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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778906003321

Autore

Carlisle Linda V. <1947->

Titolo

Elizabeth Packard [[electronic resource] ] : a noble fight / / Linda V. Carlisle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-60903-7

9786613921482

0-252-09007-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Classificazione

86.22

Disciplina

362.2/1092

B

Soggetti

Psychiatric hospital patients - Illinois

Social reformers - Illinois

Women social reformers - Illinois

Mentally ill - Commitment and detention - United States

Mentally ill - Civil rights - United States

Husband and wife - United States

Married women - Civil rights - United States

Women's rights - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"All the love his bachelor heart could muster" -- "New notions and wild vagaries" -- Breaking the mold -- Free love and true womanhood -- "The forms of law" -- Andrew McFarland and mental medicine -- "A world of trouble" -- "An unendurable annoyance" -- From courtroom to activism -- "My pen shall rage" -- Shooting the rattlesnakes -- Vindication and "virtuous action" -- Triumph and disaster -- Working in her calling -- "Great and noble work" -- Final campaigns.