This was an exceptionally compelling overview of "all that ails us" ... the us being women. It appears that the only thing that ails us is men, according to Showalter. I'm not sure whether I disagree, although I'll throw in just a pinch of irony.

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Yet when women are spoken for but do not speak for themselves, such dramas of liberation become only the opening scenes of the next drama of confinement. Until women break free for themselves, the chains that make madness a female malady, like Blake's "mind forged manacles," will simply forge themselves anew.” For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-11-16 16:01:39 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40763007 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifierShe is well known and respected in both academic and popular cultural fields. She has written and edited numerous books and articles focussed on a variety of subjects, from feminist literary criticism to fashion, sometimes sparking widespread controversy, especially with her work on illnesses. Showalter has been a television critic for People magazine and a commentator on BBC radio and television. Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby (eds), Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004). (An excellent collection of essays; several of the essays challenge Showalter’s findings and emphasis on ‘gender’, see e.g. the articles of Wright, Levine-Clark and Michael but don’t ignore the rest.) e-book and several copies in library

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Elaine Showalter, ‘Victorian Women and Insanity’, Victorian Studies, 23 (1979-80), 157-81, duplicated in Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, pp. 313-36. Victorian Studies is an e-journal The Corpus of the Madwoman: Toward a Feminist Disability Studies Theory of Embodiment and Mental IllnessCatharine Coleborne, Reading ‘Madness’: Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum System in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1888 (Perth: AP Network, 2007).