Money, marriage, and madness : the life of Anna Ott /
"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...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2020]
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| 叢編: | Disability histories (Series)
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| 在線閱讀: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctv137971j |
| 總結: | "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"-- |
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| 實物描述: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| 參考書目: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0252052021 0252043146 9780252043147 0252085019 9780252085017 9780252052026 |