TY  - GEN
T1  - Money, marriage, and madness : the life of Anna Ott
T2  - Disability histories (Series)
A1  - Nielsen, Kim E.
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1152392013
AB  - "Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive second husband, and twenty years of institutionalization, Ott determinedly shaped her own life. Kim E. Nielsen explores a life at once irregular and unexceptional, revealing a woman whose whiteness and privileged place in society still failed to protect her. Historical and institutional structures, like laws that liberalized divorce and women's ability to control their property, opened up uncommon possibilities for Ott. Other structures, from domestic violence in the home to rampant sexism and ableism outside of it, remained a part of even affluent women's lives. Money, Marriage, and Madness tells a forgotten story of how the legal and medical cultures of the time shaped one woman-and what her life tells us about power and society in nineteenth century America"--
CN  - R154.O695 N54 2020
SN  - 0252052021
SN  - 0252043146
SN  - 9780252043147
SN  - 0252085019
SN  - 9780252085017
SN  - 9780252052026
KW  - Ott, Anna Miesse, : 1819-1893.
KW  - Physicians' spouses : United States : Biography.
KW  - Women physicians : United States : Biography.
KW  - Abused wives : United States : Biography.
KW  - Divorce : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Mentally ill : Commitment and detention : United States.
KW  - Women : United States : Social conditions : 19th century.
KW  - Women physicians.
KW  - Mentally ill women.
KW  - Physicians, Women
KW  - Battered Women
KW  - Persons with Psychiatric Disorders.
KW  - United States
KW  - Médecins : Conjoints : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - Femmes médecins : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - Femmes victimes de violence : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - Divorce : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Internement (Psychiatrie) : États-Unis.
KW  - Femmes : États-Unis : Conditions sociales : 19e siècle.
KW  - Femmes médecins.
KW  - Femmes victimes de violence.
KW  - Femmes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale.
KW  - physicians.
KW  - people with psychiatric illnesses.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - Abused wives
KW  - Divorce
KW  - Mentally ill : Commitment and detention
KW  - Physicians' spouses
KW  - Women physicians
KW  - Women : Social conditions
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
ER  -