Voices and stories from the patients of Menston Asylum

Voices and stories from the patients of Menston Asylum

Geller and Harris's accompanying history of both societal and psychiatric standards for women reveals that often even the prevailing conventions reinforced the

Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes a crucial contribution to the feminist pr

With the advent of care in the community for the mentally afflicted, the self-contained villages for the apparently insane have now been consigned to the histor