The Private War of Mrs. Packard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Private War of Mrs. Packard write by Barbara Sapinsley. This book was released on 1995. The Private War of Mrs. Packard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world. This is the story of 19th-century feminist, Mrs Packard.
Elizabeth Packard
Elizabeth Packard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elizabeth Packard write by Linda V. Carlisle. This book was released on 2010-11-15. Elizabeth Packard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elizabeth Packard's story is one of courage and accomplishment in the face of injustice and heartbreak. In 1860, her husband, a strong-willed Calvinist minister, committed her to an Illinois insane asylum in an effort to protect their six children and his church from what he considered her heretical religious ideas. Upon her release three years later (as her husband sought to return her to an asylum), Packard obtained a jury trial and was declared sane. Before the trial ended, however, her husband sold their home and left for Massachusetts with their young children and her personal property. His actions were perfectly legal under Illinois and Massachusetts law; Packard had no legal recourse by which to recover her children and property. This experience in the legal system, along with her experience as an asylum patient, launched Packard into a career as an advocate for the civil rights of married women and the mentally ill. She wrote numerous books and lobbied legislatures literally from coast to coast advocating more stringent commitment laws, protections for the rights of asylum patients, and laws to give married women equal rights in matters of child custody, property, and earnings. Despite strong opposition from the psychiatric community, Packard's laws were passed in state after state, with lasting impact on commitment and care of the mentally ill in the United States. Packard's life demonstrates how dissonant streams of American social and intellectual history led to conflict between the freethinking Packard, her Calvinist husband, her asylum doctor, and America's fledgling psychiatric profession. It is this conflict--along with her personal battle to transcend the stigma of insanity and regain custody of her children--that makes Elizabeth Packard's story both forceful and compelling.
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dorothea Dix write by Thomas J. Brown. This book was released on 1998. Dorothea Dix available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The disastrous failure of one of the most widely admired heroines in the nation provides a dramatic measure of the transformations of northern values during the war.
The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman
The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman write by John S. Hughes. This book was released on 1993. The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Andrew Sheffield's letters help us better understand the full range of behavior among women in the Victorian South & the limits of Southern womanhood near the end of the nineteenth century.
Theaters of Madness
Theaters of Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theaters of Madness write by Benjamin Reiss. This book was released on 2008-09-15. Theaters of Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and religious services. Theaters of Madness explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum’s place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity. Benjamin Reiss explores the creative lives of patients and the cultural demands of their doctors. Their frequently clashing views turned practically all of American culture—from blackface minstrel shows to the works of William Shakespeare—into a battlefield in the war on insanity. Reiss also shows how asylums touched the lives and shaped the writing of key figures, such as Emerson and Poe, who viewed the system alternately as the fulfillment of a democratic ideal and as a kind of medical enslavement. Without neglecting this troubling contradiction, Theaters of Madness prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.
