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Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 8.9 X 5.8 X 0.9 inches GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD UNCLIPT(S19.95) DUST JACKET...quite nice, soild & bright copy with several library related stamps & pocket removal scar inner back cover & base of DJ spine; DJ COVER SHOWS 1X2" OVAL OLD PHOTO OF PACKARD on tan & black dj...red titles. Includes Index And Eight Appendices; 220 pages; life of the nineteenth century reformer who helped make it unlawful to commit the mentally ill without judicial approval...Packard's troubles began when her vocal deviation from the Calvinist thinking of her aptly named preacher-husband Theophilus became a decided embarrassment to him. Announcing that since she ``persistently refused my will or wishes...it must be that she is insane, '' he took advantage of the law that allowed a husband to have a wife committed to a lunatic asylum simply on his say-so--plus the ever-ready consent of the admitting doctor. Released three years later through the efforts of her eldest son and subsequently declared sane in a sensational jury trial, Packard spent the rest of her life working to change the laws so that no other wives could be subjected to the same treatment.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 220 p. Audience: General/trade. Book Condition: Near fine. DJ Condition: Near fine. Mylar protective covering on DJ.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hardcover, xvii, 220 pp., unclipped illustrated jacket. Minimal wear, unmarked, tight binding, nice jacket. Committed to an insane asylum by her husband, a Calvinist minister, for arguing questions of dogma, Mrs. Elizabeth Patrick's life was transformed from a 19-century housewife to a crusading reformer and pioneer feminist.
Until relatively recently women, when they married, became chattel. Everything that she had became the husband's and he could do with her what he wanted. In this case an intelligent woman who disagreed with her husband's religious beliefs was committed to an insane asylum because she dared to express those beliefs as well as the belief that women should be considered the equal of men. Elizabeth Packard spent three years in an asylum, after which she became a campaigner for reform in the way people are committed to and treated in asylums. Additionally, she advocated fair treatment of married women by giving them a right to their own bodies, beliefs and property. Appendix One is her paper on Calvinism vs. Christianity which may have been instrumental in the trial that declared her sane.
