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

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

Jeffrey L. Geller with Phyllis Chesler, Maxine Harris

384 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging dark informative slow-paced
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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 t...

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