Money, Marriage, and Madness by Kim E. Nielsen

Author:Kim E. Nielsen [Nielsen, Kim E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, People With Disabilities, History, United States, 19th Century, Women's Studies
ISBN: 9780252052026
Google: iU3lDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2020-06-22T05:16:14+00:00

Image 4. A scantily clad woman is dragged by her feet by four female staff members. The text states: “I was thrown on the floor and—two attendants seizing one foot, and two the other—dragged naked, through the hall, while one of these ‘refined ladies’ danced behind, crying out, every little while, ‘Git there, Eli!’” Rose Trautman and Barbara Trautman, Wisconsin’s Shame: Insane Asylums or the American Bastille! The Narrative of the Kidnapping of the Misses Trautman, of Sauk City, Wis., on a Sunday Afternoon, and Running Them into an Insane Asylum; Their Two Years’ Shocking Experience and Observation in the State Hospitals at Mendota and Oshkosh (1892), 17.

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