- Phebe B. Davis -- Adriana P. Brinckle -- Adeline T.P. Lunt -- Ada Metcalf -- Mrs. H.C. McMullen -- Alice Bingham Russell -- Kate Lee -- Margaret Starr -- Sally Willard Peirce -- Marian King -- Lenore McCall -- Frances Farmer.
Summary:
Presents twenty-six first person accounts of women placed in mental institutions against their will.
ISBN:
9780385474238
0385474237 (pbk.)
Locations:
AQPC277 -- Lamoni Public Library (Lamoni)

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