Klik på en miniature for at gå til Google Books
Indlæser... Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945 (udgave 1995)af Jeffrey L. Geller
Work InformationWomen of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945 af Jeffrey L. Geller
Ingen Indlæser...
Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I feel good reading this for an interesting reason - these women often seem to have little hope in anything other than that someone, someday, would read their words and know what they endured. The other comments on here are correct - the editors are definitely focused on affluent (and very literate) white women. I'd love to read an accompanying book of collected experiences of black, Native American, or other minority women. But the editors seem to have simply been looking to collect certain kinds of stories - not because of racism, just because that's what they were looking at. Very interesting, and some of the writings are really moving. ( ) There is nothing like first hand accounts to bring the deplorable condition of the Insane Asylum in the mid 19th to early 20th centuries. How easy it was for a husband to get rid of an unwanted wife, just bring her to an Insane Asylum to be committed. And how hopeless the incarceration. Cruelty was rampant and only changed its instruments and intensity over time. This book is alarming in presenting an aspect of Women's Studies that is rarely expounded upon ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Jeffrey 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.
Geller 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."
Much 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. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsIngen
Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of peopleLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
Er det dig?Bliv LibraryThing-forfatter. |