Ebook {Epub PDF} Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls 1840-1945 by Jeffrey L. Geller

Women of the Asylum.: Voices from Behind the Walls, Jeffrey L. Geller, Maxine Harris. Anchor Books, - Social Science - pages. 2 Reviews. 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 /5(2).  · A hundred years of first-person reports from women committed to mental institutions that seem no less distressing in the 20th century than in the 19th. Geller (Psychiatry/Univ. of Massachusetts) and Harris (Down from the Pedestal, ) have excerpted accounts from the speeches, journals, reports, and books of well-known and unknown women who found not asylum, but degradation, . Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls Pasta dura – 1 julio Edición Inglés por Jeffrey L. Geller (Autor), Maxine Harris (Editor) de 5 estrellas 18 calificacionesReviews:

Women of the Asylum Voices from Behind the Walls, by Geller, Jeffrey L. ISBN: List Price: $ $ These pieces offer a portrait of life both behind and outside the asylum walls. Geller and Harris's accompanying history of both societal and psychiatric standards for women reveals that. Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, Taschenbuch - 1. August August Englisch Ausgabe von Jeffrey L. Geller (Autor).

Geller, Jeffrey L., and Maxine Harris. Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, – NY: Doubleday, (includes a chapter of Packard's writings). James, Edward T., ed. Notable American Women, – Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, suggested reading: Sapinsley, Barbara. Women of the Asylum Voices from Behind the Walls, by Geller, Jeffrey L. ISBN: List Price: $ This work provides a much needed collective human voice on the lack of dignity, physical violence and other horrors of women undergoing "treatment" in Insane Asylums from the 's to WWII. The reader learns that it is very easy for a husband to discard his wife - commit her to an asylum - and that it is correspondingly difficult for her to get out.