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100 1 _aMoore, Kate
_c(Writer and editor)
_eauthor.
_911953
245 1 4 _aThe woman they could not silence :
_bone woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear /
_cKate Moore.
263 _a2106
264 1 _aNaperville :
_bSourcebooks,
_c2021.
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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..."--
600 1 0 _aPackard, E. P. W.
_q(Elizabeth Parsons Ware),
_d1816-1897.
_911954
650 0 _aSocial reformers
_zIllinois
_vBiography.
_911955
650 0 _aMarried women
_xLegal status, laws, etc.
_zIllinois
_xHistory
_y19th century.
_911956
650 0 _aMentally ill
_xCommitment and detention
_zIllinois
_xHistory
_y19th century.
_911957
650 0 _aInsanity (Law)
_zUnited States.
_911958
650 0 _aWomen
_xLegal status, laws, etc.
_zUnited States.
_911959
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMoore, Kate (Writer and editor)
_tThe woman they could not silence
_dNaperville : Sourcebooks, 2021.
_z9781492696728
_w(DLC) 2020057492
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