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Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight
Linda V. Carlisle
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Description for Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight
Hardback. One woman's courage to battle stigma and injustice for women and the mentally ill Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGH; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 588.
Elizabeth Packard's story is one of courage and accomplishment in the face of injustice and heartbreak. In 1860, her husband, a strong-willed Calvinist minister, committed her to an Illinois insane asylum in an effort to protect their six children and his church from what he considered her heretical religious ideas. Upon her release three years later (as her husband sought to return her to an asylum), Packard obtained a jury trial and was declared sane. Before the trial ended, however, her husband sold their home and left for Massachusetts with their young children and her personal property. His actions were perfectly ... Read more
Elizabeth Packard's story is one of courage and accomplishment in the face of injustice and heartbreak. In 1860, her husband, a strong-willed Calvinist minister, committed her to an Illinois insane asylum in an effort to protect their six children and his church from what he considered her heretical religious ideas. Upon her release three years later (as her husband sought to return her to an asylum), Packard obtained a jury trial and was declared sane. Before the trial ended, however, her husband sold their home and left for Massachusetts with their young children and her personal property. His actions were perfectly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252035722
SKU
V9780252035722
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About Linda V. Carlisle
Linda V. Carlisle is an associate professor in Library & Information Services at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Reviews for Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight
"Linda Carlisle's comprehensive history makes a significant contribution to the field of psychiatry and the study of women's rights. Using a large mass of primary sources that hitherto remained unexamined, Carlisle sheds a great deal of light on the life of an individual who has not been taken seriously in much of the historical literature
until now."
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