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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried To Make Her Disappear
By Moore, Kate
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Starred Review on June 1, 2021 | Social Sciences
Best-selling author Moore (Radium Girls) writes in this latest work that 19th-century asylums were places of horrific abuse and mistreatment of women patients. Husbands and other male family members often had the authority to commit their wives and daughters without their consent; within the institutions, superintendents wielded supreme authority. Crafting another fast-paced work of narrative nonfiction, Moore tells how Elizabeth Packard's husband, a minister...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
