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"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions inside the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarland, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth than her traitorous husband. But most disturbing is that Elizabeth is not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been committed not because they need medical treatment, but to keep them in line-conveniently labeled "crazy" so their voices are ignored. No one is willing to fight for their freedom, and disenfranchised both by gender and the stigma of their supposed madness, they cannot possibly fight for themselves. But Elizabeth is about to discover that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose..."--… (más)
1860 - Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her husband is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened by her intellect and independence. He is planning to put her in an insane asylum. The horrific conditions inside the State hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarland who will prove more dangerous to Elizabeth. She discovers there are many rational women confined to the institution.
I am not sure how Moore discovered Elizabeth Packard, who seems to have been lost in American history but I am sure glad she did. The woman is an unsung warrior, who battled the male hierarchy in the 1860s. After twenty-one years of marriage, her husband had her committed to an insane asylum in Jacksonville, Illinois. She was completely sane but her husband felt she was forgetting her subservient place in the marriage and showing too much spirit and intelligence. This seemed to be a common practice at the time. After being imprisoned in this hospital, in dismal conditions, she was finally released after a couple of years and then set out to fight the system. She was able to change laws, giving women more rights and a bit more control in their lives. This is a well-written, meticulously researched piece of writing. Highly recommended. ( )
This was a biography of Elizabeth Packard. Elizabeth was involuntarily committed to an insane asylum in 1860 by her husband for not believing in the same religious (denomination) values as himself. (so she must be crazy, right?) This book is the story of her fight for freedom and her fight for the rights of women across the U.S at a very difficult time. (1860-1864) This fight for those diagnosed as "insane" was the catalyst for the fight for women's rights in general, and the right to vote and own property, specifically. It was a great book....until the prologue, where the author goes into modern day politics...sort of ruined it for me; hence minus 1/2 star. However, I will say that to dismiss or silence one, hinting that they are "crazy" is a workable tactic. 560 pages ( )
Mind-blowing! I am always astonished how far we've come in such a short time but the reality is how far behind we've been just recently. The fight for not women's rights but just basic human rights shouldn't be or have been this much of a struggle. The toxic environments people deal with today can, I believe, be traced to this mentality and permissiveness. ( )
Historical account of Elizabeth Packard and her fights for her own freedom from being committed to an insane asylum and for other women's freedom in the 19th century.
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There's no more powerful way to silence someone than to call them crazy. —Holly Bourne, 2018
Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from "their spheres," And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!... They've taken a notion to speak for themselves, And are wielding the tongue and the pen... Now, misses may reason, and think, and debate, Till unquestioned submission is quite out of date... Like the devils of Milton, they rise from each blow, With spirit unbroken, insulting the foe. —Maria Weston Chapman, 1840
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For my Elizabeth, and for John, the best parents a woman could wish for.
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If she screamed, she sealed her fate. (prologue)
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"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions inside the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarland, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth than her traitorous husband. But most disturbing is that Elizabeth is not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been committed not because they need medical treatment, but to keep them in line-conveniently labeled "crazy" so their voices are ignored. No one is willing to fight for their freedom, and disenfranchised both by gender and the stigma of their supposed madness, they cannot possibly fight for themselves. But Elizabeth is about to discover that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose..."--
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