LEADER 04835nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910953783103321 005 20251117095155.0 010 $a1-283-60903-7 010 $a9786613921482 010 $a0-252-09007-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000089040 035 $a(OCoLC)785781237 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10532390 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611778 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11445578 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611778 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10666357 035 $a(PQKB)10162276 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3413918 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23699 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3413918 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10532390 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL392148 035 $a(OCoLC)923493733 035 $a(BIP)46577378 035 $a(BIP)29711377 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000089040 100 $a20100427d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aElizabeth Packard $ea noble fight /$fLinda V. Carlisle 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-252-03572-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aElizabeth 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. _x000B__x000B_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 legal under Illinois and Massachusetts law; Packard had no legal recourse by which to recover her children and property. _x000B__x000B_This experience in the legal system, along with her experience as an asylum patient, launched Packard into a career as an advocate for the civil rights of married women and the mentally ill. She wrote numerous books and lobbied legislatures literally from coast to coast advocating more stringent commitment laws, protections for the rights of asylum patients, and laws to give married women equal rights in matters of child custody, property, and earnings. Despite strong opposition from the psychiatric community, Packard's laws were passed in state after state, with lasting impact on commitment and care of the mentally ill in the United States._x000B__x000B_Packard's life demonstrates how dissonant streams of American social and intellectual history led to conflict between the freethinking Packard, her Calvinist husband, her asylum doctor, and America's fledgling psychiatric profession. It is this conflict--along with her personal battle to transcend the stigma of insanity and regain custody of her children--that makes Elizabeth Packard's story both forceful and compelling. 606 $aPsychiatric hospital patients$zIllinois$vBiography 606 $aSocial reformers$zIllinois$vBiography 606 $aWomen social reformers$zIllinois$vBiography 606 $aMentally ill$xCommitment and detention$zUnited States$vCase studies 606 $aMentally ill$xCivil rights$zUnited States$vCase studies 606 $aHusband and wife$zUnited States$vCase studies 606 $aMarried women$xCivil rights$zUnited States$vCase studies 606 $aWomen's rights$zUnited States$vCase studies 615 0$aPsychiatric hospital patients 615 0$aSocial reformers 615 0$aWomen social reformers 615 0$aMentally ill$xCommitment and detention 615 0$aMentally ill$xCivil rights 615 0$aHusband and wife 615 0$aMarried women$xCivil rights 615 0$aWomen's rights 676 $a362.2/1092 676 $aB 686 $a86.22$2bcl 700 $aCarlisle$b Linda V.$f1947-$01866123 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953783103321 996 $aElizabeth Packard$94473414 997 $aUNINA