| Description |
186 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Thesis |
Revision of author's thesis. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (164-172) and index. |
| Contents |
Women's madness narratives and the sentence of history -- Writing as rebellion: Elizabeth Packard, Ada Metcalf, Lydia Smith, Clarissa Lathrop, Anna Agnew, and Margaret Starr -- Testifying against themselves: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Marian King, Jane Hillyer, Joanne Greenberg, Lucy Freeman, and Barbara Field Benziger -- Questioning psychiatric power: Mary Jane Ward, Susanna Kaysen, Jill Johnston, and Kate Millett -- Seasons of peril: the madness narratives of Janet Frame and Bessie Head -- Epilogue: listening to women. |
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Mentally ill women -- United States -- Biography.
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Psychiatric hospital patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Psychiatric hospitals -- United States -- History.
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Literature and mental illness.
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Mental illness in literature.
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Women and literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Mentally Ill Persons -- United States. |
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Patients -- United States. |
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Hospitals, Psychiatric -- United States. |
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Women -- psychology -- United States. |
| ISBN |
0874137438 |
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9780874137439 |
| Standard No. |
NLM 101149227 |
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NLGGC 247655155 |
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NZ1 6536548 |
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