Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945 by Phyllis Chesler, Jeffrey L. Geller, Maxine Harris

Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945

Phyllis Chesler, Jeffrey L. Geller, Maxine Harris

384 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced
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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. The authors' accompanying history of both societal and ps...

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