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Women of the Asylum

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Women of the Asylum

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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 1994-06-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385474221

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