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Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls 1840-1945
By
Jeffrey L. Geller and
Maxine Harris (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Anchor Books
Publication date
July 1, 1994
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385474221
ISBN-10
0385474229
Dimensions
1 by 6.75 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.50 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$22.95
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§As reported by publisher
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Ten Days in A Mad-House: Illustrated and Annotated: A First-Hand Account of Life At Bellevue Hospital on Blackwell's Island in 1887 | The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980 | Letters from the Looney Bin | Gracefully Insane | Asylum | The Lives They Left Behind | The Bell Jar
Ten Days in A Mad-House: Illustrated and Annotated: A First-Hand Account of Life At Bellevue Hospital on Blackwell's Island in 1887 | The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980 | Letters from the Looney Bin | Gracefully Insane | Asylum | The Lives They Left Behind | The Bell Jar
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Twenty-six first-person accounts by women placed in asylums from 1840 to 1945 provide a chilling study of women in psychiatric institutions, chronicling involuntary imprisonment by male family members, as well as voluntary commitment, social conventions, and attitudes toward women and insanity.
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Hardcover
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from Anchor Books (July 1, 1994)
9780385474221 | details & prices | 6.75 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $22.95
About: Accounts by women placed in asylums from 1840 to 1945 provide a chilling study of psychiatric institutions and attitudes toward women
About: Accounts by women placed in asylums from 1840 to 1945 provide a chilling study of psychiatric institutions and attitudes toward women
Paperback
from Anchor Books (September 1, 1995); titled "Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945"
9780385474238 | details & prices | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $19.00
About: The 26 women who tell their stories here were incarcerated against their will, often by male family members, for holding views or behaving in ways that deviated from the norms of their day.
About: The 26 women who tell their stories here were incarcerated against their will, often by male family members, for holding views or behaving in ways that deviated from the norms of their day.
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