Women of the Asylum

Women of the Asylum

Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945

by Jeffrey L. Geller, Maxine Harris

349 pages· 1994
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Accounts by women placed in asylums from 1840 to 1945 provide a chilling study of psychiatric institutions and attitudes toward women

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